This wide-ranging memoir tracks the author's childhood through happiness to the depths of sadness, understanding his sense of loss and the impact on his life and personality.In later life, he delves deep into his parents' past and finds a love story for the generations. It is a tale of separation, yearning and determination as his father is sent, as a pacifist, to India during the war, leaving behind his prospective fiancée and his aspirations to become a minister in the Methodist ...

This book explores the Local Government Board (LGB) Medical Department’s work, successes, and failures throughout its forty-eight-year life and assesses its influence on public health administration in England and Wales. Earlier generations of public health historians have substantially dismissed the Department as being too small to be effective and too lacking in authority to have an impact. More recently a growing number of scholars have challenged this view. This book continues this rea...

Xalata Orbit meets danger head-on when she leaves a troubled Earth behind to live with her father on LunarBase and attend the Hydroponics Institute of the Moon’s Central Air Facility. At first, life on the Moon seems dull compared with her home planet, but it is not long before she and her new friend, Melody Fret, are fighting a shadowy enemy for their freedom and battling a conspiracy that could destroy the Earth and all its inhabitants.  What horrors are lurking in the dere...

If you are studying for a qualification, preparing research reports, undertaking any sort of student investigative project or simply looking to collect evidence that backs up your ideas, then this easy-to-read and informative book is for you.  You'll discover how to set objectives for your questionnaires; construct questions so they'll deliver valuable results; create answer types that will allow you to drill down into your data; deliver your questionnaire in accessible ways ...

Nick Evans runs the popular food blog macheesmo.com, and he came up with a simple yet effective concept for everyday cooking: Create one foundation dish, in decent quantity, when you have the time--perhaps on a lazy Sunday afternoon--and then repurpose it to make other delicious dishes throughout the week. Cooking this way saves time and money and allows busy people to eat well every night.Love Your Leftovers includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert options as well a...

Not for the faint-hearted, this rollercoaster scifi thriller for teens and young adults once again pits our heroes, Xalata and Melody, against dark alien forces and the terrors of the unknown.  Fresh from their battle with the Cryomorph on the Moon's Farside, Xalata Orbit and Melody Fret had hoped to settle back into a normal routine at the Academy. But strange things have taken place on Mars and when the Red Planet Exploration team arrive back at LunarBase, they bring with t...

This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice.Following on from two previous titles published on Factor X by the Umweltbundesamt (German E...

Achieve the breakthroughs in size for the lean and chiseled muscular look that you’ve always wanted!Bodybuilding expert Nick Evans presents a proven program for perfecting your physique. More than simply hitting the gym and pumping iron, Men’s Body Sculpting provides you with complete programs for• generating mass,• reducing fat,• sculpting your physique, and• maintaining your build.Each program offers the specific exercises...

When Stink learns that Pluto has flunked out of the Milky Way for being too shrimpy he feels like he might just explode with a Big Bang. He has no choice but to take a stand for the sake of little planets (and little people) everywhere. Will our humble hero Stink Moody be smart enough to defeat a panel of big-shot scientists? Will he be strong enough to beat know-it-all Riley Rottenberger and her Team KPB? Will Stink succeed in rescuing Pluto from a fate worse than being swallowed by a bla...

A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he’s randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this “exhilarating” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade debut novel.Zeke Reynolds comes from a long line of proud science fiction geeks. He knows his games, comics, movies, and TV shows like Captain Kirk knows the starship Enterprise. So it’s a dream come true when he learns the science fiction he loves so much i...

Science fiction super fan Zeke is back in action as he and his friends work to finally take down the evil Phands in this hilarious and exciting conclusion to the Randoms series.Zeke has returned to Earth and, as usual, nothing is going like he planned.The plan was: escape from Junup, rescue Director Ghli Wixxix and Captain Qwlessl, stop the Phands, and finally get Tamret to officially be his girlfriend. Instead, he gets stuck in an Earth facility for disobe...

A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERBestselling Lean Six Sigma author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of Lean Six SigmaThe Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. Packed with detailed examples and step-bystep instructions, it's the ideal handy reference guide to help Green a...