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<i>Parenting is a Contact Sport</i> will help parents build permanent and powerful relationships with their children that will see them through tough challenges.<p>Skillfully balancing information from her years as a therapist and her experience as the mother of two girls, the author...

Romantisch, frech, verführerisch - ein sinnliches Vergnügen! Sommer, Sonne, Hitzewelle - und das im sonst eher kühlen Hamburg. Passend dazu nimmt Marie einen Job als Nacktputzerin an. Fortan hüpft sie im Eva-Kostüm mit Staubwedel und Wischmopp vor fremden Männern herum. Oberste Regel: Ihre Kunden...

This distinctive book sets forth, on an advanced level, various methods for the quantitative measurement of important relationships at issue in areas of the balance of payments and international trade and welfare. The results achieved in recent studies are presented and the directions for new research...

SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent...

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in countries like the United States. This book provides a comprehensive summary of obesity in America and around the world, discussing the causes and proposing ways to help stem the tide and to help those who are overweight. • Provides clear, easy-to-understand,...

A modern computer system that's not part of a network is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing a network and getting it to perform well can still be a problem.Managing NFS and NIS, in...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A true must-have for every resident and medical student, Essential Facts on the Go: Internal Medicine is filled with clinical pearls, decision trees, and essential facts and data that speed diagnosis and treatment. Coverarge includes: Cardiovascular Pulmonary Gastroenterology Nephrology Acid-Base...

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a single village in a crucially important country to illuminate the drivers of these changes, why some people do better or worse than others, and what influences...

Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment...

​​At a time when rates of depression and other mental health problems are increasing significantly among high school students, measures of school attitude and well-being are of central importance to school practitioners. Students with positive attitudes about school experience more beneficial...

Don't just wish for marketing results-get them! If marketing seems too commercial or too complex, or if your current efforts aren't delivering results, this book is for you. With this helpful guide, you can create a simple, usable marketing plan designed to get results! Since its first edition in...

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is essential to the accurate diagnosis of many neurologic disorders. The Second Edition of Atlas of EEG Patterns sharpens readers’ interpretation skills with an even larger array of both normal and abnormal EEG pattern figures and text designed to optimize recognition...

In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...