Bruce Tucker's Books

Cummings Otolaryngology E-Book

Head and Neck Surgery, 3-Volume Set

By: Paul W. Flint,Bruce H. Haughey,Valerie J. Lund,K. Thomas Robbins,J. Regan Thomas,Marci M. Lesperance,Howard W. Francis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cummings Otolaryngology E-Book

Head and Neck Surgery, 3-Volume Set

By: Paul W. Flint,Bruce H. Haughey,Valerie J. Lund,K. Thomas Robbins,J. Regan Thomas,Marci M. Lesperance,Howard W. Francis

The most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary text in the field, Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, 7th Edition, provides detailed, practical answers and easily accessible clinical content on the complex issues that arise for otolaryngologists at all levels, across all subspecialties. This award-winning text is a one-stop reference for all stages of your career—from residency and board certification through the challenges faced in daily clinical practice. Updated content, new otology editor Dr. Howard W. Francis, and new chapters and videos ensure that this 7th Edition remains the definitive reference in today's otolaryngology. - Brings you up to date with the latest minimally invasive procedures, recent changes in rhinology, and new techniques and technologies that are shaping patient outcomes. - Contains 12 new chapters, including Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Facial Pain, Geriatric Otology, Middle Ear Endoscopic Surgery, Pediatric Speech Disorders, Pediatric Cochlear Implantation, Tongue-Ties and Lip Ties, Laryngotracheal Clefts, and more. - Covers recent advances and new approaches such as the Draf III procedure for CRS affecting the frontal recess, endoscopic vidian and posterior nasal neurectomy for non-allergic rhinitis, and endoscopic approaches for sinonasal and orbital tumors, both extra- and intraconal. - Provides access to 70 key indicator (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Key Indicator Procedures), and surgical videos – an increase of 43% over the previous edition. - Offers outstanding visual support with 4,000 high-quality images and hundreds of quick-reference tables and boxes. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

4393

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323612172

ISBN 13

9780323612173

Spy Dust

Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War

By: Antonio Mendez,Jonna Mendez,Bruce Henderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Spy Dust

Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War

By: Antonio Mendez,Jonna Mendez,Bruce Henderson

Reviewed and released by the CIA, opening a window on the true-life world of espionage -- the elusive identities, the sophisticated gadgetry, the triple-think strategies -- Spy Dust reveals more about U.S. intelligence techniques abroad than any other published work of nonfiction. Moscow, 1988. The twilight of the Cold War. The KGB is at its most ruthless, and has now indisputably gained the upper hand over the CIA in the intelligence war. But no one knows how. Ten CIA agents and double-agents have gone missing in the last three years. They have either been executed or they are unaccounted for. At Langley, several theories circulate as to how the KGB seems suddenly to have become telepathic, predicting the CIA's every move. Some blame the defection of Edward Lee Howard three years before, and suspect that more high-placed moles will be unearthed. Others speculate that the KGB's surveillance successes have been heightened by the invention of an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it: spy dust. CIA officers Tony Mendez and Jonna Goeser come together to head up a team of technical wizards and operational specialists, determined to solve the mystery that threatens to overshadow the Cold War's final act. Working against known and unknown hostile forces, as well as some unfriendly elements within the CIA, they devise controversial new operational methods and techniques to foil the KGB, and show the extraordinary lengths to which U.S. intelligence is willing to go to protect a source, then rescue him when his world starts to collapse. At the same time, Tony and Jonna find themselves falling deeply in love. During a fascinating odyssey that began in Indochina fifteen years before and ends in a breathtakingly daring operation in the heart of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, Spy Dust catapults the reader from the Hindu Kush to Hollywood, from Havana to Moscow, but cannot truly conclude until its protagonists are safely wedded in rural Maryland. At a time when the public has more questions than ever about the role of our intelligence services, and what is being done in America's name, Spy Dust both reassures us and gives us hope for the espionage battles of the future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0743428536

ISBN 13

9780743428538

The Toll House

Confessions of Katharine Brand

By: David Bruce Gardner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Toll House

