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Dungeons & Dragons Dummies

For Dummies, 2005

Caught in traffic. Trapped in a cubicle. Stuck in a rut. Tangled up in red tape.

In the real world, sometimes you feel powerless—but not in Dungeons & Dragons (D & D). In this fantasy-adventure, you have all kinds of special powers. You can slay the evil dragon, overcome the orc or the ogre, haunt the...

Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2007

Here's your key to perfect color in digital images

Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with Photoshop® Elements and these tips

Shooting great photos is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and...

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Da Capo Press, 2017

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary...

Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption

Springer, 2004

Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent...

Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation

The Johns Hopkins University, 2006

Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation.

The authors assert that a dramatic...

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Knopf, 2014

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

Handbook of Atopic Eczema

Springer, 2005

Atopic eczema is one of the most frequent inflammatory skin diseases and its prevalence is rising. It presentsmajor problems for patients and physicians as well as for researchers all over the world. Few diseases are discussed as heatedly. Atopic eczema seems to be in the midst of debates regarding scientificmedicine versus...

Driving Technical Change

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010

Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence of a superior solution is not enough. But that reality can be tough for...

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Verso, 2021

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the...

Take Charge of Your Workers' Compensation Claim: An A to Z Guide for Injured Employees in California

Nolo, 2003

Orange County Register
A great hands-on guide for dealing with workers’ compensation cases.

From industrial injuries to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, more than a million Californians a year suffer job-related injuries or illness. For many, receiving compensation can be...

Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

Apress, 2008

What do you do when your database application isn’t running fast enough? You troubleshoot, of course. Finding the slow part of an application is often the easy part of the battle. It’s finding a solution that’s difficult. Troubleshooting Oracle Performance helps by providing a systematic approach to addressing the...

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety?4,162 Miles across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat

Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty were herded onto a twenty-three-foot launch and abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Thus began their extraordinary journey to Java. Covering 4,162 miles, the small boat was battered by continuous storms, and the men on board suffered crippling...

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