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Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, Volume 5
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
What's it like to live in a world where humor is banned or to work on a deep-space lighthouse?
If you're lucky, you might even discover how to escape the Yawning Men!
Curl up in your favorite rocket ship and set your coordinates for adventure in Volume Five of the Young Explorer's Adventure...
Amor y Elogio
Un canto a las virtudes de la infancia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Poesía infantil escrita por Jesus Heli Giraldo Giraldo.
by G. Lorimer Moseley, David S. Butler, Thomas J. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Finally! A handbook arising from the last 15 years of neuroscience, clinical trials and clinical reasoning science is here for both clinicians and pain sufferers.
Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) offers a novel three stage synaptic exercise process for neuropathic pain involving left/right discrimination,...
by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...
Politics with the People
Building a Directly Representative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government....
Defiant, She Advanced
Legends of Future Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
From the Imperium-controlled aetherlanes to a tech noir restitution agency in the Free Zone and from a steampunk, 1894 China with clockwork automatons to a post-1984 Orwellian dystopia with mandatory goodpharm, here are ten science fiction stories of defiance and daring.
Split evenly between...
The Louisiana Field Guide
Understanding Life in the Pelican State
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux,...
Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Sacred cows--outdated and costly business practices such as the reports that are never read or a slow-down of innovative ideas--exist in every company. Inspired by insights gained from more than 450 programs conducted with all types of organizations, the authors of SACRED COWS MAKE THE BEST BURGERS show how corporations can kill off the sacred cows that are crippling them.
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles
From Theory to Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of practically significant...
Is College Worth It?
A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
For many students, a bachelor's degree is considered the golden ticket to a more financially and intellectually fulfilling life. But the disturbing reality is that debt, unemployment, and politically charged pseudo learning are more likely outcomes for many college students today than full-time employment...
by Susan B. Puett, J. David Puett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques...
The Civil War Guerrilla
Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the...
Mojo Hand
The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War,...