Simple text and full-color photos explain the habitat, life cycle, range, and behavior of jaguars.

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom series delivers. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 13 lessons, helping you learn essential Illustrator CS5 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Illustrator CS5.

A complete Photoshop training package with book and DVD

Photoshop is the world’s most popular image-editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. This full-color book and DVD work together to create an entire Photoshop training class that photographers, Web designers, and graphic designers can complete at their own pace. Thirteen lessons cover the features and capabilities of the newest version of Photoshop while teaching all the essential skills.

• Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools
• Each of the 13 lessons developed by Adobe certified instructors includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials on the DVD
• Covers Adobe Bridge, Camera RAW, masks and layers, painting and retouching, selections and layers, and more, taking you from the basics through intermediate-level skills

Photoshop Digital Classroom allows you to learn Photoshop from the experts who create official Adobe training materials, and do it at your own speed.

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Situates marital HIV risk within a broader exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings--Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea--where extramarital sex is an officially secret but actually widespread social practice. Original.

Emma Healy has grown used to being the only ordinary one in her rather extraordinary family. But when she finds a birth certificate for a twin brother she never knew she had, along with a death certificate dated just two days later, she realizes why she never felt quite whole. She sets off on a trip to visit her brother's grave. Peter Finnegan, her neighbor, comes along for the ride. Emma thinks they can't possibly have anything in common, but with each passing mile, they find themselves learning more and more about themselves and each other.

In simple text and photographs, describes the growth, accomplishments, and activities of different children.

One of the most beautiful regions of the California coast, Santa Barbara also has one of America's most affluent and stylish demographics. Possessing the most summery, mild, seductive climate in the country, Santa Barbara has been an elegant and chic style destination since the turn of the last century, when wealthy East Coast families wintered there. Soon after, villas and estates were being built, designed by the finest architects and landscape designers. In recent years the Santa Barbara region continues to be an outpost of style and culture—now with many leading Hollywood producers, directors, and stars acquiring the historic estates for their weekend escapes. Today, cultured and stylish couples are living in Santa Barbara continuing the traditions of beautifully appointed mansions (many of them in the Spanish style first brought to California in the 1850s). The first book to take readers inside the mansions and estates of Santa Barbara today, Santa Barbara Living will feature the houses and gardens that make Santa Barbara a rarified version of the American Dream. This book will show how that dream is lived.

The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing. She's not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it's been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she's finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this -- the fifth anniversary of his death -- it feels like there's nowhere else in the world she should be.

Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: 'Wait till next year.' Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.

Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era.

Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy and how our bodies and selves become ‘fit for consumption.'

This resource gives new and experienced soil scientists basic procedures to use in taking measurements and spotting phenomena whether ex situ or in situ. The authors stick entirely to procedure and avoid theorizing, so the concise descriptions include description and identification in situ, physical properties, soil classification, soil construction and field inspection, engineering properties such as hydraulic conductivity and consolidation as well as shear strength. They include notes on report writing and even provide properties and conversion tables, making this very handy in the field as well as in the lab. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What began as a casual discourse, not too different from others I have had with inquisitive young people who have reached out to me, became a treasured and enlightening friendship that changed my life forever. With the purity of heart that only a child can possess, and the indomitable spirit of one who has survived more physical suffering than most adults will ever know, Mattie convinced me that his quest was not inconceivable. Inspired by his enthusiasm and without reservation, I committed to a partnership with him. . . . These words of wisdom and inspiration came from the most remarkable person I have ever known.' --Jimmy Carter

Sometimes the most important messages come from the most unlikely places. Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a 13-year-old boy, made a difference before he died with his Heartsongs poetry. He continues to impact the world through Just Peace. This poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association fervently believed in and promoted world peace not just as a concept, but as a reality.

Mattie was working on this manuscript with Jimmy Carter when he died in June 2004. His mother, Jeni, who edited the material and wrote a preface for the book has published it at her son's request. Just Peace explores Mattie's concept of the world and all people as a unique mosaic of gifts. War and injustice shatter the mosaic, which can only be made whole again by planning and actively pursuing peace. The young visionary's essays, poetry, and photographs appear throughout the book. Jimmy Carter has written a special foreword for the book.

Just as important to the book and enlightening to the reader are Mattie's many correspondences. Central to these are his personal e-mails to and from former president Jimmy Carter, Mattie's peace 'hero' and role model. The Nobel Peace Prize winner met Mattie, considered him an angel, messenger, and hero in his own right, and was genuinely affected by Mattie's passion and drive. Just Peace is an intimate portrait of a president, a young man of hope, and peace itself.

Magnus lives and works at the Broadway Firehouse. He knows that when the fire alarm clangs, he and his partners, Billy and Sparks, are supposed to spring into action. Without them the firemen would never be able to move the gigantic steam pumper. And without a pumper the crew wouldn't be able to put out fires.

Then one day the captain drives into the firehouse on a loud, newfangled contraption called a motorized fire truck. It doesn't need horses to pull it to a fire. So just like that, Magnus, Sparks, and Billy are out of a job.

A little history, a little humor, and a whole lot of heart are artfully blended in this rousing tale of one high-spirited horse who can't accept being put out to pasture. And thank goodness! Because it's this steadfast sense of duty that ultimately saves the day.

<FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><P><FONT SIZE="2">In a clear, concise format, this resource provides the information families and school professionals need when selecting and applying effective treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorders.</FONT></P><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT>

Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.

THE CLASSIC STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO GENERAL SURGERY PROCEDURES –NOW UPDATED!

Provides succinct, accessible coverage of surgical trauma management
Puts hands-on guidelines at your fingertips
Features detailed illustrations depicting every important action a surgeon must consider while performing operations
Covers surgical anatomy… and vascular, gynecologic , gastrointestinal and miscellaneous abdominal procedures
Includes 11 new chapters treating the latest laparoscopic and stapling procedures and the newest surgical equipment and materials
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THE MOST UP-TO-DATE TRAUMA SURGERY GUIDE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE

Defines the core of major general surgical procedures using well-established, safe techniques

With the publication of this Eighth Edition, this 'gold standard' reference continues its 50-year tradition of excellence as the ultimate teaching atlas of surgery. The best way to keep up with the dynamic field of trauma surgery -- and to keep up-to-date answers nearby -- this compact resource gives you quick and definitive solutions.

Here’s why Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations remainsthe leader in the field!

Provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail for all gastrointestinal, vascular and gynecologic procedures -- in addition to all other procedures commonly performed by the general surgeon or surgical resident – in text and in hundreds of superb line drawings. Includes logorithmic treatment and diagnostic options Covers preoperative preparation and postoperative care…anesthesia…and ambulatory (or outpatient) surgery commonly performed for the repair of inguinal, femoral, and small umbilical hernias, breast biopsies and many other gynecologic procedures, excision of skin tumors, some plastic procedures as well as certain orthopedic and otolaryngologic procedures

Fully updated, this Eighth Edition:
Features 16 completely new plates and over 60 updated ones
Illustrates the newest techniques using laparoscopy
Provides completely new material on the open hernia procedure and the central node biopsy procedure
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