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The Inequality Trap
US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has inspired the "Occupy" movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression - the "one percent." But is our preoccupation with inequality really justified? Or wise?In... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Letters Of A Civil War Surgeon
"From September 1862 until May 1865, Major William Watson served as surgeon with the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, which fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and elsewhere. Over the course of three years at war, he wrote 91 letters to his family, in wh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (War Culture)
by Susan L. Carruthers • Katherine Ellison • Scott Laderman • Christine Knauer • William Watson • John M. Kinder • Jennifer Mittelstadt • David Kieran • Jana K. Lipman • Edwin A. Martini • Mark R. Wilson • Christopher Hamner • Sahr Conway-Lanz • Stefan Aune • Nick Witham • Wilbur J. Scott • Kara Dixon Vuic • Richard P. Tucker • Bonnie M. Miller • Professor G. Kurt PiehlerThe country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Massacre at Duffy’s Cut: Tragedy & Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad (True Crime)
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Contractor Philip Duffy soon hired them to work a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. They all perished within six weeks. <... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider (The World At War)
Captain William Henry Lowe Watson (1891-1932) was the British author of Adventures of a Despatch Rider (1915). (Excerpt) "This book is not a history, a military treatise, an essay, or a scrap of autobiography. It has no more accuracy or literary merit than letters usually possess. So I hope you will... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Key United Methodist Beliefs
Deepen your faith and enrich your life through this study of core Methodist beliefs. Written by popular seminary teachers, this book will connect you to the life and ministry of John Wesley, demonstrating relevance for the lives of Christians today as it offers an introductory examination of each. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds (Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science)
Originally published in 1987, this book is the result of a workshop on the processing of complex sounds held in 1986. All of the important contributions that are being made to understanding auditory processing of complex sounds could not be included in a single volume. However, the chapters do touch... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1987 -
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A Company Of Tanks [Illustrated Edition]
"Steel, mud, blood and courage on the Western FrontThis is a fine book because it is a superb first hand eye-witness account of British Tanks in action throughout the First World War. Without much preamble Watson launches the reader, in company with the author's brother officers, men and machines in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
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Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Family Office: A Comprehensive Guide for Advisers, Practitioners, and Students (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Family offices are private organizations that assume the daily administration and management of a wealthy family’s personal and financial affairs. Historically, these repositories of great wealth were shrouded in secrecy, their activities conducted behind closed doors. Recently, family offices have ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
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 -
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Neil Gaiman • Dave Eggers • Scott Turow • Salman Rushdie • Michael Cunningham • Louise Erdrich • Geraldine Brooks • David Handler • Ann Patchett • Meg Wolitzer • Elizabeth Strout • Timothy Egan • Jonathan Lethem • Jacqueline Woodson • Rabih Alameddine • Lauren Groff • Victor Lavalle • Jennifer Egan • Aleksandar Hemon • Anthony Doerr • William Finnegan • Jesmyn Ward • Sergio De La Pava • George Saunders • Marlon James • Andrew Greer • Yaa Gyasi • Brit Bennett • Morgan Parker • Moriel Rothman-Zecher • Steven Okazaki • Li Yiyun • Hector Tobar • Moses Sumney • Viet Nguyen • C. J. Anders • Brenda Childs • Adrian LeBlancTo mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. <P><P>On January 19, 1920, a small ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Iatrogenicity: Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
by Gan-Xin Yan • Martin Borggrefe • Ihor B. Gussak • John B. Kostis • Ibrahim Akin • Giovanni Campanile • Arshad Jahangir • Willam J Kostis • Gloria Bachmann • George L Bakris • Joseph A Barone • Stefan Baumann • Tobias Becher • Michael Behnes • Edo Y Birati • Chrysoula Boutari • Haiming Cao • Kyriakos Dimitriadis • Jeanne Dobrzynski • Professor Michael Doumas • Christina Dosch • Christie Fleetwood • Aatish Garg • Miriam Gonzalez • Guido Grassi • Maria Gussak • Yuya Hagwira • Evelyn R Hermes-DeSantis • Kostantinos Imprialos • Vibha Iyengar • Ahad Jahangir • Mariell Jessup • Stephen K Jones • Rigas G Kalaitzidis • Ariba Khan • D Kostantinidis • John B Kostis • William J Kostis • Rajeesh Kumar • Jurgen Kushyck • Pauline Lerma • Volker Liebe • Dirk Loznitzer • Thomas Makris • Michael Malone • Giusseppe Mancia • Jawahar L. Mehta • Aalep Narichania • Michael S Nolledo • Vasilios Papademetriou • Theano Papvassiliu • Neela Patel • Hakan Paydak • Vj Periyakoil • Nancy Phillips • Naga Venkata Pothineni • Magaret Rees • Susanne Roger • Boris Rudic • Teodoro V Santiago • Gino Servalle • Win K Shen • Kostantinos Stravopoulos • Sulaiman Sultan • A Jamil Tajik • Costas Thomopoulos • Kostantinos P Tsioufis • Erol Tulumen • Ioannis N Vogiatzakis • Thomas J Watson • Gao-Xin Yan • Yasuhiro YokoyamaIatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge pu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023