Confessions of Katharine Brand

By: David Bruce Gardner

Admission to the Celestial Kingdom can be very costly, as discovered by the wealthy Scottish importer, Malcolm Sinclair. A devout seeker and converted follower of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., Malcolm and his family are held together by the tenacity and love of Katharine Brand. But Katharine has a secret and a confession to make. For her own integrity and salvation she must reveal her truth, even if it threatens to shatter the only family she has known. THE TOLL HOUSE is more than Katharine's story; it is a tale of the cost of one's faith, and the willingness of the faithful to pay the price.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

146287035X

ISBN 13

9781462870356

On the Battlefield of Merit

Harvard Law School, the First Century

By: Daniel R. Coquillette,Bruce A. Kimball

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On the Battlefield of Merit

Harvard Law School, the First Century

By: Daniel R. Coquillette,Bruce A. Kimball

Harvard Law School pioneered educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students based on academic merit. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid account of a unique legal institution during its first century of influence.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

683

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674967666

ISBN 13

9780674967663

Hostage Nation

Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs

By: Victoria Bruce,Karin Hayes,Jorge Enrique Botero

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hostage Nation

Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs

By: Victoria Bruce,Karin Hayes,Jorge Enrique Botero

A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Knopf

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307593584

ISBN 13

9780307593580

Mighty Bad Land

A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent

By: Bruce Luyendyk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mighty Bad Land

A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent

By: Bruce Luyendyk

A tale of grit and real teamwork in the wilds of Antarctica when the hunger for knowledge reigns supreme. Anything can happen in a pure wilderness experienced by few humans—a place where unseen menace waits everywhere. This story is an unembellished account of a scientist and his team exploring the last place on Earth. But, unlike most recent books on Antarctica, the reader becomes embedded with geologist Bruce Luyendyk’s team. They share the challenges, companionship, failures, bravery, and success brought to light from scientific research pursued in an unforgiving place, Marie Byrd Land, or Mighty Bad Land. The geologists make surprising discoveries. Luyendyk realizes that vast submarine plateaus in the southwest Pacific are continental pieces that broke away from the Marie Byrd Land sector of Gondwana. He coined “Zealandia” to describe this newly recognized submerged continent. Only the tops of its mountains poke above sea level to host the nation of New Zealand. This stunning revelation of a submerged eighth continent promises economic and geopolitical consequences reverberating into the twenty-first century. The story occurs in the 1990s and fills a gap in the timeline of Antarctic exploration between the Heroic Age, the age of military exploration, and before the modern era of science. Danger is exponentially greater, isolation a constant threat without GPS, satellite phones, and the internet. As the expedition’s leader, Luyendyk stands up to his demons that surface under the extreme duress of his experience, like nearly losing two team members.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1637588445

ISBN 13

9781637588444

Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8

By: John Kaye,George Bruce Malleson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8

By: John Kaye,George Bruce Malleson

Kaye and Malleson's comprehensive first-hand History is a lucid and interesting account covering the Indian Mutiny's causes and events.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

556

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

110802324X

ISBN 13

9781108023245

The Geezer Squad

By: Bruce Weir Benidt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Geezer Squad

By: Bruce Weir Benidt

A group of old friends, most just past sixty. Theyve done well in careers, although only one has put away enough money to think, without wry laughter, about retiring. But they want to do something meaningful in these later days of their lives. As with a lot of baby boomers, their raucous idealism of the Sixties has been drifted over by layers of jobs and mortgages and families and divorces and vacations and cars and gadgets and Whatever happened to that changing the world thing? Tired of just bitching, they decide to get active again, put something back in the stream. Theyll right some wrongs, fight for the little guys, take down some corporate greedheads. They get plenty more than theyre ready for, running into arsonists and hired guns along the way to nding that deeper meaning they seek.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1491799390

ISBN 13

9781491799390

Jazz Diaspora

Music and Globalisation

By: Bruce Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jazz Diaspora

Music and Globalisation

By: Bruce Johnson

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the historiography and analysis of jazz were centred on the US to the almost complete exclusion of any other region. The driving premise of this book is that jazz was not ‘invented’ and then exported: it was invented in the process of being disseminated. Jazz Diaspora is a sustained argument for an alternative historiography, based on a shift from a US-centric to a diasporic perspective on the music. The rationale is double-edged. It appears that most of the world’s jazz is experienced (performed and consumed) in diasporic sites – that is, outside its agreed geographical point of origin – and to ignore diasporic jazz is thus to ignore most jazz activity. It is also widely felt that the balance has shifted, as jazz in its homeland has become increasingly conservative. There has been an assumption that only the ‘authentic’ version of the music--as represented in its country of origin--was of aesthetic and historical interest in the jazz narrative; that the forms that emerged in other countries were simply rather pallid and enervated echoes of the ‘real thing’. This has been accompanied by challenges to the criterion of place- and race-based authenticity as a way of assessing the value of popular music forms in general. As the prototype for the globalisation of popular music, diasporic jazz provides a richly instructive template for the study of the history of modernity as played out musically.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351266667

