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Sail to the ends of the earth and back again without leaving your favorite reading chair When Beth Leonard and her partner, Evans Starzinger, returned from a three-year, 35,000 mile circumnavigation, they thought they were done with offshore voyaging. But neither realized how irrevocably they had been changed by their experience, nor how...

AutoCAD 2004 Companion provides material typically covered in a one-semester AutoCAD course. It covers the essentials of 2D design and drafting as well as solid modeling.AutoCAD 2004 Companion can be used as a standalone AutoCAD text or in combination with other discipline-specific graphics texts such as Bertoline's Technical Graphics Communication...

* The current national debt is approximately $8.6 trillion * Wright has written for Barron's, Forbes.com, and other prominent publications and has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and the BBC * He is the author or coauthor of nine previous books...

World Politics 04/05 is one in a series of over seventy-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by...

Stem cell-based therapies, also known as cell replacement therapies or regenerative medicine, provide the means to cure a host of diseases and disorders. Featuring 28 contributions from prestigious global experts, this book details the basics of stem cell biology and explores therapeutic and medical treatments stem cells can offer. The book covers...

The Practical Skeptic, a concise introduction to sociology, focuses on core concepts as the central building blocks for understanding sociology. Lisa McIntyre's straightforward, lively, even humorous style and her emphasis on critical thinking make this an engaging and user-friendly text for students of all levels. Through this conversational...