Are you crazy about Chihuahuas? Chihuahuas For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is fully updated to show you how to find the one you'll love most and make him or her part of your family. This one-stop guide gives you all the information you need to raise and care for your plucky little pooch.[...]

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.[...]

Provides advice to help policy makers, researchers, and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics such as: The Context of Women's Health: history of women's healthcare, employment and women's health, and the effects of intimate partner violence; and Health Challenges: smoking, alcohol, ea[...]

Beautiful tribute to a remarkable woman contains 7 lifelike dolls: the former First Lady as a child, debutante, White House hostess, young widow, and wife of Aristotle Onassis. Also included are a doll of JFK and Onassis. Accompanying the dolls are 27 detailed costumes: wedding dress, tailored suits[...]

Lucien Lelong was a central figure in French fashion from the 1920s to the 1950s, and his designs were in many ways precursors of contemporary fashion shapes and developments. This book presents an illustrated history of Lelong and his house, and chronicles the period and its leading personalities, [...]

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled [...]

The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regula[...]

First published in 1999, this book reviews extensive evidence for babies' innate capacity to imitate.[...]

Almost all living organisms are exploited by parasites of one type or another. But what are parasites? How many different types are there? And what exactly is parasitism? In this undergraduate textbook parasitism is described as an ecological relationship. Ecology implies the study of the interactio[...]

This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience an[...]