ISBN 13

9781351266666

The Boy Detectives MEGAPACK ®: 12 Great Mysteries

By: Mark Twain,Roy G. Snell,Bruce Campbell,Capwell Wyckoff,Hugh Lloyd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Boy Detectives MEGAPACK ®: 12 Great Mysteries

By: Mark Twain,Roy G. Snell,Bruce Campbell,Capwell Wyckoff,Hugh Lloyd

12 tales featuring boy detectives, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Dective" to entries in the Mercer Boys, Ken Holt, Hal Keene, and Skippy Dare series, and lots more -- over 1,400 pages of great reading! Here are: THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST, by Capwell Wyckoff THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON BOX, by Bruce Campbell THE AIR MYSTERY OF ISLE LA MOTTE, by E. J. Craine THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON, by Hugh Lloyd PRISONERS IN DEVIL’S BOG, by Hugh Lloyd BOB DEXTER AND THE STORM MOUNTAIN MYSTERY, by Willard F. Baker THE MYSTERY HUNTERS AT THE HAUNTED LODGE, by Capwell Wyckoff TRIPLE SPIES, by Roy G. Snell DETECTIVES, INC., by William Heyliger TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE, by Mark Twain If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1416

Publisher

Wildside Press LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1479407585

ISBN 13

9781479407583

The Gift of Pets

Stories Only a Vet Could Tell

By: Bruce R. Coston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Gift of Pets

Stories Only a Vet Could Tell

By: Bruce R. Coston

Bruce R. Coston's first book, Ask the Animals, earned him high praise for being another James Herriot. Now, in his delightful second memoir, Coston shares more rich stories about his animal patients and the clients who make veterinary practice so fulfilling. In this humorous, poignant, and enthralling collection, Coston explores what it is about the interaction with our pets that provides such profound companionship, and how a love for animals helps us to be more fully human. This ability to enrich and fulfill us is the Gift of pets. Coston's characters, both the people and the animals, will engage you from the first page. You'll meet Mr. Johnston, the linguist, and his Mountain of Love; Rachel, the office prankster; Coston's "girlfriend," Megan; and Mischief, the only patient Coston has ever had that helped to pay for her own surgery. You'll learn what a "sugar glider" is and how to give one mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. You'll marvel at Lisa, Coston's first veterinary technician, and the courage that the Gift of pets gave her to reinvent herself and rekindle the dreams she thought she had squandered.The Gift of Pets celebrates what it's like to be truly blessed with a deep love and concern for the pets with which we surround ourselves. Coston invites all animal lovers to rejoice in that Gift with him in this inspiring book of true stories.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

275

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250014980

ISBN 13

9781250014986

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2

By: David Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2

By: David Bruce

This book collects 250 stories about good deeds, including this one: When the great 19th-century actor Sir Henry Irving discovered an old woman who needed money to survive but who couldn't work, he would hire her to take care of the cats in his theater. Later, he was going to hire an old woman to take care of the cats, but then he discovered that he had already hired three old women to take care of the cats. Therefore, he hired this old woman to take care of the three old women who took care of the cats.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1435701119

ISBN 13

9781435701113

The Great Book of San Francisco Bay Area Sports Lists

By: Damon Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Great Book of San Francisco Bay Area Sports Lists

By: Damon Bruce

The Bay Area is home to multiple popular franchises in all four major sports - the 49ers and Raiders (NFL), Giants and A's (MLB), Kings and Warriors (NBA), and Sharks (NHL). With such diversity in rooting interest, area fans have much to debate all year long, and prominent Bay Area sports-radio host Damon Bruce is just the man to get the debate going with this entertaining book of original sports and entertainment lists. Bruce also enlists the help of such notable local stars to contribute their own lists, including Orlando Cepeda, Brent Jones, Gary Radnich, Drew Remeda, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

