Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 by Moon, Elaine Latzman

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Nursing and informatics for the 21st century : embracing a digital world. Book 1 Realizing digital health, bold challenges, and opportunities for nursing

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SAP Hardware Solutions : Servers, Storage, and Networks for MySAP. Com. by Missbach, Michael, Hoffmann, Uwe M.

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Libertarian Autobiographies Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World

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Goliath's revenge : how established companies turn the tables on digital disruptors by Hewlin, Todd, Snyder, Scott A. (Scott Andrew), 1965-

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Wine making : basics and applied aspects

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Encyclopedia of agriculture and food systems

Table of Contents: “…P -- Pathogen-Tested Planting Material -- Plant Abiotic Stress: Salt -- Plant Abiotic Stress: Temperature Extremes -- Plant Abiotic Stress: Water -- Plant Biotic Stress: Weeds -- Plant Cloning: Macropropagation -- Plant Disease and Resistance -- Plant Health Management: Biological Control of Insect Pests -- Plant Health Management: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens -- Plant Health Management: Crop Protection with Nematicides -- Plant Health Management: Fungicides and Antibiotics -- Plant Health Management: Herbicides -- Plant Health Management: Pathogen Suppressive Soils -- Plant Health Management: Soil Fumigation -- Plant Health Management: Soil Solarization -- Plant Virus Control by Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing -- Policy Frameworks for International Agricultural and Rural Development -- Poultry and Avian Diseases -- Precision Agriculture: Irrigation -- Production Economics -- Public and Private Partnerships in Agroforestry -- Q -- Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics -- Quarantine and Biosecurity -- R -- Regulatory Challenges to Commercializing the Products of Ag Biotech -- Regulatory Conventions and Institutions that Govern Global Agricultural Trade -- Root and Tuber Crops -- Rural Sociology -- S -- Safety of Street Food: Indonesia's Experience -- Sensory Science -- Simulation Modeling: Applications in Cropping Systems -- Slum Livestock Agriculture -- Small Ruminants in Smallholder Integrated Production Systems -- Social Justice: Preservation of Cultures in Traditional Agriculture -- Soil: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Systems -- Soil: Conservation Practices -- Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition -- Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Their Mitigation -- Soil: Nutrient Cycling -- Spices and Aromatics -- Stem Cells -- Sugar Crops -- Swine Diseases and Disorders -- T -- Terroir: The Application of an Old Concept in Modern Viticulture -- Transgenic Methodologies and Plants -- Tree Fruits and Nuts -- V -- Vaccines and Vaccination Practices: Key to Sustainable Animal Production -- Virtual Water and Water Footprint of Food Production and Processing -- Vitamins and Food-Derived Biofactors -- W -- Water: Advanced Irrigation Technologies -- Water Use: Recycling and Desalination for Agriculture -- Water: Water Quality and Challenges from Agriculture -- Weather Forecasting Applications in Agriculture -- World Water Supply and Use: Challenges for the Future -- Z -- Zoonotic Helminths of Livestock.…”
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A source book in Chinese philosophy.

Table of Contents: “…Practical Confucianism in Yen Yuan -- (1) In defense of physical nature -- (2) The identity of principle and material force -- (3) Learning through experience -- 38. Tai Chen's philosophy of principle as order -- (1) On principle (Li) -- (2) On nature -- (3) On capacity -- (4) On humanity, righteousness, propriety and wisdom -- (5) On the variety of circumstances -- 39. …”


