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A Brief Introduction To Fluid Mechanics, 5th Edition

mrblue — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:47:17 +0000

A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 5th Edition is designed to cover the standard topics in a basic fluid mechanics course in a streamlined manner that meets the learning needs of today?s student better than the dense, encyclopedic manner of traditional texts. This approach helps students connect the math

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Substance Use and Abuse

mrblue — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:22:01 +0000

Consumed for a wide range of reasons, substances that alter a persons mood and mind are widespread in most societies. Although many such substances initially had been valued for their medicinal properties, their usage can have health-endangering consequences, including habit formation. The misuse or abuse of legal and illicit

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Marriages and Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths, 7th Edition

mrblue — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:31:36 +0000

An introductory text, Marriages and Families accentuates the positive aspects of relationships and focuses on enriching students’ knowledge and experience in building strong, successful couple and family relationships. The authors, seasoned family scholars and therapists, integrate research, theory, and practical applications with an interdisciplinary perspective on marriage and family.

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Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason

mrblue — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:40:33 +0000

This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations.

Critical Buddhism

mrblue — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:26:31 +0000

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest

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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 14th Edition

mrblue — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:43:34 +0000

For over 40 years, the best-selling Conformity and Conflict has brought together original readings and cutting edge research alongside classic works as a powerful way to study human behavior and events.

Its readings cover a broad range

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The Rough Guide to Classical Music, 5th Edition

mrblue — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:54:53 +0000

“The Rough Guide to Classical Music” is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer’s guide and a who’s who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of

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Successful Writing at Work, 3rd Edition

mrblue — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:24:55 +0000

This user-friendly, compact text presents the most necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing. Based on the successful parent text, SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, Ninth Edition, SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, Concise Third Edition, maintains a practical approach, an abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world examples,

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Reading for Thinking, 7th Edition

mrblue — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:23:53 +0000

Incorporating a wealth of practice exercises and high-interest readings, READING FOR THINKING focuses on improving reading skills at the “micro-level” and moving on to the “macro-level.” Over half of the book is devoted to evaluating, drawing inferences, and identifying tone, bias, and purpose. The Seventh Edition continues to

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A Writer’s Workshop: Crafting Sentences, Building Paragraphs

mrblue — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:38:01 +0000

This two-book developmental writing series engages using with its environmental theme. A Writer’s Workshop: Crafting Sentences, Building Paragraphs engages developing writers with a hands-on, process-oriented, collaborative, and conscientious approach to writing, treating students as writers and writing as a dynamic process. Throughout, this text offers sound connections between

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