Wisner: 18 books

Heating with wood is often considered a natural and economical alternative to electricity or fossil fuels. However, even with a fairly new and efficient woodstove, many cords of wood are required for burning over the course of a single winter, and incomplete combustion can contribute to poor air quality....

Finally, an operations management book to get excited about. ** ** Operations Management: A Supply Chain Process Approach exposes students to the exciting and ever-changing world of operations management through dynamic writing, application, and cutting-edge examples that will keep...

Synopsis for Thomas Quantum in the MultiverseBy David Arthur WisnerThomas Fairchild, a clever sixteen-year-old has just been through the worst month of his life. As an only child he lost his father in an accident. Bullied at school, he runs to visit the only person left on earth who really cares for...

The bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother hits the road again to learn about love and finally finds it closer to home When you've been jilted at the altar and forced to take your pre-paid honeymoon with your brother, it's fair to say you could learn a thing or two about love. And that's...

This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée called off the wedding. Luckily, his large support network of family and...

'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily...

This manuscript is not intended by no means to talk about me, though I have been through the tribulations and had faced deaths on too many occasions to mention a few; its sole purpose is to glorify and acknowledge the omnipresence and omnipotence of the Lord Almighty, God the Father, the Son of God...

The author of this volume was born at Vernon, Connecticut, on March 12, 1838, of a long line of New England ancestry; he was sixth in order of descent from Governor Thomas Hinkley of Plymouth Colony. Coming to Wisconsin in his eleventh year, Julian grew to young manhood on his father's farm at Waupun...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...

Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics 'At last...

Join Ali in her adventure on Bald Head Island. A place where there are no cars only golf carts, many loggerhead turtles and their nests, and miles and miles of sandy beaches.

When Sarah Lawsons father is rescued from the claws of death by David Saye, a notorious rebel commander, she believes it is simply a miraculous coincidence. It isnt long, however, before Sarah realises that behind this extraordinary intervention is Davids wish to lure her into his arms. He...

A Deer in the Cosmic Headlights is the author’s collected poems of the past twenty years. It chronicles the author’s growing understanding of the complexity, beauty, wonder and simple satisfaction at the amazing gift of being alive and having some insight into this complex, interconnected world in which we live. It is the author’s conceit that ontology recapitulates cosmology.

Souvenirs is a memoir cookbook written by the multitalented Hubert Keller: chef, restaurateur, and Frenchman. Through personal stories and 120 recipes, the book explores his classical training and traces his development as a creative superstar chef. Keller apprentices in a Michelin three star–rated...