J Laurence: 66 books
by J Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Almost one million gallbladder surgeries are performed annually in the United States and often, patients have almost no understanding of what is happening to their bodies. As surgeons we do a poor job educating our patients, and patients are often too intimidated by the prospects of surgery to think...
Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century
A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous...
Cost Engineering for Project Success
An Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The measure of a successful project is “did it achieve its intended purpose” and “was it completed on time and within budget”. Cost Engineering is the art and science of putting in place controls and methodologies to achieve the best outcomes for a project. The purpose of this book is to provide...
Cost Engineering for Project Success
An Australian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The measure of a successful project is “did it achieve its intended purpose” and “was it completed on time and within budget”. Cost Engineering is the art and science of putting in place controls and methodologies to achieve the best outcomes for a project. The purpose of this book is to provide...
The Peter Principle
Why Things Always Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question
Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant?
The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from...
by Laurence J Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Krum's at Christmere is a humorous, urban adventure story. It follows the exploits of a young man whose "family" controls organized crime in the Bronx at the end of the 1950s. After years of dedicated work, Cupid's arrow hits and everything changes. He must choose between the love of his...
by Collège des enseignants d'endocrinologie, diabète et maladie, Laurence Amar
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2012
En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DCEM2-DCEM4 et les épreuves classantes nationales, cet Abrégé Connaissances et Pratique apporte les connaissances fondamentales en endocrinologie, diabétologie et maladies métaboliques.
La première partie Connaissances développe, de manière...
by Robert M. Price, Glynn Owen Barrass, Joseph S. Pulver
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Antarctica... a frozen wasteland of penguins, blinding ice and snow, and blizzards to kill the unprepared in minutes. But it is an ancient land, with ancient secrets, mysteries that humanity is only beginning to glimpse. HP Lovecraft introduced the world to the terrifying reality of this lonely continent...
The Military Megapack
25 Great Tales of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Hours of great reading await, with tales of war and military adventure by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranging from classics of the Civil War to the World Wars to the future of war -- and many other battlefields -- here more than 640 pages of military fiction! Included...
New Perspectives on Israeli History
The Early Years of the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars draws from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, and cultural criticism to reexamine critical issues surrounding the birth of Israel. The authors explore such issues as the transition form yishuv to state, early state...
Art of the Deal in China
A Practical Guide to Business Etiquette and the 36 Martial Strategies Employed by Chinese Businessmen and Officals in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Extremely useful to newcomers and old china hands alike, this Chinese business guide explains how Chinese history and classical literature play a huge role in negotiating in China.
Negotiating a deal in China requires patience-a wellknown Confucian virtue; persistence-something which comes...
Spend 'Til the End
The Revolutionary Guide to Raising Your Living Standard--Today and When You Retire
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Rich or poor, young or old, high school or college grad, this book, written by economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff and syndicated financial columnist Scott Burns, can change your life for the better! If you follow the advice in this book, it will raise your living standard (possibly by a lot), improve...
The Greatest British Classics Ever Written
Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
Doing Business in China
The Sun Tzu Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"Strike hard, retreat, seize a position, reject compromise, and strike again."—These are common negotiating tactics in a country with a long history of strategic philosophy.
Negotiating a deal in China requires patience—a well known Confucian virtue; persistence—something which...