1111 results for '"Norman, Jane'

Roberts Birds of Southern Africa has been continuously in print for some 65 years and is the most popular African natural history book of all time. The scope and depth of biological information in...

This helpful and user-friendly book provides a practical guide to the physical and emotional well-being during the premenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal years. Based on the experience of a...

The latest innovation in textiles design, paired with images that range from digital patterns to catwalk shots of the finished articleThe invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France...

Esta invalorable guÍa incluye los casos de personas con diabetes y explica todo lo que los lectores deben saber acerca del trastorno que ha afectado vidas en la mayorÍa de las familias hispanas: ...

Reconstructs the experiences of two major American cities, each a center of regional culture, in a significant historical period, the 1830s. Among the topics discussed are economic growth, welfare,...

What do our cities mean to us? How do we experience them? Some of the answers (and many more questions) are to be found in the unexpected spaces of the metropolis. Urban living - the ways we use and...

Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth—and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with...

'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger...

A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be...

A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost--until Will Smiley...

Bringing together the perspectives of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, this book introduces a new approach to the study of language. The authors propose schema...

Women's America, now in its fifth edition is divided into four sections which cover the span of women's experiences in the US from colonial times to the present. Each section begins with a short...

Sheila Siddle's life was changed forever one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her...

An intimate and original look at the lives of Nevada’s legal sex workers through the voices of current and former employees, brothel owners, madams, and local law enforcement The state of Nevada is...