Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice not only resulted in the "li...

“One of the most significant books in my life.” –Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way“Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.” –Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile , Agile Estimating and Planning , and User Stories Applied“. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will s...

Vous rêvez de programmer et ne savez pas par où commencer ? Vous souhaitez vous lancer en douceur, sans zèle ni maux de tête ? Le Programmeur pragmatique est fait pour vous. Il se démarque par son approche holistique, synthétique et accessible. Le principe : développer une culture du bon sens et de l'esprit critique, clé du talent des programmeurs, en alliant méthodologie, exemples concrets, outils et astuces techniques.Un ouvrage évolutif qui vous accompagnera tout au long de votr...

This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects, it is full of sound, practical advice about planning and carrying out a successful digitisation project in potentially challenging conditions.From establishing the scope of the project, via practical considerations about equipment, work routines, staffing, and negotiating local politi...

What others in the trenches say about The Pragmatic Programmer...“The cool thing about this book is that it’s great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there.”—Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change“I found this book to be a great mix of solid advice and wonderful analogies!”—Martin ...

要成為卓越的領導人，不只要才智出眾，更要具備「情緒智慧」！暢銷書《EQ》作者丹尼爾．高曼發現，要展現傑出的領導力，情緒智慧的重要性，是其他能力的兩倍。而且，情緒智慧不只對領導人有決定性的影響，對各個層級、各種職務的人來說，也都極為重要。可以說，不管你再聰明、再能幹，都只具備了基本條件，唯有情緒智慧，才是你縱橫職場的必備利器。本書以「情緒智慧」為主題，假如你從未涉獵任何教人在職場上、在管理上善用情緒智慧的著作，就從讀這本書開始吧！本書的十篇文章，都是從全球頂尖管理雜誌《哈佛商業評論》中，依此主題嚴選出來的作品，篇篇都是經得起千錘百鍊的經典文章，幫助你提高社交技能與情緒技能，進而為你打造專業上、事業上的成功。▸本書特色◂本書提出以下的見解與建議，激發讀者鍛鍊「情緒智慧」，並有效應用：．管理並引導你的心情和情緒．做出聰明、有同理心的人事決定．管理團隊的衝突、控制團隊的情緒．以復原力挺過嚴...

Orlando Pearson takes up his pen once more to give us six more accounts of how Sherlock Holmes altered the course of history.- Alma takes Holmes and Watson to Vienna where they meet a famous musician and his famous wife;- The Tsar, the Pince-Nez, and the Six-Foot Scowl is the final resolution of The Golden Pince-Nez plus a petition from Sergei Rachmaninov,- The Queen, the Dame, and the Left-Footer sees encounters with three famous women of Holmes's time;- In The Bohemian Corporal, Homes an...

By This SignThis is the sign of life and death. Beginning and the end. Alpha and omega. Now—it's the only way you will ever get home again. Let the adventure begin.The Princess and the Pauper by Shannon D. PearsonAfter being ignored, Jamila breaks off her engagement with Karsten. Will their relationship survive the trials of medieval England?Faith and Family by Terri WaltersAs Faith sorts through...

In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, later serving as president of its General Assembly. He put Canada on the world stage when he won...

This evolving story includes reexamining the ancestral background of Wilmer Pearson who married Amy Whitlatch. One has to keep reading it until the end as the actual ancestry has so many twists that even the ending brings out an unexpected surprise. In the previous book, we discovered a big surprise in that Wilmer's direct male ancestor wasn't from England but was a Delaware Native adopted by a Quaker family. To imagine there might be even more to be revealed is an understatement.T...

The Grand Game by B.M. StevensonThe love of her life has gone missing, and double agent Rose Travers must employ all her skills in espionage to find him. But D-Day is fast approaching, demanding all her attention. Will this war make her choose between the good of one and the good of many?The End is Not the End by Robert Andrew StevensonBrothers Eugene and Henry have been thick as thieves since childhood. But growing up means facing new challenges around every corner...