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Thomas Powell

American healthcare has a serious illness masquerading as a technology problem and Thomas Powell, MD, MS has spent decades as a physician, chief medical information officer, and consultant watching it deteriorate from inside the system where the decisions are made. The symptoms can be seen all around us: healthcare spending and cost, quality, safety, burnout, and low patient satisfaction with the product.THE DIAGNOSTICIAN applies the oldest tool in medicine, the di...

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Thomas Powell

The Definitive Guide to HTML & CSS--Fully UpdatedWritten by a Web development expert, the fifth edition of this trusted resource has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to address HTML5, the revolutionary new Web standard. The book covers all the elements supported in today's Web browsers--from the standard (X)HTML tags to the archaic and proprietary tags that may be encountered.HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition contains full details o...

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Thomas Powell, Fritz Schneider

This fully updated definitive JavaScript guide covers the latest features—including its uses in Ajax and HTML5-based Web applicationsJavaScript: The Complete Reference, Third Edition is completely revised to cover the newest changes to JavaScript up to version 1.9, the latest browser-specific features for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well popular JavaScript frameworks like jQuery. All examples presented focus on the emergence of HTML5 and its various APIs i...

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Thomas A. Powell

The Definitive Guide to HTML & CSS--Fully UpdatedWritten by a Web development expert, the fifth edition of this trusted resource has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to address HTML5, the revolutionary new Web standard. The book covers all the elements supported in today's Web browsers--from the standard (X)HTML tags to the archaic and proprietary tags that may be encountered.HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition contains full details on CSS 2....

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Thomas A. Powell

Construct awesome Web pages using HTML, XHTML, XML, basic JavaScript, both CSS (style sheet) specifications, and DHTML. This thorough resource provides explanations of why tags work as they do, rather than just giving basic descriptions of them. Plus, use a companion Web site that features layout examples and allows visitors to sample HTML for their own uses.

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Andrew Powell-Thomas

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50 Gems

The largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey is a self-governing dependency of the British Crown. It has retained its special identity through the centuries with many historic buildings, both in the capital St Helier and spread through the rest of the island, and rural and agricultural areas alongside more modern developments. The coastline to the south of the island boasts sandy bays while to the north the coast is distinguished by large cliffs.50 Gems of Jersey explores the many pl...

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Thomas A. Powell

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The Complete Reference

The Definitive Guide to Ajax Web Application DevelopmentEvolve from the click-and-wait programming pattern to the latest Web 2.0 paradigm using this comprehensive guide to Ajax. Written by Web development expert Thomas Powell, the book lays out every feature of Ajax alongside detailed explanations and real-world code examples.Ajax: The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object a...

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Thomas Canavan, Marc Powell, Anne Rooney, William Potter

Do you grow taller in space? Can you hammer in a nail with a banana? Which animal has attractive farts?Packed with 513 questions and answers, young readers can discover amazing, shocking and totally gross facts all about animals science, space, and the human body in this entertaining book.Featuring laugh-out-loud illustrations, this awesome and accessible fact book will amaze and delight readers young and old. Perfect for curious kids aged 7+

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Andrew Powell-Thomas

Perfect for reading aloud, this collection of colour poems is sure to grab the attention and inspire any young reader to explore their own world of colour. Using rhyme, metaphor, similes, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration, they look at the role that colour plays in our lives and are an excellent resource for teaching poetry.Colour plays an important part in all our lives but is so much more than simply the shade of a physical object. Colour can describe our inner most ...

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Andrew Powell-Thomas

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Military Heritage

The Channel Islands, self-governing British Crown dependencies lying o the coast of Normandy in France, have a fascinating military heritage. Jersey and Guernsey are the two largest islands, but other inhabited islands include Alderney, Sark and Herm. Open to invaders, including the Vikings, the islands passed to Norman control in the ninth century. Although King John lost all his mainland Normandy possessions, he retained the islands, which became an important strategic stronghold, heavil...

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L. Ron Hubbard, Orson Scott Card, Nina Kirki Hoffman, Brian C. Hailes, Larry Niven, Ciruelo, Thomas R. Eggenberger, Dorothy de Kok, Michael T. Kuester, Elina Kumra, Mark McWaters, Brenda Posey, Zach Poulter, Kathleen Powell, Joseph Sidari, Thomas K. Slee, S.J. Stevenson, Mike Strickland

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Writers of the Future

The Future Is Here.“The series successfully showcases future voices representing the vast spectrum of the speculative fiction genre.” —Library Journal“The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has quietly been shaping the next wave of genre storytellers—with a legacy that’s as cosmic as the stories themselves.” —SciFiNow.co.uk“The gangbuster of science fiction short story collections. Outstanding.” —Midwest Book Review

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Andrew Powell-Thomas

The story of Scotland’s castles is woven into the history of the country. These formidable structures have guarded the landscape since medieval times, and many of these structures are famous emblems of Scotland today. The royal castles in the strategically important cities of Edinburgh and Stirling still dominate their surroundings, but many others stand proud in more remote areas, often by lochs or the sea, on islands or in the mountains. Many simpler fortified structures were built along...