David M : 1401 books
Scrolling Forward
Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.
We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds-letters and credit card receipts, business...
Best Care, Best Future:
A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**ACHE’s 2015 JAMES A. HAMILTON BOOK OF THE YEAR.** Finally there is a book for healthcare leaders that only comes along once in a generation. Dr. David Lawrence shares with the readers his vast experience in leading the largest non-profit health system in the country. He describes what a...
Physics for Game Developers
Science, math, and code for realistic effects
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
If you want to enrich your game’s experience with physics-based realism, the expanded edition of this classic book details physics principles applicable to game development. You’ll learn about collisions, explosions, sound, projectiles, and other effects used in games on Wii, PlayStation, Xbox,...
Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways,...
The Ironic Defense of Socrates
Plato's Apology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
This book offers a controversial interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates. By paying unusually close attention to what Socrates indicates about the meaning and extent of his irony, David Leibowitz arrives at unconventional conclusions about Socrates' teaching on virtue, politics, and the gods;...
Polio:An American Story
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and...
by David M. Ryfe
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means.
In this much-needed new book, leading scholar David...
Counseling Research
A Practitioner-Scholar Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This introductory text for counselors-in-training and emerging researchers focuses on research methodology, design, measurement, and evaluation. Richard Balkin and David Kleist explain the primary research methods used in counseling while emphasizing the importance of ethics and multicultural issues,...
The Unexpected Scalia
A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Antonin Scalia was one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Justices in the past century. His endorsements of originalism, which requires deciding cases as they would have been decided in 1789, and textualism, which limits judges in what they could consider in interpreting text, caused...
by David M. Kipping
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of an "exomoon" is notably absent.
In this thesis, David Kipping shows how transiting planets may be...
by David M. Pariser, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Topics in this issue of Dermatologic Clinics include: Incidence and prevalence; Impact on quality of life; Special considerations of hyperhidrosis in children; Topical therapies; Iontophoresis; Botox for axillary hyperhidrosis; Botox for palmar/plantar hyperhidrosis; Botox for other hyperhidrosis;...
Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive, 2nd Edition
Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
While PowerPoint affords powerful capabilities for creating dynamic classroom lessons and enriching curriculum, few educators understand how to take advantage of these built-in features. The second edition of this practical guide helps educators produce creative multimedia material for their students,...
The Transportation Experience
Policy, Planning, and Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies,...
Why Conservatives Tell Stories and Liberals Don't
Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Why do conservatives tell stories? Because it helps them win elections and assail liberal policies like health care reform and economic stimulus. "Why" is important, but the "what" and the "how" behind the stories that conservatives tell are equally interesting, and in...