From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and language development from infancy through to adolescence. In both its practical application of research and its contribution to the assessment of child development, this tex......
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing dynasty. The only constant during this t......
From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai."...
Tricia Goyer tells the little-known but true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler's Mauthausen death camp. This courageous orchestra played the American national anthem as Allied troops arrived to liberate the camps. Around the......
The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked a critical turning point in the European theater of World War II. The massive landing on France's coast had been meticulously planned for three years, and the Allies anticipated a...
Who would not like to prove attractive and to fascinate? To «fascinate» bears the connotation of "producing a spellbinding effect or enchanting through one's look or speech". The present book is devoted to the power of the eye and the...
Naples, Italy: This is a unique guidebook of one of the great cities of Europe, written by an Oxford historian. Richard Lamb spoke fluent Italian and from 1943 to 1945 he played an important role in the Italian Army's operations...
Retinal Imaging Simplified provides essential basic information for improving imaging skills while simplifying the process and offering an easily accessible, "how to" manual for a seasoned or a seasoned or newly trained photographer, nurse or opht......
This is an advocacy toward our mission statement to create a "Learning Health System" (LHS) will enable data to be rapidly mobilized, continuously analyzed-and the results subsequently shared-to improve health care quality, empower public health a......
The third novel in the Equations series: Though the situation at Genesis is stabilized, the Earthers and humans remain at war with the Kroggs. After nine months of fighting, the Allied Fleets find themselves at the end of a dangerously...
This title offers an amazing insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in all theatres of the war. It features many previously unpublished accounts of the war from...
The riveting true account of an English naval signalman’s experiences during World War II, including his insider’s perspective on how squadrons of Allied ships defeated the German U-boat blockade of the American coast.
Author: Parker,......
They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors . . . or worse. The Army Air Corps’ 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the Philippines in November 1941 with 1,209 men; one year later......
In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation professionals step outside their roles as lawyers, lobbyists, administrators, consultants, and researchers to write about water. Their personal stories of what the......
With 67 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. The 16th Century was one of exploration and conquest. Magellan sailed around the world, Coronado searched for the Seven Cities of Gold, and Balboa cross......