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Mostly Mischief
Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’
Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary...
In Mischief's Wake
In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
‘I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.’
The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief’s...
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But...
Revolutionizing Innovation
Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes...
Economic Development
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Economic development has been for many years the dominant national policy objective of the countries in the Third World, but there has been little consensus on the goals and definitions of development. Focusing on the era since World War II, H. W. Arndt traces the history of thought about economic...
Retirement Income Sources
New Models for Your Work and Your Life in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This Element is an excerpt form Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times (ISBN: 9780132354646) by James W. Walker and Linda H. Lewis. Available in print and digital formats. From social security to inheritance: how to objectively assess the retirement savings and income you’ll...
Primary Care and Home Care Scenarios 1990–2005
Scenario report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
CARE AT HOME -HOME CARE Health care in the Netherlands looks to be a well structured system. Supplementing the vital level of self-care and informal care are four levels of professional care: the public health service (known in the Netherlands as basic health care) is mainly concerned with preventive...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
by H. W. "Buzz" Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Everyone laughs at what southerners call a "snowstorm." A half-inch of the white stuff, and Atlanta panics.
No one's laughing this time.
A freakish combination of weather elements surpasses even the experts' predictions. Suddenly much of the upper South is covered in several...
Prodigies of Young Adult
Limited Edition II
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
4 YA novels in 1: Joshua's Tree by N.W. Harris...Chased by flesh-eating mutants and aided by an overbearing warrior princess, brainy Joshua must save the future—from himself. Relocated by Margaret Fieland...On planet Aleyne, a teenage boy discovers a terrorist plot and learns more than his own life...
The Olympic Games
The First Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
A definitive survey of the Olympic games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261, this scholarly, yet immensely readable account of Olympic athletes in ancient times takes a highly realistic view of these fabled contests. Transporting readers back to the eighth century b.c., Professor M. I. Finley and Dr. H. W....
by Melodie Romeo, Mariesa Inez, Rachel Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Death is just the beginning...Death. Just the word can trigger gut-wrenching fear. The kind of fear causing the heart to pound, cold sweat to run down and burn the eyes, and fingers to tremble with a loss of strength. Is our fear the realization that from the moment of conception, the clock starts...
Cummings Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery E-Book
Head and Neck Surgery, 3-Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Through four editions, Cummings Otolaryngology has been the world's most trusted source for comprehensive guidance on all facets of head and neck surgery. This 5th Edition - edited by Paul W. Flint, Bruce H. Haughey, Valerie J. Lund, John K. Niparko, Mark A. Richardson, K. Thomas Robbins, and J. Regan...
A Hard and Bitter Peace
A Global History of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This comprehensive text provides a balanced survey of the Cold War in a genuinely global framework. Presenting not only Soviet and Western perspectives, but also the outlooks of peoples and leaders throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, Edward H. Judge and John W. Langdon offer...