Drawing on firsthand accounts, tells the story of the 1861 siege of Washington from the perspective of leading officials, Confederates plotting to seize it, Union troops racing to save it, and residents trapped inside the city.[...]
Learn everything you need to know about radiation therapy with the only comprehensive text written for radiation therapy students by radiation therapists. "Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy" is designed to help you understand cancer management, improve clinical techniques for delivering d[...]
In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and[...]
The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of demo[...]
Little Nell and her grandfather are left destitute when the evil Quilp seizes their Old Curiosity Shop in payment for their overdue debts[...]