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I asked him, "Are you the angel of death? You must be to keep showing up at these times.” He paused and said, "Let's just say you can think of me as an 'Evolution Angel.'” Todd Michael was the medical director of a level-three trauma center when he had his own brush with death before being saved by the voice of an angel. In this collection of true stories from the emergency room, Dr. Michael relates his experiences with dying patients and ange...

Madeline visits Rome!The Paris skies are gray, so Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls are leaving for brighter weather---spring in Rome. Rome has wonderful sights to see and delicious things to eat, but Madeline also finds an unexpected adventure, involving a thief, a chase, and many, many cats. The first all-new Madeline book in close to fifty years combines a lively story with luminous gouache and watercolor illustrations. Beloved Madeli...

This book is intended to help anyone involved in the executive appointment and termination process.

Read Jonathan Friesen's posts on the Penguin Blog. This Schneider Family Book Award winner changed the face of Tourette's Syndrome for modern teens. Wrought with tension, romance, and hope, Jerk, California tells the story of Sam, who sets out on a cross-country quest to learn the truth about his family and his inherited Tourette's Syndrome, along the way finding both love and acceptance.

For the first time in 25 years, Encyclopedia Brown is back with 10 brand-new cases. Following the classic formula, the book presents 10 separate mysteries, complete with answers that allow the reader to solve the cases along with the Boy Detective. Illustrations.

Explores the newly-revealed set of 406 notebooks which Artaud used in the final years of his life in Paris.

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent the stor...

Les politiques tarifaires relatives aux produits pharmaceutiques sont élaborées en fonction d'objectifs nationaux. Prennent-elles toujours en compte les incidences transnationales ?La formulation des politiques pharmaceutiques soulève des difficultés spécifiques liées à la nécessité de concilier, d'une part, des objectifs essentiels de la politique de santé - garantir l'accessibilité financière des tout derniers médicaments efficaces, par exem...

Die Hochschule der Zukunft ist eine internationale Hochschule. Die Internationalisierung betrifft dabei Studium und Lehre ebenso wie die Forschung. Die zunehmende internationale Mobilität der Studierenden, die wachsende Zahl von internationalen Studiengängen und von Lehrveranstaltungen in englischer Sprache führen dazu, dass die Lehre an Hochschulen immer häufiger unter Bedingungen von Mehrsprachigkeit und Multikulturalität stattfindet. In die...

Die Autorin erzählt von einem Venedig, wie es nicht jeder kennt, vom Venedig des frühen Tages, vom Leben hinter den Touristenpfaden, vom verwunschenen Leben in Palazzi, von versteckten Treffpunkten der Venezianer, vom Leben altertümlicher Gegenstände und ihrem geheimen Verflochtensein mit der eigenen Existenz, vom Leben und den verborgenen Erinnerungen im jüdischen Getto. Dies und die meisterhaften Fotos sind eine Einladung an den Leser, das a...

Trade Paperback. An A-Z guide, containing entertaining asides and background info. The "Cockney Rhyming Slang" book was published in 1971, and has sold more than 300, 000 copies.

In Women Between, Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of four Canadian women - visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs. All four came into prominence in middle age, doing their m

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2008, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2008. The 100 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited talks,  were carefully reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. In addition to the regular papers the volume contains 14 abstracts of papers appearing in full version in the Machine Learni...

Nach der Scheidung seiner Eltern zieht Thorsten in einen neuen, "billigeren" Stadtteil. Die Ereignisse dort scheinen in einer anderen Welt zu spielen. Ein türkischer Kaufmann verschwindet spurlos und auch das Mädchen, das Thorsten kennen lernt, macht ihm ganz schön zu schaffen. Nathalie, die Flitze, fasziniert ihn durch ihr selbstsicheres Auftreten. Doch mit seiner Art - immer bereit zum Rückzug - kommt Thorsten bei ihr nicht weiter ...

Technology And Society Illustrates The Impact Of Technological Change, Both Positive And Negative, On Our World. The Author Looks At How Technology Has Brought Many Positive Advancements To Our Society, And Also Discusses The Significant Repercussions That We Need To Consider. Ideal For Use In Numerous Courses Taught Throughout The Computer Science Curriculum, Technology And Society Will Help Students Turn Outward From Their Technical Studies ...

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field. The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. ...

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, most prolific inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida, not New Jersey, home.

Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories, between narrative and identity in everyday life.

Presenting all of the correspondence to and from Darwin during his journey--observations of his scientific findings and musings on the human condition--offer glimpses of a man who was in turns lonely, witty, depressed, curious, and ambitious. A series of original watercolor paintings from the sketchbook of shipmate Conrad Martens provides vivid firsthand observations.Cambridge

From Anglo-Saxon times, when the missionaries first arrived from Ireland and Rome and erected crosses, through medieval Catholicism and the Reformation, to the uncertain future in the 21st century.