John A : 1444 books
by John A. Blair
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
I Never Went To Work is a collection of stories about life as a small animal veterinarian in the heart of the Midwest. Through this lens, Dr. John A. Blair shares his passion for animals and their human counterparts, his love of medicine and surgical technique, along with his desire to teach us about...
Cross-Shaped Leadership
On the Rough and Tumble of Parish Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
For Lutheran pastor John Berntsen, the cross is about more than the crucifixion on Good Friday. It is shorthand for the whole drama of salvation--God's decisive act of reconciling the world to God's own self. The cross is dying and rising with Christ, but at a deeper level it is the story of the world's...
by John A. Torres
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This memoir recounts how veteran journalist John A. Torres was able to find his way back to God through heartbreaking assignments and reporting from disaster sites around the world. During poignant and amusing recollections from his childhood in the Bronx, Torres tries to pinpoint what caused him...
Beyond the Ballpark
The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Most baseball fans know of the amazing accomplishments Hall of Fame members achieved on the field, from Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak to Cy Young’s 511 career wins. But few are as familiar with the ballplayers’ lives away from the diamond—especially those icons who played before the Internet...
Art & Outrage
Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1998
‘Walker systematically and chronologically works through 39 case studies, starting in 1949 with Alfred Munnings and ending in 1998 with a sculptor guilty of stealing body parts. The accounts vary in depth and interest but all reveal some background in relation to the systematic manipulation of events...
by John A Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Mrs Mann, here after referred to as Marty, dramatizes the public image of an alcoholic. Born in wealth she drank up her fortune and ended up on charity in an insane asylum. Between her wealth and her poverty she hobnobbed with Europe's leading intellectuals in a loose knit group known as the...
by William W. Muir III, DVM, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia, 5th Edition is a well-accepted guide to performing anesthesia and anesthetic techniques safely and effectively. This convenient pocket guide provides clear, concise guidelines on anesthetic procedures for dogs, cats, horses, ruminants, camelids, pigs, birds, and...
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to...
Growth Juice
How to Grow Your Sales
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Growth Juice was written to help companies realize continuous growth of sales and profits. This is accomplished through combining time-tested growth planning concepts, frameworks and practical planning perspectives with the popular Solution Selling® system. The book provides a hands-on view of...
by John A B Lansdown
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
‘Pills for the First Night’ is the second of the hospital series by the author. While distracting patients is a theme throughout the series, each book may be read independently and in any order. A defining feature of this anthology is restless verse primed to divert sluggish thoughts away from...
All Business Is Local
Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Why businesses should never underestimate the power of place.
Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical impact of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everywhere...
by John A. Cash, John Albright, Allan W. Sandstrum
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Based on official U.S. Army records, these eyewitness chronicles of seven horrific battles offer an unparalleled glimpse of the day-to-day reality of the Vietnam conflict. From a fierce fight on the banks of the Ia Drang River in November 1965 to a May '68 gunship mission, these highly charged reports...
Extraordinary Hearts
A Journey of Cardiac Medicine and the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Cardiac surgeon John A. Elefteriades, one of Men’s Health magazine’s ten best doctors in America, shares moving patient stories and lessons about the human heart.
The human heart is a paradox, incredibly strong yet surprisingly fragile. And while stories that reveal its symbolic characteristics...
After the Dream
Black and White Southerners since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech,...