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Soils and Environmental Quality

by Gary M. Pierzynski, George F. Vance, J. Thomas Sims ...

A perpetual bestseller, this third edition explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science. The coverage ranges from the theoretical to the practical with an abundance of examples such as an exploration of allowable pesticide concentrations in drinking water and an inquiry into soil contamination from the trace elements in organic by-products. It also explores the use of soil ... Read more

$160.00 USD

A perpetual bestseller, this third edition explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science. The coverage ranges from the theoretical to the practical with an abundance of examples such as an exploration of allowable pesticide concentrations in drinking water and an inquiry into soil contamination from the trace elements in organic by-products. It also explores the use of soil
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On Call in the Arctic

by Thomas J Sims ...

The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of the Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Sims’s On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America.Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of the Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Sims’s On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America.Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment
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On Call in the Arctic

A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier

by Thomas J. Sims ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was
... Read more
An Unexpected Journal: The Merits & Myths of Modernity

Volume 7, #1

by An Unexpected Journal, Jasmin Biggs, James M. Swayze, Annie Nardone, Joshua Jo Wah Yen, Jason M. Smith, Megan M. Starr, Thomas Sims, Josiah Peterson, Seth Meyers, Sarah Hadley, Karise Gililland, Annie Crawford, Suzanne Carol ...

Series Book 1 - Volume 7
From the 17th century's self-styled Enlightenment to the shell shock of the 20th century's Great War, the conventions and attitudes known as Modernity held significant sway over the Western mind. Long before the post-war disillusionment that sparked Postmodernism, Modernity made (and frequently fulfilled) tremendous promises, birthing the hope of a man-made utopia. It was an age of reason and ... Read more

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From the 17th century's self-styled Enlightenment to the shell shock of the 20th century's Great War, the conventions and attitudes known as Modernity held significant sway over the Western mind. Long before the post-war disillusionment that sparked Postmodernism, Modernity made (and frequently fulfilled) tremendous promises, birthing the hope of a man-made utopia. It was an age of reason and
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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu Niu, Christopher T. Fan, Justin Battin, Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Edmond Chang0, Clare Kim1, Adhy Kim2, Jung Soo Lee3, Lori Kido Lopez4, Kimberly McKee5, Jane Park6, Imran Parray7, Baryon Posadas8, Thomas Sarmiento9, Gerald Sim0, Leland Tabares1, Rachel Tay2, Jae Yeon Yoo3, Charles Tung4, Shana Ye5, Ian Liujia Tian6, Professor Anna Romina Guevarra7, Professor Won Jeon8 ...

Series series Asian American Studies Today
Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically ... Read more

$29.49 USD

Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically
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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Charleston, South Carolina, 1787–1797

by Thomas Brown, Leah Sims ...

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into ... Read more

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into
... Read more
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The Lunch Break Investor

Identify winning stocks, build your wealth, and reclaim your time

by Thomas Chua ...

Narrated by Adam Sims ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

'A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth' – Gautam Baid'For anyone investing alongside a day job' – Chin Hui Leong'Thomas Chua is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor' – Robert Vinall**Most of what passes for investing is actually speculation—buying on excitement, selling on fear, and getting nowhere.This audiobook shows you how to shift from speculator to owner.**Ronald Read ... Read more

$23.19 USD

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'A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth' – Gautam Baid'For anyone investing alongside a day job' – Chin Hui Leong'Thomas Chua is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor' – Robert Vinall**Most of what passes for investing is actually speculation—buying on excitement, selling on fear, and getting nowhere.This audiobook shows you how to shift from speculator to owner.**Ronald Read
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Team of Vipers

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

by Cliff Sims ...

Narrated by Cliff Sims, Daniel Thomas May ...

Unabridged

14 hours 19 min

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNote: Per author's request, profanity has been removed from both the book and the audio program."Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNote: Per author's request, profanity has been removed from both the book and the audio program."Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell
... Read more

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Dostoevsky

Volume 6, #4

by Seth Myers, William Collen, Mary Lou Cornish, Awara Fernandez, John Givens, Matthew Lilly, Patricia Newberry, Thomas Sims, Katie Windham, Joshua Jo Wah Yen ...

Series Book 4 - Volume 6
DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak MidwinterAs winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the ... Read more

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DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak MidwinterAs winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the
... Read more
Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University

Building a Legacy of Black History

by Janet Sims-Woods, Mr. Howard Dodson ...

Series series American Heritage
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented ... Read more

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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented
... Read more
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Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching

Classic Stories, Discourses, and Poems of the Chan Tradition

by Dahui ...

Narrated by Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching (Chinese Zhengfayanzang) stands as among the greatest classics of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism, combining speeches, stories, dialogues, poems, and commentaries that the influential master Dahui (1089–1163) extracted from Chan lore. Compiled by Dahui's students during Song Dynasty China, this work is replete with the enigmatic, paradoxical wisdom for which Zen ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching (Chinese Zhengfayanzang) stands as among the greatest classics of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism, combining speeches, stories, dialogues, poems, and commentaries that the influential master Dahui (1089–1163) extracted from Chan lore. Compiled by Dahui's students during Song Dynasty China, this work is replete with the enigmatic, paradoxical wisdom for which Zen
... Read more
Experience of School Transitions

Policies, Practice and Participants

Edited by Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan ...

Series series Education (R0)
Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by
... Read more

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