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This book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts to explore and illustrate the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues arising from the transformation of Asia-Pacific cities by service industries.

Learn the Management and Leadership Lessons of the World's Largest Environmental Organization "Nature's Keepers is a remarkable book about a remarkable organization-and a ripping yarn about groups and people who make a difference against all odds. Beyond that, it is a matchless tale of a half-century of organizational growth and renewal-replete with missteps and subsequent vaults upward. Told as a series of nine fast-paced sagas of extraordin...

This manual describes the guidelines to be followed in selecting a process capable of producing potable water supplies from brackish and sea water sources. Prepared by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for military water needs, the technical information is equally applicable to many civilian needs.

Accompanies 10 week course in which TOM WRIGHT explains the basics of Christianity Living Faith: Exploring the Essentials of Christianity: Study Guide (64 pages) Designed to accompany Tom Wright's 10-session DVD based Living Faith course (although it may be enjoyed as a book itself), this highly readable study guide by John Schwarz is an abridged version of his 320 page volume A Handbook of the Christian Faith. The 10 chapters of this guide co...

In Sledgehammer, Max Kroose, an intuitive emergency room physician, suspects that a case of smallpox has presented itself on his watch in the emergency room. The atypical case of smallpox is harder to identify and more lethal than the natural occurring smallpox virus. Armed with only a hunch, Dr. Kroose must watch precious times pass, as the risk of danger for him and his staff becomes more and more eventual. Kroose must attempt to convince a ...

In Sledgehammer, Max Kroose, an intuitive emergency room physician, suspects that a case of smallpox has presented itself on his watch in the emergency room. The atypical case of smallpox is harder to identify and more lethal than the natural occurring smallpox virus. Armed with only a hunch, Dr. Kroose must watch precious times pass, as the risk of danger for him and his staff becomes more and more eventual. Kroose must attempt to convince a ...

Stem cells are specialized cells with unique potential for self-renewal and specific cell-type commitment. They remain uncommitted until a particular physiological signal prompts them to differentiate and become lineage-specific cells with particular physiological functions. In 1998 investigators isolated embryonic stem cells from human embryos for the first time and were able to culture these in vitro. Since then, stem cell-based technologie...

The diagnosis of "cancer" is frightening enough for the patient. But the disease has a deep impact on the patient's partner and the couple's relationship as well. Life is not the same, and a new journey has begun. This book, drawing on the personal experience of the authors and many others, offers a compassionate guide for the journey. Those who find themselves on this most difficult road will learn how other couples have coped successfully. W...

Exploding onto the eschatalogical scene with a deafening roar, Endgame shatters the status quo with respect to endtime Bible prophecy, detonating centuries' worth of assumption and subjective "fact." By providing the Bible space to interpret itself, the key which unlocks the mysteries of Revelation is revealed to have been within the possession of mankind all along, hidden for millennia in "plain sight." Although Man has long preferred to lean...

A pain in the neck is a common but often medically ignored problem. You no longer need to suffer in silence. This book provides information about such neck-related problems as:Head Turning PainWhiplashOccupational DisabilityDizzinessStiff Neck and TorticollisShoulder and Arm PainNumbness or Tingling in The HandsTension HeadacheScalenus Anticus SyndromeLumpsDr. Arthur Winter is a neurosurgeon and director of The New Jersey Neurological Institut...

Welcome to The City, where daytime is only a resting period between parties. Darkness is ruled by the Children of the Night, who illuminate the late hours with glowsticks and laser lights.Follow five friends from the stresses of their daily lives to a giant warehouse where drugs, sex and music rule the night. Watch as they discover that even in the most trying of times, love and friendship prevail as their saving grace.The stories will be fami...

Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"? Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the Constitution?They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up, and burned. Thus ended Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the articulate "atheist bitch" whose 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case ended school prayer. Her Christian-baiting lawsuits spanned three more decades, she was on TV all over the country, foul-mouthed, witty, and passion...

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Call Me Joseph is a story, up close and personal, about a boy who grew into manhood against the backdrop of an early 1900s Kansas farm. Change, common to his generation, was his teacher. With courage, and never afraid to fight, "Joesy" learned to meet challenges head-on. On the other hand, Sister Eligiana was never too far away to instill humility in the young schoolboy. He tempted fate riding inside buggy wheels, and as Joe, the man, made his...

You have found meaning and purpose through your pain and there are people around who want to read and hear what you have to say"-Louis Donne, Connecticut Community Care, Inc., "I think you should do speaking engagements based on Embracing Life, you are uniquely suited, I honor you"-Lynnea Brinkerhoff, working in concert with John Scherer, Scherer Center, and "This is truly a work of heart"-Christa Donati, Donati Construction Company.

Brady Wells lived in a time when the white man battled with his own kind during the Civil War. Then he went on to watch the saber of the soldier cut and hack its way through bands of Indians that tied white scalps on the shaft of their lance as a sign of a proud warrior. Brady Wells was born of a white woman captured by the Apache to serve as their slave. She gave birth to Brady Wells during a Cavalry raid on an Apache village. Soon the mother...

This is a story about furkens, descendants of a branch of genus elf, who have lost their elfin powers of being able to vanish and now hide fearfully in human houses. They are sadly often mistaken for mice, although don't smell like mice. They smell like warm apricot jam!They are "endearing, fully developed creatures, " says Horn Book.ALA Booklist adds, "A tale that will have readers clamoring for a sequel.

Carnival connections across the mysterious night air, a coup de foudre on a Jamaican beach, glorious summer sunsets, the crystalline streams of Iceland ("Patagonia of the North"), a blissful Saturday morning, a belly dancer on a Turkish island, and Manhattan preparing for sleep... these vignettes are matched by reflections on artists and film makers such as Matisse, Munch and Van Gogh, McCartney, Rohmer and Antonioni. The achievement of Tri...

How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organisational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question. Consideration is given to how ICT is adopted, implemented and used within organizations. Throughout special features will help readers clarify thei...

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Salta, Potosí, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to José Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulat...