Smallman: 20 books

Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have...

For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths. Although the military had remarkable success in promoting its version of events, recent democratization has allowed scholars access to...

This innovative introduction to international and global studies, updated and revised in a new edition, offers instructors in the social sciences and humanities a core textbook for teaching undergraduates in this rapidly growing field. Encompassing the latest scholarship in what is a markedly interdisciplinary...

For many years, various editions of Smallman's Modern Physical Metallurgy have served throughout the world as a standard undergraduate textbook on metals and alloys. In 1995, it was rewritten and enlarged to encompass the related subject of materials science and engineering and appeared under the...

On the verge of a major breakthrough in sleep therapy, Barbara Ostermann, an expert in disruptive sleep disorders, uncovers a remarkable conspiracy that strikes at the very heart of her work and that of her colleagues, Martin — her occasional lover — and Anna — the gregarious though disillusioned...

After many years, two former school friends meet by chance. Or do they? Deborah — a high-flying corporate lawyer, now living in New York — remembers a sequence of events one way, while Ben — a travel writer and campaigning journalist — remembers them another. But why? Unable to shake...

A riot-torn London struggles under a rising tide of racially motivated violence that gradually sweeps up through Birmingham to the great northern cities of Leeds and finally Manchester. Detective Constable Pooja Chopra — a feisty and gifted second generation British-born Indian — and Detective...

How might our quarrelsome and wasteful ways be seen through the gaze of more distant, different and dispassionate eyes? And how might a promise once made by the leaders of the world be re-paid having been broken by their successors? 30 years later, on a night whose dark skies were filled with...

<p>These thoughtful meditations on knowing God will aid readers inunderstanding and embracing what God reveals about himself in hisWord.</p>

Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families. Drawing from extensive personal experiences of working in paediatric palliative care, the author provides...

Meet Benjamin Bear! Always full of bounce, always racing off to have fun with Lofty, Stripe and Snippy. One day he's in such a hurry that he accidentally upsets his friends. In this charming story, Benjamin Bear learns to say sorry and how to put things right again.

Here comes Benjamin Bear - always full of bounce. He loves playing with his friends, but somehow he keeps hurting their feelings. He never says thank you. In this charming story Benjamin Bear learns to say thank you - and how much those little words mean.

Here comes Benjamin Bear again - with his friends Stripe, Fizzy and Flop-Ear. He's his usual bouncy self - racing off to have fun in the snow, building a snowman and sledging. But in his excitement Benjamin keeps forgetting to say please! At last he remembers - and his friends remember to say please" too. A charming story with bright

Children will love the bright illustrations and simple text in this delightful series of animal books