Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

David Beach

Public operated comprehensive rehabilitation centershave been in existence for over 50 years and provided valuable vocational rehabilitation servicesto thousands of persons with disabilities. Thesefacilities offer a wide range of services seeking toassist the individual gain or maintain employment andoffer unique opportunities for persons with the mostsignificant disabilities. These facilities aregenerally large in nature and costly to operate interms of tax payer dollars, yet little empiricalresearch exists evaluating the effectiveness of thisapproach to vocational rehabilitation.This study seeks to address this lack of knowledge,by analyzing factors that contribute to centerparticipants' ability to complete their plannedcenter program. It also seeks to determine whetherpersons who complete a public operated comprehensiverehabilitation center vocational rehabilitationprogram are more likely to gain employment thancenter participants who did not complete their centerprogram.

Barbara Novak

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black and white illustrations and a beautiful eight page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully...

Scott Calhoun

Scott Calhoun "tells his story…with wit and a delightful earthiness." — The American Gardener What can possess a man to drive across state lines, mountain ranges, and international borders with little more than a ragged guide book, an old map, and a wild look in his eyes? Wild women? No, wildflowers! Author Scott Calhoun invites you to join him on a rollicking adventure through Utah, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and into Sonora, Mexico. Along the way, learn how red chile on a white T-shirt can look like a gunshot wound, and how a man driving a VW Jetta with 100,000 miles on it can feel "richer than a Hollywood divorce lawyer" while he searches for the elusive beauty of blooming wildflowers. Why? Because "there are some temptations that are too great for a renegade gardener to resist." 36 color photos.

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John Shewey

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Jake Maddox, Bob Temple

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John Freely

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Thirty true-life stories of endurance and adventure from our planet's final frontier.

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