Jack Colcroft, former Marine, former professor, former war protester, has left a declining America for a comfortably meaningless life on an island paradise, after breaking up with his musician wife, Sally, a leading protestor against the war, and falling out with his late father, a distinguished public servant who was high in the councils waging that war and was defeated by it. Jack’s best friend, Max McKenzie, plagued by his memories of combat in the Vietnam jungle, commits suicide. Stung...

- Aborda temas de actualidad como el papel de la genética y la genómica en la respuesta inmune y las enfermedades inmunológicas, la aterosclerosis, los síndromes febriles recurrentes, en envejecimiento y las deficiencias inmunitarias, el papel de la microbiota en el desarrollo normal del sistema inmunitario y la patogénesis de las enfermedades inmunológicas e inflamatorias o las nuevas terapias. - La estricta organización de los capítulos facilita la comprensión de la información gracias a...

How does a democracy hollow out from within?In Fascists, Not Today: How Executive Power Was Seized, Normalized, and What Happens Next, analytical non-fiction author Harry R. Schroeder delivers a powerful, non-partisan structural analysis of the modern American imperial presidency. Moving far beyond surface-level political theater, Schroeder exposes the systemic design flaws and decades of incremental compromises that transformed a constitutional system mean...

Time is fleeting. Days become months. Months become years. And years turn into decades. Significant moments in our eternity that are marked by love, lust, fashion, and memories, which can never be replaced.Welcome to Devious, Delicious Decades! A collection of stories that span time to entertain you. Set in the past, present, and maybe the future, the SaSS26 anthology will take you on a journey never seen before.

Ökologie anschaulich & verständlich erklärt: Unsere Umwelt ist im Umbruch! Klimawandel & Umweltschutz bewegen die Menschheit wie nie zuvor. Dieses innovative Nachschlagewerk führt mit informativen Diagrammen & originellen Grafiken leicht verständlich in über 90 ökologische Theorien, Bewegungen und Vorgänge ein – von den frühen Evolutionstheorien des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zu den Ökologie-Themen des 21. Jahrhunderts – wie z.B. Was sind die Folgen des Klimawandels? Der neue Titel aus der DK Ku...

The extraordinary breakthrough management program--heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal--that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results.Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms a...

"Wonderfully, in Akashic's Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character--they die brutally. Kudos to the editors, Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, for getting Oakland right. All those outsize statistics don’t reveal a real city, but this collection of local voices--both established and new--brings it thrumming to life...Readers who know the city will relish its sense of place, and those who only know the stereotypes will be in for a p...

This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization—the OSS. At the end of ...

Harris Huxley experiences a disturbing earthquake that leave him questioning his safety only to find out that one of his friend's safety is really at stake. He and the guys hurdle at the chance to help Lena, and together they find a fissure to the past, only to discover that Hilde has fallen into the fissure. Both exhilarating and terrifying, the past is a place of extraordinary experiences. Harris learns new sword skills along with table manners as he maneuvers his way through an amazing ...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

Harris Huxley has been feeling strange. His eye has been twitching and his knee has been jerking at the most inopportune times, and he can't shake the feeling that something big is about to happen. Unexpectedly, Harris finds himself in a place very similar, but completely different. His parents are not at all like his parents, even though they look the same, but most disturbing is that his friends have altogether changed. The kids he detest the most are now his best friends, and his closes...

Offering unique, comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical scenarios, Clinical Immunology: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, brings you up to date with every aspect of this fast-changing field. It examines the molecular, cellular, and immunologic bases of immunologic diseases and their broader systemic implications; it also includes complete coverage of common and uncommon immunologic disorders. Updated with all the latest immunologic research and clinical implications,...