Doubt is Their Product
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." ...
People and Products
By examining the interface between consumer behavior and new product development, People and Products: Consumer Behavior and Product Design demonstrates the ways in which consumers contribute to product design, enhance product utility, and determi...
Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists
Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively question every preconception of what a book can be. M...
Improving the Safety and Quality of Nuts
As tree nuts and peanuts become increasingly recognised for their health-promoting properties, the provision of safe, high quality nuts is a growing concern. Improving the safety and quality of nuts reviews key aspects of nut safety and quality ma...
Design for Reliability
Today's marketplace demands product reliability. At the same time, it places ever-increasing demands on products that push the limits of their performance and their functional life, and it does so with the expectation of lower per-unit product cos...
ROYALS FOR THEIR ROYAL HEIR EB
An Heir Fit for A King Exiled King Alix Saint Croix enters a Parisian perfume house to buy a gift ? and leaves with a powerful craving for stunning perfumer Leila Verughese. Alix awakens Leila?s every sense. If she?s going to give her innocence to...
Judges and Their Audiences
What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdo...
Photographers And Their Studios
The interior design of photographers' consultation rooms and camera rooms can affect the efficiency and profitability of studio photography businesses. This book explores the studios of 20 top professional photographers and examines the...
Africans And Their History
This updated version is an invaluable contribution to the ongoing discovery of Africa's central role in human history.Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of ...
Children and Their Temperaments
Drawing on an ancient tradition, Rudolf Steiner referred to four fundamental 'types' or 'temperaments' in the human personality, each of which, he said, has different personal needs and ways of relating socially. From her experience of working wit...
Women And Their Jewels
The word 'jewel' derives from the Old French word joiel, a word that finds its roots in the words for playing, joy, and enjoyment, proof that jewellery is intimately tied to notions of pleasure and happiness. For some, it is the pleasure of love, for others, an obsessive passion. For Wallis Simpson, after the throne had passed her by, her jewelled treasures were her solace. As for Maria Callas, the soprano amassed diamonds and rubies to ward off the poverty of her childhood, and to spark the jealousy of a mother she hated. Barbara Hutton, America's most famous poor little rich girl, went around wearing a tiara, demanding to be called a princess. And they have been the cause of so much drama, Marie-Antoinette, whose diamond necklace identified her and sent her to the guillotine; Josephine de Beauharnais, who was also embroiled in a necklace affair involving Marie-Antoinette's pearls; Begum Om Habibeh, Miss France 1930, and wife of the Aga Khan, who was robbed of her royal jewellery in the middle of the street...In this gloriously illustrated book, novelist and jewellery expert David Lelait-Helo stares into the jewellery boxes of these illustrious women to discover their hearts and their minds.The women featured are:Ava GardnerBarbara HuttonBrooke AstorElizabeth IIElizabeth TaylorEugenie de MontijoGrace KellyHelena RubinsteinJackie KennedyDiana, Princess of WalesMaria CallasMarie-AntoinettePrincess SorayaWallis Simpson, Duchess of WindsorBegum Om Habibeh
Chalcones and their Derivatives
Chalcones and their Derivatives
Dogs and Their Humans
Dogs (and their humans): stories of healing and hope from the Supervetâ??s surgery is a funny, uplifting and at times heartbreaking celebration of our connection with our loyal canine friends.
Dogs and Their Humans
Dogs and Their Humans
Romans and Their World
Drawing on an array of ancient sources, and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization, Brian Campbell provides a fascinating and wide-ranging ...
Girls and Their Comics
In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy-muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representa...
Americans and their Forests
When Europeans first reached the land that would become the United States they were staggered by the breadth and density of the forest they found. The existence of that forest, and the effort either to use or subdue it, have been constant themes i...
Stalkers and their Victims
Stalking has moved from being a novel area for study to become a core area of concern for mental health professionals, lawyers and other members of the criminal justice system. It has emerged as a significant social problem which not only commands...
Soldiers and Their Horses
The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme condit...
Criminals and their Scientists
This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the...
Events and Their Afterlife
First published in 1966, Events and their Afterlife has had a lasting influence in its field. This book is concerned with Christian typology and its meanings and implications for our understanding of history, of the Bible, and of Dante's Divine Co...
People and their Pasts
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present.¿Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and...
Museums and their Communities
Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. Focusing on the museum as an institut...
Slayers and Their Vampires
The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer "A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations." -Adam Morton, author of On Evil "From the Balkan Mountains to Beverly Hill...
Children and their Environments
This fascinating book examines theories of children's perceptions of space and place and explores how these theories are applied to the world of children. The focus is on children in large real world spaces; places that children live in, explore a...
Nightjars and their Allies
Nightjars and their allies are a curious, fascinating, and remarkably varied group of birds that are found throughout the world. This largely nocturnal group has many specific adaptations for night time activity and some species alter their behavi...
Babies and Their Mothers
0-8133-1027-X the Soviet Nationality Reader: the Disintegration in Context
Socialbots and Their Friends
Many users of the Internet are aware of bots: automated programs that work behind the scenes to come up with search suggestions, check the weather, filter emails, or clean up Wikipedia entries. More recently, a new software robot has been making i...
Standards and Their Stories
Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining proc...
Semirings and their Applications
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobatchevsky This book is an extensively-revised and expanded version of "The Theory of Semirings, with...
People and their Pasts
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present.¿Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and...
Masters and Their Retreats
The great lights who have come out of all the world's spiritual traditions and graduated from earth's schoolroom have become widely known as masters. They demonstrate that in the world of Spirit, there is no division of race, religion or philosoph...
Soldiers and Their Horses
The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme condit...
Museums and Their Visitors
Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more...
