David L : 1236 books
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Becoming a Strategic Leader
Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming a Strategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli Beatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
Big Bundle Of Shorts...Stories!
A Bundle, A Buffet, A Bunch Of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
BIG BUNDLE OF SHORTS...STORIES!
A Bundle, A Buffet, A Bunch of Short Stories
"The Meat Shield" by Blaze Ward "The Last Vampire" by Kristine Grayson "The Faery's Choice" by Jamie Ferguson "Blown" by Diana Deverell "Like At Loch Ness" by Karen L. Abrahamson "Cups and Coins" by Thea Hutcheson...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
by Cary D. Wintz, Larry P. Knight, Kenneth W. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the...
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
Charlotte, NC
The Global Evolution of a New South City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...
Invisible Frontier
Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s...
by Arthur N. Popper, Anthony D. Hawkins, Soraya Bartol
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This Technical Report presents the outcome of a Working Group that was established to determine broadly applicable sound exposure guidelines for fishes and sea turtles. After consideration of the diversity of fish and sea turtles, guidelines were developed for broad groups of animals, defined by the...
by David C. Smith, Richard L. Tierney
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Nach einem heimtückischen Angriff durch die dämonischen Horden des Hexenmeister Asroth liegt die einst blühende Stadt Suthad in Trümmern. Die wenigen Überlebenden - unter ihnen die Rote Sonja und ihrer Seite ihr Kampfgefährte Lord Olin - ziehen aus, um den scheinbar übermächtigen Feind zu...
by David C. Smith, Richard L. Tierney
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Urdus, einem ebenso riesenhaften wie bärenstarken Krieger, gelingt gemeinsam mit weiteren Verbannten die Flucht von der Gefangenen-Insel Os Harku. Sie kapern ein aquilonisches Schiff, auf dem sich auch die Rote Sonja befindet. Und obgleich sie kämpft wie eine Löwin, wird sie schließlich überwältigt...
Structure and Action of Molecular Chaperones
Machines that Assist Protein Folding in the Cell
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This unique volume reviews the beautiful architectures and varying mechanical actions of the set of specialized cellular proteins called molecular chaperones, which provide essential kinetic assistance to processes of protein folding and unfolding in the cell. Ranging from multisubunit ring-shaped...
Mania
The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory...