Archway publishing feb 2011 (9 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - If you want to improve quality, save money and provide better services to your customers, this book is for you.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Random Contents:Common Sense, Manifest Destiny, Pig War, Newberg Conspiracy, Nullification Theory, Patrick Henry, Palin's Future, Global Economy, Isolationism, Alexis de Tocqueville,Line Item Veto, Laissez Faire, Manifest Destiny, Baseball, Petticoat Affair, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Electoral College, Haymarket Riot, Term Limits, Uncle Sam Alexander Hamilton, Ground Zero, John C. Calhoun, Pledge to America,Martin Van Buren, KKK, John Dickinson, Thomas Nast, Parliament, Teddy Bear,James Otis, Immigration, Silent Cal, Gulf of Tonkin, Nathan Hale, Corrupt Bargain, Recall, Ben Franklin, Slavery, Watergate, Paul Revere, Muslims, Emancipation Proclamation, John Marshall, Nisei, Tea Party, Domino Theory, Aaron Burr, Prayer in School, Robert E. Lee, Robber Barons, Checks and Balances, Great Society, Outsourcing, Know Nothing Party, Thomas Paine, Tariff of Abominations, Frances Perkins, Bleeding Kansas, Tippecanoe, Dixiecrats, Andrew Carnegie, Reaganomics, Little Rock, John Brown, Bracero Program, Victory Gardens, Eli Whitney, al-Qaeda, SAC, Isolationism, Jefferson Davis, Square Deal, Herbert Hoover, Patriot Act, Confederation, Federalism.After reading the random contents one can see the variety of the topics covered. I conclude the book with 5 major recommendations for the improvement of American politics. Read these and decide if they would also be yours. Read the rankings of the Presidents as for their beliefs and actions in Federalism or Confederation.What do you think was the biggest waste of time, the invention that most changed mankind, the worst vote in History, the worst legislation, the most important message, the most patriotic American, the biggest question in History, the simplest invention that caused the biggest change, the biggest question in American history and the biggest mistake that turned out to be the greatest fortune for the United States and who was the first to use the phrase the United States of America.Alexis de Tocqueville said,' The will of the nation is one of those phrases which have been most largely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.'So do we govern by elections or by opinion polls Read the book to find out. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Hidden in a theater's orchestra-level wall is the pass door. Step through it, and you will enter the backstage area, but beware, once you enter, you will encounter the realities dwelling in the kingdom of make-believe. In this seriocomical look at life, with a who's who in the theater during the 1960s and 70s, attend the final days of the Golden Age of Theater and the beginnings of its new sounds - Hair and Company. You will read about Carol Channing prior to her acclaim in Hello, Dolly! Liza Minnelli's stage debut and Judy Garland's final stage appearance. Be a spectator during Hair's first year. Reach for something other than a glass of Remy Martin as you watch cognac shatter a relationship with Maggie Smith. Observe a coterie of distinguished Broadwayites destroy a gift from the United States Government. Be a witness to Deborah Kerr's strength knowing that she's in a failed play, and Billy Dee Williams, the then hot-hunk with the chiseled body, take on the role of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Also appearing (in order of appearance) are Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Cook, Stan Getz, Ethel Merman, Fred Astaire, Elaine Stritch, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, James Baldwin, Kim Stanley, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Fidel Castro, Doris Day, and Mae West. Fly to 1960s Havana; drive through France; experience the London of 1974, and visit Venice Beach, CA before it became an in-place. You'll see reality warp into illusion, then comprehend how a young boy, whose own family turned to illusion during World War II, spiraled to drugs and alcohol at adulthood. You'll also view that young gay man, who ignored reality in favor of illusion, immerse himself into a dark hole whose force of gravity was so intense that escape seemed improbable.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Morgan Cole is as egotistical as they come. A successful businessman obsessed with power, Cole is accustomed to using whatever methods he likes to get what he wants. But as middle age and disillusionment begin to close in on him, Cole needs a way out. He finds his salvation in a revolutionary new company, KORE Industries, which offers to perform a body switch on the businessman. Cole's mind and memories will be put into a younger body of his choosing, and a highly intelligent robot will be placed into his old body to keep up the appearance that Cole never left. To complete the body switch, KORE Industries chooses a revolutionary Computerized Soul by the name of Jared to occupy Cole's body while Cole is away. Cole vanishes into a life of anonymity, while Jared is left to wrestle with Cole's unraveling life. Despite Jared's best efforts, complications arise when his conscience conflicts with the callous lifestyle he is supposed to lead. As everything begins to spin out of control, Jared is faced with an impossible decision: to play things safe and ignore the consequences, or to risk his own existence in a wild gamble to set things right again.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The book is about the absolute. What would reality be if you had the opportunity to do whatever you wished, with only one stipulation. The prerequisite that you had to accept responsibility for all of your actions, would it really be any different than the reality you experience now The story relates the effects of massive rationalizations that befall us all, regardless of the circumstances, it flows from the ridiculous, to the demonic, and asks the one unavoidable question, where am I, and how the hell did I get here All of the players find themselves rolling the proverbial blind dice, and then making a random, disconnected choice based on serendipity, even the given reality is a juxtaposition between oblivion and the unknown. It's all about, ' The Danger in Being,' choices, and the slings and arrows that inevitably follow.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Jim Icarus is a handsome twenty-two year old who is invited to trek to the base camp of Mount Everest by his Dad, Alex. His adventures start by saving a boy from a burning helicopter. He falls in love with Charley, a pretty emergency physician. She helps resuscitate his Dad who succumbs to high altitude mountain sickness in Dingboche, Nepal. By luck a working group who has spent the summer and fall cleaning the trash from the base camp of Mount Everest is camped a few hundred yards from Jim's trekking party when his Dad goes into high altitude cerebral edema. Their Gamow hyperbaric bag is successful in resuscitating his Dad out of coma, but unfortunately Alex slips back into coma. Good fortune smiles again when a French physician from the High Altitude Mountain Rescue clinic in Pheriche arrives with her Jacque Cousteau designed hyperbaric chamber that will pressure the victim down to sea level. An injection of Niphedapine under Alex's tongue and a dive in the Cousteau bag brings Alex out of his coma once again. Alex survives a trip to a lower altitude on a makeshift stretcher with oxygen flowing, but is in poor condition. Only a daring helicopter rescue offers any hope, but leaves Jim wondering about the fate of his Dad. The rest of the trekking party marches up the trail and eventually five members summit Kala Patthar, but not without another high altitude sickness casualty. Meanwhile, Jim hurries down the mountain only to have to wait in Lukla for a flight back to Kathmandu. Alex recovers unbeknownst to Jim and sight sees around Kathmandu. Charley transports the other coma patient by rescue helicopter, but never quite hooks up with Jim. Jim finally meets his Dad and they recount the events that nearly melted their wings.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - While out riding his motorcycle Stephen Paterson witnesses a fatal motoring accident in which the motorist is killed and a motorcyclist is seriously injured. This incident sets in motion a series of developments which completely change the lives not only of Stephen himself but also of the injured motorcyclist and all his friends. Because of a heavy blizzard he offers four of the friends overnight accommodation in his home. During that night he learns of the tragedy in the early life of the injured motorcycle, of two tragedies in the developing years of another of the friends. He also learns how that friend became the life partner of the injured motorcyclist. During the overnight stay Stephen learns they are all gay, part of a group of gay motorcyclists. To Lay a Ghost - Trigger is a romance, an old-fashioned concept but set in modern times at the turn of the 20th century.…