For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Power wheelchair mechanics job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambit...

A high-stakes battle erupts over a game-changing cobalt deposit in small-town America."A cinematic globe-trotting roller coaster of a tale . . . " —Raymond Benson, New York Times bestselling authorWhen billionaire Max Fend and his hacker girlfriend Renee LeFrancois are enlisted by the FBI and CIA to search for a cobalt deposit in rural Pennsylvania, they're plunged into a race against time and international forces. Cobalt,...

In 1707 Strasbourg, a torn register leaf arrives under fog and secrecy—its wax mark twisted with a familiar tick.The page doesn't belong to the city's ledgers. It comes from the Munster Valley, where rumors travel faster than couriers and superstition makes a convenient curtain for men who prefer their crimes unrecorded.When an official parish register is found broken—folios missing, numbers jumping, entries rewritten—two investigators follow the paper trail into a world wh...

n Strasbourg, a seal can move men faster than truth.When a chapter clerk is found dead and a municipal seal vanishes from custody, clerk Grete Keller is pulled from the quiet work of registers into a world of gates, watchmen, and orders written in someone else's hand. Within hours, notices begin to appear—properly waxed, properly stamped—commanding patrols to shift and doors to open at the city's edge.Lieutenant Gabriel has seen smugglers and soldiers, but he has never seen...

`This excellent text will introduce advanced students - and remind senior researchers - of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor a qualitative approach needs to imply abandonment of rigor. That the chapters are written by d...

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she eme...

This updated volume acknowledges new data and techniques in the area of vascular surgery. New chapters have been added and previous chapters have been updated to cover recent developments in vascular and endovascular surgery.The book aims to bring together a unique collection of real life cases that highlight the diversity of problems encountered in vascular surgery.This book is written along evidence based medicine principles and will be relevant to vascular practitioners,...

This updated and revised third edition of Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries provides a unique collection of real-life case histories, written by experts, that highlights the diversity of problems encountered in vascular surgery. With an international panel of contributors, many of whom are also examiners on the UK, European or American Boards in Vascular Surgery, this book familiarizes the reader quickly with day-to-day clinical practice. Case studies are presented in que...

A simple, but satisfying, story about retributive justice. Davy Faux (a name extremely well suited) is a duplicitous character who thinks he has escaped answering for his crimes, but is brought to justice in an ironic and fitting way.Very quick read, with the obvious style that George Eliot brings to all her works. A moral tale.

A Fast-Paced and Imaginative AdventureThe Flying Legion by George Allan England is an energetic adventure filled with action, daring plans, exotic locations, and early speculative ideas. The story has the bold, larger-than-life quality of classic pulp fiction and keeps moving at an entertaining pace.England blends adventure with science-fiction elements and a strong sense of exploration, making the novel especially enjoyable for readers who like vi...

Caesar and Cleopatra is a play of vivid pictures and superb effects: in the desert at night an old Roman general speaks to a small Sphinx, oblivious to the child-woman asleep between its paws; the child-woman Cleopatra chooses the old general as her protector, against Caesar “who eats children,” not realizing, until the Romans troops begin shouting “Hail Caesar” that her old general and Caesar are one in the same; Caesar arming himself for battle while the Library of Alexandria is...