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Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 15.99Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection. In 1997, after acclaimed flutist... more...
Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 71.00This comprehensive text and reference work on numerical weather prediction covers for the first time, not only methods for numerical modeling, but also the important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It will therefore be of great interest to professors and students of meteorology, atmospheric science, oceanography and hydrology. more...
Public Passions
University of California Press 2007; US$ 55.00In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This riveting work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause... more...
Cultural Diversity and Global Media
Wiley 2010; US$ 103.95Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the media Assumes the new perspective of mediation... more...
The Burden Is Light
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The successful novelist and writer recounts the events that led her to become a born again Christian, and describes the ways her faith has sustained her. more...
The Boy Toy
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. 2010; US$ 4.99Relationships are just too much work! That's what Allison Tracy thinks...but she's not about to give up the pleasures in life. So she's determined to find a boy toy?a good-time guy for some sensual fun with no strings attached. And sexy Pete Chisholm is the perfect partner for the adult games she has in mind. But what's she supposed to do when... more...
Well-Preserved
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 24.95For anyone who's ever headed to their local farmers' market reciting the mantra "I will not overbuy" but has lumbered home with bags overflowing with delicious summer strawberries, zucchini blossoms, and tomatoes, or autumn apples, pears, and cauliflower, this book will be your saving grace. Well-Preserved is a collection of 30 small batch preserving... more...
The Calligrapher's Daughter
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 15.99A sweeping debut novel, inspired by the life of the author?s mother, about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother?but her stern father is... more...
Katyn 1940
The History Press 2010; US$ 21.86The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. This book draws on intelligence reports, witness statements, memoranda and briefing papers of diplomats who dealt with the Katyn massacre. more...
Understanding New Media
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 45.00A student friendly, thoroughly up-to-date examination of the impact of new media on today's society. more...









