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This second edition of the “Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior” reflects changes in the attitudes about, use, and knowledge of drugs and alcohol since the first edition published in 1995. These changes include the decrease of crack cocaine use and resurgence of heroin use; changes in laws dealing with drug use (on both the state and national levels), and new discoveries leading to a better understanding of how drugs work and what makes them addictive. More than 700 articles, written for both the student and layperson, cover the social, medical and political issues related to drugs and alcohol, as well exploring and explaining types of addiction.

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Originally published in 1913-1918.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The fifteen papers included in this volume edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight were presented at the Faulkner and Twain Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University s Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 19 21, 2006.

The essays include the conference keynote address by Robert Brinkmeyer, a noted Southern Studies scholar from the University of South Carolina; essays by M. Thomas Inge, a widely published Southern literature scholar from Randolph-Macon College, and Leland Krauth, a well-known Twain scholar from the University of Colorado; and additional papers by scholars from Canada, France, Japan, and the United States.

The various essays discuss Faulkner's and Twain's treatment of such topics as humor, the frontier, the Mississippi River, race relations, politics, detective fiction and death. ... Read more

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In the wake of recent financial scandals, the gap between financial reporting and reality has become a critical issue for investors. The presentations in this proceedings address such key topics as how to identify companies that are playing fast and loose with the rules before financial disaster occurs; understanding what accounting rules actually say about pensions, intangible assets, employee stock options, and derivatives; and how accounting rules are likely to change in the future. ... Read more

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My review
The item wasn't in complete mint condition, the end of the book was a little bit bent, but other than that the book arrived quickly.

Very Good Book
this book the St Martins guide to writing has very good feedback to how to write diferrenbt types of essays.

book came in really good condition
there is nothing wrong with the book so far. It came in good condition, almost close to new.

English book
Well whats to say. It is an English book required for college English course.
It is pretty clear and straight forward in content, and quite useful in writing essays.

A readable guide to better writing
I bought this book because I had no real choice not to. It was after all required by the teacher of a required English class. Much to my surprise I found it be a well organized, easy to read book that presented an approach to developing writing skills that I think I will think will help me develop writing skills without the usual pain. The book gives examples of the skill they want to develop then guides you through writing exercises designed for that skill. This is helping me to focus on each area in turn. I like the book. I am not usually a big fan of English books but this one will stay on my self long after the class is over. ... Read more

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This Bible features an exquisite, hand-wrought black leather-bound cover. It is truly a work of beauty and elegance with the finest-quality paper and binding. The print is large enough for easy reading, yet the Bible is small and convenient enough to carry to church-your own handsome, handy, spiritual library.The unique color-coded study guides and references, developed during Benny Hinn's own personal study, went into the careful, anointed design of this Bible, and now over 1,600 color-coded pages are featured in The Master's Healing Presence Bible to help you learn more comprehensively from God's precious Word.Also included is a one-of-a-kind collection of over 270 full-page teachings on these five color-coded topics of prayer, faith, healing, the Holy Spirit, and the presence of God from my most respected heroes of the faith, including Andrew Murray, R. A. Torrey, Smith Wigglesworth, Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts, and Rex Humbard.And the reference materials are exhaustive. It is like having your own personal Bible study library in one beautiful volume. ... Read more

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The Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations is written by leading experts in the theory of personality type and its applications. This booklet helps you develop your personal effectiveness within the workplace by providing two full pages of information about each of the sixteen personality types under the topics of Problem Solving, Leadership, Creativity, Teams, Stress, Learning, Career Mastery, and Personal Development. Also included is an appendix that will help you understand the eight MTR-i team roles.

The first page of each description includes information on understanding the specific personality type to help you shift perspectives to improve your relationships with others.The second page includes information on being that personality type to help you further your understanding of yourself. This format makes this booklet essential for employees in any organization who want to understand themselves better and work with others more effectively. ... Read more

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Useful, specific info!
I'm impressed with this quick guide. I was concerned (before I got it) that it might be SO "abbreviated" that it wouldn't tell me much but that's not the case at all. Its quite informative! They just did a really good job of organizing the info. Definitely a very handy reference to read and refer back to again. If you're wondering what this whole business of "Type" is all about, buy this.
PS--I love to write and share ideas/opinions. Wish I could make a living at it.

