Author: Carrie Gleason
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: involved, activist, rights
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-08
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0778746933
ISBN-13: 9780778746935

"Get Involved!" explores the world of social activism. Each fascinating book will inspire children to learn about the rights all humans have as well as their responsibilities for the world, its peoples, and animals. ’Special Field Notes’ sections bring the words of prominent activists to life. ’Get Active!’ boxes encourage exploration and research, and offer everyday ways to become a positive force for peacefully changing the world. The fight for animal rights can be controversial. Modern champions for animal rights believe that animals should not be regarded as propert

Author: Carrie Gleason
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: involved, activist, environmental
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-08
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0778747069
ISBN-13: 9780778747062

"Get Involved!" explores the world of social activism. Each fascinating book will inspire children to learn about the rights all humans have as well as their responsibilities for the world, its people, and animals. ’Special Field Notes’ sections bring the words of prominent activists to life. ’Get Active!’ boxes encourage exploration and research, and offer everyday ways to become a positive force for peacefully changing the world. Environmental activists are concerned for the well being of the environment, including all people, plants, and animals. This wonderfully inf

Authors:Carrie Hannigan, Carrie Wells, Carolyn Stevenson, Tan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Keywords: technical, levels, writers, writing, kaplan, resource
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1427797218
ISBN-13: 9781427797216

Content Summary Technical writing is an essential form of straightfoward communication that allows readers to accomplish a specific task using easy-to-understand directions. Our book also dispels the myth that all technical writing only pertains to user manuals; rather, technical writing covers a host of purposes including interoffice memos, e-mail, and other basic forms of daily communication. Part I of our multi-purpose textbook is written, designed, and sequenced for an introduction to technical writing course.  Taking into account that most students in such a course are not familiar

Authors:Carrie Rebora Barratt, Paul Staiti, Carrie Rebora,
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keywords: america, copley, singleton, john
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1995-09-10
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300086318
ISBN-13: 9780300086317

John Singleton Copley was the leading portraitist of the American colonial era. This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of Copley’s work organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focuses on the paintings, miniatures and pastels which Copley produced before he moved to London in 1774. In four principal essays, a team of experts places Copley’s work in historical and social context, and brings new critical methods to bear upon traditional aspects of the study of portraits and portraiture. Among the conclusions are that Cople

Author: Gleason Archer
Publisher: Moody Publisher
Keywords: introduction, testament, old, survey
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0802484344
ISBN-13: 9780802484345

In this revised volume, Gleason Archer’s original study is updated by author Dillon Burroughs. It approaches the study of the Old Testament from both the general and the specific point of view. Dealing first with issues over which many scholars debate, Archer offers evidence to support the conservative view of canonicity, historicity, inspiration, textual problems, and higher criticism. The second section dissects each book of the Old Testament individually. Archer thoroughly covers such issues as biblical creationism, Noah’s Ark and the flood, authorship, chronology, alleged langu

Author: Colleen Gleason
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: chronicles, vampire, gardella, fade, shadows
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451226321
ISBN-13: 9780451226327

the sexy and thrilling gardella vampire chronicles continueTHE SERIES THAT -S... -Sophisticated, sexy, surprising!- (#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward Demons, enemies of both mortals and the undead, have found their way to Earth. To defeat them, Victoria Gardella proposes an alliance between her slayers and Lilith-s vampires. But the vampire queen wants the former slayer Max Pesaro in return for her cooperation-a small price for the world, but a price Victoria is unwilling to pay...

Author: James T. Gleason
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Keywords: finance, imperative, management, new, risk
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-04-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1576600742
ISBN-13: 9781576600740

Financial professionals need tools to assess and manage risk now more than ever. Risk is everywhere in finance--there’s no escaping it. Changes in the global markets have raised the stakes for financial professionals, forcing them to adapt to newer and more relevant methods for assessing and managing their risks. Forward-thinking financial professional will find this logical guide easy to follow and refreshingly jargon-free, a breath of fresh air in a finance world that’s routinely clouded over with unnecessary complexity. Risk expert James Gleason bypasses the mathematics to prese