Rutherford Calhoun escapes marriage and debt by stowing away on the illegal slave ship, the "Republic." Discovered, he is then put in charge of the ship's log. Calhoun must confront his self-centered philosophies as he writes the log, adrift with a cargo of slaves and forty crew members in search of new lives. This novel won the 1990 National Book ...
This is an updated and comprehensive guide to sixty-five key elements of mentoring.Concise and up-to-date, this guide provides short pithy information vital for starting and maintaining an effective mentor-protege relationship. The co-authors themselves are in a mentoring relationship with Ridley serving as Johnson's mentor.This new edition of ...
In describing the technical experiences of one company from the beginning of the computer era, this book unfolds the challenges that IBM's research and development laboratories faced, the technological paths they chose, and how these choices affected the company and the computer industry.
This book is from the authors of "Elements of Mentoring". The book is timely: with continued coverage of banks' and executives' unscrupulous methods, ethics will continue to be a hot topic in the news and at water coolers, with the authors pitched as talking heads after years of media experience.It is concise: each element is a page or two long, ...
One night in the antebellum South, a slave-owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking and playing cards. They drunkenly agree to switch beds and the result is an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the "Oxherding Tale".
Linear algebra and matrix theory have long been fundamental tools in mathematical disciplines as well as fertile fields for research. In this book the authors present classical and recent results of matrix analysis that have proved to be important to applied mathematics. Facts about matrices, beyond those found in an elementary linear algebra ...
The tale of a girl who leaves her home and goes to the city in search of "the good thing" after her parents die. The novel is rife with folklore and mysticism, grounded in everyday life.
U.S DVD sales will top $8.1 billion in 2002, an increase of over 50 per cent, according to Adams Media Research. DVD sales this year surpassed video, even though only 30 per cent of households have DVD players (compared to 90 per cent for VCRs). In August 2002, the "New York Times" dubbed DVD "the most successful home entertainment device in ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PASSAGE OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE A.D. 1820 JAMES ALBERT WOODBURN A climax in the political endeavor to adjust questions concerning slavery in the United States was ...
Beautiful still lifes of produce and botany grace the pages of this book of rare photographs taken by a London gardener. Art dealer Sean Sexton came across them by accident, at a London market.
Charles Barkley, five-time NBA all-star, looks back at his life and basketball career in the same no-holds-barred fashion with which he views everything. Full of his shoot-from-the-lip opinions and outlandish exploits, this book, like the man himself, can only be described as outrageous. 8 pages of photographs.
Known for his blending of philosophy, spirituality, humour, and a rollicking good story, Charles Johnson is one of the most important novelists writing today. From his magical first novel, "Faith and the Good Thing", to his decidedly philosophical "Oxherding Tale"; from his swashbuckling indictment of the slave trade in the National Book Award ...
Building on the foundations of its predecessor volume, Matrix Analysis, this book treats in detail several topics in matrix theory not included in the previous volume, but with important applications and of special mathematical interest. As with the previous volume, the authors assume a background knowledge of elementary linear algebra and ...
Learn the very latest high-definition DVD formats. Written by three members of the bestselling "DVD Demystified" author team, this is a practical, irreverent, and authoritative guide to the world of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc, the two new competing high-definition DVD formats. Readers master both new standards and apply them to the entire DVD ...
Charles Barkley, five-time NBA all-star, looks back at his life and basketball career in the same no-holds-barred fashion with which he views everything. Full of his shoot-from-the-lip opinions and outlandish exploits, this book, like the man himself, can only be described as outrageous. 8 pages of photographs.
Presenting a systematic approach to the chemistry of the p Block elements and hydrogen, this book also introduces some basic topics concerning chemical bonding, such as oxidation numbers, bond strengths, dipole moments and intermolecular forces. The chemistry is illustrated by coverage of the biological role of nitric oxide and of hydrogen bonding ...
A collection of inspirational, thought-provoking, thematically linked essays is offered by one of America's leading African-American intellectuals and practicing Buddhists.
This work shows us that by taking time seriously we can discover something essential to almost every question of human concern. It asks, "Are we IN time?" and considers time in conjunction with cognition, morality, action, physical nature, being, God, freedom, and politics. Charles Sherover's essays, while drawing upon Royce, Heidegger, Kant, ...
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