434

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1458778371

ISBN 13

9781458778376

Legends of the Strait

A Novel About Benicia, California During the Prohibition Era

By: Bruce Robinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Legends of the Strait

A Novel About Benicia, California During the Prohibition Era

By: Bruce Robinson

The setting: Prohibition Era Benicia, Californiaa major terminal on the Transcontinental Railroad where giant ferries carry 35 passenger trains a day across the Carquinez Strait, connecting Sacramento to Oakland and all points south; a five-mile strip of waterfront property populated by Chinese and Greek fishermen, Italian fruit farmers, Portuguese cannery and tannery workers, itinerant gypsies, and a small minority of Anglo-Americans who own the most valuable property and run the local government with graft and intimidation; a town of opposites where fires and floods are seasonal events, where Dominican nuns educate at one end of First Street and brothels at the other. The characters and plot: A one-armed African-American auto mechanic who adopts a run-away white boy and raises him to be the leader of a bootleg distribution ring; a deeply troubled woman who drives her doting millionaire husband to suicide and tries to murder her own children; a powerful and corrupt county supervisor who conspires to sabotage the first west coast Democratic National Convention; a ruthless bootlegger who hires Baby Face Nelson to murder law-enforcement officers and rival gang members; a talented young woman attorney who must defend the man accused of murdering her own father. The historical background: It was during Prohibition that George Santayana wrote: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. These words resonate in our own time as Americas political leaders continue to push their agendas for change. The Prohibition Era (1919-1933) was also a time of change when new technologies like the electric light, the telephone, and the combustion engine transformed society worldwide; when broadcast radio and motion pictures began homogenizing Americas cultural values; when the Scopes monkey trail challenged the basic precepts of religious tradition; and when Margaret Sangers crusade for birth control and eugenics forecast some of the most compelling political issues of the 21st Century. The central plot of Legends of the Strait involves two childhood friends growing up in a small California town. This novel is more than a coming-of-age story, though. Its about the growing pains of a nation suddenly thrust onto the world stage as a great power and about the quiet desperation of individuals struggling with a host of new cultural and economic changes as well as with the age-old conflict between good and evil. Like all legends, Legends of the Strait is a moral tale.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

610

Publisher

Author House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1456759876

ISBN 13

9781456759872

Profit and Loss: Shorts from the Profit Logbooks

By: Bruce Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Profit and Loss: Shorts from the Profit Logbooks

By: Bruce Davis

Enjoy these three shorts set in the universe of The Profit Logbooks, the compelling and action packed science fiction series from Bruce Davis. The Profit was living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele had stolen her from the Martian Navy in the chaos at the end of the Reunification War. He was earning a good living for my crewmates, and himself, and it was all honest money. It was what Cleo had always wanted – a home built on a stable business. Zack once thought it was what he wanted, too. So why did it chafe on him so? On Highpoint after a successful charter job, Zack decides to look up Akira Kensai, an old acquaintance. But Akira is dead and his brother, Tanaka Kensai, turns to Zack for help in solving the mystery of his death. When people start dying, Zack realizes the plot is bigger than just the death of one honest man, especially when Zack's old enemy, Kwai Hong is involved. Meanwhile, Deuce rediscovers an old lover. Grace is now a torch singer in a high class bar on Highpoint's Promenade. But Deuce knows her from old and still loves her, even if her past is full of hidden dangers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Brick Cave Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1938190890

ISBN 13

9781938190896

Bruce Nauman

By: Bruce Nauman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bruce Nauman

By: Bruce Nauman

From the beginning I was trying to see if I could make art that did that. Art that was just there all at once. Like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better yet, like getting hit in the back of the neck. You never see it coming; it just knocks you down. I like that idea very much: the kind of intensity that doesn't give you any trace of whether you're going to like it or not."—Bruce Nauman "Bruce Nauman's art is about heightened awareness, awareness of spaces we usually don't notice (the one under the chair, out of which he made a sculpture) and sounds we don't listen for (the one in the coffin), awareness of emotions we suppress or dread... It's hard to feel indifferent to work like his."—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid-1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation, sound, holography, film, and video. What has been a constant throughout his career, however, is his persistence in exploring both art as an investigation of the self and the power of language to define that self. The latest volume in the acclaimed Art + Performance series is the first book to combine the key critical writings on Nauman with the artist's own writings and interviews with him, as well as images of his work. Bruce Nauman offers a multifaceted portrait of an artist whose determination to experiment with style and form has created a body of work as eclectic and perhaps more influential than that of any other living American artist.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

