Paul D : 701 books

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice? Bad medical outcomes traumatize patients but they also traumatize physicians. The litigation that often follows is a profoundly human, rather than just a legal experience. Although every physician's case is different, this book shows how each case...

Begegnungen bestimmen unser Leben. Menschen kreuzen unseren Weg. Manche bleiben uns in Erinnerung, Andere erscheinen und verschwinden wieder, wie Irrlichter in dunkler Nacht. Und oft ist es nur eine Kleinigkeit, die diese Begegnungen unglaublich werden lässt: Ein falsches Wort, dämmriges Licht,...

George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American scientist...

While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed. The...

Escroc, assassin, dandy, et poète par surcroit. Lacenaire fut, au temps du romantisme, le « scélérat à la mode ». Le détachement cynique, le « dilettantisme » avec lequel il considérait ses propres crimes, commis avec une glaciale cruauté, ont fait de lui un monstre légendaire. Il...

Considérant que l’économique et le politique ne peuvent être séparés et qu’il y a symbiose, Hubert d’Hérouville fait le point, dans cette 4e édition datée de 1975, sur les différents facteurs qui constituent l’économie européenne : facteurs physiques, hommes, productions industrielle et agricole, échanges commerciaux, balance des paiements, etc.

Dans cette 6e édition de son livre, parue en 1969, Hubert d’Hérouville, après avoir précisé ce qu’il entend par « économie mondiale », en dresse un tableau exhaustif : sa structure, les hommes, les ressources, les résultats, les échanges internationaux, les richesses, les liquidités internationales, les aspects politiques.

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology,...

Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic...

New York Times Bestseller Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading...

Es geht hoch hinaus! Die Menschen erobern die Lüfte - ob mit Zeppelin, Heißluftballon oder dampfbetriebenen Maschinerien. Zwischen den Wolken und hinter dem Horizont warten neue Abenteuer, Intrigen, magische Wesen, sowie kleine und große Helden. 12 Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen uns mit auf ihren...

O Exterminador encontra Branca de Neve em uma aventura steampunk (ficção científica futurística) pelo tempo. “Esta história aconteceu quando Sua Majestade ainda era um jovem, um caçador para ser preciso. É o conto de uma máquina do futuro, com uma missão de matar Sua Majestade e...