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David Asch

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Are you bewildered by the advanced editing options available in Photoshop Elements? Do you want to get the most out of your image without going bleary-eyed in front of a computer screen?This handy guide will explain the ins and outs of using Photoshop Elements, without having to spend hours staring at the screen. Using a fabulous combination of easy-to-follow advice and step-by-step instructions, Focus On Photoshop Elements gives great advice on setting up, storing and sharing your...

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David Asch

A group of eminent software developers gathered at a Colorado ski lodge in 2001, codifying The Agile Manifesto, a philosophy for efficiently accomplishing technical work. In this accessible, real-world-example-laden, and unexpectedly entertaining book, The Agile Enterprise explains how to apply The Agile Manifesto's ideas company-wide.The wisdom imparted in The Agile Enterprise teaches students to decompose large problems into manageable chunks, helps managers fin...

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Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Elysa R. Koppelman, Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, Scott D. Halpern, Frank C. Chaten, Winston Chiong, David Magnus, Ben S. Wilfond, Karol Wojtyła, D. Alan Shewmon, James L. Bernat, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Kristin Zeiler, Elisabeth Furberg, Gunnar Tufveson, Staffen Welin, Alexander M. Capron, Richard M. Zaner, Canadian Paediatric Society, Daniel P. Reid, Ahad J. Ghods, Shokoufeh Savaj, Amelie Raz, Rachel Kohn, Michael Rey, David A. Asch, Peter Reese, Sheila M. Rothman, David J. Rothman, Leigh Turner, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Alan B. Leichtman, David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Robert Fitzgerald, Kyle Powys Whyte, Evan Selinger, Jathan Sadowski, Ian Kennedy, Robert A. Sells, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttmann, Raymond Hoffenberg, Michael Lock, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Nicholas L. Tilney, Sahin Aksoy, Jennifer A. Chandler, Jacquelyn A. Burkell, Sam D. Shemie, Barbara L. Neades, David Serur, Michael R. Charlton, Charles Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin Elliot Roth, Michael A. Rees, Kristina Fiore, Francis L. Delmonico, Rosamond Rhodes, Thomas D. Schiano, Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani, Janis M. Orlowski, Jennifer deSante

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; ...

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Glenn Asch, David Reiner

For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from jug band to jazzgrass, from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuf...

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Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove

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David Sadzin

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But DC is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chri...

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Mark Pauly, Flaura Winston, Mary Naylor, Kevin Volpp, Lawton Robert Burns, Ralph Muller, David Asch, Rachel Werner, Bimal Desai, Krisda Chaiyachati, Benjamin Chartock

Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access, and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how patients can be in control, how providers should be paid, and how disparities can be reduced – and ...

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Jeremy Sugarman, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Ruth Faden, Alison Boyce, David DeGrazia, Tom L. Beauchamp, Diego Gracia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Albert R. Jonsen, Mark A. Hall, Nancy M.P. King, Susan E. Lederer, Tod Chambers, Raymond DeVries, Holly A. Taylor, Sara Chandros Hull, Nancy E. Kass, Patricia A. Marshall, Barbara A. Koenig, Robert A. Pearlman, Helene E. Starks, Marion Danis, Laura Hanson, Joanne M. Garrett, David A. Asch

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly revised and updated chapters in this second edition include philosophy, religion and ...

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Ibram X. Kendi

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Avery Kidd Waddell

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power ove...

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Steve Houseworth PhD PMP

Insurance/Financial IT executive says: you clearly paint what success looks like and call out solid characteristics of structure/rigor within the discipline. VP of Technology at digital publisher says: I have found this book to be a valuable resource as Dr. Houseworth has made the complex subject of project management very approachable. His many examples, slogans and other techniques help the reader quickly grasp and remember key project management concepts. Throughout the book Dr. Housewo...

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Philip Small

Set Your Business Up For Success With Lean Analytics - Here'sHow!Do you want your customers to LOVE your products and services?Do you want to achieve your business goals with maximal success and minimal costs?Do you want to help your startup grow with smart and innovative business strategies?For this, you need to measure what matters - you need Lean Analytics.You may have heard the word Lean before - after all, this p...

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Glenn McGee

How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, pra...

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Tony Adams

Architecting and Orchestrating Agile focuses not only on the day to day agile activities and people interaction, but also focuses on the designing aspects of Agile. And it starts with Program and Portfolio stakeholders alignment of strategic themes, driving clarity with business and architectural Epics and how that fits down to program and team level tactical planning. The leadership must make sure that the technology team understands the business value of a product feature and do anything...