Author: Joseph J. Elli
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: john, adams, legacy, character, sage, passionate
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393311333
ISBN-13: 9780393311334

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still resonates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate today in the republic they created."151;Edmund S. Morg

Author: David W. Kapla
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: social, sciences, methodology, quantitative, handbook, sage
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2004-06-21
List price: $151.00
ISBN-10: 0761923594
ISBN-13: 9780761923596

The SAGE Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences is the definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of quantitative methods in the social sciences, as it provides a comprehensive overview of the major techniques used in the field. The contributors, top methodologists and researchers, have written about their areas of expertise in ways that convey the utility of their respective techniques, but, where appropriate, they also offer a fair critique of these techniques. Relevance to real-world problems in the social sciences is an essential ingredient of each c

Authors:Mr John Stittle, Mr Robert T Wearing,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: companions, course, sage, accounting, financial
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1412935024
ISBN-13: 9781412935029

The Sage Course Companion on Financial Accounting is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to master key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed pieces.

Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: english, writing, women, guide, cambridge
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1999-10-13
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521668131
ISBN-13: 9780521668132

This guide to women’s writing in English aims to consolidate and epitomize the rereading of women’s writing that has gone on in the past twenty-five years. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical and geographical sweep that takes us up to the present. The entries reflect the spread of literacy, the history of colonization, and the developme

Authors:Andrew P. Sage, William B. Rouse,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: management, engineering, systems, handbook
Number of Pages: 1476
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $236.50
ISBN-10: 0470083530
ISBN-13: 9780470083536

The trusted handbook—now in a new edition This newly revised handbook presents a multifaceted view of systems engineering from process and systems management perspectives. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to the subject and provides a brief overview of the thirty-four chapters that follow. This introductory chapter is intended to serve as a "field guide" that indicates why, when, and how to use the material that follows in the handbook. Topical coverage includes: systems engineering life cycles and management; risk management; discovering system requirements; configu

Author: Martin W. Ball
Publisher: Kyandara Publishing
Keywords: entheogenic, experience, divinorum, salvia, spirit, sage
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2007-08-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0615157084
ISBN-13: 9780615157085

Salvia divinorum is a unique and profoundly powerful visionary herb from the Mazatec region of Mexico. Now widely available in the western world via the internet, but still little understood, this legal entheogen is becoming ever more popular among those who follow the shamanic path of plant based spirituality. In this work, artist, musician, writer and shamanic explorer, Martin Ball, navigates his way through the strange world of sage space, from Burning Man to overtone singing and cosmic serpents, bringing back guidance and advice for the use of Salvia divinorum as a true entheogen and ritua

Author: Dr Paul Oliver
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: skills, series, study, sage, thesis, writing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-01-31
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0761942998
ISBN-13: 9780761942993

`The material is very accessible and it is surely one of the best of the genre’ - Nurse Researcher `This book will undoubtedly benefit anyone whatever stage they are with their work. Despite my bookshelf having several books devoted to writing a PhD, I would happily trade them for this book’ - Scott Buckler, Institute of Education, University of Worcester `The book covers its subject thoroughly and comprehensively. It uses simple language, is easy to read and the advice is good. Just about anything a student would want to know about writing a thesis is discussed’ - Doug