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Of all the staff members in the hotel and hospitality industry the concierge is the one who has the most personal contact with the guests.

Bryson deconstructs the "canon wars" and uses English departments to demonstrate that social structure is the cornerstone of culture and the appropriate target for cultural policy.

Bryson deconstructs the "canon wars" and uses English departments to demonstrate that social structure is the cornerstone of culture and the appropriate target for cultural policy.

Here a leading researcher provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of automatic control logic for spacecraft and aircraft. In this book Arthur Bryson describes the linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR) method of feedback control synthesis, which coordinates multiple controls, producing graceful maneuvers comparable to those of an expert pilot. The first half of the work is about attitude control of rigid and flexible spacecraft using moment...

De dag waarop Bill Bryson door zijn moeder naar school werd gestuurd in een meisjeskniebroek wordt door sommigen gezien als het eerste teken dat hij niet afkomstig was van de planeet Aarde. Anderen denken dat het allemaal begon op zesjarige leeftijd, toen hij een zeldzaam fijne wollen trui ontdekte met een bliksemschicht erop. Hoewel hij op een oude sporttrui leek, wist de jonge Bryson wel beter. Voor hem was het onbetwist de Heilige Sweater v...

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From a parents perspective an indispensable reference book on the things you need to know about autism that families will turn to again and again.

In Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles lukt het Bryson om wetenschappelijke kennis uit onder andere de geologie, scheikunde, kwantumfysica, paleontologie en sterrenkunde voor een groot publiek te ontsluiten. Hij doet dat op zo'n heldere en spannende wijze dat ook degenen die vroeger altijd in slaap vielen tijdens de wiskundeles Bryson met veel plezier zullen volgen op zijn avontuurlijke reis door de bètawetenschappen. In deze rijk geïllust...

Nadat hij twintig jaar niet meer in zijn geboorteland is geweest besluit Bill Bryson de Verenigde Staten opnieuw te bezoeken. Hij volgt de Appalachian Trail, een wandelpad van meer dan 3000 kilometer van Georgia naar Maine, en aanschouwt een adembenemend landschap. Maar het biedt Bryson ook oneindige mogelijkheden om meedogenloos commentaar te leveren op zijn medereizigers. Tijdens de tocht wordt hij gegijzeld door Mary Ellen, die alles weet v...

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The Adventures of Roo and Winston is s story of a guinea pig and rabbit as they travel the English Countryside. Follow their adventure as they stop some thieves from creating fake crop circles.

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Settled in England for many years, he moved to America with his wife and four children for a few years, but has since returned to live in the UK. His bestselling travel books include The Road to Little Dribbling, The Lost Continent, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and Down Under. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His a...

This book, Reflections of Life, depicts a variety of life's situations that cause us to reflect. We do reflect on life one day at a time, because as the years go by, there are so many events of the past and hopes for the future. There are so many beautiful places such as the hills, mountains, rivers, lakes, flowers, trees, and shrubs. There is also the meeting of people of different cultures and the bonding of friendships. And as we reflect o...

Excerpt from Cross and Crown: Stories of the Chinese MartyrsHen I was at home on furlough, and met many of the young people who will, I hope, read these pages, the Rev. Arnold Thomas, of Bristol, and many other ministers and Christian workers, told me they thought the heroic deaths and sufferings, for Jesus' sake, of so many Chinese converts ought to be put on record. The story, they said, was a legacy to the church universal, which should not...

Excerpt from Trade-Marks, Registered in U. S. Patent Office: For Boots, Shoes and Lasts, Leather and Saddlery, and Rubber Goods Acorn and oak leaves. Boots and Shoes. No. February 4, 1873, Charles Merritt, South Weymouth, Mass. Acorn. Youths, Ladies', Misses' and Children's Shoes. No. October 18, 1887, used since August 25, 1887, Fred L. Foster Sons, Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...

Perioperative Addiction addresses an issue that every anesthesiologist will encounter many times during the course of his or her career:  the patient who arrives for operative care under the influence of legal or illegal drugs.  The editors and contributors provide expert guidance on how to identify and manage the addicted patient, approaching the subject from the vantage points of the specific drug and of special patient populations.  Feature...

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