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The Germanic People: Their Origin, Expansion and Culture
by Francis OwenThis investigation of the Germanic people makes use of material from linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and history.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1960 -
Dieta Vegana : Deliciosas Recetas Veganas Que Siempre Comerás
Es por esta razón por la que muchas personas que empiezan la dieta vegana están preocupadas por no consumir suficiente cantidad de proteínas. Mucha gente no se da cuenta de que no se necesita consumir carne ni productos diarios para conseguir proteínas. ¡Hay muchas grandes fuentes de proteína para... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2019 -
The Age of Hiroshima
by David Holloway • Avery Goldstein • Campbell Craig • Srinath Raghavan • Shampa Biswas • Holger Nehring • Alex Wellerstein • Sean L. Malloy • Takuya Sasaki • Shinsuke Tomotsugu • Wakana Mukai • Matias Spektor • Kiichi Fujiwara • Sonja D. Schmid • Nina Tannenwald • Francis GavinA multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities
by Shelley L. Watson • Dorothy Griffiths • Barbara Vyrostko • Karen Stoner • Deborah Richards • Yona Lunsky • Jennifer Robinson • Voula Marinos • Jacqueline Murphy • William R Lindsay • Donato Tarulli • Frances Owen • Maurice Feldman • Orville Endicott • Diane Cox-Lindenbaum • Carol Sales • Christine Tardiff-Williams • Jocelin Lecomte • Tricia Vause • Marjorie Aunos • Leanne Gosse • Celine Mercier • Kaleigh Regehr • Beverley Fedoroff • Nancy Miodrag • Kajsa Klassen • Krystine Donato • Paul Fedoroff • Carolyn Gracey • Susan Havercamp • Marion Trent-Kratz • J Gregory Olley'A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.' - From the Foreword by Orville Endicott This wide-ranging volume provides a multidi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Masterful Monk
There passes before us a drama of modern life and pleasure, of glorious youth and love, of tragedy and triumph, of human nature at its worst and best in the challenging personalities of Julian Verrers and the Masterful Monk.Originally published in 1929, The Masterful Monk by English author Owen Fran... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Coming of the Monster: A Tale of the Masterful Monk
FATHER ANSELM THORNTON, the Masterful Monk, reappears, to enter the lives of Captain Louis Vivien, of the French Intelligence Service, and Verna Wray, the girl of the tale.The theme is the growing revolt against God and the moral law which is now spreading openly or in subtle forms throughout the wo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement
Current facts about Mormonism •Over 11 million members. •Over 60,000 full-time missionaries—more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world. •More than 310,000 converts annually. •As many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles, the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Riding with Brighton
Yesterday, Jay was convinced his life was damaged beyond repair. Yesterday, Brighton was sure his life was perfect. Then today happened. Realizing he’s wasted his life in the meaningless pursuit of popularity and athleticism, Jay Hall knows he has nothing in common with alternative, free-thinking ar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe
A journey through the far north from the Shetland Islands to Greenland and beyond: &“A wonder-voyage . . . often beautiful&” (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland). . The stark, vast beauty of the remote landscape of Arctic Europe has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo--such as birth, pu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected to well-being, or the why the foot holds the key to our humanity? I... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change
To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life.Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid pub... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: an uplifting account of hope and healing by GP Gavin Francis'I cannot think of anybody - patient or doctor - who will not be helped by reading this short and profound book' - Henry Marsh'Such a wise, gentle, quietly hopeful book. Exactly what I needed' - Rachel Clarke'A ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Nuclear Statecraft
We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply conseq... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1986 -
Rapid Rewards at Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is well known as the low-fare airline that has achieved ongoing financial success in one of the most financially troubled industries in the United States. Told from the perspectives of two Southwest customers--a frequent flier and a more typical customer--the case revolves around ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Orient-Express Hotels
Describes how a hotel and leisure company provides high-end service through its distinctive hotels and trains. Provides an opportunity to learn about the company's unusual quality practices and puts into doubt the unquestioned use of well-known practices, such as managing for consistency, offering i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Commerce Bank
Commerce Bank has become one of the fastest growing banks in the country, despite having defied conventional wisdom about how to grow deposits. Banks historically have grown either by competing on deposit rates or through acquisitions that expand their deposit base. Commerce has the lowest deposit r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Celebrity Cruises, Inc.: A Taste of Luxury
Describes the complex operations of the cruise industry. Positioned between luxury cruise lines and mass market lines, Celebrity struggles to find ways to create customer loyalty and increase profitability.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation
Leading global experts, brought together by Johns Hopkins University, discuss national and international trends in a post-COVID-19 world.The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Transformation at the IRS
Describes the service transformation occurring at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Plagued by a history of poor service, enormous complexity, and an insular employee base, the 100,000-person organization grapples with a turnaround process that attempts to change virtually every aspect of the organ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients
Explores the highly successful PC and low-end server manufacturer's entry into the large-scale server market in the United States. A key difference of this new market is the intense service element required to support the larger hardware. Specifically, the industry standard is to have a technician o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, his... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018