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Examines the controversial assertions of 'The Da Vinci Code,' arguing that many of them are based on inaccurate and unsupported claims that reveal a hidden agenda. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The controversy grows with every sale of the bestselling novel. Throughout the contemporary fictional storyline of The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown skillfully weaves “historical” assertions intended to shake the very foundations of Christianity: • Was Jesus merely human and not divine? • Did Jesus and Mary Magdalene marry and have children? • Is there a Holy Grail? If so, what is it and where can it be found? CRACKING DA VINCI’S CODE is the long-awaited answer to these and other questions...read more

Product Description: The airline industry is a vast international business that is central to world economies. In today's environment, it faces many challenges and a tight operational strategy is vital to survive. In-flight catering is a central part of these strategies at all levels: be they customer satisfaction, marketing, operations or logistics...read more

Product Description: This book is part of the Images of Sport series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local sports in Great Britain.

Product Description: W.-H. Friedrich's "Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias" was originally published in 1956. Never before translated into English, its importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second, because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, held in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, during August 2001...read more

Product Description: Independence is ever-present on the Scottish political agenda. This book is the first serious study of the likely road to independence, and the consequences for the Scottish people and the Scottish economy.

Product Description: This second edition of the most complete introductory text available examines the whole of the hospitality industry and the ways in which it operates. The first part examines the accommodation industry: hotels of all shapes and sizes, guesthouses, hospital services, residential care, hostels and halls of residence...read more

First published in 1974, this book helped foster new attitudes to the hereditary bleeding disorders by encouraging affected families to lead full and active lives. It has been well received by both the medical and general press and has been translated into many languages around the world. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to include, in particular, a section on AIDS. Throughout the book, the subject matter is clearly explained in nontechnical terms. It is intended for a general readership, including the families of those affected by haemophilia, as well as their doctors and other caregivers. (view table of contents)

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ...half-melted, lumpy'. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should 'use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something...it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech'. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, 'imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice'.

Product Description: The Management of Hotel Operations adopts an innovative approach to the study of hotel management based on the concept of key result areas. The book identifies and explores the fundamental issues facing the manager - such as profitability, productivity and quality - and examines alternative strategies for achieving successful performance...read more

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Product Description: This innovative, accessible book highlights contemporary and historical insights into international relations. By looking core themes—globalization, international political economy, regionalization, the fragmentation of states, and cooperative problem solving—the authors formulate a likely pattern of future developments in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the dawn of a new millennium, two worldviews collide: paganism and theism-the earth goddess versus the God who made the heavens and the earth. At the heart of our cultures wars are Spirit Wars. But this clash doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...read more

Product Description: This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A professor of classics and a masterful puzzle writer have concocted the challenges in this collection of crosswords for anyone interested in testing that residual bit of school-day Latin or in making play of the improvement of language skills...read more

Product Description: The third edition of Essential General Mathematics incorporates suggestions from teachers as well as the requirements of the Mathematics Study Design. It fully addresses the key skills and knowledges detailed in the course outcomes in a structure that offers flexibility in planning an appropriate course of study to meet the needs of the diverse student group studying General Mathematics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The fifth edition of this major textbook has been substantially revised for senior medical students and will continue to be popular with resident hospital staff, family doctors, and all those involved with infant welfare.

Product Description: This short, powerful book pulls no punches. There are only two kinds of spirituality. Gospel Truth/Pagan Lies explains five major points of pagan thinking (All Is One and One Is All; All Humanity Is One; All Religions Are One; One Problem: Amnesia; One Answer: Look Within), and their Christian answers (God, the Creator; One in Christ Alone; Only One Faith; One Problem: Death through Sin; One Answer: Look to Him)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)