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Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World by Philip Hatfield, Philip J. Hatfield Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World by Philip Hatfield, Philip J. Hatfield PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The 2014 discovery of HMS Erebus - a ship lost during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage - reignited popular, economic, and political interest in the Arctic’s exploration, history, anthropology, and historical geography. Lines in the Ice investigates the allure of the North through topographical views, maps, explorers’ diaries, and historic photographs. Following the course of major journeys to the Arctic, including those of Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, and John Franklin, Philip Hatfield assesses the impact of these incursions on the North’s numerous indigenous communities and reveals the role of exploration in making the modern world. Besides detailing the area’s vivid history, Lines in the Ice also focuses on beautiful works created over the last 50...

Design for Six Sigma for Service (Six SIGMA Operational Methods) by Kai Yang Design for Six Sigma for Service (Six SIGMA Operational Methods) by Kai Yang PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The primary objective of this new book is to provide a comprehensive reference for those who work in a service industry setting. Unlike Design for Six Sigma a Roadmap for Product Development, this new book will address the 5 leading issues in the service industry, which are customer satisfaction, cost reduction, value improvement, change management and process performance measurements. From reader reviews: Loretta Tellis: What do you in relation to book? It is not important with you? Or just adding material when you really need something to explain what the one you have problem? How about your spare time? Or are you busy man or woman? If you don't have spare time to perform others business, it is make one feel bored faster. And you have spare time? What did you do? Everybody has many questions above. They ...

Enterprise Architecture A to Z: Frameworks, Business Process Modeling, SOA, and Infrastructure Technology by Daniel Minoli Enterprise Architecture A to Z: Frameworks, Business Process Modeling, SOA, and Infrastructure Technology by Daniel Minoli PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Driven by the need and desire to reduce costs, organizations are faced with a set of decisions that require analytical scrutiny. Enterprise Architecture A to Z: Frameworks, Business Process Modeling, SOA, and Infrastructure Technology examines cost-saving trends in architecture planning, administration, and management. To establish a framework for discussion, this book begins by evaluating the role of Enterprise Architecture Planning and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) modeling. It provides an extensive review of the most widely deployed architecture framework models. In particular, the book discusses The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and the Zachman Architectural Framework (ZAF) in detail, as well ...

What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences. Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200l—and an eerie prediction of the invasion of Iraq—and picks up on September 12, with an account of downtown Manhattan, where Weinberger lives, on the "day after." With wit and anger, and sometimes startling prescience, What Happened Here takes us through the first term of the "Bush junta": the deep history of the neoconservative "sleeper cell," the invention of the War on Terror, ...

Iris & Lily: Book Two by Angela and Julie Scipioni Iris & Lily: Book Two by Angela and Julie Scipioni PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In Book Two, the demands of marriage come crashing down on Iris and Lily, now living thousands of miles apart, both determined to gain the love and approval of their husbands and acquired families. The fairy-tale life Iris imagined herself living in Italy is abruptly put into focus by her over-protective husband, the respected anesthesiologist Gregorio Leale. Dottor Leale does not take kindly to alternative viewpoints or challenges to his authority, and is disturbed by displays of spontaneity and individualism, stifling Iris’s budding sensuality and dampening her innate enthusiasm. Lily’s circumstances as Mrs. Joe Diotallevi are even more daunting, as she struggles to comprehend the peculiar dynamic of the close-knit Diotallevi tribe and its protectionist politics. Traditional values distorted by ignorance dictate the simplistic rules of existence whi...

Those Who Run (The Zelena Willis Trilogy) (Volume 1) by David J. Murphy Those Who Run (The Zelena Willis Trilogy) (Volume 1) by David J. Murphy PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad An intriguing...thriller with a spunky but gold-hearted heroine, a cast of supportive, decent friends, and the twin backdrops of a mysterious criminal enterprise and abusive family members. (Kirkus Reviews) Fleeing an abusive father, Zelena Willis hops a bus and begins a harrowing odyssey that takes her from Atlanta to Seattle and back home. Three years on the run teach her she has to grow a tough exterior to survive. She finds herself trapped between men out west who would kill her and a father back home who would beat her. Once home, dangers still dog her steps, but she finds a friend in Rick Houck and another in his buddy Garrett. Together the three take on a lethal crime syndicate in a murky underworld, a world from which only native courage and gutsy wiles can save them. From reader reviews: Hannelore Evans: Book ...

