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This Second Edition of Mastering Your Adult ADHD is thoroughly updated to present the most current, empirically supported treatment strategies...

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the...

More than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy, The Art of War. Now, in a new...

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round...

A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment...

First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament's Jewish background to...

"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul,...

Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese...

Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically...

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis. It includes historical context,...

Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from...

Manual of Neurologic Signs comprises about 950 videos demonstrating a wide variety of neurological signs including features such as abnormal...

The kanon text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known aby scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical...

Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with their instrument. Understanding...

In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that...

As the uproar over the recent New York State law demonstrates, same-sex marriage is a perennial hot-button issue, certain to impact the...

North American Indigenous literature reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and...

Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented...

As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as...

Among evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, parent management training...

How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals...

Deep brain stimulation programming (DBS) continues to grow as an effective therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders,...

While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal...

Today genomics, part of a larger movement toward personalized medicine, is poised to revolutionize health care. By cross-referencing an...

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways; the...

This pioneering book explains geology wholly in the context of wine, including how it works in vineyards and its possible effects on wine...

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching...

Few political concepts are as emblematic of our era as democratic accountability. In a time of political and economic turmoil, in which...

Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity - decadent, degenerate, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate. With its tales...

The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery...

Expanded and fully updated, the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Fourth Edition will focus on crisis intervention...

Mixing and mastering, the two final steps in the complex process of sound engineering, require both artistic finesse and technical facility....

What causes a child to grow up gay, straight, or bisexual? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence...

In the past two decades,'civil society' has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between...

"American Law in a Global Context" is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. There...

Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of...

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood...

As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem. In most instances,...

By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more...

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory...

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success?...

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of...

Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven into the core functions of virtually...

The Maya forged the greatest society in the history of the ancient Americas, and one of the great societies in human history. Long before...

In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and pedagogy...

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and...

Includes web-links placed throughout the text to connect the material to up-to-the- minute progress in this developing field.

This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae,...

For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues...

Hildegard of Bingen, the first German mystic, is one of the most influential women in European history. Born in 1098 in Bockelheim on the...

Ronald W. Langacker created an approach to linguistics called Cognitive Grammar, which is essentially a system of symbols that can be used...

In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written aby and...

Over the course of the last four decades, Robert Cialdini's work has helped spark an intellectual revolution in which social psychological...

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual...

The Matrix trilogy is unique among recent popular films in that it is constructed around important philosophical questions--classic questions...

Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work of...

Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged...

Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal...

1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with--that...

From the author of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings...

Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex...

Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and...

Morbid obsessions with sex, germs, or with one's appearance, and uncontrollable compulsions to hoard objects, to check and recheck locks,...

"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." -The New York Times Book Review On June...

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh...

Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues.

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities...

Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of...

Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition helps the reader get started in creating phylogenetic trees from protein or nucleic acid sequence...

The first edition of Understanding Vineyard Soils, published in 2009, has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of soil topics relevant...

The first new history of the First Crusade since Steve Runciman's classic trilogy on the Crusades written in the 1950's.

The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along...

The Science of Facial Expression brings together leading figures in this increasingly fragmented field, summarizes current conclusions in...

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions...

This book is designed to facilitate reproducibility in Econometrics. It does so aby using open source software (R) and recently developed...

In International Human Rights, acclaimed legal scholar Eric Posner seeks to explain a paradox: the language of human rights is now the dominant...

This book is a concise but comprehensive review of Specific Learning Disabilities, with a special attention to the biology of these diverse...

Japan and the Shackles of the Past offers a penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural...

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it...

A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra,...

Building on the tradition of its classic first edition, the long-awaited second edition of Elements of Power Electronics provides comprehensive...

Mayo Clinic General Surgery is a concise text that aims to provide learners with knowledge crucial to the development of surgical skill....

The French flute player and conductor Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) was an extraordinary virtuoso and a major figure in fin-de-siecle Parisian...

In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the...

Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face...

this book studies the early stages of the Cold War from the perspective of the U.S. Embassy in postwar Prague. The main personalities include...

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe...

This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other...

Business ethics raises many important philosophical issues. A first set of issues concerns the methodology of business ethics. What is the...

The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas collects...

Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since...

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named żeby the Modern Library one of the twentieth...

Eliot Goldfinger, a realistic sculptor and instructor of human and animal anatomy, has designed and written a reference work for artists...

Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, conjure up an idea, and how to express it clearly and elegantly. Many handbooks...

The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems...

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness?...

Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected...

Borders: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into the form and function of historical and contemporary political and social boundaries....

This book provides a concise, lively, up-to-date portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, including his most important battles,...

In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek challenges widely-held beliefs about economics and culture żeby tracing the study and themes...

This book is timely since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements is in the process of making...

The Oxford Companion to Cheese answers a clear call for the kind of subject-defining reference work that The Oxford Companion to Wine achieved....

In the 1930s swing music was everywhere--on radio, recordings, and in the great ballrooms, hotels, theatres, and clubs. Perhaps at no other...

The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Adès has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the world of classical...

Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the mystery of consciousness. Suitable for general...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian,...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline...

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive...

Now in its Fifth Edition, Neuropsychological Assessment reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction and...

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology - the most updated since its inception - reflects the profound substantive and methodological...

To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various...

In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the...

Navigating Life with Epilepsy aims to provide clear and reliable information about epilepsy, including "what" (definition), "how" (pathophysiology),...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains...

The first comprehensive account of the Gospel of Judas. Extensive media promotion; on-line, in journals and conference displays.

Meet the supreme Gautama Buddha, the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa, and Chang O-the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon. Journey...

This biography is the first comprehensive volume to delve into the life, scholarship, writing, and hobbies of the famed doctor, for whom...

In this revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) Jeffery N. Wasserstrom and Maura...

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.