432

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801869064

ISBN 13

9780801869068

Weeds

An Illustrated Botanical Guide to the Weeds of Australia

By: Bruce Archibald Auld,Elizabeth Mead,Richard William Medd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Weeds

An Illustrated Botanical Guide to the Weeds of Australia

By: Bruce Archibald Auld,Elizabeth Mead,Richard William Medd

Reprint of a reference book first published in 1987. Lavishly illustrated, it contains detailed descriptions of all the important weeds of Australia. Suitable for primary producers, students, agricultural advisers and research workers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

604

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0909605378

ISBN 13

9780909605377

Leadership at the Crossroads

By: Bruce Tucker, PhD

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leadership at the Crossroads

By: Bruce Tucker, PhD

Leadership makes a difference. Leaders directly impact the success or failure of any group or church. Excellent leaders direct churches to successfully accomplish their goals, fulfill their missions, and create a vibrant fellowship of believers who significantly influence their communities for Christ. Poor leaders can undermine the mission of a church, devastate the reputation of a fellowship, and sometimes dissolve the ministries of a congregation. The effects of average leaders are variable. They often allow churches to limp along, to become routine, even stale, or to just survive from week to week. Many factors challenge churches already, and ineffective leadership can make those challenges even more difficult to conquer. A primary reason why leaders struggle so often is a lack of understanding and training in the basic principles of genuine leadership. Further confounding this lack of understanding is the promotion of contemporary philosophies about leadership that can distort those basic concepts of leadership. This ignorance is not the fault of pastors who have a sincere desire to lead effectively, but the training in leadership at many seminaries is often limited. Leadership at the Crossroads addresses some of those concerns. What is leadership? What leadership style works best? How can ministers more effectively motivate their congregations? How can pastors direct the planning process, promote decision making, properly delegate responsibilities, and initiate change? What methods are effective in conflict resolution? These questions, as well as others, are addressed in Leadership at the Crossroads.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

265

Publisher

WestBow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1490805311

ISBN 13

9781490805313

Acarology

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress

By: Robert Bruce Halliday,RB Halliday

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Acarology

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress

By: Robert Bruce Halliday,RB Halliday

Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress is a timely overview of the current international research mites and ticks. The outcome of a conference of leading acarologists, it presents major reviews of all current areas of research including: *advances in acarine biodiversity and systematics. *human and livestock diseases transmitted by ticks and other parasitic mites. *interactions between mites and their food plants. *mites as biological control agents. *use of genetic markers in mite population studies. *mites as bioindicators. *ecology and biology of soil mites. *mite evolutionary ecology and reproduction. *advances in acarine diversity and systematics. The 90 papers in the book represent some of the best research from leading international researchers from over 50 countries, and helps to establish priorities for future research. All papers have been peer reviewed and edited. Acarology is a comprehensive and important addition to the world literature on mites, and is an essential addition to all acarological and entomological reference collections.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

672

Publisher

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published Date

ISBN 10

0643066586

ISBN 13

9780643066588

Inferential Network Analysis

By: Skyler J. Cranmer,Bruce A. Desmarais,Jason W. Morgan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Inferential Network Analysis

By: Skyler J. Cranmer,Bruce A. Desmarais,Jason W. Morgan

This unique textbook provides an introduction to statistical inference with network data. The authors present a self-contained derivation and mathematical formulation of methods, review examples, and real-world applications, as well as provide data and code in the R environment that can be customised. Inferential network analysis transcends fields, and examples from across the social sciences are discussed (from management to electoral politics), which can be adapted and applied to a panorama of research. From scholars to undergraduates, spanning the social, mathematical, computational and physical sciences, readers will be introduced to inferential network models and their extensions. The exponential random graph model and latent space network model are paid particular attention and, fundamentally, the reader is given the tools to independently conduct their own analyses.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009028405

