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Practical Smalltalk

Using Smalltalk/V

By: Dan Shafer,Dean A. Ritz

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Practical Smalltalk

Using Smalltalk/V

By: Dan Shafer,Dean A. Ritz

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is recognized as one of the most powerful programming techniques to come along in many years. Its power lies in the ability it gives the designer to manage the complex, rapidly changing applications that have become the watchword of modern software. Smalltalk is the most extensively used OOP environment. Now Practical Smalltalk helps you to focus on those aspects of the language that you need to know to be a successful programmer. You'll learn all about the important classes to master, the essential theories to grasp, and then put these ideas to work in constructing everything from a simple counter object all the way through a data graphing application and the core of a functional outliner. The book culmi- nates with the creation of a factory process simulation that takes advantage of Smalltalk's ability to create multi-window, multiprocessing applications. Designed for programmers and managers who must understand the operation and uses of the Smalltalk environment, this book assumes only an elementary working knowledge of OOP and the language. The book uses Smalltalk/V 286, Digitalk's widely used implementation of Smalltalk, but most of the concepts and techniques it teaches can be transferred easily to other versions of the language.

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246

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461390672

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9781461390671

If I Betray These Words

Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

By: Wendy Dean,Simon Talbot

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If I Betray These Words

Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

By: Wendy Dean,Simon Talbot

FEATURES A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine “Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.” — Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. Doctors face real risks when they stand up for their patients and their oath; they may lose their license, their livelihood, and for some, even their lives. There’s a growing sense, referred to as moral injury, that doctors have their hands tied – they know what patients need but can’t get it for them because of constraints imposed by healthcare systems run like big businesses. Workforce distress in healthcare—moral injury—was a crisis long before the COVID-19 pandemic, but COVID highlighted the vulnerabilities in our healthcare systems and made it impossible to ignore the distress, with 1 in 5 American healthcare workers leaving the profession since 2020, and up to 47% of U.S. healthcare workers now planning to leave their positions by 2025. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury – what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.

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321

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Steerforth

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1586423916

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9781586423919

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Management, Organization, and Strategy

By: James Robert Evans,James W. Dean

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Management, Organization, and Strategy

By: James Robert Evans,James W. Dean

This work aims to familiarise managers with the principles and methods associated with top quality management, to show how these have been put into effect and the relationship between TQM principles and the theories and models studied in practice.

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384

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South Western Educational Publishing

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0324012764

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9780324012767

The Good Manager

A Model for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dean Gualco

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The Good Manager

A Model for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dean Gualco

You can be the smartest person in the room and even the most experienced, but if youre not a good person, theres little chance youll succeed as a manager. Thats one of the big takeaways from The Good Manager, which is based on Dean Gualcos decades of experience as a leader and manager. To be good person, he says, you must live a decent and honorable life, be kindhearted, control destructive human emotions, tell the truth, do whats right, and always look for the good. In this guidebook to honing your leadership and management skills, youll learn how tounderstand how the view of managers has evolved over time;appreciate the most rewarding aspects of management;cultivate the ability to plan, delegate, and manage time; andmake work fun for yourself and others. Being a good personas well as learning the necessary skills to excel as a managerare rarely taught at conferences or lectures or on the job. But if you want to move along the intellectual/moral spectrum from self-interest to human interest, negativity to positivity, darkness to enlightenment, and hate to friendship, then you need to learn the lessons in The Good Manager.

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136

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iUniverse

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1491798297

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9781491798294

The Robert B. Parker Companion

By: Dean James,Elizabeth Foxwell

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The Robert B. Parker Companion

By: Dean James,Elizabeth Foxwell

Even before he was named Grand Master for Lifetime Achievement by the Mystery Writers of America, Edgar® Award-winning author Robert B. Parker had assumed the mantle of dean of American crime fiction. “Taking his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald” (The Boston Globe), Parker has transcended the conventions of the crime genre. As one of the most popular and prolific writers in the world, he has reinvented crime writing with his inimitable style and unforgettable characters. Now discover everything about everything that is Robert B. Parker: • Comprehensive biography of Robert B. Parker • Inside the Spenser novels • All about the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall novels • Parker’s stand-alone fiction • Complete cast of characters • Spenser on film • Robert B. Parker’s Boston—locales, crime scenes, and maps • Memorable quotes • Inclusive bibliography Plus, an exclusive and insightful new interview with Robert B. Parker.

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223

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Penguin

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1101205180

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9781101205181

First Born

A Novel

By: Will Dean

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First Born

A Novel

By: Will Dean

From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) prose. Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them.

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368

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Simon and Schuster

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1982156546

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9781982156541

Breathless

A Novel

By: Dean Koontz

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Breathless

A Novel

By: Dean Koontz

In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light . . . and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady’s isolated home, waiting to make their approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all the forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness. . . . In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable. . . . On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder. . . . Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless.

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369

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Bantam

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055390714X

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9780553907148

Breathless

A Novel

By: Dean Ray Koontz

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Breathless

A Novel

By: Dean Ray Koontz

In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him.

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410

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0553840827

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9780553840827

Summer of Anger, Summer of Peace

The Dennis Dean Story

By: Rick Dean

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Summer of Anger, Summer of Peace

The Dennis Dean Story

By: Rick Dean

Summer of Anger, Summer of Peace is an inspirational story that will make the reader laugh, cry, and examine just how precious life really is. Written by Rick Dean, Dennis's brother, this true-life story comes alive with firsthand accounts of Dennis's struggles and triumphs while living with MD. It is doubtful that you could read this story and not be changed and encouraged to make a difference. If you are looking for a story that has all of the elements of life, and one that will give you a new perspective on what you may be currently going through, do not miss this uplifting biography.

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170

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American Book Publishing

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1589822919

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9781589822917

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Practical Smalltalk

Practical Smalltalk

If I Betray These Words

If I Betray These Words

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The Good Manager

The Good Manager

The Robert B. Parker Companion

The Robert B. Parker Companion

First Born

First Born

Breathless

Breathless

Breathless

Breathless

Summer of Anger, Summer of Peace

Summer of Anger, Summer of Peace

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