'Agate and Buck set out on a spine-tingling adventure through the haunted Canadian woods to track down their missing parents. An ancient curse is set in motion and soon the pair are being hunted, by a shape-shifting creature called the Wendigo.'

Part of the 'Access to History' series, this book provides an account of the reform movements and acts throughout 1815-1850 in Britain. It examines the pressure for parliamentary reform leading up to the 1832 Reform Act and the significance of the Act. It includes exam style questions and tips that help students develop exam skills.

The Gang War to end all Gang Wars begins! The Kingpin is in retreat - and that kind of a power vacuum won't last long. It's about to be filled by a figure of unabashed dread in the underworld: Hammerhead! Plus: the Ultimate debut of several Marvel characters, including Moon Knight! And Spidey thinks he's had trouble before... but nothing has ever made him declare 'Peter Parker' no more! Collecting Ultimate Spider-Man #79-85.

Uber-gangster Nicky Cavella is back with a vengeance - this time hitting Frank Castle where he least expects it - right in the black pit of his hardened heart. With an unspeakable act, Nicky will go right to the top of Frank's 'to-do' list - and there's nowhere he'd rather be. Collects Punisher #19-24.

In graphic novel format, describes the actions of the First Lady, Dolley Madison, when the British captured Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.

Children today are no longer expected to be 'seen and not heard,' yet in many churches children are involved only in programs specifically designated for them. Children Matter offers a full discussion of children's spirituality and shows how the faith community can better nurture its youngest members. Speaking from their experience with children's ministry in a range of Protestant traditions, the authors draw on the Bible, history, and psychology to lay good foundations for such ministry. Discussing the specific content and contexts of faith formation, they also offer wise and practical advice on putting together effective ministries. Rather than focusing on innovative ways to use technology, Children Matter emphasizes relationships between people and encourages the church to welcome all children as valued participants in the people of God.

Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance surveys the field of gender and communication with a particular focus on feminist communication theories and methods - from structuralism to poststructuralism. In this text, authors Charlotte Krolokke and Ann Scott Sorensen help readers develop analytic focus and knowledge about their underlying assumptions that gender communication scholars use in their work.

A bizarre occurrence brings Spider-Man and Wolverine together for the weirdest team-up in super-hero history! As the two struggle to get to the bottom of this mystery, their lives literally unravel. Why are both heroes too concerned with their own lives to work together? Strap yourself in, True Believer; it's all part of the ride you get when you buy a ticket for the team-up for people who hate team-ups! Plus: Johnny Storm realizes that despite his new flame powers and fame on the horizon, he still doesn't have a high-school diploma. And where does the young New Yorker enroll? Why, none other than a certain Queens high school that also counts one Peter Parker - Spider-Man - as a student. And what's up between Johnny and sweet Liz Allen? Watch the sparks fly!

L'opera è indirizzata a quanti si interessano di botanica, utilizzazione dei prati e pascoli, ecologia e protezione della natura. Illustra in modo dettagliato tutte le graminacee dei più importanti prati permanenti o artificiali e dei pascoli alpini. Le specie sono descritte negli aspetti botanici, stazionali e foraggieri. Alcune chiavi di riconoscimento delle graminacee foraggiere principali, basate sui caratteri vegetativi e riproduttivi e delle cariossidi vestite, consentono la facile determinazione delle specie. Viene illustrata anche una selezione delle carici (Cyperaceae) e dei giunchi (Juncaceae) più frequenti.

Scott examines the behavior and psychoses of female serial killers who have either acted alone or in partnership with other women. Her analysis is based on an examination of the circumstances surrounding more than 100 cases recorded in the U.S. and elsewhere from the 17th century to the present. Particular attention is paid to the effect of gender bias in people's perceptions of criminal women. Scott teaches criminology at the U. of Ontario Institute of Technology. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

You can paint realistic animals even if you've never painted before!

If you think drawing or painting is too difficult, think again. With over 20 paint-along projects featured in this book, you can create beautiful acrylic paintings of kittens, puppies, horses, ducks and many other animals!

Each project comes with an easy-to-use drawing template so you can get started painting right away! Each project also includes:

• Reference photos
• Tips on creating backgrounds
• A complete list of materials
• A visual reference for paint colors and mixtures
• Step-by-step instruction in the techniques you need to create each wonderful, complete painting!

Not only will you have fun learning to paint these adorable animals, you'll have a finished painting that you can proudly display or give as a gift.

Let this book teach you how to paint your animal friends today!

It's an inside look at the Marvel Universe's most notorious newspaper, the Daily Bugle! Former super hero and current private investigator Jessica Jones has just been offered a new job: a position with the Bugle's new super-hero section, The Pulse! Jessica's first assignment: to uncover the true identity of a former Bugle reporter's super-powered murderer! How is millionaire industrialist Norman Osborn involved in the case? And how ill Jessica's shocking discovery affect the entire Marvel Universe? Collecting THE PULSE #1-5.

In Joanna Scott's novel, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and personality. A self-professed genius and student of Gustav Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature. It is at the age of only twenty-eight, in 1918 and at the height of his fame and influence, that the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints, and times, this novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Presents a variety of jokes about nature.

Second book in the }Reef Fish{ series.

Presents a variety of jokes about people's names.

