I was an “ordinary” housewife, tending our home and newborn son. My husband, David, was a dentist in the Air Force, learning to salute. Our son lightened our lives, watching him take his fi rst steps, seeing him grow. Fast-forward ten years: a house of our own, fi ve children and two dogs. I felt my world shrinking even as it seemed to be expanding. I “ran away from home” to see what else was out there. Fair housing and civil rights movements were born…and I began to hatch.

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Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture. He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques, subject, and history. ‘A Procession of Lobsters’ offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates ‘in situ’: at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtower...

Het leven als expat is een zeer forse stap uit je comfort zone. Dat ondervond Helga Evelyn Samuel toen haar geboorteland India verliet en eerst naar Oman en later naar Nederland vertrok.

In Headwinds beschrijft ze openhartig en met humor haar ambities én de vele tegenwind die zij met haar gezin moest trotseren. Tussen de regels door trekt ze lessen uit haar ervaringen voor iedereen die werkt of leeft met expats en hun familie: managers, HR-professionals, partners, scholen, en zelfs buren.

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It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible-food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.

An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through i...

The Student's Book and Workbook are now combined, and every unit is supported by stunning new video footage, bringing the outside world into the classroom.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves unmusical. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology, neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, and ...

Introduction to Data Mining presents fundamental concepts and algorithms for those learning data mining for the first time. Each concept is explored thoroughly and supported with numerous examples. The text requires only a modest background in mathematics.

Each major topic is organized into two chapters, beginning with basic concepts that provide necessary background for understanding each data mining technique, followed by more advanced concepts and algorithms.

Known for its readability, portability, and global perspectives, Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume text in its field. As technology and techniques continue to evolve, the 7th Edition provides state-of-the-art coverage-both in print and on video-of the full range of general surgical and urological problems in infants, children, and adolescents, equipping you to achieve optimal outcomes for every patient. Provides authoritative, p...

For introductory Nutrition courses for Majors. Move students beyond memorization with a functional approach to nutrition The Science of Nutrition helps students master tough nutrition concepts while providing rich support to save instructors time. This best-selling, thoroughly current, research-based nutrition text is uniquely organized around the highly regarded functional approach, which organizes vitamins and minerals based on their functions within the body and is easily seen in the organ...