The million-copy bestseller by “the man who remade motherhood” (Time) has now been revised, expanded, and brought thoroughly up-to-date—with the latest information on everything from diapering to day care, from midwifery to hospital birthing rooms, from postpartum nutrition to infant development.

The Searses draw from their vast experience both as medical professionals and as parents to provide comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. The Baby Book focuses on the essential needs of babies—eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort—as it addresses the questions of greatest concern to today’s parents. The topics covered include:

• preparing for a safe and healthy birth
• bonding with your baby
• feeding your baby right
• soothing your fussy baby
• getting your baby to sleep
• understanding your baby’s development
• treating common illnesses
• babyproofing your home
• understanding toddler behavior
• dealing with temper tantrums
• toilet training
• working and parenting
• first-aid procedures
• and much more

Unrivaled in its scope and authority, The Baby Book presents a practical, contemporary approach to parenting that reflects the way we live today. The Searses acknowledge that there is no one way to parent a baby, and they offer the basic guidance and inspiration you need to develop the parenting style that best suits you and your child. Their book is a rich and invaluable resource that will help you get the most out of parenting—for your child, for yourself, and for your entire family.

(Meredith Music Resource). This book examines every aspect of the snare drum roll and provides resources and valuable knowledge for beginners, experienced musicians, and professionals regardless of their skill level. Through written explanations, diagrams, photographs, exercises and more, the snare drum roll will no longer be a mystery but a technique anyone can understand and master. The Modern Concert Snare Drum Roll is designed to provide teachers with an instructional resource and students a method for home practice. In addition to numerous roll exercises, the following topics are covered: basic set up of the drum * release of the roll * transition back and forth from single strokes to the roll * metered versus unmetered rolls * dynamics * an entire section devoted to advanced exercises. Once these skills are mastered, performers will be able to execute the roll in virtually any musical setting. (a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ZFSv8VhOg' target='_blank')Click here for a YouTube video(/a)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE?65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca?whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson?to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Hardship and Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from consolations?works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss?to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike.

Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary, and college levels. Research and theory are examined with the aim of informing teaching. Practicing and prospective writing teachers need the information and strategies provided to be effective and well prepared for the many challenges they will face in the classroom.

Features

• Current—combines discussions and references to foundational studies that helped define the field of rhetoric and composition, with updated research, theories, and applications
• Research based—thorough examination of relevant research in education, literacy, cognition, linguistics, and grammar
• Steadfast adherence to best practices based on how students learn and on how to provide the most effective writing instruction

A Companion Website (www.Routledge.com/cw/Williams) provides sample assignments and student papers that can be analyzed using the research and theory presented in the text.

Brings together the finest imagery from the unique Aerofilms collection, and tells the fascinating story of the men and women behind the company. A joint publication between English Heritage, RCAHMS and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW).

A definitive history of the U.S. Supreme Court details the evolution of the legal institution from the early days of the American Republic to the present day, offering profiles of the justices, the Court's years under each Chief Justice, its influence on American life, and the issues, cases, and decisions they handled from the perspective of the time in which they came before the Court.

Vengono qui presentate per la prima volta tutte le lettere disponibili dello scambio epistolare intercorso fra Henri Bergson e William James fra il 1902 e il 1910, anno della morte di James, integrate dai testi (lettere ad altri corrispondenti, saggi, articoli) che documentano la storia di una straordinaria amicizia filosofica. L'incontro fra il filosofo francese e lo psicologo e filosofo americano non fu dettato soltanto dalle affinità concettuali ed esistenziali, ma soprattutto dall'esigenza di ripensare su basi rinnovate il programma di ricerca della filosofia. A unirli con un legame profondo erano il rifiuto dell'intellettualismo, la critica della metafisica di scuola come dello scientismo positivista, ma anche l'idea che per la filosofia fosse venuto il tempo di ritornare a parlare la lingua viva dell'esperienza. Solo così la filosofia si sarebbe potuta mostrare all'altezza del secolo che si stava aprendo e delle nuove esigenze teoretiche che proprio la nuova scienza aveva posto sul tappeto. Il dialogo Bergson-James è una pietra miliare nella storia intellettuale del Novecento, di cui solo oggi si comincia ad apprezzare la straordinaria portata.

Outlines a long-term career-development program designed as an expansion of the transition system developed by the authors and the U.S. Army for military veterans leaving active duty service for civilian careers, counseling readers on how to transition to permanent civilian employment with an understanding of the mindset and priorities of the business world. Original.

This series will appeal to radar practitioners within military or government. The first volume was written as a textbook for courses in radar systems and technology and the second volume is aimed at practicing radar engineers and graduate level students. The third volume is designed to serve as a self-contained reference for those aiming to become experts in an advanced technology or application area.

POMR: Radar Applications Volume 3 includes concise descriptions of the purposes, principal issues and radar methods found in a wide variety of current radar types.

POMR: Advanced Techniques Volume 2 is a professional reference for practicing engineers that provides a stepping stone to advanced practice.

