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The forty-first edition gives over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts accompanied by appendices on important subjects such as Health Economics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Common Medical Tests and an address list of support and professional organisations.

The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat.

This useful guide presents different key facts about each of the 50 states that make up America.

Major help for African American history term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways.

This year marks the start of the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music.

John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts.

An invaluable creative tool for all songwriters, poets, and teachers!

The African continent is home to spectacularly expressive human beings: rebellious anti-colonial and opposition leaders, eloquent novelists, political and social activists, comical geniuses, pensive and philosophical poets and intellectuals, as well as a few raving dictators.

THE MILITARY ADVANTAGE, 2012 EDITION is the most up-to-date annual guide to military benefits for active duty service members, veterans, military retirees, and family members.

A handy guide to field-tested medical procedures for when no doctor is available—from the author of The Neighborhood Emergency Response Handbook.

Your One-Step Resource for Choosing the Right College, Getting in and Paying the Bill* Inside tips on admissions* Profiles of 100 top colleges* Hundreds of scholarship sourcesHow do you pick the right college?

Revised and updated every year, The Military Advantage, 2017 Edition is the most reliable benefits guide for Americans who have answered the call to serve in the military.

This book is written in bullet format as a review for physics, exposure, patient care, protection, and terminology for radiography students.

Developed by experienced professionals from reputed civil services couching institutes and useful for many aspirants of Civil Services Prelim exams, General Studies - Planner provides a complete strategy to go through all stages of Civil Services exams.

Now a national priority, character education is being implemented by schools and other public and private organizations across the United States.

Take the first steps to becoming an art quilter with popular teacher and best-selling author Katie Pasquini Masopust.

Citas Motivacionales (Conjunto) es una herramienta invaluable para escritores, oradores, entrenadores, líderes de negocios o cualquiera que desee mejorar su manera de comunicarse.

This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums.

Beautiful renderings by world-renowned artist Maude Nilsson illustrate Poodle trims from around the world.

In Ulysses S.

This edition of the World Statistics Pocketbook is the fortieth in a series of annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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Have you ever wondered how the images in your eyes become your perception of the world about you?

The 2014 International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Volume I provides an overview of the international trade merchandise trade in 2014 and detailed information on the trade performance for numerous countries up to 2014.

A step-by-step guide to home repairs large and small from Popular Mechanics—the name that’s “synonymous with the ultimate in DIY knowledge” (Booklist, starred review).

The most comprehensive and up-to-date student reference on the Cold War, offering expert coverage of all aspects of the conflict in a richly designed format, fully illustrated to give students a vivid sense of life in all countries affected by the war.

Take the first steps to becoming an art quilter with popular teacher and best-selling author Katie Pasquini Masopust.

From cannibals to conspiracy theories to the origin stories of candy, a compendium of thousands of fun facts to read behind closed doors!

The New York Times bestselling collection that “offers Jobs’s views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics” (The Washington Post).

Black's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years.

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, originally published in 2005, is a landmark work in the burgeoning field of religion and nature.

As author Kim Campbell Thornton begins this Simple Solutions guide, "e;Dogs are known as man's best friend, but they don't come ready-made to take on this role.

Stress is generally defined as a strain upon a bodily organ or mental power.

An unprecedented undertaking by academics reflecting an extraordinary vision of world history, this landmark multivolume encyclopedia focuses on specific themes of human development across cultures era by era, providing the most in-depth, expansive presentation available of the development of humanity from a global perspective.

Complete Care Made Easy books address all the major concerns about owning and training a small pet.

The Art of Discovery.

A comprehensive five-volume reference on the defining conflict of the second half of the 20th century, covering all aspects of the Cold War as it influenced events around the world.

Tweetable-length quotes that are clever, cool, smart, touching, wise, funny, and more from the author of The Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder.

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and cooperation, planning, governance, finance and learning that can sustain positive change.

Africa has major development aspirations in the broader context of a global and continental economic development agenda.