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Whip Up Mini Quilts: Patterns and How-to for 20 Contemporary Small Quilts
(Chronicle Books, 2010)Kathreen Ricketson, founder of the internationally popular Web site WhipUp.net, presents 20 contemporary quilts from across the globe in this charming, easy-to-follow guide. From the lovely English Garden Quilt to the ... -
White Collar Crime and Risk: Financial Crime, Corruption and the Financial Crisis
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This edited collection provides an innovative and detailed analysis of the relationship between the financial crisis, risk and corruption. A large majority of the published research has concentrated on identifying the ... -
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
(Cornell University Press, 2015)Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were ... -
Who owns the world's media?: media concentration and ownership around the world
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, ... -
Who rules the earth? : how social rules shape our planet and our lives
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are ... -
The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History
(Chronicle Books, 2014)In the bestselling tradition of The Where, the Why, and the How, this offbeat illustrated history reveals 65 people you've probably never heard of, but who helped shape the word as we know it. Muses and neighbors, friends ... -
Whose Bosnia?: Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914
(Cornell University Press, 2015)As the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global symbol of nationalist conflict and ... -
Why Architects Still Draw
(MIT Press, 2014)Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant ... -
Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
(MIT Press, 2015)An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The ... -
Why calories count: from science to politics
(University of California Press, 2012)Calories too few or too many are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or ... -
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
(Cornell University Press, 2010)The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from ... -
Widening the Scope of Environmental Policies in North America : Towards Blue Approaches
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level. The governments of Mexico, Canada, and United States of America have recognized ... -
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
(University of California Press, 2012)Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa’s political journey and religious ... -
Wildlife and Natural Resource Management (3rd Ed.)
(Cengage Learning, 2010)Take an in-depth look at the very complex world of wildlife, fisheries, and natural resource management with the latest edition of this popular book. Designed to provide a solid overview of conservation and environmental ... -
Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review 2015 Focus Notes: Financial Accounting and Reporting
(Wiley, 2014)Updated annually with the latest AICPA content guidelines, Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review 2015 Focus Notes provides a review of all the basic skills and concepts tested on the CPA exam and teaches important strategies to take ... -
Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review 2015 Study Guide: Auditing and Attestation
(Wiley, 2014)The most effective system available to prepare for the CPA exam-proven for nearly forty years Timely, up-to-the-minute coverage for the computerized exam. Contains all current AICPA content requirements in Auditing and ... -
Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review 2015 Study Guide: Financial Accounting and Reporting
(Wiley, 2014)Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review is the world's most trusted study guide for the Certified Public Accountant's exam - complete, comprehensive, and updated to align with the latest exam content. With 2,800 practice questions and ... -
Wiley Federal Government Auditing: Laws, Regulations, Standards, Practices, and Sarbanes-Oxley
(John Wiley and Sons, 2013)Now in a Second Edition, Federal Government Auditing is a single-source reference guide that assists professionals and nonprofessionals performing audits unique to federal departments and agencies, to contractors and ... -
Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 2015
(Wiley, 2015)Wiley GAAP 2015 contains the most comprehensive coverage of all GAAP pronouncements in a single volume, providing professionals with a complete reference to the entire GAAP hierarchy. This new edition includes the latest ... -
Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015 : Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for State and Local Governments
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2015)The essential reference for governmental GAAP application Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015 provides the latest information on GAAP, with coverage designed specifically for government entities. With a focus on the practical ...
