Author: Jane Stapleto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: debate, compensation, disease
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1986-10-16
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0198255527
ISBN-13: 9780198255529

This book looks anew at the tort remedy and reform proposals surrounding the modern debate on compensation for personal injuries. Arguing that serious distortions underlie the debate because of its focus on victims of traumatic accidents, the author calls for the consideration of other legally neglected but highly publicized sources of disability including man-made health hazards such as asbestos, tobacco, and Agent Orange, and socially-spread diseases such as AIDS. This ground-breaking study demonstrates that attention to such crucial issues explodes much of the conventional wisdom about just

Author: James H. Stapleto
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: probability, wiley, series, statistics, applications, theory, statistical, inference, models
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-12-17
List price: $123.95
ISBN-10: 0470073721
ISBN-13: 9780470073728

This concise, yet thorough, book is enhanced with simulations and graphs to build the intuition of readers Models for Probability and Statistical Inference was written over a five-year period and serves as a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of probability and statistical inference. With detailed theoretical coverage found throughout the book, readers acquire the fundamentals needed to advance to more specialized topics, such as sampling, linear models, design of experiments, statistical computing, survival analysis, and bootstrapping. Ideal as a textbook for a two-semester sequenc

Authors:Paul Cooper, Mary Jane Drummond, Susan Hart, Jane Lov
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: exclusion, alternatives, positive
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-10-18
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0415197589
ISBN-13: 9780415197588

Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion looks at what schools can do to build more harmonious communities and engage students - particularly those at risk of exclusion - more productively in all areas of school life. It describes the Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion Project, a multi-phase, collaborative initiative based at the School of Education, University of Cambridge.Drawing on the perspectives of staff and pupils, the authors provide detailed case studies of the approaches and strategies being adopted in a variety of settings (primary, secondary and FE) to foster inclusion and

Authors:Jane Austen,  James Kinsley, Jane Stabler,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, park, mansfield
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-10-02
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 019280264X
ISBN-13: 9780192802644

This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel. At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context a

Authors:Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Jane Chisholm, Gill Har
Publisher: Usborne Books
Keywords: linked, history, encyclopedias, internet, world, encyclopedia, ancient, usborne
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0794511414
ISBN-13: 9780794511418

This encyclopaedia traces the extraordinary history of the Ancient World, from the first farmers, and the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome to the eventual decline and fall of the Roman Empire. It covers all aspects of life in the Ancient World - from building the pyramids to a day at the Roman Games. There are photographs of glowing treasures in gold, silver and precious stones, 3000-year-old wall paintings with vivid colours, and blackened, shrivelled mummies, combined with reconstructions and cutaways of architecture, to recreate the atmosphere of the time. Internet

Authors:Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane Stabler,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, park, mansfield
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0199535531
ISBN-13: 9780199535538

At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel.

Authors:Jane Austen, Jane Kendall,
Publisher: Dramatic Pub.
Keywords: prejudice, pride
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 1942-12
List price: $5.50
ISBN-10: 0871296861
ISBN-13: 9780871296863