This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is a story about cold war soldiers/warriors using intellect rather than arms to confront the enemy. The enemy being the soviet union and their eastern european subordinates who intended to occupy and rule all of europe.These are the recollections and memories of one of those cold war warriors. He reminisces, as he awaits aboard a troop ship docked in new yorkharbor to muster out of the united states army. H...

A new novel from the award-winning author of An Island Like You, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. While her mother remains on the island, Maria lives with her father, the super of their building. As she struggles to lose her island accent, Maria does her best to find her place within the unfamiliar culture of the barrio. Finall...

This is a story about cold war soldiers/warriors using intellect rather than arms to confront the enemy. The enemy being the soviet union and their eastern european subordinates who intended to occupy and rule all of europe.These are the recollections and memories of one of those cold war warriors. He reminisces, as he awaits aboard a troop ship docked in new yorkharbor to muster out of the united states army. He is returning from germany where he served as...

Six Sigma, finally explained in plain English.If you have ever opened a Six Sigma book and slammed it shut three pages later, buried under Greek letters and jargon, this is the guide you have been waiting for. You do not need a statistics degree, an engineering background, or a corporate training budget to understand one of the most powerful quality and process-improvement methods ever created. You just need it explained clearly, one step at a time.Learn ...

“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet mastered this art,” writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer’s return to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.Cofer’s work has always drawn strength from her life’s contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities and demands of bot...

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

If I Could Fly is a standalone novel based on characters introduced in Judith Ortiz Cofer's bestselling short story collection, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, which won the inaugural Pura Belpré Award.Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Ri...

En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DFASM et les ECNi, cet ouvrage rassemble les connaissances fondamentales en Rhumatologie. Il aborde tous les items relevant de cette spécialité avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis. Il comporte deux parties : • une partie Connaissances composée de 31 chapitres consacrés chacun à un item. Chaque chapitre commence systématiquement par un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques puis développe la thématique. Le contenu, clair et didactique, es...

Jordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely undocumented ways in which she used the Bible as source material for her work. It also shows that, rhetorically, many of O'Connor's stories (and/or characters) are based upon biblical models. Furthermore, Cofer expla...

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

Perspective of the Forgotten is a poetry collection that showcases a mother and son’s journey through life while providing the ups and downs of the world around them.

En parfaite conformité avec le programme de DFASM (diplôme de formation approfondie en sciences médicales) s'inscrivant dans la R2C 2021, cet ouvrage rassemble l'ensemble des connaissances indispensables à acquérir en rhumatologie. Il présente dans le détail les items du programme relevant de cette spécialité, avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis, et comporte deux parties : - une partie Connaissances composée de 30 chapitres commençant systématiquement par un tableau de hiéra...