Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State explores the breadth of Ohio's past, tracing the course of history from its earliest geological periods to the present day. It presents the first survey of Ohio history designed specifically for the college level course, and the first entirely new history of the [...]

Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris Lessing to Toni Morrison, Wilson examines meanings of my[...]

Wilson, known as Dwight on NBC's "The Office," and friends founded the SoulPancake Web site that ponders life's big questions. This book covers such topics as life and death, love and sex, and science and religion, with artwork from 100 up-and-coming artists.[...]

Identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents assessments of sea-level change, and explores the various factors contributing to sea-level rise. This book is suitable for those who are interested in sea-level rise and its impacts, including policy makers, research funders, scientists, stud[...]

The addition to the popular Lippincott¿s Illustrated Review (LIR) series, this comprehensive review of Physiology enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about the essentials of medical physiology. In keeping with the LIR series, LIR Physiology includes the pop[...]

"NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat" is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic [...]

"A Window on Eternity" is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back to its ori[...]

Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy...It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this[...]

This collection of parables written by Issai Chozanshi, an eighteenth-century samurai, is a classic of martial arts literature. The tales are concerned with themes such as perception of conflict, self-transformation, the cultivation of chi (life energy), and understanding yin and yang. These parable[...]