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The New Frontier Investors
How Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Endowments are Changing the Business of Investment Management and Long-Term Investing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds. These are the organizations that are in the media's spotlight and whose leaders and employees command outsized salaries and bonuses. They are the supposed...
Leadership in Dangerous Situations
A Handbook for the Armed Forces, Emergency Services, and First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Leadership in Dangerous Situations provides in-depth coverage of the key psychological, social and organization factors that impact individual and organizational effectiveness for First Responders in dangerous environments. Leading scholars discuss how current theories and empirical research provides...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by Ernest L. Rossi, David B. Cheek, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
A remarkable collaboration between psychologist Rossi and gynecologist-obstetrician Cheek, this book guides and empowers therapists and patients to find the keys to their own health and well-being through therapeutic hypnosis.
Hundreds of engaging case reports from Cheek's forty years of clinical...
Life Beyond Death
A Subjective Account and Objective (Scholarly) Analysis of Death and Compelling Evidence of a After Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Do we have reasonable and rational hope of life after the event I call death? Knowledge is powerful. This book is powerful because it presents knowledge, information, insights, discoveries, experiences, and rational, compelling evidence of life and consciousness after the event I call death. Life...
The Times They Are A Changin'
The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000ft over Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
by John B. Izzo , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stop *Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way!
Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of...
by U Satyanarayana, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
DNA-replication, recombination and repair
DNA-replication, recombination and repair
Bowed Leg (Varus) and Knock-Knee (Valgus) Malalignment: Everything You Need to Know to Make the Right Treatment Decision
Understanding lower limb malalignment - Tibial osteotomy for bowed legs - Femoral osteotomy for knock-knees - Success rates pain relief, improved function - Postoperative rehabilitation and home exercises
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Leg malalignment, often called "bowed legs" or "knock-knees", can cause knee pain and limitations. The medical terms for these conditions are varus (bowed legs) and valgus (knock-knees). Malalignment may occur to one or both legs and be either congenital or happen as a result of an injury. Arthritis...
by Sarah Joy Adams, Misty Massey, Herika Raymer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
The corset. Rarely has any garment held such allure, such mystery, so attraction for men and women alike. From a simple foundation garment to a fashion statement all its own, the corset has held the imagination for centuries.
This collection of stories from some of the brightest fantasy writers...
by E.D.E. Bell, Z. Ahmad, Kella Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Ordinary objects. Extraordinary tales.
As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object.
Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart.
What objects do you think have stories to tell?
Cien años de sueño
Antologíade cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Aquí se reúnen diecinueve cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX. La recopilación presenta un panorama de la literatura que empezó a escribirse en México mientras el país se conformaba como república. Los escritores incluidos en este libro reflejan un ánimo literario enfocado en relatar hechos sobrenaturales...
Esas que también soy yo
Nosotras escribimos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 7, 2019
El cuento es la forma literaria que recoge la magia de la narración desde tiempos inmemoriales hasta ahora. Este género plasma como pocos la historia de la literatura y su cercanía a la población: el cuento oral, el cuento en las hogueras de la tribu, el cuento en las cocinas de las casas, el...
by Pat Hauldren, Russ Linton, Becky Burkheart
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Speculative fiction is a thing unto itself, full of wonder and wisdom, creativity and imagination, Here is the first anthology of the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop. In these pages, you'll find a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and horror with stories like growing up in the space age, a...