Very high level
The content in this handbook is good (not a lot of "filler" content), but the book is much skinnier than I expected it to be.It's more of a pamphlet than a book.It gives a great high level overview of each personality type, but I'm left wanting a little bit more detail.

Great
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive.Book in very good condition.

It is a very good reference
This is a small book that goes to the point, It have a section for each type of personality that have a small description of it, the way that they solve problems, their style of leadership, their creative expression, how do they work on teams, how the have to deal with stress, how they learn, and tips for personal growth. Also in the later chapters, this book have two pages that describes the team roles that each personality prefers.

Tools Tools Tools
This is terrific if you have any desire to learn the personality types around you.
Take a break from guessing... give yourself a tool.
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This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general. ... Read more

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The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions. ... Read more

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Many Works on One CD
Like others have said, there are so many different works spanning thousands of years of church history from St. Augustine to G.K. Chesterton.It is great to have such a variety on one convenient CD.I also appreciated the search feature, especially when I was writing a paper and wanted to be sure that I was looking at all of the occurrences of a particular theme.It is also convenient to have the option to install the documents on your hard drive or leave them on the CD.

A Diverse Resource
Two things immediately strike you about this product. The first one is the amount of literature and writings there are. The big names i.e. Augustine, Luther, Calvin are contained on the cd, but also many others who you may not go out of your way to read. The diversity of the genres are striking since the files you have access to include meditations, prayers, commentaries,hymns, histories and even topical textbooks. All in all the amount that the cd contains is well worth the purchase price.
The second thing that is good about this product is how easy it is to use. The installation is quick and painless. The interface is fairly straight forward and is not confusing. This is a wonderful product. It contains a vast amount of knowledge and writings in a format that is both easy to access and read. Well worth the price.

Fantastic Resource
As a student of Christian history, I've found this CD to be really quite useful. This collection represents a wide variety of Christian perspectives throughout history. The interface is very easy, every piece of literature is searchable, the setup is a breeze. You can choose which works and/or authors to download directly from the CD to your computer, and which to access from the CD only.

The features are very easy to use; installation is easy; use is easy. Having these authors is great for personal study, for academic study, for devotional exploration. I highly recommend this collection, for anyone who wants to explore for themselves the perspectives, arguments, and doctrines throughout the Christian ages.

Outstanding Christian Classics on CD
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library "Classics" CD is an outstanding library of 118 Christian classic books. This digital library contains 3 Bible translations and commentaries from authors such as Calvin, Henry, Luther, Spurgeon, and Wesley, and others. It also includes classic works by St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Bounds, Bunyan, Fox, McDonald, Murray, Whitefield, etc. Early church creeds and documents on history, hymns, mysticism, and Bible dictionaries are included as well, plus sermons by some of the most famous preachers ever to proclaim the Word: Edwards, Finney, Luther, McDonald, Murray, Spurgeon, Wesley, Whitefield, etc.

All of the 118 books are in digital format but are also available in PDF format for easy downloading and printing. This is without a doubt one of the finest libraries available for Christian reading or study. It would be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to gather all of these great books together, but CCEL has done it all on one CD. We highly recommend it.
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Includes: The Home-making of Juliet by Grace S. Richmond, drawings by Henry Hutt; The Millionair Baby, A Detective's Startling Story of the Remarkable Disappearance of a Little Girl by Anna Katharine Green, drawn by C. M. Relyea; The Right Woman Part 1 by Maravene Kennedy, drawings by W. D. Stevens; The Moonman, being the confessions of captain Robert Heath, Knight of the Road by Charles F. Horne, drawn by Alice Barber Stephens; The Light of the Star, Part IV by Hamlin Garland, drawing by Harrison Fisher; The Affair at the Inn Part V by Kate Douglas Wiggin et al, drawn by Martin Justice; Monarch, The Grizzley Part X, by Ernest Thompson Seton; The Hair-Cut Boy, Fourth of the Successful Dutchtonw Stories by Louise Forsslund, illustrations by W. Granvill Smith; A Few Days in New York by Edward Bok; etc. ... Read more

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These two books contains some subject manner that might sound like it may be racist, its not. Remember it was written at the turn of the century and their manner of speaking was different from ours.It is just a book of stories written in the language of the day. ... Read more

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Op Ed
I have not finished the book yet. Yet, I felt encouraged to answer Mr ML/NJ and throw some comments on his review. I would like to start by saying that finally we see a book that depcits the truth. A book that does not call the owners of the lands terorrists. A book that understands how it might feel to live in a peice of land for 1,400 years, then by a Belford declaration, you are expelled. We have always read many books that were completely biased towards the Israeli side. There has always been the double standard, not only in politics, but even in book pages and what is supposed to be free speach. Now, I am happy to see that the sitiuation is changing. I would really recommend the book for whoever wants to hear the OTHER side of the story.

