Chicago's architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The fourth edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago is the best portable resource for exploring this most breathtaking and dynamic of cityscapes. The editors offer entries on new destinations like the Riverwalk, the St. Regis Chicago, and The 606 as well as updated descriptions of Willis ......
The second edition of the Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois offers up-to-date information on the state's 102 species of frogs and toads, salamanders, turtles, lizards, and snakes. Detailed descriptions by the authors include habitats, distinguishing features, behaviors, and other facts, while revised range maps and full-color ......
This comprehensive classic reference on the language of guns goes beyond the simple definition and explains each term fully, putting it into context with any related terms. Supplemented with 200 photographs, illustrations, and charts to help clarify technical details.
a QuickStudy Reference Tool for Students and Medical, Health & Administrative Fields
With a built-in easel this reference tool can stand upright on your desktop workspace for true at-a-glance quick reference. Twenty-one durable laminated pages covering terms and abbreviations essential for students or anyone in the medical or health related fields, medical office and administration, EMT, nurse, medical coding and many more. The ......
Volume 1: Theories, Research, and Methods Volume 2: Practice, Interventions, and Applications
The field of counselling psychology is characterised by long roots in vocational psychology, prevention, primary interventions, advocacy, and an emphasis on individual differences. The field's fundamental philosophical approach has historically emphasised human strengths, well being, and prevention. Over the years, this approach has led to ......
Nissinen's award-winning book surveys attitudes in the ancient world toward homoeroticism, that is, erotic same-sex relations. Focusing on the Bible and its cultural environmentMesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Israel-Nissinen concisely and readably introduces the relevant sources and their historical contexts in a readable way. Homoeroticism is ......
This volume brings together leading authorities to report on current findings, integrate insights from different disciplinary perspectives and explore ways to provide children with the strongest possible literacy foundations in the first six years of life.
Origen, son of the martyr Leonides, oldest in a family of seven children was born probably at Alexandria 184/85 and died probably in Tyre 253/54 after imprisonment and torture during the Decian persecution. Surnamed "man of steel" Origen was an outstanding theologian of the early Greek-speaking Church, a man of the virtue and a genius with a ......
From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and Richard Clague's tonalist Louisiana bayou scenes. ......
