Offers accurate, lucid, and interesting explanations of basic concepts and facts of chemistry, while helping readers develop skills in analytical thinking and problems solving.
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families. Written with fresh insight and thorough research, Faster is a wise and witty look at a harried world not likely to slow down anytime soon.
Work more effectively and check solutions as you go along with the text! The Student Solutions Manual contains worked-out solutions for selected problems from Brady's Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes, 4th Edition. Brady and Senese's Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes, 4th Edition, is a reader-friendly textbook that makes the content accessible without sacrificing either breadth or depth of coverage. The text's informal writing style, emphasis on problem solving, and state-of-the-art media package make this book an ideal fit for readers of various backgrounds and abilities. The 4th edition welcomes new co-author Fred Senese, the architect of the most visited general chemistry website. Together Jim Brady and Fred Senese offer accurate, lucid, and interesting explanations of the basic concepts of chemistry, as well as comprehensive coverage and aid to readers in developing problem solving skills.
A companion to the Indigenous Peoples of North America series, this primary source anthology provides detailed, first-person accounts about the social, cultural, and political history of North America's native peoples. Documents provide insights into family and community life, religious practices and beliefs, warfare and conflict, and contemporary existence.
Provides an overview of our nation's attack-preparedness efforts and describes the different roles that first responders, as well as agencies at all levels of government, would play in responding to the next terrorist attack on America.
Slavery, one of the most divisive issues in American history, resulted in untold human suffering and a bloody civil war. This engaging anthology offers a variety of perspectives from slaves, slaveholders, abolitionists, and modern scholars.
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