Product Description: The second edition contains updated resources, research institution information and a listing of treatment and care facilities in the United States. Additions to the encyclopedia section include advances in Alzheimer's disease research, genetics, diagnostic procedures, treatment, alternative medicine, brain plasticity, risk factors, clinical trial information, nursing home safety, and preventive measures...read more

Product Description: CH's State Tax Handbook is the perfect quick-answer tool for tax practitioners and business professionals who work with multiple state tax jurisdictions. This handy and affordable reference provides readers with an overview of the taxation scheme of each state and the District of Columbia, as well as multistate charts on income taxes (personal and corporate), sales and use taxes and tax administration...read more

Product Description: February is Lisa Moore’s heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February follows the life of Helen O’Mara, widowed by the accident, as she continuously spirals from the present day back to that devastating and transformative winter...read more

Product Description: Addresses the challenges of multicultural teaching by presenting instructional strategies.

Product Description: Unique in its honesty and depth, Great Expectations collects 24 moving stories in an anthology perfect for any parent-to-be. Lynn Coady describes her own traumatic teenage pregnancy and the anguish of giving her child up for adoption...read more

From an exciting new talent from Newfoundland in Canada, shortlisted for the Giller Prize (the Canadian Booker), 'an irresistible mix of adrenaline, compassion and insight'

Profiles the life and work of Elie Wiesel, beginning with his Romanian childhood, through his adolescence spent in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, to his development as a writer, and finally to his humanitarian works.

A new writer explores the complex characters and human emotions in a collections of stories that include a bus ride in Nepal and a man's heart-breaking memory of a past affair, among others. Reprint.

A first short story collection explores the passion and romance in Newfoundland, including a story that jumps back and forth in time from the birth of a child to the dissolution of a marriage and a tale of love set in a hospital cafeteria. Original.

Product Description: This is the sixteenth edition of this nationally acclaimed anthology, which has established itself as Canada’s most popular fiction anthology, presenting the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast. As well as receiving high praise every year, it is an important indicator of up-and-coming writers...read more

Product Description: Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the Dawn of Procreation... expectant parents throughout the ages have shared the common question: "Is it a girl or a boy?" This new "how-to" book enables prospective mothers and fathers to actually improve their chances of selecting their child's sex before conception...read more

Product Description: Graves' Disease, a common form of hyperthyroidism characterized by a goiter and often a slight protrusion of the eyeballs, currently affects approximately 200 million people worldwide, three million in the United States alone. This work addresses both typical and special concerns of patients with Graves' Disease, discusses its association with related autoimmune disorders, and emphasizes the patient's role in the healing process...read more