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Lean six sigma for hospitals by Arthur, Jay, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 A Faster Hospital in Five Days -- Goal: Accelerate the Patient’s Experience of Healthcare -- A Faster Emergency Department in Five Days -- Faster Door-to-Balloon (D2B or DTB) Time in Five Days -- A Faster Operating Room in Five Days -- Faster Medical Imaging in Five Days -- A Faster Lab in Five Days -- A Faster Nursing Unit in Five Days -- Case Study: Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) -- Simple Steps to Better, Faster, Cheaper Healthcare -- The Problem Isn’t Where You Think It Is -- Take the Dominos Challenge -- How to Get a Faster Hospital in Five Days -- Chapter 2 Lean for Accelerated Patient Flow -- Mind the Gap -- Value-Stream Mapping and Spaghetti Diagramming -- If They Can Do It in Botswana -- The Fast Eat the Slow -- Core Score -- Speed Saves Lives -- You Already Understand Lean -- The Power Laws of Speed -- Economies of Speed -- The Toyota Production System -- Core Ideas of Lean -- Toyota’s Five Rules -- The Lean Mindset -- The Seven Speed Bumps of Lean -- The Five S’s -- Value-Stream Mapping -- Pull Versus Push -- Redesign for One-Piece Flow -- Lean Tools -- Walking Is Waste -- Lean Principle—Load Leveling -- Lean Principle—Minimize Inventory -- Cleveland Clinic Case Study -- Chapter 3 Simple Steps to a Better Hospital -- Memorial Hermann Case Study -- A Better Emergency Department (ED) in Five Days -- A Better Clinical Staff in Five Days -- A Better Operating Room (OR) in Five Days -- A Better Pharmacy -- Better Order Accuracy in Five Days -- Better Medical Imaging in Five Days -- A Better Lab in Five Days -- A Better Nursing Unit in Five Days -- Better Diagnoses -- A Better ICU in Five Days -- Misuse of Antibiotics -- Bar Codes Bust Medication Errors -- The Problem Isn’t Where You Think It Is -- I Pledge Allegiance to Science and Evidence -- Simple Steps to a Better Hospital in Five Days -- Chapter 4 Reducing Defects with Six Sigma -- Invisible Low-Hanging Fruit -- Six Sigma’s Problem-Solving Process -- Getting to Lean Six Sigma -- Key Tools for Defect Reduction.…”
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From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850

Table of Contents: “…LADY ELLENOR FENN From Cobwebs to Catch Flies (c. 1783) DOROTHY KILNER NEW 'A Conversation between Master Tommy and Miss Jenny on Reading, ' From Poems on Various Subjects for the Amusement of Youth (1785) MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT From Original Stories from Real Life (1788) PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD From Mental Improvement (1794) MARIA EDGEWORTH 'The Purple Jar, ' From Early Lessons (1801) The Perennial Fable LADY ELLENOR FENN NEW 'The Fox and the Crow, ' From Fables in Monosyllables by Mrs Teachwell (1783) ROBERT DODSLEY 'The Tortoise and the Two Ducks, ' From Dodsley in Miniature; or, The Polite Fabulist (1803) EDWARD BALDWIN (WILLIAM GODWIN) NEW 'The Dog in the Manger, ' From Fables Ancient and Modern (1805) Children Giving and Receiving Instruction CATHARINE PARR TRAILL From The Young Emigrants (1826) HENRY SHARPE HORSLEY From The Affectionate Parent's Gift (1828) JANE MARCET From Mary's Grammar (1835) JACOB ABBOTT From Rollo at School (1839) BARBARA HOFLAND 'Janetta and her Jujubes', From Farewell Tales Founded on Facts (1840) Part Seven: Sunday School Moralists Children Learning Eagerly GEORGE BURDER From Early Piety (1777) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD From Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) and Lessons for Children: Part Four (1788) SARAH TRIMMER From Fabulous Histories (1786) and The Charity School Spelling Book (c. 1798) ROWLAND HILL From Divine Hymns (1790) and Instructions for Children (1794) Lessons from Life HANNAH MORE 'Black Giles, the Poacher: Part II' From Cheap Repository Tracts (1796) MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD From The History of the Fairchild Family (1818) FAVELL LEE MORTIMER From The Peep of Day (1833) MRS DALBY From Dutch Tiles (1842) Part Eight: Harbingers of the Golden Age Poetry for All Ages CHRISTOPHER SMART From Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1772) and 'My Cat Jeoffry', From Jubilate Agno WILLIAM BLAKE From Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) Playful Instruction LADY ELLENOR FENN NEW The Grammar Box (1790) 'Education, ' From Hieroglyphic Amusement (1791) JOHN MARSHALL From The Infant's Library (c. 1800) Ivory Paddles (c. 1800) NEW The Infant's Cabinet of Various Objects (1801) NEW The Book Case of Instruction (1812-1813) NEW L'Alphabet Moral (1820) NEW From First Book for Children (1823) NEW From Nouvel Alphabet pour les Commencans (1830) NEW The Royal ABC (c. 1844) NEW The Earth and Its Inhabitants (1850) NEW Versified Delights and Re-tellings ANN TAYLOR GILBERT and JANE TAYLOR From Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804-1805) and Rhymes for the Nursery (1806) ELIZABETH TURNER From The Daisy (1807) WILLIAM ROSCOE The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807) FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE From Poems (1808) RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE Puss in Boots (1808) CHARLES LAMB Beauty and the Beast (1811) From Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1813) CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (1823) SARAH JOSEPHA HALE From Poems for Our Children (1830) ELEANOR MURE The Story of the Three Bears (1831) MARY BOTHAM HOWITT From Sketches of Natural History (1834) The Charm of Narrative CATHERINE SINCLAIR From Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839) ELIZA LEE FOLLEN From New Nursery Songs for All Good Children (1843) EDWARD LEAR From The Book of Nonsense (1846) HEINRICH HOFFMANN From The English Struwwelpeter (1848) JANE COTTON BOUCHER de MONTIZAMBERT The Sad Tale of Mrs Mole and Mrs Mouse (c. 1849) JAKOB and WILHELM GRIMM NEW 'Hansel and Grethel, ' From Household Stories (1853).…”


