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by N. M. Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
After finding her brother dead from a financially motivated suicide, this gripping story shows one womans journey from her haunting financial past to financial hope. I harbored my own financial distress and secrets just like my brother. I knew that I needed to tell my husband about our own descending...
The Harem
Inside the Grand Seraglio of the Turkish Sultans
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
For nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio--which served as the empire's administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler's home--was jealously guarded, even after...
by William N. Taylor, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic...
by Tony Xhudo M.S., H.N.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Old School Bodybuilding, is about the great legends that started it all. A comprehensive history from Eugene Sandow to the great Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. Trace the evolution of bodybuilding as we know it today and learn the history of some of the greatest bodybuilders the world has ever...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
Sibling Revelry
8 Steps to Successful Adult Sibling Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Experience the miracle of healing with a unique step-by-step program for enhancing adult sibling relationships — created by siblings for siblings
Much has been written about the relationships of parents and children. But the unsung chord in all of our adult relationships, professional and...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
The Undergraduate Experience
Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A clear, practical framework for getting higher education back on track
The Undergraduate Experience is a guide for significantly improving student learning and institutional performance in the rapidly changing world of higher education. Written by recognized experts in undergraduate education,...
Chemometrics: A Textbook
A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1988
Most chemists, whether they are biochemists, organic, analytical, pharmaceutical or clinical chemists and many pharmacists and biologists need to perform chemical analysis. Consequently, they are not only confronted with carrying out the actual analysis, but also with problems such as method selection,...
The Power of the Stranger
Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar...
by Rasem N. Kayed, M. Kabir Hassan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context of an Islamic economy and society. It argues...
Biodesign
The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Recognize market opportunities, master the design process, and develop business acumen with this 'how-to' guide to medical technology innovation. A three-step, proven approach to the biodesign innovation process - identify, invent, implement - provides a practical formula for innovation. The experiences...
The Book of PF, 3rd Edition
A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
OpenBSD’s stateful packet filter, PF, is the heart of the OpenBSD firewall. With more and more services placing high demands on bandwidth and an increasingly hostile Internet environment, no sysadmin can afford to be without PF expertise.
The third edition of The Book of PF covers the most...
Social Work and Social Policy
Advancing the Principles of Economic and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A comprehensive overview of domestic and global social welfare policy
Written by a team of renowned social policy experts sharing their unique perspectives on global and U.S. social welfare policy issues, Social Work and Social Policy helps social workers consider key issues that face policymakers,...