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  • Forgotten Maryland Cocktails

    A History of Drinking in the Free State

    The Southside, Diamondback and the Preakness--Marylanders imbibe history in their native cocktails, from local favorites to little-known classics. Early residents favored fruit brandies and potent punches until the Civil War, when rye whiskey laid claim to local palates. During the golden age of the cocktail, grand hotels like Baltimore's Belvedere created smooth concoctions such as the Frozen Rye ... Read more

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  • Goal Attainment Scaling

    Applications, Theory, and Measurement

    There is an extensive literature on Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), but the publications are widely scattered and often inaccessible, covering several foreign countries and many professional disciplines and fields of application. This book provides both a user manual and a complete reference work on GAS, including a comprehensive account of what the method is, what its strengths and limitations are ... Read more

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  • Uneasy Compromise

    Problems of a Hybrid Income-Consumption Tax

    Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades. In practice, tax systems everywhere are mixed or ""hybrid"" systems. And while legislators have reasons for enacting such systems, the mix results in inequities, inefficiencies, and abuse.For Uneasy Compromise, Brookings brought together some of the nation's most ... Read more

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  • A Clinician’s Evidence-Based Guide to Supplements

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Nutritional supplements are ubiquitous. A physician may be asked 10-20 times a day about various supplements. That same physician ends up relying primarily on the internet for information about the supplements. Currently, there is no single, easy-to-use reference for a physician to access to learn about the evidence behind different common supplements. This text fills that gap by allowing ... Read more

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  • The Economists’ Voice 2.0

    The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More

    The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions. The Economists' Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More is the next installment in this popular series, gathering together the strongest essays published in The Economist's Voice, a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Out On a Limb: From Vulnerability to Maturity a Collection of Works

    A thought-provoking compilation of young students' observations of society, Out on a Limb: From Vulnerability to Maturity will question your perspective and understanding of seemingly insignificant, everyday occurrences. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Uncle Silas (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Irish Victorian Gothic thriller of a young woman, family secrets, and a locked-room mystery in a dark Reformed Christian milieu

    Uncle Silas (1864) distills the Victorian sensation novel into a chilling study of inheritance, guardianship, and peril. Narrated retrospectively by teenage heiress Maud Ruthyn, it follows her removal to the decaying estate of Bartram-Haugh after her father's death and the custody of the enigmatic Silas, long shadowed by a notorious locked-room scandal. Le Fanu's slow-burn design—gothic interiors, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Rebels and Regimes

    The Nature of Violent Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

    Rebels and Regimes presents a global view of the nature of violent resistance throughout the nineteenth century. The volume’s breadth and scope reveal commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts, offering a view that the participants themselves never had. The collection is composed of ten essays, each focused on a specific conflict or period of colonial ... Read more

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  • The Press and Democratic Backsliding

    How Journalism Has Failed the Public and How It Can Revive Democracy

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”—praising candidates for being politically smart rather than being honest—in its coverage of a political landscape dominated by a looming authoritarian threat. Contributors document how the American and global political ... Read more

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  • Pivot Points

    How to Recognize That Things Happen for a Reason

    by Annie Joseph ...
    I believe things happen for a reason and we all have pivot points in our life. The devastating death of my brother in my early teenage years triggered the start of a series of pivot points that would take me from a protected teenager to a bold, fearless leader. My story is to inspire and encourage professionals to recognize the pivot points in their own life and embrace it as a sign to uncover ... Read more

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  • Velvet Ants of North America

    Series series Princeton Field Guides
    An authoritative, marvelously illustrated field guide to the velvet ants of North AmericaVelvet Ants of North America is a beautiful photographic guide to the species of the wasp family Mutillidae found in the United States and Canada. Featuring hundreds of full-color photos, it covers nearly 460 species—representing more than 9 percent of all velvet ant species, which number in the thousands ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

    Design, build and simulate complex robots using the Robot Operating System

    Enhancing your existing robotic skills by learning how to design and build multifunctional robots using Robots Operating System libraries and toolsAbout This BookSuccessfully design and simulate your 3D robot model and use powerful algorithms and tools to program and set up your robotsWork through concrete examples that will help you build your own robotic systems of varying complexity ... Read more

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