A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him, and what they can teach us about listening, healing, and public health.For over three decades, Dr. Dean-David Schillinger has served in one of the country’s busiest and most important public hospitals. A public health leader and primary care physician for underserved patients, Schillinger learned that high-tech tests and novel medications are often not enough to save lives. Rather, accurate diagnosis, ...

A novel that explores the messiness of life through the journey and relationship of a father and his young daughter. A story that traverses many topics that challenge society, but are qiute often washed over and not exlpored as they should be. A a reader, be brave and follow their journey, through a second person narrative and the you.

A Century Foundation BookIn A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government. The authors draw on their own s...

This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and the product of still unequalled research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound meditation, James Dean: The Mutant King

A candid memoir of the past eighty years in American politics, as told by the longest-serving congressman in historyCongressman John D. Dingell first came to Washington, DC, in 1933 at the age of six, when his father was elected to the Congress, and became a House page boy at eleven. Dingell has devoted his entire life to public service and has witnessed and helped shape most of the important political events that profoundly changed America over the last nine decad...

A WWII history told from US and Japanese perspectives—"an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima" ( Publishers Weekly).During the closing months of World War II, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. While developing history's deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day, the US called for the "unconditional surren...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.Here are the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history’s first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the real...

Are you feeling scattered and unfocused? Is your mind constantly racing with thoughts? If you're looking for some peace of mind, this audiobook is for you.In Simple Solutions, you'll learn about different techniques for quieting your mind and focusing your attention on the present moment. You'll also learn how to get rid of distractions so you can focus on the task at hand. Once you're able to focus on what you're doing, you'll feel much more relaxed and in tune with your ...

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of the bestselling What Really Works in Inclusive Education focuses on more than 32 specific, evidence-based teaching strategies for addressing the needs of diverse learners. A significant revision with nine new chapters, this edition takes a whole-child approach to inclusive education. It is a book for all educators of all learners.The strategies are based on high-quality research drawn from a range of countries and have a str...

Cette BD explore avec humour et érudition cinq siècles d’histoire des cocktails, de leurs origines aux créations modernes. David Wondrich, expert mondialement reconnu en mixologie, mêle anecdotes historiques, recettes emblématiques et récits captivants sur les figures et lieux mythiques du monde des boissons. Les illustrations de Dean Kotz, au style comics vif et coloré, rendent cette exploration visuelle et immersive, plongeant le lecteur dans les bars de Paris, Cuba, New York et bien d’a...

This book outlines a Catholic moral theology in response to pressing moral issues.Catholic positions on contested moral issues are rejected by the majority in the secular West and are increasingly rejected by Catholics themselves. In this book, David Deane argues that there are two main reasons for this. First, the dominance of secular approaches deprives Catholic positions of their claim to coherence. Second, the Catholic positions, Deane shows, have lost contact ...

Every organization has two versions of itself. There's the documented one — the processes, the org charts, the goals and values that make up the official story. Then there's the way things actually work. The workarounds people build because the real process doesn't fit. The spreadsheets no one asked for but everyone depends on. The conversations where someone finally says what they actually need.That second version has always been there. It's how businesses actually run. And AI is ...