Julie Hill: 11 books

Book cover of Privileged Witness

Privileged Witness

Journeys of Rediscovery

by Julie Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

This collection of 27 travel essays written over the last decade is based on Julie Hills journeys to far-flung destinations of the world. Often welcomed by her hosts not as a customer or a trader but as a confessor and a friend, Julie Hill vindicates their trust and repays their kindness by bringing...
Book cover of In the Afternoon Sun: My Alexandria
by Julie Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017

In her memoirs, Julie Hill paints the picture of a childhood in cosmopolitan Alexandria of the early twentieth century. Her family came as refugees from regions of the Ottoman empire and were privileged to find in Alexandria, and become part of, a more prosperous middle class than the one they left...
Book cover of The Silk Road Revisited

The Silk Road Revisited

Markets, Merchants and Minarets

by Julie Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006

In Revisiting the Silk Road , experienced author and traveller Julie Hill takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a little known but volatile region, stretching from Western China to the shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea and beyond to the Black Sea. Hers is not only a series of journeys...
Book cover of The Secret Life of Stuff

The Secret Life of Stuff

A Manual for a New Material World

by Julie Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011

Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment? - A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'? - To really know your stuff? Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power? Landfills? Recycling? Renewable energy? Environmental issues can feel...
Book cover of The Guide to the Circular Economy

The Guide to the Circular Economy

Capturing Value and Managing Material Risk

by Dustin Benton, Jonny Hazell, Julie Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures – price-driven, political and environmental.Delivering the circular...
Book cover of Far Orbit

Far Orbit

Speculative Space Adventures

by Bascomb James, Gregory Benford, Eric Choi
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left...
Book cover of Ten Canadian Writers in Context
by Lynn Coady, Ying Chen, Michael Crummey
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from...
Book cover of The Library Book
by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver...
Book cover of How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care
by Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, Julie Steele
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

In the early days of the 20th century, department store magnate JohnWanamaker famously said, "I know that half of my advertising doesn'twork. The problem is that I don't know which half." That remainedbasically true until Google transformed advertising with AdSense basedon new uses of data...
Book cover of Insiders' Guide® to North Carolina's Piedmont Triad

Insiders' Guide® to North Carolina's Piedmont Triad

Greensboro, Winston-Salem & High Point

by Amber Nimocks, Julie A Hill and Associates LLC
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

A first edition, Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Piedmont Triad is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to North Carolina's Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Highpoint region. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of North Carolina's Piedmont Triadand its surrounding environs.
Book cover of Data Management Essentials Using SAS and JMP
by Julie Kezik, Melissa Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

SAS programming is a creative and iterative process designed to empower you to make the most of your organization's data. This friendly guide provides you with a repertoire of essential SAS tools for data management, whether you are a new or an infrequent user. Most useful to students and programmers...
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