Finally! Someone who conquered the obstacle course himself writes the essential book to help you answer the most urgent question of your career - what specialty? Brian Freeman knows the anxiety of that all-important choice. He knows what information you need to choose the specialty that's just right for you and that will make all you've invested ...
The first book to address the contributions of the thousands of unheralded sailors of African descent who served as navy mess attendants, officer's cooks, and stewards from the early 1930s and won respect in frontline combat when the war began.
"Heirs of General Practice "is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age--about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, ...
A much-needed guide to animal-related professions, "Careers with Animals" is a vital resource for the animal lover looking to plan his or her future. Author Ellen Shenk provides straightforward and accurate introductions to a wide range of potential careers - everything from familiar jobs such as veterinarian and zookeeper to cat breeder, animal ...
Nineteen sixty-nine: A Navy SEAL, a trained assassin on a secret mission, is dropped off in the Vietnam jungle. Days later, a U.S. gunboat returns to pick him up, but the boat's young captain, Lt. William Sherman, panics under fire and leaves the SEAL behind. Twenty years later: Lieutenant Sherman is now a Pentagon admiral. When a beautiful woman ...
This is the only career series to match the right job with the right personality. Vital information provided in each book includes: suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors; a selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements; advice on competing in hot job markets; and, tips on transforming ...
Marshall McLuhan was one of the best-known figures of the 1960s, acclaimed for his contribution to the understanding of modern media and communications, and the involuntary founder of a cult. The early letters in this collection offer a fascinating background to his intellectual growth. The bulk of them contain much preliminary discussion of ideas ...
This critique of the current crop of public intellectuals--Paglia, Nussbaum, Said, Chomsky, et al.--finds them wanting. The author examines the tradition of the public intellectual and reflects on the current state of the media and academia. Posner is a U.S. judge, a professor at the University of Chicago, and a public intellectual himself.
Down-to-earth Englishwoman Carole Seddon and her flighty friend Jude try to discover the identity of a long-dead woman they've found outside of an affluent town.
The new edition of the popular "Red Book" provides medical and pre-medical students with the information they need to select the specialties and practice settings that will best suit their interests, abilities, and personalities. Self-assessment questionnaires help them to pinpoint their talents, goals, and temperaments. Summary physician profiles ...
This five-chapter book invites readers to learn about animal careers in zoos and aquariums, including spider behaviorists, wildlife photographers, and zookeepers. Author Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati Zoo, also offers readers guidelines for steps to take to pursue a career, including educational decisions and options. This guide also ...
Robert Irwin has spent a lifetime investigating and imagining the history of the Islamic world. In "For Lust of Knowing", the culmination of that lifetime's devotion, he makes the definitive case for the Orientalists. Irwin charts the origins of Orientalism in this case, the study of the Middle and near East and its foremost practitioners, from ...
Communications thinker, Marshall McLuhan, has given us the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village". Interest in McLuhan has increased since this biography was first published in 1989. The author has revised this second edition includes additional information provided by McLuhun's family and friends, and to present a personal ...
This innovative, hands-on text guides readers through progressively more difficult scenario drills and office simulations, helping them gain confidence as they master valuable transcription skills. Using a building block format, the first unit presents fundamental skills and knowledge that are essential to medical transcription practice, and the ...
Hired by a gallery owner to transport a painting to its buyer in Puerto Vallarta, Hannah Nicks finds herself on the tail end of a massacre at the delivery point and is nearly killed herself. She flees back to L.A., but it only gets worse when the gallery owner is killed and Hannah is named a suspect. Original.
This book is your passport to a successful and rewarding career. Are you looking for the latest information to open the door to the career of your dreams? The nation's largest career books series, "McGraw-Hill's Opportunities in"...series gives you the inside scoop on more than 100 professions as well as on all the essential aspects of your ...
With more and more teenagers finishing high school and going on to college, the helping professions are a rapidly expanding industry. A job in this field -- be it as a zoologist, a veterinarian, or a marine biologist -- can be an exciting and fulfilling experience. The author covers many jobs that don't require special training: working in a ...
For the generation born after World War II, Marshall McLuhan instilled an urgent awareness of the media environment as a basic force shaping the modern sensibility. "If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their ...
According to his doctors, Martin Dorfman, a cynical 40-year-old hypochondriac and burned-out screenwriter, is in perfect health, yet Dorfman is convinced he is dying, and thus embarks on a quest to discover exactly what is ailing him. Taken into the lunatic fringes of alternative medicine, Dorfman encounters his innermost demons, as well as the ...
Doctors tell of obstacles encountered, the ever-more demanding business of practicing medicine, and mid-career decisions to pursue something else. Dr. Laster presents interviews with both practicing doctors and those who have pursued alternative careers.
Profiles ten women who work with animals, in such jobs as horse farm owner, veterinarian, and exotic animal trainer, and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got their positions.
In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard ...
Marshall McLuhan was a satirist and prophetic poet, who explored subjects from the occult and the esoteric to everyday popular culture and the emerging digital revolution. Written in an accessible, engaging manner, "The Virtual Marshall McLuhan" sheds new light on McLuhan's goals and the background to his influential writings. Donald Theall ...
Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archeologist, traveller and "orientalist". Belonging to the tradition of the great British Middle East enthusiasts of the early 20th century, she explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I and was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the ...
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