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How to Evaluate and Select a Nursing Home
by R. Barker Bausell Michael A. Rooney Charles B. InlanderGuide contains 100 questions to ask the nursing home staff and administrators, financial planning, checklists of facilities, patient's bill of rights, and more.
The Arthritis Helpbook: What You Can Do for Your Arthritis
by Kate Lorig James F. FriesThis is an explanation of the various kinds of arthritis, and what patients can do about it. Although the book is 25 years old (in 2005), the self-help component remains highly useful.
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
by William BridgesStrategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Chris BaldickContains over 1000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, with clear and witty explanations of the terms
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by John Lewis GaddisWhen Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan-- and Gorbachev-- completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world.
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
by Norval Morris David J. RothmanThe history of prisons is marked with extraordinary changes. Before the 18th century, prison was not the essential part of punishment.
Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling
by David D. Karnos Robert G. Shoemaker64 memoirs reveal that the road to wisdom has many on-ramps.
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
by Michael D. Coogan Bruce M. MetzgerAn authoritative reference for key persons, places, events, concepts, institutions and realities of biblical times, this book also provides discussions on these topics by modern scholars.
Tchaikovsky in America
by Elkhonon YoffeBiography of the famous composer, including his trip to New York in 1891 to celebrate the opening of Carnegie Hall.
James Joyce
by Richard EllmannBiography of the Irish author. Listed #73 on Modern Library's top 100 nonfiction books of the century.<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
White Dolphin
by Gill Lewis"The white dolphin is a sign that Mum's out there ..." When they first meet, Kara and Felix can't stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin calf on the beach they know they must work together to save it. Now friends, they set out to find the truth behind the disappearance of Kara's mother, and to protect the nearby reef. But powerful people don't want them to succeed. And with the odds stacked against them, how can Kara and Felix make their voices heard?
The Brothers Lionheart
by Astrid Lindgren Joan TateThere's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother, Jonathan, who is brave, strong, and handsome - everything Karl believes he is not. Karl never wants to be parted from him. But Karl is sick, and knows he's going to die. To comfort him, Jonathan tells him stories of Nangiyala, the wonderful place he'll be going to when he dies, and where he will wait until Jonathan is ready to join him there. Then the unthinkable happens . . . Jonathan is killed in an accident. Heartbroken, Karl longs for the day he'll be reunited with his brother. When the time comes, he finds Nangiyala just as wonderful as he'd imagined. However, Nangiyala is under threat. A cruel tyrant is determined to claim it as his own, and at his command is a terrible beast that is feared throughout the land. Karl must summon all of his courage to help his brother prepare for the battle that lies ahead . . . 'I adored Astrid Lindgren as a child' Francesca Simon, author of the 'Horrid Henry' books.
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
by V. S. Pritchett41 stories by Scott, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Harte, Bierce, H. James, Stevenson, Conrad, Kipling, O. Henry, Saki, Crane, De La Mare, Maugham, Anderson, Coppard, Joyce, Lawrence, Lardner, Mansfield, Porter, O'Flaherty, Faulkner, Hemingway, Bowen, Pritchett, O'Faolain, O'Connor, Callaghan, Bates, Narayan, Welty, Sansom, Lavin, White, Cheever, Lessing, Trevor and Updike.
Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity
by US Department of Health and Human ServicesA supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Cross-cultural comparisons of blacks, North American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and whites.
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolfsweeping, lyrical, novel that moves brilliantly among the thoughts and feelings of the Ramsey family and their summer house guests.
Maigret and the Apparition
by Georges Simenon Eileen EllenbogenThe apparition leads Maigret to the highest echelons of the Parisian art world, and the depths of greed and cruelty.
The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming
by Gabrielle Walker David KingA book that explains the science behind global warming, the most cutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and the national and international politics that will affect our efforts
Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
by Georges Simenon J. Maclaren RossA CRIME CLUB SELECTION The police knew him as "Sad Freddie." The newspapers tagged him "the burglar on a bike." Once he had worked for a safe-manufacturing firm. Now he was in business for himself, cracking the safes he had once installed. Tuesday night's job was to be the last. Then he and his wife would buy that "house in the country." It was to have been a routine safe-cracking job, but Freddie stumbled across something that was quite out of his line-a corpse. When Sad Freddie's wife came to Inspector Maigret with the farfetched story, it took all of the famous Inspector's uncanny know-how to protect a man who, despite his taste for unearned money, was too smart to put his neck in a noose. Scene: France This novel has not appeared in any form prior to book publication.
The Harcourt Brace Guide to Documentation and Writing in the Disciplines (4th edition)
by Laurie G. Kirszner Stephen R. MandellPreparing to write for research; developing an argument; writing in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business; overview of documentation styles for books and articles
Thimbleberry Stories
by Cynthia RylantFour stories about Nigel the Chipmunk and his friends, who live on Thimbleberry Lane.
Capital
by Lynn CurleeHow did the White House become white? Who designed the capital city? What is the Washington Monument made of? Find the answers to these questions and man more about our stunning national capital, Washington D.C., within the pages of this illuminating book by award-winning author and illustrator Lynn Curlee.