Product Description: Antibiotic-resistant microbes infect more than 2 million Americans and kill over 100,000 each year. They spread rapidly, even in such seemingly harmless places as high school locker rooms, where they infect young athletes. And throughout the world, many more people are dying from these infections...read more

Britain and Britishness have been the subject of intense debate in recent years. This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding Britain today. The book is the first collection of its kind and focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century. Its twelve contributions, which range over economic, political, social and cultural geography, explore the relevance of spatial and historical approaches to understanding societal change in Britain. The volume begins with a substantial introductory essay from the editor, and concludes with an Afterword exploring avenues for further research and modes of understanding through which future change might be understood. Taken as a whole, the book demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.

Product Description: New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities...read more

Product Description: Austin Powers mercilessly parodied the look, but the films' enormous success proved the enduring influence of mid-60s London fashion. In April 1966, Time famously touted London as the new world center of style. Forty years later, this book reconsiders the roles played by designers like Mary Quant, celebrities like Twiggy, boutiques like Biba, photographers like David Bailey, magazines, and filmmakers in promoting a new, more relaxed, more colorful way of dressing that reverberated around the world...read more

Finding himself without prospects, trapped in a series of dead-end temp jobs and failed relationships, and faced with a collection agency's threats concerning some unpaid bills, Billy Schine accepts the opportunity to take part in a pharmaceutical company's tests of their new experimental drugs, but he soon discovers the drug's nasty side effects. A first novel. Reprint.

A collection of darkly comic tales introduces a cast of slightly offbeat characters who struggle with the challenges of modern life, from the suburbs of America to war-ravaged Bosnia to the Galapagos Islands. Reprint.

Oregon Health Sciences Univ., Portland. Annual guide offers information on antimicrobial therapy. Provides data in chart form on antibiotic dosage, side effects, and antiviral agents. Also includes pediatric dosages, immunization, and antifungal agents. Pocket-sized edition also available. Wire-spiral binding.

Product Description: In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film...read more

Product Description: A founder of Columbia University SDS, and a veteran of the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War Movements, David Gilbert joined the Weather Underground Organization in the late í60's. After more than 10 years of clandestine resistance, he was captured in the course of an armed action in 1981...read more

Product Description: The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome...read more

Product Description: For undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Retail Marketing and Marketing Management, and HND Retail Marketing. The second edition of this highly successful text offers a unique approach that combines retail marketing theory with the newer retail concepts and international examples...read more

This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the industrial development of Great Britain during the modern period.

Product Description: An insightful look at two important political organizations in the history of the American white Left, from a participant. It points out their contributions, while not glossing over their weaknesses. Gilbert was a member of the Columbia University chapter of SDS in New York and was a key participant in the large student strike and occupation of 1968...read more

Product Description: A sober examination of the historical role of the white working class and its place in the US imperialist system. With suggestions for the possibilities of developing this class into a revolutionary class as part of a broad social movement...read more

Product Description: An extended interview with the three political prisoners - a frank discussion of past political movements, victories and errors, and the current political climate for revolutionary struggle within the USA.

Product Description: Oregon Health Science Univ., Portland. Annual quick reference to antimicrobial information. Includes 22 tables and an index. For clinicians. Previous edition: c1999. Pocket-sized, wire-spiral bound also available.

Product Description: Annual, pocket-sized, quick-reference guide to antimicrobial information. Includes 22 tables and an index. Trim size: 6 x 4 inches. For clinicians. Landscape format. Softcover.

Product Description: Political prisoner and AIDS activist David Gilbert exposes the right-wing, racist and homophobic foundations of conspiracy theories surrounding the origins of AIDS, and shows how these in fact serve to divert attention from the less spectacular but all-too-real genocide facing Black people today...read more

Product Description: Fiction. 2000 AND WHAT? Is a collection of short stories about the turn of the millennium. These stories are about what it means to be alive during this particular era and vary in content as much as in style: exuberance, excess, nihilism...read more

Product Description: The Atlas seeks to be wider in scope than standard trade union and labour histories, examining the character of protest, both its changing nature and its continuities, and setting the whole armoury of aggressive and defensive tactics available to workers in a wider context of community struggles and developing trade unionism...read more