American imprint: 2303 books
In the House of Muhammad Ali
A Family Album, 1805-1952
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but...
Neslishah
The Last Ottoman Princess
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she...
The Tech Contracts Handbook
Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This handbook is a user-friendly reference manual and training guide on software licenses and other IT agreements, along with cloud computing issues. This handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, corporate counsel, salespeople, and anyone...
by Genichi Taguchi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Dr.Taguchi's comprehensive system of quality engineering is one of the great engineering achievements of the twentieth century. In this pioneering work, Dr. Taguchi uses easy to understand examples to show engineers and managers how to bring the immense power of his quality engineering methods upstream...
Museum Gallery Activities
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
During the course of an interactive museum tour a skilled educator will be able to elicit multiple responses and keep the conversation moving toward new discoveries, but no matter how competent the educator, there will always be some participants who enthusiastically contribute their ideas to the...
A Life in Museums
Managing Your Museum Career
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Whether you're an experienced leader, a mid-career professional hoping for a promotion, or a recent grad applying for your first internship, A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career is the guide you need—full of sound advice, practical tips, and illuminating personal stories that span the...
The Lean Law Firm
Run Your Firm like the World’s Most Efficient and Profitable Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
It's a difficult world for law firms these days. Client demands, increased competition, and the distractions of technology can put pressure on any business. Law firms who attempt to respond with "traditional" firm management practices are perhaps more susceptible than any other business...
Salvage Work
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative...
Constitutional Law for Kids
Discovering the Rights and Privileges Granted by the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Constitutional Law for Kids is a fun, interactive exploration of the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. Each chapter includes an analysis of a constitutional law topic, along with the facts of actual Supreme Court cases, vocabulary words, and questions that can...
Supreme Ambitions
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Supreme Ambitions details the rise of Audrey Coyne, a recent Yale Law School graduate who dreams of clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court someday. Audrey moves to California to clerk for Judge Christina Wong Stinson, a highly regarded appeals-court judge who is Audrey’s ticket to a Supreme Court clerkship....
The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Here's a collection of wacky written laws where each one was actually thought up by real human beings who then decided after writing it down and upon further reflection that yes, this would be a good rule that everybody should follow. You'll find more than 200 unusual, bizarre, and absurd laws. Above...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
BE THE ECG EXPERT!
In the emergency department-in any acute or critical care setting-when it's on you to direct a patient's care based on an ECG, you have to be the ECG expert. Right then. See what you need to see, recognize what's important, and act accordingly. And quickly.
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by Michael B. First, MD, Andrew E. Skodol
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
With at least one case presentation for each of the mental disorders catalogued in DSM-5 -- and multiple cases for nearly half of the disorders -- Learning DSM-5® by Case Example has been meticulously designed to aid practitioners and students of all levels in psychology, psychiatry, social work,...
by Robert J. Hilt, MD FAAP FAACAP FAPA, Abraham M. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Building on the best-selling Pocket Guide to the DSM-5 Diagnostic Exam, The DSM-5® Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health teaches readers how to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan for this patient population. Because these patients are more likely to initiate mental health treatment...