 | Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
Release Date: December 30, 2008Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world's emerging markets. New material includes: • The latest trends in online retail -- what retailers are doing right and what they're doing wrong -- and how nearly every Internet retailer from iTunes to Amazon can drastically improve how it serves its customers. • A guided tour o...
 |  | Guild Wars 2 Limited Edition Strategy Guide (Signature Series Guide)
Publication Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Signature Series Guide BradyGames’ Guild Wars 2 Limited Edition Strategy Guide includes the following: The Essential Companion Quick-Reference Map Stand Included - The perfect screenside reference for navigating Tyria. This freestanding atlas highlights waypoints, trainers, challenges, renown tasks, trading posts, and many other crucial locations. Find the points of interest you seek at a glance! Limited Edition Hardcover Strategy Guide - Features all the expert strategy, detailed analysis, and indispensable data from our Signature Series gui...
|  | Understanding and Using English Grammar (with Answer Key and Audio CDs) (4th Edition)
Publication Date: February 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0132333317 | ISBN-13: 978-0132333313| Edition: 4 A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar char...
|  | Delivering Health Care In America: A Systems Approach
Publication Date: August 19, 2011| ISBN-10: 1449626505 | ISBN-13: 978-1449626501| Edition: 5 Given the recent and rapid developments in the delivery of health care in the United States, never has it been more important to have the most up-to-date resources for teaching students about this complex and dynamic industry. Now in its Fifth Edition, Delivering Health Care in America offers the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system--from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality. Using a...
|  | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Release Date: January 11, 2011Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question. In alternating narratives that take read...
|  | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Release Date: August 10, 2004In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family...
|  | Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materialsand Methods
Publication Date: December 10, 2008| ISBN-10: 047007468X | ISBN-13: 978-0470074688| Edition: 5 Now in its Fifth Edition, this essential textbook has been used by thousands of students annually in schools of architecture, engineering, and construction technology. The bestselling reference focuses on the basic materials and methods used in building construction, emphasizing common construction systems such as light wood frames, masonry bearing walls, steel frames, and reinforced concrete. New introductory material on the processes, organization, constraints, and choices in construction off...
|  | Computer Organization and Design, Revised Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Publication Date: November 9, 2011| ISBN-10: 0123747503 | ISBN-13: 978-0123747501| Edition: 4 This Fourth Revised Edition of Computer Organization and Design includes a complete set of updated and new exercises, along with improvements and changes suggested by instructors and students. Focusing on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today--the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors--this classic textbook has a modern and up-to-date focus on parallelism in all its forms. Examples highlighting multicore and GPU processor designs are supported with performance a...
|  | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Release Date: August 5, 2008This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came throug...
|  | Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 13th Edition
Publication Date: March 5, 2010| ISBN-10: 0495810827 | ISBN-13: 978-0495810827| Edition: 13 Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE HUMAN CHALLENGE provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of today's world. With this text you will discover the different ways humans face the challenge of existence, the connection between biology and cult...
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