David V : 163 books
Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition
The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!
In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK...
World's Greatest Classics in One Volume
Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, Huck Finn, Walden, War and Peace, Art of War, Siddhartha, Faust, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights, Bushido…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools
The Real Crisis in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive...
In the Wake of the Crisis
Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.
In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures...
Onward, Voyager
A Science Fiction and Fantasy Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Read samples of Harper Voyager's great science fiction, fantasy, and horror offerings! Featuring an introduction by Chuck Wendig. Excerpts include:
ZER0ES by Chuck Wendig
A CRUCIBLE OF SOULS by Mitchell Hogan
DEPARTURE by AG Riddle
STAR CARRIER: DEEP TIME by Ian Douglas
SHADOW...
by Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by Luis Eduardo Yee, Martha Rodríguez, Jimena Eme Vázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Las obras contenidas en este libro; "El mar de veras" de Martha Rodríguez Mega, "Mitad tú, mitad yo" de Jimena Eme Vázquez, "Chimpancé: Una máquina bilógica" de David Alejandro Colorado y "DHL" de Luis Eduardo Yee son obras potentes, con fuerza en las imágenes, en los diálogos. Estimulan al...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
by Víctor Conde, Hernán Migoya, Juan de Dios Garduño Cuenca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Durante un reportaje en una estación de bomberos, la periodista Ángela Vidal y su cámara acompañan a una unidad en una de sus salidas nocturnas: los vecinos de un edificio de Barcelona han alertado a los bomberos a causa de los gritos que surgen de uno de los inmuebles…
Así da comienzo una...
by Salvatore V. Labruzzo, DO, Laurie A. Loevner
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This new volume in the best-selling Case Review series presents the best of 200 brain, spine, and head and neck case studies to challenge your knowledge of a full range of topics in neuroradiology. Designed to fully prepare you for the neuroradiology section of the general radiology boards and the...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Peptide-based Drug Discovery
Challenges and New Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
With potentially high specificity and low toxicity, biologicals offer promising alternatives to small-molecule drugs. Peptide therapeutics have again become the focus of innovative drug development efforts backed up by a resurgence of venture funds and small biotechnology companies.
What does...