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Still Standing: The Story of My Wars

Torres, Julia
Still Standing: The Story of My Wars
MANY WOMEN ARE MOLESTED AND RAPED in America, some on their prom night I'm sure, but this brilliant, compelling story stands out in a category of its own. Julia Torres joined the United States Army, bound for a war zone, in order to get killed rather than open the emotional wound she had sustained, but, in the chaos of battle and surrounded by her very close buddies, found her life instead-and truth, the greatest weapon of all, to sustain her ...

CHF 27.90

Real-World Analytics: A Business Leader's Concise Inside ...

Koukounas, Michael
Real-World Analytics: A Business Leader's Concise Inside View of How to Build and Manage Analytical Teams to Drive Real Results in Today's B
REAL-WORLD ANALYTICS was written to help business leaders develop and manage analytics teams in today's Big Data craze. The book focuses on the do's and don'ts of staffing and managing analytical teams. It helps promising analysts transition from developing analytics into more senior management roles, and it helps senior business leaders understand the limitations of their analytical teams, the issues they will need to address in running them,...

CHF 30.50

The Widower Considers Candles

Smith, Robert Lavett
The Widower Considers Candles
The Widower Considers Candles, " Robert Lavett Smith's third full-length collection, is his most varied so far-formal sonnets interspersed among free verse poems. Familiar themes are present in abundance: grief, loss, and the daily coming to terms with an increasingly complex and often disheartening existence. But humor is evident, too. Now in his later fifties, Smith continues to grow and develop, and remains unafraid to venture into previous...

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The Hunger for More: God, Gravity, and the Big Bang

Strassberg, Peter
The Hunger for More: God, Gravity, and the Big Bang
THE BIG BANG is a modern myth. It never occurred. It, and much of current science (particle physics) is but today's version of the Biblical Creation and Fall. In this book, Dr. Strassberg takes us on a journey-one of understanding. By opening a portal to a different dimension, the book leaves the reader with a deeper insight into our world and the forces that shape it. The Hunger For More is an excursion into the realm of the very small (the q...

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The Body in Equipoise: Poems

Allegretti, Joel
The Body in Equipoise: Poems
A work at once finely tuned, vast, and surprising, Joel Allegretti's The Body in Equipose is, indeed, the 'human being squaring the circle, ' with its 'nervous system. . .a radio tuned to the soundtrack of life.' Or perhaps this more accurately describes Allegretti himself, who in deft and subtle strokes has created a poetics from the bones and beams of centuries of architectural history (not to mention modern art) that is somehow both erudite...

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There Is a Reaper: Losing a Child to Cancer

Lynes, Michael
There Is a Reaper: Losing a Child to Cancer
FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER AARON has always been a whirlwind of heroic action, leading his brothers into all sorts of youthful mischief. A mysterious illness suddenly plunges him and his family into a frightening nightmare of hospitals and doctors and extreme therapies far from his small-town home. Can his doctors diagnose his strange disease? How will he and his family adapt to a bizarre new world they have been thrust into? Heart-wrenching, s...

CHF 30.50

In The Shadows of Canyon Road

Mosberg, Stew
In The Shadows of Canyon Road
The shadows falling on Canyon Road turn its buildings into chiaroscuro works of art that inspired so many artists to move to Santa Fe almost a hundred years ago. The clay-colored adobe walls, with their aqua and turquois e tr im med windows and doors, offer a warm, inviting welcome, like low, sultry flames dancing in a fireplace. Their rounded corners beg to be touched and offer the promise of comfort as if they are old friends. it is beyond t...

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