Adrian: 1834 books
Jokes
Have a Laugh and Improve Your English
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar. Jokes are also designed to be retold. If you learn a joke by heart and tell it to other people, then by doing so you will also learn the grammar and vocabulary involved.
The book also contains exercises...
The Age of Post-Rationality
Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has...
Word Games, Riddles and Logic Tests
Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed.
The types...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
God, Sex, and Gender
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume.
Makes a theological contribution to understanding the unprecedented changes in sexual and gender...
Enduring Conflict
Challenging the Signature of Peace and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
This unique text challenges the notion that absence of conflict is the foundation and norm of a stable political environment. Combining complexity theory and the notion of signature with case studies, it argues that political processes need to be understood within their social and cultural contexts....
by Lifeng Zhang, Brian G. Thomas, Miaoyong Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This collection explores computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and simulation of engineering processes, with contributions from researchers and engineers involved in the modeling of multiscale and multiphase phenomena in material processing systems.
The papers cover the following processes:...
by Colleen Ward, Stephen Bochner, Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact,...
by Adrian P Mouritz
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The structural materials used in airframe and propulsion systems influence the cost, performance and safety of aircraft, and an understanding of the wide range of materials used and the issues surrounding them is essential for the student of aerospace engineering.Introduction to aerospace materials...
by Adrian Chenzbraun
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Despite great advances in prevention and in improving outcomes, heart disease remains a major source of morbidity and mortality in the Western world and, increasingly, in developing countries. The emotional impact of a diagnosis of heart disease can be significant, often increasing cardiac symptoms...
by Arman T. Askari, Medhi H. Shishehbor, Adrian W. Messerli
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Updated for its Second Edition, Introductory Guide to Cardiac Catheterization is an easy-to-follow "how-to" guide to diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization. This pocket-sized, concise manual presents practical pointers, tips, ACC/AHA guidelines, and highlighted clinical pearls...
by Adrian d'Hage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
A Dead Sea Scroll has lain undisturbed in a cave near Qumran for nearly two thousand years. The Omega Scroll contains both a terrible warning for civilisation and the coded number the Vatican fears the most. The Pope's health is failing and the Cardinal Secretary of State, the ruthless Lorenzo Petroni,...
Variant Haemoglobins
A Guide to Identification
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Variant Haemoglobins – A Guide to Identification is based on the premise that any single diagnostic technique offers only a very provisional identification of a variant haemoglobin. In routine diagnostic practice two techniques are needed as a minimum, with the results being interpreted in the light...
Global Happiness: A Guide to the Most Contented (and Discontented) Places around the Globe
A Guide to the Most Contented (and Discontented) Places around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States.
• Supplies insightful and interesting information about all of the most contented...