POMR: Basic Principles Volume 1 focuses on 4 keys areas; basic concepts, radar signal phenomenology, major subsystems of modern radars and signal and data processing basics.

This third volume in the Principles of Modern Radar set is a professional reference of the most important applications in current practice and includes a foundation of research before tackling in-depth, single-topic advanced books and literature. The book has concise descriptions of the purposes, principal issues, and methods found in a wide variety of current radar types with military, commercial and civilian uses. This book has been community reviewed by experts from around the world.

It provides concise descriptions of the purposes, principal issues and radar methods found in a wide variety of current radar types, including: low-power continuous wave (CW) radar, weather radar and military applications. Each chapter is authored by experts in the field who are active in research and teaching radar practitioners in professional courses.

This edition will serve as a self-contained reference for those aiming to become experts in an advanced technology or application area. Primarily aimed at radar practitioners within military or government and will also be useful for some advanced graduate students.

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Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman—cofounder of the production company Playtone—to make Vincent Bugliosi’s mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing these many faults during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film eventually adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not even resemble Reclaiming History, though the script for that film displays the same imbalance that Reclaiming History does.

Reclaiming Parkland also includes extended looks at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman—including Bugliosi’s three attempts at political office and a review of the Tate-LaBianca murders in the light of today’s knowledge of that case. DiEugenio also looks at the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. Reclaiming Parkland is a truly unique book that delves into the Kennedy assassination, the New Hollywood, and the political influence on how films are made today

'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines.This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoreticalbiology, cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development.Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributorsto this volume, from a range of disciplines, offer a more fully developed analysis of scaffoldingthat highlights the role of temporal and temporary resources in development, broadly conceived,across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.

The book emphasizesreproduction, repeated assembly, and entrenchment of heterogeneous relations, parts, and processesas a complement to neo-Darwinism in the developmentalist tradition of conceptualizing evolutionarychange. After describing an integration of theoretical perspectives that can accommodate differentlevels of analysis and connect various methodologies, the book discusses multilevel organization;differences (and reciprocality) between individuals and institutions as units of analysis; andperspectives on development that span brains, careers, corporations, and culturalcycles.

ContributorsColin Allen, Linnda R. Caporael, JamesEvans, Elihu M. Gerson, Simona Ginsburg, James R. Griesemer, Christophe Heintz, Eva Jablonka, SanjayJoshi, Shu-Chen Li, Pamela Lyon, Sergio F. Martinez, Christopher J. May, Johann Peter Murmann,Stuart A. Newman, Jeffrey C. Schank, Iddo Tavory, Georg Theiner, Barbara Hoeberg Wimsatt, William C.Wimsatt

What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America’s native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree’s natural home. But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don’t know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years until the nut was “improved” a little more than a century ago—and why that rapid domestication actually threatens the pecan’s long-term future. In The Pecan, acclaimed writer and historian James McWilliams explores the history of America’s most importantThis lively history by the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating follows the pecan from primordial Southern groves to the contemporary Chinese marketplace to reveal how a nut with a very limited natural range has become a global commodity and endangered heirloom. commercial nut. He describes how essential the pecan was for Native Americans—by some calculations, an average pecan harvest had the food value of nearly 150,000 bison. McWilliams explains that, because of its natural edibility, abundance, and ease of harvesting, the pecan was left in its natural state longer than any other commercial fruit or nut crop in America. Yet once the process of “improvement” began, it took less than a century for the pecan to be almost totally domesticated. Today, more than 300 million pounds of pecans are produced every year in the United States—and as much as half of that total might be exported to China, which has fallen in love with America’s native nut. McWilliams also warns that, as ubiquitous as the pecan has become, it is vulnerable to a “perfect storm” of economic threats and ecological disasters that could wipe it out within a generation. This lively history suggests why the pecan deserves to be recognized as a true American heirloom.

'This book is a must have resource guide for anyone who wants to ... implement TXT within their environments. I wish we had this guide when our engineering teams were implementing TXT on our solution platforms!”

John McAuley,EMC Corporation

'This book details innovative technology that provides significant benefit to both the cloud consumer and the cloud provider when working to meet the ever increasing requirements of trust and control in the cloud.”

Alex Rodriguez, Expedient Data Centers

'This book is an invaluable reference for understanding enhanced server security, and how to deploy and leverage computing environment trust to reduce supply chain risk.”

Pete Nicoletti. Virtustream Inc.

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) is a new security technology that started appearing on Intel server platforms in 2010. This book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, its purpose, application, advantages, and limitations. This book guides the server administrator / datacenter manager in enabling the technology as well as establishing a launch control policy that he can use to customize the server’s boot process to fit the datacenter’s requirements. This book explains how the OS (typically a Virtual Machine Monitor or Hypervisor) and supporting software can build on the secure facilities afforded by Intel TXT to provide additional security features and functions. It provides examples how the datacenter can create and use trusted pools.

With a foreword from Albert Caballero, the CTO at Trapezoid.

New in paperback

Wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and challenging ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything from sublime beauty to the overextension of government authority. The Promise of Wilderness examines the profound and sometimes surprising ways that the idea of wilderness has shaped modern American environmental politics.