Essentials of Nurse Anesthesia by Laura Wild McIntosh Essentials of Nurse Anesthesia by Laura Wild McIntosh PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This comprehensive review text is designed for students and practicing nurse anesthetists studying for certification and recertification exams. It is based on the content outline for the licensing exams and is written exclusively by certified nurse anesthetists. Its perspective includes all the specific and special considerations necessary for the nurse anesthetists, as well as a solid general review of anesthesia. From reader reviews: Louis Chavez: This Essentials of Nurse Anesthesia are reliable for you who want to be considered a successful person, why. The key reason why of this Essentials of Nurse Anesthesia can be on the list of great books you must have is actually giving you more than just simple examining food but feed a person with information that might be will shock your earlier knowledge. This book will be handy, you can bring it all over the...

Home by Nightfall: A Charles Lenox Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries) by Charles Finch Home by Nightfall: A Charles Lenox Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries) by Charles Finch PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for the quieter country life of his boyhood. Or so he thinks. Something strange is afoot in Markethouse: small thefts, books, blankets, animals, and more alarmingly a break-in at the house of a local insurance agent. As he and his brother investigate this accumulation of mysteries, Lenox realizes that something very strange and serious indeed may be happening, more than just local mischi...

The Upstairs Room (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Johanna Reiss The Upstairs Room (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Johanna Reiss PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this Newbery Honor book, Reiss writes a stirring, fictionalized account of her own experiences as a Jewish girl during World War II. From reader reviews: Jamie Gregory: What do you about book? It is not important along? Or just adding material when you really need something to explain what yours problem? How about your free time? Or are you busy person? If you don't have spare time to accomplish others business, it is give you a sense of feeling bored faster. And you have extra time? What did you do? Everyone has many questions above. They have to answer that question because just their can do which. It said that about book. Book is familiar in each person. Yes, it is right. Because start from on guardería until university need that The Upstairs Roo...

Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City by Angela Lehmann Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City by Angela Lehmann PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Increasing numbers of people from the developed West are deciding to live and work in the rapidly developing economies of Asia. Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City is one of the first book length studies of a contemporary community of expatriates living in China. The author weaves thick ethnographic data with classical and contemporary sociological theory to explore what is happening to notions of identity and belonging for skilled transnational workers as they move through urban environments perceived as very different from their homes. This book follows the journeys of people from Western nations living in a second-tier Chinese city and examines how status, gender, race and nationality are constructed around moral discourses of 'home'. Transnational Lives...

Measurement in Nursing and Health Research: Fourth Edition (Waltz, Measurement in Nursing and Health Research) by Dr. Carolyn Waltz, Dr. Ora Lea Strickland, Dr. Elizabeth Lenz Measurement in Nursing and Health Research: Fourth Edition (Waltz, Measurement in Nursing and Health Research) by Dr. Carolyn Waltz, Dr. Ora Lea Strickland, Dr. Elizabeth Lenz PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Designated a Doody's Core Title! "This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement. It should be on the bookshelf of all researchers, and a requirement for graduate nursing students." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody's Medical Reviews "...this book is a wonderful shelf reference for nurse researcher mentors and investigators who may need to explore content or use content to design, test, select, and evaluate instruments and methods used in measuring nurse concepts and outcomes."-- Clinical Nurse Specialist This fourth edition presents everything nurse...

Schweizer Terrorjahre: Das geheime Abkommen mit der PLO (German Edition) by Marcel Gyr Schweizer Terrorjahre: Das geheime Abkommen mit der PLO (German Edition) by Marcel Gyr PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 1969 wird in Kloten ein Anschlag auf ein Flugzeug der El Al verübt, 1970 eine Swissair-Coronado über Würenlingen zum Absturz gebracht. Im selben Jahr werden drei Flugzeuge in die jordanische Wüste entführt und in die Luft gesprengt, darunter eine DC-8 der Swissair. Mit spektakulären Terroranschlägen trägt die Palästinensische Befreiungsorganisation (PLO) den Nahostkonflikt nach Europa und in die Schweiz. Die Politik, allen voran der Bundesrat, ist überfordert. Würenlingen ist das grösste Verbrechen in der jüngeren Schweizer Geschichte. Doch es wurde nie aufgeklärt, der Tatverdächtige nie gefasst. Was bisher nicht bekannt war: Ein einzelner Bundesrat führte - ohne Absprache mit seinen Amtskollegen - geheime Gespräche mit der PLO. Ein zweiter bekannter Politiker stellte den Kontakt her. Mit d...

The Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need, Book 1) by Stephen R. Donaldson The Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need, Book 1) by Stephen R. Donaldson PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams , the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . . . The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life—until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wi...