Promotions - Title Listings - Technical and Reference, March 1, 2010

The award-winning designer and author of Rooms and Houses returns with inspiring ideas for apartment interiors in this lavishly photographed book.

At once a striking visual tour and a thoughtful examination, Four Florida Moderns treats readers to the rich and innovative styles of tropical modernism as conceived by four trailblazing architects.

Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpepper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860.

This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez is a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism.

In this book, the author describes in clear and coherent language how Neurofeedback procedures work.

Dr. Bernhard Meier assembled an expert team of authors from the world's leading centers to summarize the current best practice of the most important aspects of interventional cardiology.

This second edition of Environmental Health: From Global to Local, a comprehensive introductory text, offers an overview of the methodology and paradigms of this burgeoning field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, and from genetics to ethics.

This is the new edition of the physician-to-physician, step-by-step guide to passing the pediatrics board exam. This book covers what to expect on the exam, how to register and succeed, and much more.

This careful review of the role of device technologies--broadly defined to cover those implanted within the patient to measure or enhance cardiac function, attached to the patient for diagnostic information or therapeutic effects, or used to evaluate the patient for real-time physiological information—will help you provide the most effective care to your heart failure patients.

In Medicine in Translation, Dr. Danielle Ofri introduces us, in vivid moving portraits, to the patients she has cared for at Belluvue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures.

In contrast to the previous edition of PACS and Imaging Informatics, this updated text uses the framework of image informatics, not physics or engineering principles, to explain PACS. It is the only resource that thoroughly covers the critical issues of hardware/software design and implementation in a systematic and easily comprehensible manner.

With real-world case studies illustrating the essential points, this guide will put you on the road to winning valuable recognition as an organization that has achieved exemplary occupational safety and health.

Taking an ambitious and sweeping look at six major wars, John David Lewis shows how victorious military commanders have achieved long-term peace by identifying the core of the enemy's ideological, political, and social support for a war, fiercely striking at this objective, and demanding that the enemy acknowledges its defeat.

This book shows how brain science helps to answer questions about the nature of mind and reality, while alleviating anxiety about the difficulty of life in a vast universe.

Here is John Ratzinger's report on the debates and struggles that made up each of the four sessions of Vatican II, as well as theological commentary.

How Enemies Become Friends provides a bold and innovative account of how nations escape geopolitical competition and replace hostility with friendship.

With its focus on the chemistry of carbon-centered radicals and radical cations, this book helps readers fully exploit the synthetic utility of these intermediates in order to prepare fine chemicals and pharmaceutical products.

Here is a comprehensive reference covering the computational frameworks and techniques needed to help research scientists and professionals in computer science, biology, chemistry, pharmaceutical science, and physics solve complex biological problems.

This book is the first of its kind to explore how classical multivariate methods can be revised and used in place of conventional statistical tools. Written by prominent researchers in the field, the book focuses on high-dimensional and large-scale approximations and details the many basic multivariate methods used to achieve high levels of accuracy.

In this book, a leading historian of capitalism separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex--and so ambivalent.

Crush Price Objections offers you the tactical support you need to focus specifically on price resistance in order to attain maximum profit in the most challenging circumstances.

This intriguing book shows how people's identity--their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be--may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives.

This simple step-by-step guide distills the essence of an MBA education--the information and skills you need in the real world. In the shortest time possible, you'll be able to make smarter investments, increase revenue and profits, build a strong financial future, optimize your resources and reduce cost and spending.

Kets de Vries looks at the way basic psychological processes operate on individual and corporate performance and analyzes them in the context of case studies of leaders and organizations.

This insider's guide provides the edge you need to successfully sell, market, and deliver your services to the world's top companies.

The first in its category to cover Google's new User Interface, this book will show advertisers how to build an aggressive campaign from scratch, increase their search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double their website traffic, and increase sales.

Norbert Mindel--an accomplished financial adviser, attorney, and CPA--shares his story and the wisdom he has acquired, and offers valuable insights into managing wealth in an economy that has changed dramatically over the past few years.

This compendium of historic images, the newest volume in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook series, presents a comprehensive picture of North American dams, always emphasizing the unique design and engineering complexities of these impressive structures.

This edition of Rocket Propulsion Elements offers a thorough introduction to basic principles of rocket propulsion for guided missiles, space flight, or satellite flight. It describes the physical mechanisms and designs for various types of rockets and provides an understanding of how rocket propulsion is applied to flying vehicles.

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks is a timely text that presents a fault-tolerant, reliable, low-latency and energy-aware framework for wireless sensor and actuator networks, enabling readers to fulfill the ultimate goals of the applications—such as protecting critical infrastructures, achieving timely emergency responses, and monitoring the environment.