Kristin: 1189 books
Final Report
Evaluation of Tools and Metrics to Support Employer Selection of Health Plans
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Affordable Care Act places strong emphasis on quality of care as a means to improve outcomes for Americans and promote the financial sustainability of our health care system. This report attempts to help employers understand the structural differences between health plans and the performance dimensions...
Farming across Borders
A Transnational History of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution,...
Creative License
The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty
Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher...
by Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much...
Optimierung des Beschwerdemanagements eines mittelständischen Reiseveranstalters
Am Beispiel der Vetter-Touristik Reiseverkehrs GmbH
Language: German
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Touristik / Tourismus, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Harz Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, 48 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Damit Sie gerne wiederkommen' , ist der Leitspruch, welcher die Firmenphilosophie vieler Unternehmen...
Personalizing Precision Medicine
A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement...
Ethik und Tourismus - Utopie oder Wirklichkeit?
Eine grundlegende Betrachtung
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Touristik / Tourismus, Note: 1,0, Hochschule München, Veranstaltung: Tourismusmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Existenz des Reisens der Menschen ist fester Bestandteil unserer heutigen Gesellschaft und auch zukünftig nicht mehr auszuschließen:...
Resources, Services and Risks
How Can Data Observatories Bridge The Science-Policy Divide in Environmental Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This book discusses the role of observatories in supporting evidence-based decision-making. The book focuses on issues of data accessibility, monitoring frameworks and governance processes with regard to environmental resources – water, soil and waste. This publication highlights challenges related...
by Kristin Fontichiaro, Quincy de Klerk
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Makers and inventors rely on prototypes to test out and refine their projects. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation. Large, colorful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.
Ties that Bind
A 52-Week Devotional for Mothers and Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
"A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."
--Ecclesiastes 4:12
A mother and daughter relationship is one of the most important and defining relationships in life. Just like when we braid our daughter's hair, as we raise our girls we weave three strands together: our faith and...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Akasya Benge, Andrea Hargrove
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A Nymph's Tale is a delightful collection of nine whimsical fables for grown-ups, from some of today’s newest writers that gently remind us of what is important, and what is not.
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House of Night
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2010
HOUSE OF NIGHT: die einzig legitime Nachfolge-Serie der Bis(s) RomaneAls auf der Stirn der 16jährigen Zoey Redbird eine saphirblaue Mondsichel aufscheint, weiß sie, dass ihr nicht viel Zeit bleibt, um ins House of Night, das Internat für Vampyre, zu kommen. Denn jetzt ist sie gezeichnet. Im House...
by Kristin Cast
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling co-author of the House of Night series—a new saga “with a unique twist on Greek mythology and heart-stopping action” (#1 New York Times–bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout).
In a world parallel to our own, the souls of the damned are caged,...