Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging t[...]

Your organization is run on ideas, but the task of leading a brainstorming session isn't as simple as asking for thoughts and writing them down. Miller gives you the tools, exercises, and guidance you need to pave the way toward the innovation and creative solutions your company needs to beat the co[...]

This book offers a novel account of grace, framed in terms of Bruno Latour's "principle of irreduction." It thus models an object-oriented approach to grace, experimentally moving a traditional Christian understanding of grace out of a top-down, theistic ontology and into an agent-based, object-orie[...]

At age twenty, Saloma Miller left behind her Amish community in Burton, Ohio, and boarded a night train for Vermont, where she knew no one. Bonnet Strings by Saloma Miller Furlong offers a universal story of overcoming adversity and a rare look inside an Amish community.[...]

Masha Edelman yearns for a life on the stage and to escape her strict religious family. Miles away, in a safe suburban neighbourhood, family man Leslie Senzatimore longs to be a hero. They have little idea of what lies ahead for them.[...]

"Each morning I would strike out for this temple of learning in the crisp autumn air . . . with a sense of purpose and the conviction that this was where I belonged."--Marilyn Stasio from "My Research Project"
Inspired partly by Richard Altick's "The Scholar Adventurers, "the thirteen writers in[...]

From the Finders series: Learn to find and identify constellations, the patterns people all over the world see as we look up at the night sky from earth. Includes names and star stories form many traditions, including Native American, Asian, and African, as well as Classical Greek, constellations. W[...]

This practical manual helps you to master traditional cane, rush and splint patterns, guiding your through each step of the process. Line drawings demonstrate how to cane with wicker, rattan, rawhide or Danish cord, and tips are given for overcoming common problems. Also included are charts which co[...]

Elementary Algebra offers a practical approach to the study of beginning algebra concepts, consistent with the needs of today's student. The author puts special emphasis on the worked examples in each section, treating them as the primary means of instruction, since students rely so heavily on examp[...]

Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devicesiOS is Apple's mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and discusses them all. The award-winning author team, exp[...]

Free full-color, foldout map Insider advice on all the major theme parks in Orlando, from Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventures. Our author, a longtime theme park aficionado and the mother of five, has done it all.Where[...]