Prescott, a retired teacher and community leader, uses one of the Middle English poet's lesser known works to introduce general readers to his work as a whole. She has translated and transposed a selection of 2,158 lines, and recommends reading them aloud. Canadian artist Kathryn Finter a specialist in 15th-century materials, panels, and manuscript illumination contributes monochrome illustrations. There is no index. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

THE GUIDE THAT EXPLAINS, ILUSTRATES, AND SETS THE STANDARD FOR GRADING UNITED STATES COINS

The world's largest and most prestigious coin grading organization has created an amazing, one-of-a-kind guide that reveals its grading and authentication secrets. From the introduction:

'By furnishing a simple yet detailed guide to grading coins, PCGS has made it easy to understand the number that appears on a grading holder. Reading this book will make you an expert.'
– Jay W. Johnson, Former Director, United States Mint

This book illustrates and explains with precise descriptions and digital images how you can determine the exact condition of a coin. Here is a coin grading volume so complete that—like its author, PCGS—it indeed sets the standard for grading coins. Inside this illustrated guide you will find:

• The standards for grading all United States coins, including precise definitions of Mint State and circulated grades

• An all-new section on how to grade America's 50-State quarters

• The fundamentals of counterfeit detection

• The secrets of handling and storing your collection

• State-of-the-art techniques used to recognize 'doctored' coins

• Over 600 detailed illustrations

This detailed guide is the only book on the market that encompases so many facets of coin grading and counterfeit detection.

The end of the Cold War put the planet on a new track, abruptly replacing the familiar world of bipolarity, red phones, and intercontinental ballistic missiles with the strange new world of the Internet, e-commerce, and Palm Pilots. The 'New World Order' was defined by the first U.S.-led war against Iraq, bloody ethnic strife in Bosnia and Rwanda, and religious turmoil in Central Asia. This evolving global system, however, overlooked the powerful role of credit, which functions as a critical building block for developing greater national and individual wealth.

This volume examines the evolution of credit in the Western world and its relationship to power. Spanning several centuries of human endeavor, it focuses on Western Europe and the United States and also considers how the Western system became the global credit system. Now available in paperback, A History of Credit and Power in the Western World is a highly accessible, innovative and well-written volume that will engage historians and economists alike.  

Easily accessible and heavily illustrated, this complete guide to diagnosis in Chinese Medicine places an emphasis on 'real world' issues. Focusing on clear interpretations of signs and symptoms, it addresses the practice beyond the theory and leads readers through both basic and sophisticated levels of diagnostic interpretation. Since Chinese medicine diagnosis relies on a subtle appraisal of a patient's disharmony, many factors beyond traditional Western symptoms are considered, including a patient's voice, the absence of thirst, feeling hot or cold, the patient's smell, tone of voice, and glitter of eyes. This practical resource helps readers carefully interpret of a range of nuances.

• Provides a clinical understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Offers an unparalleled depth of information that is meticulously cross-referenced
• Includes all the signs and symptoms, however subtle, that a modern patient may present in the clinic
• Provides clinical experience and understanding from a leader in the field of Chinese medicine
• Clearly outlines the decision-making options in key situations to help readers through the most challenging topics
• Logically organized so readers can quickly find the information they need in clinical situations

Ellis (linguistics and applied language studies, Carleton U., Ottawa) presents a revised edition of the intermediate volume of his three-level Cree language course, originally released in 1963. Building on the fundamentals covered in Spoken Cree, Level I, the text explores the language in the cultural context of a typical northern Cree village. Coverage includes more complex grammatical concepts, including modes, tenses and submodes of the conjunct order; more advanced processes of composition and derivation; and the various forms of the preterit, both independent and conjunct. Extensive use of the syllabary is introduced, with exercises in syllabic writing. The second-level text no longer contains the full glossary; a glossary for all three levels will be appended to Spoken Cree, Level III. Distributed by Michigan State U. Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'The definitive book.' -Cruising World

'Every culture has its bible, and until now, there wasn't one for the voyager with a passion for catching fish.' --Ocean Navigator

Here is the first-ever complete guide to finding, catching, processing, and cooking fish from the decks of a slow-moving cruising sail- or powerboat. Scott and Wendy Bannerot have successfully cruise-fished tropical and temperate seas for more than two decades.

Human error is implicated in nearly all aviation accidents, yet most investigation and prevention programs are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. Appropriate for all levels of expertise, the book provides the knowledge and tools required to conduct a human error analysis of accidents, regardless of operational setting (i.e. military, commercial, or general aviation). The book contains a complete description of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), which incorporates James Reason's model of latent and active failures as a foundation. Widely disseminated among military and civilian organizations, HFACS encompasses all aspects of human error, including the conditions of operators and elements of supervisory and organizational failure. It attracts a very broad readership. Specifically, the book serves as the main textbook for a course in aviation accident investigation taught by one of the authors at the University of Illinois. This book will also be used in courses designed for military safety officers and flight surgeons in the U.S. Navy, Army and the Canadian Defense Force, who currently utilize the HFACS system during aviation accident investigations. Additionally, the book has been incorporated into the popular workshop on accident analysis and prevention provided by the authors at several professional conferences world-wide. The book is also targeted for students attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University which has satellite campuses throughout the world and offers a course in human factors accident investigation for many of its majors. In addition, the book will be incorporated into courses offered by Transportation Safety International and the Southern California Safety Institute. Finally, this book serves as an excellent reference guide for many safety professionals and investigators already in the field.

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer serves up a complicated, compelling tale of a family that heads for an island off the coast of Italy hoping to make a fortune in jewels but instead becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl. Reprint.

Che cos'è un conflitto? Che cosa accade in esso, e perché? Si può parlare di una teoria generale del conflitto? E inoltre: ci sono strategie per la trasformazione/risoluzione dei conflitti? Queste sono alcune delle domande poste da un campo di studi in piena crescita in questo decennio, la cui struttura è fortemente interdisciplinare, ma dove frequenti sono anche i tentativi di un'unificazione teorica. Questo libro è uno strumento introduttivo che presenta l'intreccio di problemi generali e casi concreti attraverso un linguaggio chiaro ed evitando tecnicismi.