ISBN 13

9781009028400

Balinese Temples

By: Julian Davison,Bruce Granquist

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Balinese Temples

By: Julian Davison,Bruce Granquist

This book is intended to provide a general introduction to the architectural symbolism of the Balinese temple by looking at some of the most interesting temple complexes on the island and describing their salient features in relation to Balinese ideas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1302

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9625931961

ISBN 13

9789625931968

Recent Advances in Algorithms and Combinatorics

By: Bruce A. Reed

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Recent Advances in Algorithms and Combinatorics

By: Bruce A. Reed

Excellent authors, such as Lovasz, one of the five best combinatorialists in the world; Thematic linking that makes it a coherent collection; Will appeal to a variety of communities, such as mathematics, computer science and operations research

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

358

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0387954341

ISBN 13

9780387954349

Sellout

How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home

By: Victoria Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sellout

How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home

By: Victoria Bruce

The story of one citizen's fight to preserve a US stake in the future of clean energy and the elements essential to high tech industries and national defense. American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the U.S. government, once proprietary materials, components and technologies are increasingly commercialized outside the U.S. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in China's monopoly of rare earth elements-materials that are essential for nearly all modern consumer goods, gadgets and weapons systems. Jim Kennedy is a retired securities portfolio manager who bought a bankrupt mining operation. The mine was rich in rare earth elements, but he soon discovered that China owned the entire global supply and manufacturing chain. Worse, no one in the federal government cared. Dismayed by this discovery, Jim made a plan to restore America's rare earth industry. His plan also allowed technology companies to manufacture rare earth dependent technologies in the United States again and develop safe, clean nuclear energy. For years, Jim lobbied Congress, the Pentagon, the White House Office of Science and Technology, and traveled the globe to gain support. Exhausted, down hundreds of thousands of dollars, and with his wife at her wits' end, at the start of 2017, Jim sat on the edge of victory, held his breath and bet it all that his government would finally do the right thing. Like Beth Macy's Factory Man, this is the story of one man's efforts to stem the dehumanizing tide of globalization and Washington's reckless inaction. Jim's is a fight we need to join.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

163286259X

ISBN 13

9781632862594

The Funniest People in Sports

250 Anecdotes About Baseball Players, Figure Skaters, Gymnasts, the Olympics, And More

By: David Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Funniest People in Sports

250 Anecdotes About Baseball Players, Figure Skaters, Gymnasts, the Olympics, And More

By: David Bruce

The Funniest People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes About Sports" contains such anecdotes as the following: Umpire Beans Reardon once made a mistake. Richie Ashburn slid into second base and Billy Cox attempted to tag him. Beans yelled 'Safe," but at the same time he flung his arm in the 'Out" gesture. Mr. Ashburn asked, 'What the hell does that mean?" Mr. Reardon replied, 'Richie, you know you're safe. Billy, you know he's safe. But 30,000 fans see my arm. Richie, you're out." Figure skater Rosalynn Sumners has a tendency to put on weight. When she was skating for Disney, her contract required her to be weighed each week, and if she was three pounds over her desired weight, Disney fined her $10. After a while, Ms. Sumners began to stand on the scales each week with a $10 bill in her hand.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

0595366740

ISBN 13

9780595366743

The Black Sheep

By: Bruce Gamble

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Black Sheep

By: Bruce Gamble

Recounts the story of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 and its exploits in the South Pacific.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

562

Publisher

Presidio Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0891418253

ISBN 13

9780891418252

The American Stud Book

Vol. III

By: Sandres D. Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Stud Book

Vol. III

By: Sandres D. Bruce

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

434

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385482216

ISBN 13

9783385482210

That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race

By: Bruce R. Olson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race

By: Bruce R. Olson

That St. Louis Thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the cityOs famed musical development -- blues, jazz and rock -- placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and ecomomic power. Here, too, are the cityOs people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed artists such as Scott Joplin, Miles Davis and Tina Turner. The city is also the scene of a historic civil rights movement that remained important from its early beginnings into the twenty-first century. And here, too, are the sounds of the crack of the bat during a century-long love affair with baseball.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

602

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483457990

ISBN 13

9781483457994

The Creole Rebellion

The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History

By: Bruce Chadwick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Creole Rebellion

