Nov 26
With application rates soaring hand-in-hand with costs, the process of getting into the college of your choice has never been more difficult and stressful. In their new book, “The College Selection Compass: Helping Families Navigate A Difficult Course”, educators Becky Callow and Susan Nichols use data collected from 1,500 current college and university students to [...]
Nov 26
Ideal for students, teachers and librarians, “Doris TheSaurus”, the new book by Maria L. Corkern, uses whimsical characters and colorful illustrations to teach readers the importance of using a thesaurus to enhance reading and writing.
Sara, a student in Ms. Ross’ classroom, is participating in a writing workshop. When she expresses her frustration to her friend [...]
Nov 20
Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new report “Basic Biostatistics for Geneticists and Epidemiologists: A Practical Approach” to their offering.
Anyone who attempts to read genetics or epidemiology research literature needs to understand the essentials of biostatistics. This book, a revised new edition of the successful Essentials of Biostatistics [...]
Nov 20
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new report “Basics of Nanotechnology, 3rd Edition” to their offering.
This extended and revised edition of the successful German version is a clearly structured and easily readable introduction, written by an experienced author with sound knowledge of experimental synthesis and analysis of nanostructures.
Developed [...]
Nov 19
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new report “Analytic Trigonometry with Applications, 10th Edition” to their offering.
Learning trigonometry concepts can be a difficult and frustrating process. The tenth edition of this successful book helps readers gain a strong understanding of these concepts by discovering how trigonometry is relevant [...]
Nov 17
For many people, energy information might as well be written in a foreign language. In most articles and books on energy, the units are so intermixed – megawatts, barrels, gallons, tons, therms, etc. – the reader cannot see what’s happening at the global level. The Global Energy Handbook, by John R. Fortun (ISBN 978-1- 935125-10-5, [...]
Nov 17
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One of the most pressing tasks confronting the new Obama administration is rebuilding and redirecting the nation’s intelligence system. From closing Guantanamo Bay to ending the abusive treatment of terrorist detainees to halting warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, Obama has promised major and rapid changes in the way our intelligence community does business. He has [...]
Nov 15
Review
“A horrifying act stood at the center of Toni Morrison’s 1987 masterwork, Beloved: a runaway slave, caught in her effort to escape, cuts the throat of her baby daughter with a handsaw, determined to spare the girl the fate she herself has suffered as a slave. A similarly indelible act stands at the center of [...]
Nov 15
Alex is the African gray parrot whose ability to master a vocabulary of more than 100 words and answer questions about the color, shape and number of objects—garnered wide notice during his life as well as obituaries in worldwide media after his death in September 2007. Pepperberg, who teaches animal cognition, has previously documented the [...]
Nov 15
At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and [...]
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