'The Promise of Wilderness will be read with pleasure by all who enjoy --and realize they must act politically to protect--the untrammeled great outdoors.' --Rupert Cutler, former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Roanoke Times

'The most deeply researched, analytically rigorous, and elegantly written study of American wilderness politics since the 1960s.' --from the Foreword by William Cronon

'A wonderfully compelling picture of the people, history, and politics of America's wilderness. A great read.' --Melyssa Watson, cofounder, The Wilderness Society's Wilderness Support Center

'The second edition of AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation is dedicated to updating the science, expanding the focus, and including additional perspectives to improve the understanding of causation, which will eventually improve the treatment outcomes for the injured worker as they stay-at-home or return-to-work'--Provided by publisher.

This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology.

Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated an elaborate system to spot foreign technologies, acquire them by all conceivable means, and convert them into weapons and competitive goods—without compensating the owners. The director of the US National Security Agency recently called it 'the greatest transfer of wealth in history.'

Written by two of America's leading government analysts and an expert on Chinese cyber networks, this book describes these transfer processes comprehensively and in detail, providing the breadth and depth missing in other works. Drawing upon previously unexploited Chinese language sources, the authors begin by placing the new research within historical context, before examining the People’s Republic of China’s policy support for economic espionage, clandestine technology transfers, theft through cyberspace and its impact on the future of the US.

This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, Asian security studies, US defence, US foreign policy and IR in general.

Musculoskeletal ultrasound has greatly changed the way many healthcare providers diagnose and treat patients. Almost everyone is familiar with the use of ultrasound technology in the field of obstetrics, but this modality is now being used with increasing frequency by physiatrists, orthopedists, sports medicine physicians, primary care doctors, and emergency physicians. Recently, advances in technology have made machines cheaper and easier to use while producing high quality images. The ability to produce real-time images at the bedside have prompted some to call it the '21st century stethoscope.'Many healthcare providers from different fields and different diciplines (including physicians, physical therapists, PAs and NPs, athletic trainers, emergency medical technicians and nurses) at different levels of traning (practicing clinicians, teachers, students, residents and fellows) are seeking training and certification in this field. Basics of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound speaks to this audience by combining practical clinical aspects, from selecting the proper ultrasound machine to 'knobology' and tissue scanning, to specific information organized by anatomical structure. By following this very easy step-by-step guide, the clinician can easily reference the patient's position, transducer position and the structure to be scanned, and all instructions correspond with recently published ultrasound guidelines.?

Alexander, a retired women's health advocate, LaRosa, Bader, Garfield, and Alexander provide undergraduate students in health education, nursing, and women's studies with a textbook on women's health. They address public health, the political climate and economics surrounding women's health, and the women's health movement; health promotion and disease prevention; sexual and reproductive aspects; physical and lifespan dimensions, such as nutrition, exercise, weight management, preventing and treating cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other diseases, and mental health; and interpersonal and social dimensions, including substance abuse, violence, abuse, harassment, and the workforce. This edition has been expanded, updated, and revised, and includes new material on healthcare reform and its implications; expanded discussions from a global perspective, including how issues in developing countries, Canada, and Europe compare to those in the US; new and expanded information on testing and prevention for sexually transmitted infections, including the HPV vaccination; new quotes from women; and current guidelines and statistics, including the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, revised World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates for chronic and infectious diseases, and updated Youth Risk Behavior Survey data. The companion website features learning tools like flashcards, crosswords, quizzes, and a glossary. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

There’s bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does — Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of ’em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of ’em, using his bag o’ wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didn’t exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock had mental wossnames, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him. It’s just that I didn't get much time for thinking, not with the coppers on our arse. Jock were off... and me with him.

There’s bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does — Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of ’em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of ’em, using his bag o’ wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didn’t exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock had mental wossnames, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him. It’s just that I didn't get much time for thinking, not with the coppers on our arse. Jock were off... and me with him.

When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the eccentric and outspoken Hopper helped propel the Navy into the computer age. She also was a superb publicist for the Navy, appearing frequently on radio and television and quoted regularly in newspapers and magazines. Yet in spite of all the attention she received, until now "Amazing Grace," as she was called, has never been the subject of a full biography.

Kathleen Broome Williams looks at Hopper's entire naval career, from the time she joined the WAVES and was sent in 1943 to work on the Mark I computer at Harvard, where she became one of the country's first computer programmers. Thanks to this early Navy introduction to computing, the author explains, Hopper had a distinguished civilian career in commercial computing after the war, gaining fame for her part in the creation of COBOL.

The admiral's Navy days were far from over, however, and Williams tells how Hopper--already past retirement age--was recalled to active duty at the Pentagon in 1967 to standardize computerprogramming languages for Navy computers. Her temporary appointment lasted for nineteen years while she standardized COBOL for the entire department of defense. Based on extensive interviews with colleagues and family and on archival material never before examined, this biography not only illuminates Hopper's pioneering accomplishments in a field that came to be dominated by men, but provides a fascinating overview of computing from its beginnings in World War II to the late 1980s.