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A comprehensive history of the First World War in the Middle East.

This book looks at migration from social and political dimensions, placing its studies between the realm of demography and politics. It approaches the issues of migration by emphasizing the important power relations that have been neglected in the study of migration. The book starts by looking at Indonesian migration to provide an understanding of internal migration. It then looks beyond its national borders for a wider understanding of Asia. ...

Winner of the Christopher Award, this bestseller tells the inspirational true story of a girl with cerebral palsy. Written by Karen's mother, this memoir is a profound and heartwarming personal account of a young mother's efforts to refute the medical establishment's dispiriting advice, and her daughter's extraordinary triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds.

Drawing on original research, this book examines the victim restoration process from a psycho-social perspective. It offers an integrative, comprehensive and in-depth analysis of victims¿ experiences of restorative justice.

Elvira Sánchez-Blake's shattering testimonial novel Spiral of Silence (Espiral de Silencios) depicts the impact of Colombia's civil war on three women: Norma, an upper-class army wife, Maria Theresa, a young rebel and mother, and Amparo, who comes of age at a critical moment in the country's history.

Revolutionizing US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century.

This book is a comparative reference on procedural fairness in global antitrust. It focuses on procedure at each stage of antitrust enforcement and considers how a lack of procedural fairness impairs competition law and policy, the benefits of embracing it, the case for establishing global best practices, and how this might be achieved.

Fully updated for the latest Cambridge IGCSE Extended syllabus (0580), this teacher pack includes dynamic activities to develop students' knowledge and build Cambridge exam confidence. Each activity has accompanying teacher's notes and answers along with suggestions for differentiation and alternative approaches.

The sixth edition of Medical Terminology Simplified helps you build a medical vocabulary frame by frame as you explore each body system through the major combining forms, a comprehensive pathology section, and medical records and evaluations, complemented by true-to-life artwork.

A powerful faith memoir on the journey out of inner conflict and towards self-acceptance and pro-LGBT religious reform campaigning traversed by leading UK gay evangelical Jayne Ozanne.

A follow-up companion volume to "The Bad Doctor", this is a comic novel which follows the fortunes of Dr Lois Pritchard, who works with Robert Smith and Iwan James. The author uses his own experiences as a doctor to recreate his characters' lives. *Also appeared in July Buyer's Notes*

The employee engagement advice book you've been Googling for. Like having coffee with an expert, this book shares irreverent tips and secrets from popular authors and workplace culture experts Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter on how better inspire your team. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one - with actionable tips to transform your approach to engaging employees within hours.

We all lie. Whether it is a major deceit, a common whopper or a benign throw-away, these fabrications become part of the navigation of life. But when we lie to ourselves, what is the result? Are we in a state of denial or merely bending our memories to shape a new reality? Adam Merritt, a successful dermatologist awakens one morning feeling obliged to be, in all things, truthful. It doesn't matter if it concerns his friends, his wife or his pr...

In hindsight, perhaps Adam Grossman should not have retired--at least not so soon. After all, he was a respected heart surgeon and certainly not of diminished skills. Adam, however, had let his ego get the best of him and when he is passed over for a department chairmanship, decides to take his generous pension and move on. Now a year later, he's adrift, although not always unpleasantly. For his wife Eva it's a different story. He is disruptin...

Adam Carter has begun checking the locks on his doors again and again. Are they securely fastened? Is the alarm set properly? He's never quite satisfied that everything is in order. And so he feels compelled to check yet again. He feels for his wallet and then confirms that each and every piece of paper, credit card and cash is perfectly in order and safely in its place. He's had these obsessive thoughts before, but for Adam, a successful Wash...

Welcome to the world of the Electroencepalographer. Adam Turner is a middle-aged, married, Washington-based physician. By all appearances, he is a conventional and well-organized neurologist, devoted to the routine, clinical interpretations of EEGs (brain waves) at a university hospital. In truth, he is a fearful man, depressed and tormented by the idea of his death, obsessed by recurring and somewhat paranoid philosophical ruminations of his ...

[Harrison] knows life in a way that few will admit to, and writes about it in a ribald, vigorous, and intelligent fashion. . . . A national treasure." -Chicago Tribune

In the third of Martin Laird's best-selling books on Christian contemplative life, Laird considers the deepening dynamics of contemplation for those who have settled into a maturing practice of meditation. Drawing on the works of writers ranging from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila to Flannery O'Connor and David Foster Wallace, Laird grounds his methodology in both ancient practice and contemporary language. With characteristic lyricism ...

There have been many books written about what we can learn from the failures of the past, but I want to take a more optimistic view, focussing on what we have to learn from past successes. This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define as ¿intermediate¿, which means that they are often simple,...

Israel Regardie is one of the most important figures in the twentieth century development of what many have termed the Western esoteric tradition, which normally refers to the synthesis accomplished by MacGregor Mathers within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn during the 1890s. Among those who proceeded to explore and build among this tradition are Israel Regardie and Aleister Crowley. In this 1968 classic, Regardie prefaces and expands up...