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Understanding the psychology of diversity by Blaine, Bruce Evan

Table of Contents: “…Social stigma : the experience of prejudice -- Understanding stigma : basic components -- Stigma involves a mismatch of identities -- Stigma involves an attribute-stereotype connection -- Stigma is situationally determined -- Stigma involves being the object of ambivalent attitudes -- Implications of stigma for identity : mindfulness and stereotype threat -- Mindfulness -- Stereotype threat -- Stereotype threat in Black students -- Stereotype threat in female students -- Stereotype threat in economically disadvantaged students -- How does stereotype threat lower academic performance? …”


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The new woman behind the camera by Nelson, Andrea (Andrea Jeannette)

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The state of resilience : a leadership forum and community workshop ; proceedings of a workshop by Forrest, Sherrie

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About time : narrative, fiction and the philosophy of time by Currie, Mark, 1962-

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Chandler and Grant's glaucoma

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Justice and self-interest two fundamental motives by Lerner, Melvin J., 1929-

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Quick questions in heat-related illness and hydration : expert advice in sports medicine

Table of Contents: “…Ashley -- Is it possible to be well hydrated and still experience exertional heat illness? / Evan C. Johnson, and Stavros A. …”
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Uncommon Grounds : the History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. by Pendergrast, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- The Big Boys Try to Get Hip -- Coffee and Cigarettes -- The Collapse of the ICA -- The Coca-Coffee Connection and a Black Harvest -- Big Coffee: Ice Cold -- 18 -- The Starbucks Experience -- Latte Land -- Starbucks: The (Very) Public Years -- Deflecting the Critics -- A Maturing Market -- 19 -- Final Grounds -- La Minita: A Coffee City-State -- The Coffee Crisis -- Fair Trade and Starbucks -- Howard to the Rescue? …”
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Imperatives and directive strategies

Table of Contents: “…The Polish Sign Language (PJM) experience -- 2.2 Commands are not (necessarily) imperatives -- 2.3 Imperatives are not (necessarily) commands -- 3. …”
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The Sri Lankan economy : charting a new course

Table of Contents: “…Successful State-Owned Enterprise Reforms: International Experience -- 6.7. Types of State-Owned Enterprise Reforms -- 6.8. …”
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