As more and more companies allow their employees to work from home, the need for setting up a home office will increase. However, setting up a home office is much more than just hooking-up your PC to a modem. In the past 4 years, the home-office furniture business has jumped up 31% to $2.5 billion, and computer and related hardware sales continue to skyrocket as more and more people plug-in. This book will walk you through the steps of determining what type of home office will suit you best, choosing the type of equipment required (including types of Internet access), determining the set-up of the office to allow for cost and space efficiency, and keeping the office running smoothly.
Considering the bold aspirations for the future outlined at the beginning of the 21st century by the United Nations, formulated as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), this book looks at which promises have been kept. The original goal for the achievement of the MDGs was 2015, yet as that year looms before us, it is increasingly clear that there is still a long way to go. Undaunted and writing from her own Christian perspective, Barbara Butler uses stories, poems, images and points of reflection from other world faiths to urge us not to become complacent in our efforts.
The major fears students have regarding the study of anatomy and physiology involve the concern over memorizing terms and disconnect between the content and its relation to clinical applications. What if you could take the course over one semester without the pressure of memorizing and in an open book format? An inquiry approach to anatomy and physiology is the book for you. Consider the forty-year-old female patient that you are assessing in the emergency room. The patient states she spilled a pot of boiling water on her left hand one hour ago. The tissue is differentiated according to location. Some parts are red, some have the beginning of blister formation, and the center of the burn reveals muscle tissue. Most of the pain is centered on the edges rather than the center of the burn where it is the most exposed. 1. What type of burn is this: fi rst, second or third degree 2. Will the healing process be quick or long-term? 3. What is the direction of this amount of the healing process in the skin? 4. Why is pain most pronounced at the edges of the burn area?
Walking with God is a diary heralding God?s love, patience, guidance, training, and victory?from conversion through maturity. It deals with issues of being obedient, submitting to His will, waiting on Him, and learning to follow, as well as coping with and overcoming loss. It comprises four sections:??Painfully Single? elucidates errors we all make, but with victory;??Obedience?Saudi Arabia, Are You Kidding?? is a story all its own;??God?s Gift?Ted, My Friend? highlights the benefits of waiting for God?s choice and rules in marriage; and??Single Again? depicts victory in accepting God?s will in life.
In this one-of-a-kind volume, museum staff and social scientists begin to explore the many facets of the relationship between museums and families. They examine the museum's importance to the family as a source for socialization and learning. At the heart of this exciting book is a concentration on developing programs of experiential learning and knowledge building that will assist families in understanding their history and culture.
Unbelievable! A petite, eighty plus-year-old woman is able to control and throw large men. Aikido for Women spills the secret any woman, regardless of age and size, will find useful to protect and defend herself against various types of attacks.
For religion to work today there must be an awareness of the profound mystery and wonder of life, combined with an awareness of the practical and everyday living. This book discusses how the holiness, mystery and fascination with the divine can be encountered through spirituality.
Bat biologist Barbara A. Schmidt-French and writer Carol A. Butler offer a compendium of insightful facts about bats in this accessible and expertly written question-and-answer volume. Numbering more than one thousand species in our world today, bats in the wild are generally unthreatening. Like most other mammals, bats are curious, affectionate, and even playful with one another. Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and public health. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove of fascinating facts. Featuring rare color and black-and-white photographs, including some by renowned biologist, photographer, and author Merlin Tuttle, Do Bats Drink Blood? provides a comprehensive resource for general readers, students, teachers, zoo and museum enthusiasts, farmers and orchardists, or anyone who may encounter or be fascinated by these extraordinary animals.
No thorough comparison has been made of the systems of the two versions of A Vision and, until quite recently, almost no consideration has been given to the fiction and introductory essays. The purpose of this study is to trace the evolution of A Vision and to attempt a re-evaluation of it as a work of art.
The ultimate resource for planning, implementing, and troubleshooting a Y2K strategy on a tight schedule, this book contains a "do it now" checklist and a "day-after triage plan." Readers will understand the impact of Y2K on computers the technological infrastructure, and society and learn about the global issues and impact of Y2K.
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media regarding portrayals of women, across genres and cultures within the twenty-first century. Blending both original studies and descriptive overviews of current media platforms, top scholars evaluate the portrayals of women in contemporary venues, including advertisements, videogames, political stories, health communication, and reality television.
A wide-ranging and comprehensive resource which informs, instructs and inspires those looking to take on the spiritual, mental and physical challenge of pilgrimage, both in its traditional sense of a journey to a sacred place, and also in the broader sense of retreats, exposure to new ideas, people and cultures and the pilgrimage of life itself.
The Museum Experience is now available by regions of the country! This practical handbook will enrich your museum visits, providing everything from a primer on museum etiquette to preparation tips on how to make the visit more constructive. Individual museums within the region are discussed including a review of its background, collection, and highlights. A handy appendix lists by state prominent museums throughout the U.S.
In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was Mary Shelley and Her Circle, published here for the first time. Shelley was thus the subject for Johnson's beginning in feminist criticism and also for her end. It is surprising to recall that when Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley's novels were in print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous husband's. Inspired by groundbreaking feminist scholarship of the seventies, Johnson came to pen yet more essays on Shelley over the course of a brilliant but tragically foreshortened career. So much of what we know and think about Mary Shelley today is due to her and a handful of scholars working just decades ago. In this volume, Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman have united all of Johnson's published and unpublished work on Shelley alongside their own new, insightful pieces of criticism and those of two other peers and fellow pioneers in feminist theory, Mary Wilson Carpenter and Cathy Caruth. The book thus evolves as a conversation amongst key scholars of shared intellectual inclinations while closing the circle on Johnson's life and her own fascination with the life and circle of another woman writer, who, of course, also happened to be the daughter of a founder of modern feminism.
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