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Risk
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 47.95Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened.... more...
If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War
Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 29.70Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660--1783) was one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United States, Britain, and Japan, Mahan's book shaped doctrine for the conduct of... more...
The Battle for Western Europe, Fall 1944
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 29.70This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leading up to the Battle of the Bulge. In late August 1944 defeat of the Wehrmacht seemed assured. On December 16, however, the Germans counterattacked. Received... more...
Hallelujah Junction
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 21.86Witty, warm and wise, this is a fascinating memoir from a hugely important and admired modern composer. more...
Hallelujah Junction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 17.99John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and ?he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience? (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). Now, in Hallelujah Junction , he incisively relates his life story,... more...
Learning Kendo UI Web Development
Packt Publishing 2013;A practical tutorial with step-by-step example based approach.This book is for web developers who want to take advantage of cutting edge JavaScript and HTML 5 web site features, but who dont have the time or the knowledge to write all of that code by hand. The reader should be familiar with basic HTML 5 and JavaScript but does not need to be... more...
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Penguin Group Inc. 2003; US$ 17.00The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provide an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; they also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key... more...
Handbook to Service the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
BRILL 2004; US$ 65.95A rich and compelling study of Deaf resources and culture! more...
Harley Street
Royal Society of Medicine Press 2008; US$ 49.95For more than a century the name "Harley Street" has been famous throughout much of the world, as the centre of British consultative medicine. This fascinating account follows the history of Harley Street, with notes on some of the famous (or infamous) people, lay or medical, who lived either in the street or nearby. Starting with the early... more...
Wastelands
Night Shade Books 2008; US$ 15.95Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon ? these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity.... more...









