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Product Description: How does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? Environmental Psychology for Design, 2nd Edition, explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment...read more

'A selection of 262 significant laws, beginning with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and concluding with the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2002, these congressional acts are explained in detail and with historical context. The entries are well written and accessible to students and the general public. Contributors include legal scholars, practicing attorneys, economists, and political scientists. Same-page definitions of terms, sidebars and illustrations illuminating historical events, a glossary, and a timeline enhance this useful ready-reference work.'--'Reference that rocks,' American Libraries, May 2005.

Product Description: By Libby Lumpkin.

The pieces to a vast, mysterious, and ancient puzzle come together to form the secret society known as the 'Circle,' but when Cheyne, a young archaeologist, becomes determined to solve the ancient riddle and find the Armageddon clock before the Beast of the Hours awakes. Original.

'A selection of 262 significant laws, beginning with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and concluding with the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2002, these congressional acts are explained in detail and with historical context. The entries are well written and accessible to students and the general public. Contributors include legal scholars, practicing attorneys, economists, and political scientists. Same-page definitions of terms, sidebars and illustrations illuminating historical events, a glossary, and a timeline enhance this useful ready-reference work.'--'Reference that rocks,' American Libraries, May 2005.