Authors:Barbara Land, Myrick Land,
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: second, vegas, las, history, short
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 087417564X
ISBN-13: 9780874175646

This best-selling and entertaining history of Las Vegas has been updated to reflect the city’s tremendous growth and change in recent years. Today’s Las Vegas welcomes 35 million visitors a year and reigns as the world’s premier gaming mecca. But it is much more than a gambling paradise. In A Short History of Las Vegas, Barbara and Myrick Land reveal a fascinating history beyond the mobsters, casinos, and showgirls. The Lands present a complete story, beginning with southern Nevada’s indigenous peoples and the earliest explorers to the first pioneers to settle in the area; from the

Author: Ray Land
Publisher: Open University Pre
Keywords: research, higher, education, society, practice, development, discourse, identity, educational
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0335213286
ISBN-13: 9780335213283

What do educational developers see as the main issues to be tackled within their work? How does the educational context and culture in which they work affect the practice of educational developers? How do educational developers perceive change occurring within higher education organisations? In higher education institutions worldwide, issues relating to quality in teaching and learning have gained prominence over the last two decades as student numbers, and the need to be publicly accountable, have increased. During this time a sizeable community of educational developers has emerged whose wor

Author: Jon Land
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: strong, novel, caitlin
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765351153
ISBN-13: 9780765351159

Author: Jon Land
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: barnea, novels, danielle, kamal, darkness, ben, walk
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0812572483
ISBN-13: 9780812572483

1948: An archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery.More than fifty years later, another group of archaeologists, this one made up of Americans, is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel’s National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew was among the victims.Joining forces once again, Ben and Danielle are swept into a maelstrom of secrets and subterfuge where truth is the rarest find of all. Together they follow a trail that spans three continents and s

Author: Jon Land
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: barnea, novels, danielle, kamal, solomon, ben, pillars
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0812566726
ISBN-13: 9780812566727

Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli police inspector Danielle Barnea return to confront a worldwide criminal plague: white slavery.Ben Kamal hasn’t investigated a case since his last assignment with Danielle until he learns about missing children in his native West Bank. And Danielle had put her career on hold until a personal tragedy left her with nothing to turn to except her career; her first case is the seemingly random murder of a Jerusalem shopkeeper.What Ben and Danielle don’t know, can’t know, is that their separate investigations are linked by a secr

Author: C.M. Van ’t Land
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: melts, crystallization, industrial
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-09-24
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0824741110
ISBN-13: 9780824741112

At the interface of chemical industry operations, equipment manufacturer input, and the scientific literature, Industrial Crystallization of Melts summarizes key theoretical concepts relating to crystalline matter and instationary heat transfer. The author examines benchscale testing, pastillation, design methods for cooling belts as well as small-scale tests, design methods, and Preger’s shortcut for drum flakers. The book also surveys the equipment available for specific processes and offers over 100 tested equations, as well as clear-cut methods for handling organic melts that call fo

Author: Gary Land
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, religions, philosophies, movements, dictionaries, adventists, dictionary, seventh, day
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $90.20
ISBN-10: 0810853450
ISBN-13: 9780810853454

Profiles a large Christian denomination that is only two centuries old, but one that has a rapidly growing member base, including a large presence in the Third World. Reviews the notable historical events in a chronology explains the development of the Seventh-day Adventist as a world religion in the introductory essay describes the persons, places, events, doctrines, publications, institutions, organizations, and societies that played a significant role in shaping the religion and provides an extensive bibliography of works on Seventh-day Adventism and books expressing Adventist views on theo