Smith Is Currently My History Professor
I assure you that this book is nowhere near as dry as Smith's lectures, and I also assure you that he is extremely (almost insanely) knowledgable on this topic.His lectures are unbiased and I find it hilarious that a lot of reviewers said that this book was biased against Israel.After reading this textbook, I think that only biased people would say that this book is biased (against their own side, of course) because Smith isn't afraid to point the finger at all sides.He clearly shows that the road to peace (or the lack thereof) is a two-way street.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get into the nitty gritty of this topic (details are PLENTY in this text), as long as you're willing to consider that America (as well as others) hasn't exactly been an angel in the past.

Good with excellent primary sources
The Arab-Israeli conflict is one that touches on so many painful emotions and biases that no book will be deemed fair or unbiased by all concerned.However, Smith's book does a very good job of attempting to be as close to unbiased as possible.It is often used as a textbook in upper-level modern Middle East history courses for just that reason.It is good choice for someone who is new to the subject (other than the inescapable news coverage) and really wants to understand some of the issues invovled throughout the history of the conflict.

One of the strongest things about Smith's book is the inclusion of a number of primary sources.Other than disputing the translations, no one can deny that primary sources are as close to an honest look at history as we can get.Documents are included from many sides of the issues involved and no side comes out either squeekly clean nor as pure evil.

Another strength I found, to differ with another reviewers opinion, is that the book starts quite far back in the history of the conflict.As the mythologizing of the roots of Israel as a nation has been worked into the official stance of all sides, each for their own purposes, understanding what happened at the beginning is of utmost importance if you really want to grasp the subject.This is a good book that does it's best with a difficult subject and goes into some depth in addition to excellent primary source material.

Read with care and caution
Like some other reviewers, I too bought this book for a college course and I too find it overly biased toward the Arab point of view.The author has the right to draw his own conclusions, but like any non-fiction book, readers must use their own judgement to evaluate those conclusions carefully.I don't know if there is an author without bias on this topic due to its sensitivity.

It is also horribly dry in my opinion.I know it's supposed to be, but certain sections just drag on and on, it seems, uneccessarily.

Read critically, not literally.If you have a choice (i.e. don't have to buy this particular book for a course or something) choose a more balanced author, if you can find one.

A Good Historical Overview But More Recent Events are Biased
The book is a fairly concise and accurate overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It covers ancient Jewish history, the beginnings of Zionism, the emergence of Israel, the Arab Wars and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of the coverage is well researched and documented.

The closing chapters of the book are undoubtedly biased towards the Palestinian account. One example is the coverage of the Barak-Arafat-Clinton negotiations in 2000. Smith portrays Barak as a man whose intentions were not to conduct honest negotiations but rather "carefully calculated, intended to appear more amenable to the United States." Smith writes that "there was never an Israeli offer." Further, Smith asserts that Barak was manipulating the media in order to force them to present a positive account of Israeli negotiations. Arafat's refusal to make any counter offer, or contribute to the negotiations -- as asserted by President Clinton and the U.S. chief negotiater -- are not mentioned. Smith also does not fault Palestinian terrorism -- the systematic, often daily suicide bombings experienced by Israel -- for turning Israeli public opinion against further peace talks. According to Smith, the blame lies solely on Sharon and his visit to the Temple Mount and Palestinian frustration.

Smith's discussion of the Intifada speaks in terms of Israeli attacks and Palestinian "armed response." In fact, Israel had been initially very reserved in its replies to suicide bombings. Israeli interests do not lie in a military occupation of the Palestinian territories, unless necessary to alleviate security risk.

Admittedly, I have an opinion about whose fault the failure of the Camp David II was. It is acceptable for the author to take an opposite view. However, in a book that claims to be a non-biased textbook for college use, the topic should be presented with acknowledgement of differing opinions. Especially, when the book presents an account that is largely a contrast to the established narrative (a narrative that there is no reason to believe is inaccurate).

My rating is still positive because the book is a valuable resource in its coverage of earlier time periods. However, this book should be used with other materials for balance. ... Read more