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Are you applying for graduate school and feeling overwhelmed by the choices available to you and the complexity of the application process? This informative and humorous guide for life and earth science students offers comprehensive advice to help you prepare and increase your chances of success....

The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership,...

CARE AT HOME -HOME CARE Health care in the Netherlands looks to be a well structured system. Supplementing the vital level of self-care and informal care are four levels of professional care: the public health service (known in the Netherlands as basic health care) is mainly concerned with preventive...

Another school year and another 180 days of fighting, yelling, and crying over homework. And you’re the parent! Frustration.“How are you going to make it?” “What bribes or treats can I give my son/ daughter to make them do their homework?” Well the following pages will bring you relief. The...

Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and over time, perhaps, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed to continuity.

“I’ll never rest until I’ve seen his murderer hanged!” But Dick Blake didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. Not only did he have to contend with the strangely complicated network of intrigue which surrounded the passionate, neurotic Malvery clan, but more baffling still,...

From the time that he had taken up the study of astronomy as a pleasant means of spending his newly acquired leisure, and had built himself a small but well-equipped observatory as an adjunct to his house, which stood on one of the highest slopes of Leith Hill, Mequillen had formed the habit of rising...

I think my first notion was that this was the cry of some animal, trapped close by, or seized by another. But on the instant it came again, and I knew it then for the cry, desperate, terrorised, of a man in deadly fear and peril. I had sprung to my elbow at the first sound: at the second I looked...

All the folk who lived in No. 85 had gone to bed by that time, and the landlady, knowing that there was no late-comer to arrive, had locked and bolted her front door. It took Jennison a minute or two to turn the key and draw the two bolts, and all the time something was pulsing and throbbing in his...

Dr. Hextall receives a call in the early hours of the morning to attend the beautiful Paquita Tress, who has accidentally wounded herself while attempting to shoot Kesteven, a friend of her brother Darrell. Paquita is convinced that Kesteven is not only a bad influence on her brother, but actively...

An elderly sailor is found murdered. When authorities attempt to contact his brother to inform him of the bad news, they discover a shocking coincidence: he too had met his end—the victim of foul play—the very same night. Is there a connection between the two deaths? An intrepid detective tries his best to crack the case.

*In a war without borders, you're always behind enemy lines. * The sides are drawn. The war has begun. The Human Rebellion is constantly on the move, knowing that their enemies possess the same world-ripper technology that allows them to appear at will across vast distances.  The war...

Daniel Here he was, her Daniel. Dark blonde curly hair, built like a quarterback. Long lean legs and the most beautiful angels smile on a square jaw. Soulful brown eyes she could live in. He seemed to understand her every thought, sometimes without a single word. That was only his appearance, the...

An invaluable student-tested study aid, this primer, first published in 2007, provides guided instruction for the analysis and interpretation of genetic principles and practice in problem solving. Each section is introduced with a summary of useful hints for problem solving and an overview of the...