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14641) Rethinking work
Series
Reference shelf volume 88, no. 4
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From debates around the high pressures of the corporate work environment to those around the present day labor movement, discussions about work prevail in popular thinking and the media. Do the wealthiest, most powerful corporations today reward their white-collar employees with outstanding vacation and family-leave packages or exploit their workforce by demanding unreasonable hours and unrealistic goals? And how do their blue-collar employees fare?...
14642) Human rights and social justice: social action and service for the helping and health professions
Author
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
[Publisher-supplied data] Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions has a unique perspective that views human rights as the bedrock of social justice. It provides a clear blueprint how human rights and social justice concerns can serve as a conceptual framework for policy and practice interventions among the helping and health professions. Key Features and Benefits Provides both historical and...
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Aims to introduce users to explanations of cutting-edge, as well as everyday, technology, explaining these technologies and their primary elements through clear prose informed by expert analysis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Elsevier Academic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As genetic issues play a growing role in health practice and public policy, new knowledge in this field will continue to have significant implications for individuals and society. Written to communicate sound and modern science in an accessible way for professionals and students with various levels of scientific background, this thoroughly revised edition contributes to creating a genetically literate research and clinical population. With case studies...
14645) Word 2016 For dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Overview: The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft Word. Written by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. In a friendly, human, and often irreverent manner, it focuses on the needs of the beginning Word user, offering clear and simple guidance on everything you need to know about Microsoft...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Selling Through Someone Else tackles new opportunities to drive company growth by taking a fresh look at the customer smart distribution and sales process. The authors, from Accenture, one of the world's largest consulting companies, explain how companies can be smarter about what their customers truly want and maximize the return on investment from all available resources for growth opportunities by exploring creative distribution options, including...
14647) Firefighter exam for dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Product Description: The fast and easy way to score your best on the Firefighter Exam. In addition to physical tests of strength, agility, and coordination, firefighters must also pass a difficult written test that requires serious preparation to fare well, and many applicants fail to succeed. Firefighter Exam For Dummies gives you a complete review of the most commonly tested topics that are typical of firefighter exams given to candidates across...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"At the heart of Portland's red-hot food scene is Toro Bravo, a Spanish-inspired restaurant whose small plates have attracted a fiercely loyal fan base. But to call Toro Bravo a Spanish restaurant doesn't begin to tell the whole story. For chef John Gorham, each dish reflects a time, a place, a moment. For Gorham, food is more than mere sustenance. The Toro Bravo cookbook is an honest look behind the scenes: from Gorham's birth to a teenage mother...
14652) New Deal thought
Series
American heritage volume 70
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed for its encyclopedic coverage, this is the only handbook that synthesizes current knowledge and clinical practices in the fields of both eating disorders and obesity. Like the prior editions, the significantly revised third edition features more than 100 concise, focused chapters with lists of key readings in place of extended references. All aspects of eating disorders and obesity are addressed by foremost clinical researchers: classification,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters that focus on a specific period in the history of the language; they each begin with a discussion of the external history and position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers--hardly immune as a group to the disease--routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor--spread by colonists and Native...
14656) Encyclopedia of islands
Series
Encyclopedias of the natural world volume no. 2
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The authors draw on 50 years of experience, providing detailed step-by-step guidance designed to help students and researchers write and present scientific manuscripts more successfully through knowledge, practice, and an efficient approach."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Everywhere around the world, people make daily decisions about what to wear or how to dress. The Visible Self, 4th Edition, presents a systematic approach to analysing daily rituals that we all share-not simply the act of putting on clothing, but also the method of cleansing the body and adorning it. Using Western and non-Western examples, the authors take a three-pronged approach to understanding dress across cultures, uncovering its relationship...
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