Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: wesley, powell, john, life, running, west, river
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2000-12-14
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195099915
ISBN-13: 9780195099911

If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian’s lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the stor

Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lectures, management, studies, clarendon, constructed, markets, economic, agents, material
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-03-08
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0199278156
ISBN-13: 9780199278152

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; and recent turbulence suggests they may be out of control in some respects. Donald Mackenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, MacKenzie argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. Markets are populated not by disembodied, abstract agents, but by embodied human beings and technical systems. Concepts and systematic ways of thinking that simplify market processe

Author: Donald J. Trump
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Keywords: business, life, education, informal, champion, think
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1593155301
ISBN-13: 9781593155308

Over the years, Donald Trump has written many bestselling books, and he has also written short pieces that summarize his singularly successful tenets on how to live the good life, both personally and professionally. These have been personally selected by Donald Trump for this book, giving his special perspective in what amounts to an “informal education” on how to succeed in business and life. The pieces are engaging, informative, and educational, presenting the clearest picture yet into the mind and heart of an extraordinary individual. Essay titles include:The More You Lea

Author: Donald J. Boudreaux
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: economics, business, guides, greenwood, globalization
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 031334213X
ISBN-13: 9780313342134

The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. This volume defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy—and how it influences businesses and individuals. Each chapter identifies common questions and issues that have gained exposure in the popular media—such as outsourcing, the high cost of international travel, and the impact of a fast-growing China—to illustrate underlying drivers and mechanisms at work. Covering international trade, national wealth disparities (

Author: Donald Bethell
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: advances, first, physical, organic, chemistry, volume, part, subject, author, indexes, volumes, cumulative
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 1999-10-08
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0120335344
ISBN-13: 9780120335343

The objective of the serial is to present considered reviews on the quantitative study of organic compounds and their behavior--physical organic chemistry in its broadest sense--in a manner accessible to a general readership.

Author: Donald L. Sparks
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: volume, agronomy, advances
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2004-08-21
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0120007819
ISBN-13: 9780120007813

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source of the latest research in agronomy. Major reviews deal with the current topics of interest to agronomists, as well as crop and soil scientists. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. Editor Donald Sparks, former president of the Soil Science Society of America and current president of the International Union of Soil Science, is the S. Hallock du Pont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences at The University of Delaware. V

Author: Donald P. Frush
Publisher: Saunders / The Clinics
Keywords: clinics, radiology, radiologic, issue, chest, imaging, pediatric
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-03-16
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 1416027599
ISBN-13: 9781416027591

This issue covers the latest advances in imaging the chest of the pediatric patient. Included in this issue are reviews on interstitial lung disease, pneumonia, mediastinal masses, trauma, congenital abnormalities, and esophageal and chest wall disorders. Also included are articles on CT angiography and ultrasound of the pediatric chest.