The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History

By: Bruce Chadwick

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction block in November 1841, nineteen captives mutinied, killing one man and injuring several others. After taking control of the vessel, mutineer Madison Washington forced the crewmen to sail to the Bahamas. Despite much local hysteria upon their arrival, all of the 135 slaves aboard the ship won their freedom there. The revolt significantly fueled and amplified the slave debate within a divided nation that was already hurtling toward a Civil War. While this is a book about the United States confronting the ugly and tumultuous issue of slavery, it is also about the 135 enslaved men and women who were unwilling to take their oppression any longer and rose up to free themselves in a bloody fight. Part history, part adventure, and part legal drama, Bruce Chadwick chronicles the most successful slave revolt in the pages of American history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

169

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826363482

ISBN 13

9780826363480

Power Generation, Operation, and Control

By: Allen J. Wood,Bruce F. Wollenberg,Gerald B. Sheblé

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Power Generation, Operation, and Control

By: Allen J. Wood,Bruce F. Wollenberg,Gerald B. Sheblé

A thoroughly revised new edition of the definitive work on power systems best practices In this eagerly awaited new edition, Power Generation, Operation, and Control continues to provide engineers and academics with a complete picture of the techniques used in modern power system operation. Long recognized as the standard reference in the field, the book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the enormous changes that have taken place in the electric power industry since the Second Edition was published seventeen years ago. With an emphasis on both the engineering and economic aspects of energy management, the Third Edition introduces central "terminal" characteristics for thermal and hydroelectric power generation systems, along with new optimization techniques for tackling real-world operating problems. Readers will find a range of algorithms and methods for performing integrated economic, network, and generating system analysis, as well as modern methods for power system analysis, operation, and control. Special features include: State-of-the-art topics such as market simulation, multiple market analysis, contract and market bidding, and other business topics Chapters on generation with limited energy supply, power flow control, power system security, and more An introduction to regulatory issues, renewable energy, and other evolving topics New worked examples and end-of-chapter problems A companion website with additional materials, including MATLAB programs and power system sample data sets

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

656

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0471790559

ISBN 13

9780471790556

The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods

500 Anecdotes

By: David Bruce

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods

500 Anecdotes

By: David Bruce

This book contains such anecdotes as these: 1) Bob Zuppke coached the football Illini for years. In a discussion of football rules, someone described a play and asked whether the officials had made the right call. Before answering, however, Mr. Zuppke asked, "Which team made the foul-Illinois or the other one?" 2) At a Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, a woman was selling an expensive coat made for dogs. Saying "We want her dog to look as smart as madame," the saleslady held up a pink cocktail coat made out of embroidered silk with a lining of mohair. Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte asked her, "When would a dog wear that?" The saleslady replied, "After five o'clock." 3) Shannon Martin was six years old when she won an age-12-and-under roping contest, for which she was written up in the "Roping Sports News." Because she hadn't learned to read yet, she kept saying to her father, "Come on, Dad. Read it again.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1430300302

ISBN 13

9781430300304

The Big One

The True Story of an Epic Search to Find a Missing Small Plane Lost for Years

By: Bruce Gallaher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Big One

The True Story of an Epic Search to Find a Missing Small Plane Lost for Years

By: Bruce Gallaher

When a small airplane carrying four men vanished in 1968 over the vast skies of Albuquerque, New Mexico a massive official search was launched in the rugged American Rocky Mountains. That official search was called off within two weeks with few leads. That plane and those four men had disappeared off the planet. This spellbinding saga follows the men's wives, families, and friends after they realized it was now up to them and them alone to find their loved ones. These amazing women were joined in their search by a cast of characters as diverse as the New Mexico landscape, including a group of Apollo space program engineers, a bar owner, a stunt pilot, a minister, some of the world's most renowned psychics, and an army of complete strangers. Along the way, they get help from President Lyndon Johnson, a U-2 spy plane, and an American Indian Tribe. The entire search effort ranks as one of the largest in State history, lasting nearly five years. An incredible, true story of how two young hikers in the remote mountains of New Mexico stumbled on the greatest discovery of not only their lives but the lives of hundreds of others. That discovery would change everything, forever, for everyone involved.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

200

Publisher

Sunstone Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0865349479

ISBN 13

9780865349476

Book's by Bruce Tucker

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email