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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas [examines the cybercrime] confronting our security--both for individuals and nations. The uncomfortable truth is that we do not take cybersecurity seriously enough. Strong regulations on automotive safety or guidelines for the airline industry are commonplace, but when it comes to the Internet, it might as well be the Wild West. Standards of securing our computers and other Internet-connected technology are diverse, but just like the rules...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An Unlikely Trust is the story of the uneasy but fruitful collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Pierpont Morgan. It is also the story of how government and business evolved from a relationship of laissez-faire to the active regulation that we know today. And it is an account of how, despite all that has changed in America over the past century, so much remains the same, including the growing divide between rich and poor; the tangled bonds...
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1944. Crystal City, Texas. Margot gave up everything to keep her family together. And now they are together -- imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. But the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into a man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1978
Language
English
Description
The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, leaves the Rising family without a patriarch and the town with a hole in its center. The ambitions and talents of the Risings, the changing face of the town and the life of the spirited, intelligent, and attractive Dana Rising fill the pages of this extraordinary novel. Ward Just's A Family Trust is about the public face and private souls of America's Heartland in the same...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
It was never my intentions to get embroiled in the dangerous exploits of my brother. But it was my fate to become and accidental vampyre hunter! Warning! Here lies the personal account of Dr. Van Helsing's terrifying journey to Transylvania with his assistant, Gustav de Wolff. There the intrepid duo hunts for the deepest, darkest evil - the undead known as vampyre. The mysteries and horrific discoveries within these pages are not for the faint of...
Author
Publisher
Pam Krauss/Avery
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in our guts and rebooting overall health, featuring a simple 6-day, 2-phase detox cleanse and over 50 delicious Paleo-meets-Mediterranean recipes. The key to great digestive health lies in rewilding the gut and keeping the diverse microbes that inhabit it happy and thriving. In Wild Mediterranean Stella Metsovas breaks down the complex science behind digestive health and shares a deceptively...
Author
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
For the first time, America's favorite nanny brings all her warmth, love, and experience to bear on that most crucial and worrisome time: a baby's first twelve months. Packed with tips, practical information, and incredibly reassuring advice, this book tells you how to: sort out the essential equipment you need to buy before the birth; babyproof your home; set up for routines, feeding, sleeping, and development; deal with premature and multiple births,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. This book is an essential guide for parents, teachers, or other adults involved with teenagers who may be affected by these disorders. By bringing together two strands of expertise-that of mental health professionals and of parents who have lived through the experience of their own teenager's mental illness--If Your...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series addresses some of the major mental health issues facing teenagers today--eating disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. Of the dozen or so books planned for the series, the first four, including the two presented here, focus on how parents and other adults, including teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and even pediatricians, can help afflicted teens overcome the disrupting and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This is an authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. It is designed for parents of teens who have recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, or who are at risk of developing one, and for other adults, such as teachers and guidance counselors, who are regularly in contact with at-risk adolescents. The book combines the latest scientific expertise available--including the newest treatments...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Schizophrenia is a disease that afflicts some 2.2 million persons of all ages. It has a wide-ranging impact on the lives of not just the people who have it, but also the people who love them. In an era of de-institutionalization and managed care, parents and other adults, such as teachers and coaches, will become the first line of defense against this serious disease that attacks people in their the late teens or early twenties. If Your Adolescent...
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