New Releases by Susan Meyer

The opportunities for plying one''s trade as a chef are many and variousu0097small neighborhood restaurants or large chains, country clubs and cruise ships, corporate or school cafeterias, and catering and private homes. For those who love cooking and the creative and healthful preparation of food, this is a rich and rewarding career, one that is always in demand. This book charts the various paths one can take to pursue a career in the culinary arts, while also highlighting the latest industry trends, including farm-to-table, locavore, and organic philosophies, practices, and techniques.

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, no one expected that Jimmy Wales would go on to create one of the most successful and widely-used Web sites in history: Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the product of a lot of hard work. It had its ups and downs and its failures and successes before becoming the Internet phenomenon it is today. This book details the journey, from the early life of Jimmy Wales through the height of Wikipedia''s success.

The worldu0092s oceans have been slowly rising for many years because of factors related to global warming, this poses future threats of sea water surging into coastal cities, leading to devastating flooding and catastrophic water damage. Currently, there are 643 million people around the world living in low-lying coastal areas at risk from climate change-related flooding. Readers are provided with outlines of current research to adapt to these new challenges, including new flood-control infrastructures and technologies. Efforts to slow the process of global warming are also investigated. What you as an individual, community member, and citizen of the world can do to help reverse everyday habits and practices that have resulted in global climate change is revealed.

The reason behind price fluctuations is simple: economics. However, economics is not a simple subject. Economic data is broken down in this volume and explained in a way that is simple and interesting to readers.

Learn about gases, what they are, the people responsible for helping us understand them, and how they affect us in the world today.

Learn about the history, methods, and economics of futures trading works.

How does a boy cope when he''s excited but frightened? Matthew wants to go camping but so many things about the experience seem scary to him. Pretending his toy rabbit is nervous about these things, Matthew poses questions to his mother on Tall Rabbit''s behalf. His mother''s loving answers provide Matthew and Tall Rabbit with all the reassurance a boy could need.

Public-speaking experts Prasad Kodukula and Susan Meyer-Miller offer short, quick, and easily applicable tips for people who suddenly find themselves standing before an audience.

The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally, the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Charlotte Brontë''s African juvenilia, Meyer traces the aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of race, and on literature and imperialism.

Abstract: A textbook for instructional designers considers analysis and design technology based on a programmatic approach, the application of psychological principles, and a trial-and-revision process. The material is organized into 4 principal sections: basic programming principles (covering the basic principles of active responding, "errorless" learning, and immediate feedback, and an examination of programmed text); efficiency in instructional design; alternative approaches to discrimination tasks, higher cognitive instruction, sequencing decisions through conceptual structures, algorithms, and the use of in tellectual skills; and the application of computer models to instructional design. A discussion of various checkpoints addressed in the text is appended. (wz).