Chris M : 138 books
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
by Michele M. Fecht, Johnson, Mayor Chris
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Most of the first pioneers came from New York by steamship across Lake Erie, disembarking in Detroit in the 1820s. From Detroit, it would take three days of treacherous travel through dense forests, thick brush, and swampy countryside to reach their destination--a hilly region in the northwest corner...
by Jonathan McCollum, Keith Howard, Judah M. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology demonstrates various ways that new approaches to historiography––and the related application of new technologies––impact the work of ethnomusicologists who seek to meaningfully represent music traditions across barriers of both time and space....
After Montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
Busted!
Drug War Survival Skills and True Dope D
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you...
Healing Prayer on Holy Ground
A Cardiologist Discovers God's Presence in the Lives of his Patients
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
A simple prayer can be an act of physical, spiritual, and emotional healing for everyone involved. Healing Prayer on Holy Ground conveys a message of hope in the presence of a loving God who longs to hear from us. Readers will be encouraged as you read Dr. Sheehan’s transformative story and the...
by Chris P. Tsokos, Kandethody M. Ramachandran
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Mathematical Statistics with Applications provides a calculus-based theoretical introduction to mathematical statistics while emphasizing interdisciplinary applications as well as exposure to modern statistical computational and simulation concepts that are not covered in other textbooks. Includes...
Human Factors Methods
A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both...
by Chris Chen, Hadley M. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
An effective and engaging way employees can learn Six Sigma and put its concepts into play
Part of the popular Big Book of Games series, which capitalizes on the proven effective method for workplace training, this first book of training games for Six Sigma ensures that employees will better...
The Student Companion to Community-Engaged Learning
What You Need to Know for Transformative Learning and Real Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This compact, accessibly written text prepares students for their experience of community-based learning.
It is designed for students to read and reflect on independently or to foster discussion in class on their motivations and dispositions toward community engagement and service learning....
by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Rajeev K. Bali, Brian Lehaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Quality care of patients requires evaluating large amounts of data at the right time and place and in the correct context. With the advent of electronic health records, data warehouses now provide information at the point of care and facilitate a continuous learning environment in which lessons learned...
Spectrum
SmartyPants Spectrum Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... **
...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out.
Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...
by Mike W. Barr, Chris Claremont, J. M. DeMatteis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Collects Star Wars (1977) #28-49, Star Wars Annual (1979) #1. Farm boy Luke Skywalker dreamed of going to the stars, only to get more than he ever hoped for when he joined an old Jedi to rescue a princess, aided a galactic rebellion and singlehandedly destroyed deadliest super-weapon ever devised. But...
by Beth Kephart, Chris Lynch, An Na
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Graduation from high school?
A senior thesis?
A betrayal by someone you love?
A loss of innocence?
The death of a parent?
Losing the family you always wished you had?
Facing a harsh reality?
What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"?...