D Thompson: 87 books
by David C. Thompson M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Dr. David Thompson is on call. First came the call of God to medical missions; then a phone call announced the brutal murder of David's parents at the hands of the Viet Cong. Later another call carried the determined missionary kid through medical school. Today, David Thompson responds to the persistent calls of the sick and dying at the Bongolo Mission Hospital in Gabon, West Africa.
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become...
The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Narratives of Former Slaves (Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
by Ian Whates, Gavin Smith, Adam Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th birthday of independent publisher NewCon Press.1. Introduction2. The Last Tank Commander –...
Cryopolitics
Frozen Life in a Melting World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.
As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation....
by Mark Thompson, Jon Thoday, Amanda D. Lotz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,...
SAFE and Fun Playgrounds
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Play is important for cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Use the four components experts have identified for safety: supervision, age-appropriate design, fall-surfacing that contains approved materials, and equipment maintenance.
This handbook is what you need to maintain...
Head and Neck Pathology E-Book
A Volume in the Series: Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An essential foundation text for residents and pathologists, the third edition of Head and Neck Pathology, a volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series, has been fully revised to include recent advances in the field. Featuring a highly templated, easy-to-use format and new information...
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Wildes Verlangen / Licht aus - Sex an! / Der Liebesbeweis /
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2006
WILDES VERLANGEN von HARDY, KRISTIN
WILDES VERLANGEN Die erotischen Szenen des freizügigen Films wirken wie eine Liebesdroge: Sabrina verbringt mit dem Regisseur Stefos Costas eine leidenschaftliche Nacht. Nur ein Mal soll er ihr wildes Verlangen stillen! Doch am nächsten Abend brennt es noch heißer....
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
The Stress Effect
Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Reveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it
The ability to make sound and timely decisions is the mark of a good leader. But when leaders with otherwise strong track records suddenly begin making poor decisions-as seen in the...
Border Odyssey
Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
"We were trying to change the vision and the conversation about border fears."Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles—from Boca Chica to Tijuana—pressing on with the useful fiction of a map."We needed to go to the place where countless innocent...
by William N. Thompson Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
This is the most complete encyclopedia of gambling, covering the industry in great detail including the players, the games, the venues, and the surrounding social issues. Updates in this second edition reveal the impact of technological advances on the games, the growing legislation regulating the...