David C: 839 books
Unfinished Business
Change Your Thinking, Deal with Your Past, and Move On
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Move beyond your past into the future God has for you.
Jesus said, I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” But one of the things that can prevent you from a living this abundant life today is yesterday’s unfinished business. As much as we may want to live in the...
Quantitative Ecology
Measurement, Models and Scaling
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
A follow-up to the highly successful first edition, this book reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of ecological variation. As scale, magnitude, quantity, and measurement occupy an expanding role in ecology, this 2e will be an indispensable addition to individual and...
Human Conflict
Disagreement, Misunderstanding, and Problematic Talk
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Human Conflict distinguishes between "effective" and "ineffective" forms of face-to-face interaction in cases where agreement, disagreement, understanding, or misunderstanding prevail. This well-researched study of miscommunication seeks to identify the basic dynamics at work in...
Authors of the Middle Ages. Volume I, Nos 1–4
English Writers of the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Authors of the Middle Ages is a new series designed for research and reference. Each part, by an expert on the subject, gives an account of the facts known about a particular Author’s life and immediate historical context, together with a review of subsequent scholarship. This is supported by citation...
by David C. Paine, Hideo Hosono
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Transparent conducting materials are key elements in a wide variety of current technologies including flat panel displays, photovoltaics, organic, low-e windows and electrochromics. The needs for new and improved materials is pressing, because the existing materials do not have the performance levels...
Helping America Vote
The Limits of Election Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A repeat of the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential election is the fear of every election administrator. Despite the relatively complication-free 2008 election, we are working with fairly new federal legislation designed to ease election administration problems. The implementation of the Help...
Withdrawing from Iraq
Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent...
Sorrowing Vengeance
The Fall of the First World, Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
"I see more in darkness than you can see in the light." A priest turned sorcerer is reborn as the ultimate creature of Evil. He will topple a throne and begin the destruction of the world, even as the crowns of two empires move inexorably toward launching an impossible war that neither can win. The King...
Rich Food, Poor Food
Stories of the Great Divide in Food History, from Champagne and Turbot to Salt Cod, Gooseberries and Meat from Cats
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Rich Food Poor Food is a study of the two food traditions in western society: the food eaten by rich people and the food eaten by poor people. It suggests that, until very recent times, the two traditions have rarely intersected.
The book studies the gastronomy of the rich, with some extraordinary...
The Power to Coerce
Countering Adversaries Without Going to War
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Mounting costs, risks, and public misgivings of waging war are raising the importance of U.S. power to coerce (P2C). The best P2C options are financial sanctions, support for nonviolent political opposition to hostile regimes, and offensive cyber operations. The state against which coercion is most...
Autonomy and Clinical Medicine
Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book arises from a two-fold conviction. The first is that autonomy, despite recent critiques about its importance in bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and the traditional resistance of medicine to its "intrusion" into the doctor-patient relation, is a fundamental building block...
by David C. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 74, presents a definitive interpretation of the current status and future trends in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. Since its inception in 1945, the series has provided critical and informative articles written by research specialists...
by Jesse Jupiter, David C. Ring
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In the last quarter century, no one has played a stronger role in hand and wrist fracture management, especially using AO principles, than Jesse Jupiter. This long awaited book is the culmination of his work, along with other pioneers in the field, and presents all key developments in biomechanics,...
The Scrub's Bible
How to Assist at Cataract and Corneal Surgery with a Primer on the Anatomy of the Human Eye and Self Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Directed at the growing number of untutored personnel aspiring to enter the disciplines of ophthalmic technicianry and surgical assisting, *The *Scrub's Bible represents an entry level guide to understanding the human eye, its basic anatomy, and physiology. Absorbing this information...