Analyzes the characteristics of the Romantic sonata in Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the Americas

Product Description: Priorities and Adult Education attempts to give the reader direct and practical help in forming and improving programs in continuing education to meet the needs of both the individual and the community. The contributions from the eight contributors deal with such aspects of adult education as: individual needs and the needs of the community; the functioning of boards and committees; the role of volunteers and professionals; starting an adult education program; projects in small group settings; planning conferences, seminars, and workshops for large groups of adults; and the public relations factor in planning successful adult education ventures...read more

Product Description: Describes the the remarkable past lives revealed by the renowned novelist while under hypnosis and explores the relationship between reincarnation and her best-selling works. Reprint.

Product Description: The history of plants and herbs in medicine is virtually the history of medicine itself. For thousands of years, they have played a fundamental role in the healing arts, right up to the present day. From the beginning, they were linked to the material of religion, were key factors in the cultural life of many societies, and became intertwined with magic...read more

A collection of traditional herbal lore discusses the medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic uses as well as mind-expanding powers of herbs and provides hints on planning and maintaining a garden. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life...read more

Twenty-four stories depicting life in the United States and pre-war Poland explore the depths and dimensions of truth

A best-selling novel by the author of Heart of War features a rebellious West Point cadet who, while entangled in a scandalous sexual liason, fights the academy to unearth the truth behind the death of a fellow cadet. Reprint. PW. NYT.

Product Description: 2 full westerns in 1 volume

When a friend is accused of murder, attorney Adam Tower takes the opportunity to leave his conservative law firm and his cold, ambitious wife to defend Manny Menendez, start a new law firm, and find a new love

Product Description: This volume contains twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century. As Sylvia and Douglas Angus write in their introduction: "These stories present a fascinating psychological record of what may best be termed "The Age of Crisis', the age in which modern man finds himself teetering on a fine edge of destiny, when his own fateful decisions will take him either to hell or to paradise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

investigating the seven lives of 'America's foremost mystic,' the author reveals how souls return again and again to work out unresolved issues. Reissue.

Knobil--eldest son of the murdered Herdmaster--must fight a mighty battle against the usurper before the sun descends on the earth and the world is destroyed in a fiery meltdown (view table of contents)

To the surprise of many, the little country cottontail becomes one of the special Easter bunnies even though she has twenty-one children of her very own.

A short course in critical theme writing explains how to write about plot, characters, setting, symbolism, and more

Product Description: This book is intended to introduce the reader to the practical calculation of feedback control circuits by examples of application. The material is presented in the order of the work necessary in the practical investigation of feedback control systems: analysis of the technical construction, setting up the equations, transformation into frequency notation, normalization, drawing of the system diagram and the Bode diagram, determination of the control system parameters and the behaviour in real time...read more

Product Description: For the conscious traveler-a unique guide to planetary healing and sacred sites in the United States and around the world. Includes maps.

Many businesses that manufacture products, invite customers into their establishments, or render a public service are unaware of the need to provide for the safety of the people who use their products or enter their facilities. Too often, they pay for this oversight with expensive, time-consuming litigation. Injury and Litigation Prevention is a practical guide that offers relatively simple, and often inexpensive, techniques for avoiding injuries and thereby reducing litigation exposure. This expert reference includes information on what parties to lawsuits should do to prevent precipitating injuries. It also presents methods by which businesses can analyze their operations to determine how to avoid injury and lawsuits, as well as methods of identifying and controlling health and safety problems. Injury and Litigation Prevention features: six methods of hazard analysis, with descriptions of applications in which they are most effective general business and construction industry prototype safety programs that enable managers to develop programs to fit any company’s size and type a listing of actual lawsuits, each with the root cause of the problem and a case description 79 illustrations that enhance and clarify the text, and also contain courtroom demonstration descriptions and safety analysis tips Part I of the book discusses a number of philosophical issues on which a clear understanding of injury prevention and litigation control depends. Here, Freeman presents a systems approach to hazard identification, and examines the nature of safe practice, the responsibility for safety, the mentality of accidents, and other crucial topics. He explains the meaning of risk assessment and analysis, exploring major concepts involved with "danger," "risk," "hazard," "probability," "accident," and "harm." Part II describes in detail six methods of hazard analysis, including hazard effects and control analysis, task hazard analysis, management decision point analysis, hazard control analysis, fault tree analysis, and management oversight and risk tree analysis. Part III shows how the construction industry and general industry can organize and retain an ongoing system of accident/injury prevention. Readers will find a guide to safety and industrial hygiene staffing, a prototype safety and industrial hygiene program plan, and a blueprint for control of construction site safety. Packed with easy-to-implement, cost-efficient strategies, Injury and Litigation Prevention will be invaluable to attorneys, business and insurance executives, designers, and safety and health professionals who want to deal effectively with injury and litigation issues.

Product Description: Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia...read more