Author: Stephen Dixon
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: sleep
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-04-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1566890810
ISBN-13: 9781566890816

Short Fiction. Short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time. "Dixon’s quirky style almost renders ordinary exposition unnecessary. Instead, Dixon careens back and forth between machine-gun dialogue and description, mergin thoughts, conversation, and other absurd narrative into a single mind blurring entitiy" -- Bob McCullough, The Boston Globe. Stephen Dixon is a two-time finalist for the national Book Award, for FROG and INTERSTATE, and the author of twenty books, among them PLAY AND OTHER STORIES al

Authors:Amar Rughani, Stephen Dixon, Chris Franklin,
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Keywords: development, professional, continuing, radcliffe, approach, new, plans, dentists, personal
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1857759176
ISBN-13: 9781857759174

Personal development plans are fundamental for continuing professional development. This book provides information on how PDPs should be written and implemented. It looks at how dentists can determine their educational needs and how they can address them using PDPs. This is a resource book which can either be read from cover to cover, or dipped into whenever needed.

Authors:Professor John Dixon, John Dixon, David Macarov,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reality, global, persistent, poverty
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-05-07
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415146828
ISBN-13: 9780415146821

Poverty is one of the most long-standing problems facing governments and populations througout the world. No matter how it is measured--whether in prosperous times or during depressions, whether in agricultural, industrial, or post-industrial societies and despite anti-poverty programs and aid to the poor, poverty continues. The poverty rate in the industrialized west ranges between ten and fifteen per cent and is much higher in agricultural societies. In post-socialist countries it is beginning to be admitted and identified. The chapters of Poverty focus on ten different countries and th

Authors:Rebecca Dixon, Rebecca Dixon, Finn E. Sinclair, Adria
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: france, gallica, medieval, community, knowledge, poetry
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843841770
ISBN-13: 9781843841777

Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The volume reveals the interplay between poet, text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of later medieval French poetry and of the communities in which it was produced. Essays in both English and French are organised into three inter-related sections, ’Learned Poetry/ Poetry and Learning’, ’Poetry or Prose?’, and ’Poetic Communities’, and address both canoni

Authors:Professor John Dixon, John Dixon, David Macarov,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reality, global, persistent, poverty
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-05-07
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 041514681X
ISBN-13: 9780415146814

This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent chapters providing detailed examinations of poverty in ten different countries: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, The Philippines and Zimbabwe. Each chapter follows a consistent format, to facilitate comparison and focuses on the following issues:- * the socio-economic and historical context within which poverty exists * the extent and nature of poverty its causes * the measures that have been taken to m

Authors:N Dixon, E J Murray, D R V Jones, N. Dixon, J. Murray
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Keywords: landfills, engineering, geotechnical
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0727727087
ISBN-13: 9780727727084

Geotechnical engineering of landfills is a symposium designed to provide a forum for the presentation of recent developments in the design, construction and operation of landfills facilities. The papers presented in this volume bring together expertise and experience from industry, academia and the Environment Agency.

Authors:Phil Dixon, Sherwood Harris, Phil Dixon, Sherwood Har
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: flying, gps, mastering
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071416692
ISBN-13: 9780071416696

FLY DIRECT TO ALL THE BENEFITS OF GPS Mastering GPS Flying is a set of eight flight lessons and ten background chapters that give you all you need to become comfortable and proficient with GPS„ono matter what your level of experience. With more than 50 charts, photos, and diagrams, this practical guide„owritten by two veteran flight instructors„osteers you through all phases of GPS, including tasks that have proven to be troublesome on check rides. The book also presents the latest information on WAAS, LAAS, glass cockpits, and many other new GPS-based high tech developments.