Combs: 137 books

Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon. Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analyzing it as a form of political violence, this text presents the most essential concepts,...

People go to the hospital to be cured—not killed. Patients are dying, and malpractice is the claim. Is incompetence the cause, or is it something worse? Emergency doctor Drake Cody must stop the mysterious hospital deaths while also facing an invasion of deadly new opioid drugs that...

Imperfections are opportunities to receive God’s unending strength. No mother can live up to supermommy expectations. Thankfully, God isn’t looking for perfection. He’s calling on imperfect moms to be faithfully plugged into his superpowers. In Unsupermommy, Maggie delves into...

In this fast-moving modern world, an overwhelming number of fathers are missing from their families. Many of those who remain either do not understand their responsibilities or they simply ignore them. This is no small matter. Sons and daughters rely on dads to be the character-builders of the familythe...

This hands-on guide is a valuable resource for both current and aspiring school leaders. Written in short, easy-to-read chapters, The Trust Factor, 2nd Edition presents real-world examples and relevant research to help you develop the essential skills you need for building trust with staff, teachers,...

An approachable guide to applying advanced machine learning methods to everyday problems About This Book Put machine learning principles into practice to solve real-world problems Get to grips with Python's impressive range of Machine Learning libraries and frameworks From retrieving data from...

This book offers 50 easy-to-read strategies for managing conflicts in your school involving students, parents, and teachers. Individually, these strategies provide specific insights into conflict resolution, reduction, and management. As a whole, the 50 strategies provide a comprehensive method to...

There has never been a Human Resources Guide like this. Human Resources 120 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Human Resources. Instead, it answers the top 120 questions that we are asked and those we come across in our forums, consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly...

Liberate l’artista che c’è in voi! A partire dalla filosofia secondo la quale a disegnare si impara da soli, questo manuale offre tutti gli strumenti necessari a esplorare le tecniche di base, per poi passare a quelle più avanzate. Vi accorgerete che non è mai troppo tardi per dare sfogo alla...

Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put forward in this text is nonetheless extendable to the decades following its publication.

Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan’s eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April’s rare memory...

A family secret, a mysterious lamp, a dangerous Order with the mad desire to possess both. Ginn thinks she knows all there is to know about how she became adopted by parents whose number one priority is to embarrass her with public displays of affection, but that changes when a single wish starts...

Un libro seducente. Questa è una storia piena di dolcezza emotiva e passionale; se quest’opera fosse una melodia, vorrebbe restare impressa nella mente per sempre. La Casa del Blues resta un romanzo appassionante che con qualche nota di humour cercherà di stregare il lettore senza però dominarne...

Virtualization and related technologies like hypervisors, which create virtual machines on a single hardware machine, and containers (also known as zones), which create virtual operating systems running on a single operating system, are a totally new area for many system administrators.   ...