Author: Committee on Identification of Promising Naval Avi
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: technology, opportunities, science, aviation, promising, naval, identification
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $29.75
ISBN-10: 0309097290
ISBN-13: 9780309097291

The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nation’s armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power 21. Many new war-fighting concepts will be needed to implement this vision, and the ONR has requested the NRC to identify new science and technology opportunities for new naval aviation capabilities to support those concepts. This report presents an assessment of what they imply for naval aviation, an analysis of some capabilities that, if developed, would make a significant contribution to re

Author: William Vitek
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: promising
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1993-10-02
List price: $86.50
ISBN-10: 1566390524
ISBN-13: 9781566390521

William Vitek enlarges our understanding by treating the act of promising as a social practice and complex human experience. Citing engaging examples of promises made in everyday life, in extraordinary circumstances, and in literary works, Vitek grapples with the central paradox of promising: that human beings can intend a future to which they are largely blind. "Promising" evaluates contemporary approaches to the topic by such philosophers as John Rawls, John Searle, Henry Sidgwick, P.S. Atiyah, and Michael Robbins but transcend their more limited focus on promissory obligation. Vitek’s

Author: Radclyffe
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Keywords: hearts, promising
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933110449
ISBN-13: 9781933110448

The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, but only if you have something to lose. Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States—her professional future, her place in Philadelphia society, and her faith in herself. She travels to New Hero, Montana with no hero of happiness and no desire for anything except forgetting. Mae is a frontier madam, used to standing alone. She fiercely guards the well-being of the lost young women who come under her care—she just never expected one of them to be a doctor, wounded in body and soul. Can two outcasts find refuge in one an

Author: Robert Lamb
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: earth, promising
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-10-11
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415144434
ISBN-13: 9780415144438

This is a tale of our times. marking the 25th anniversary of Friends of the Earth, Promising the Earth locates the inside story of pioneering campaigns within a broader canvas. No single organization’s record can expect to paraphrase the development of environmental consciousness and the growth of grassroots environmental movement, but experiences bear intimate witness to a story that is still unfolding.Enlivened by arresting illustrations and glimpses of colourful personalities that the issues of the day have brought to the fore, Promising the Earth takes stock of changing realities in,

Author: Rita Du
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Educatio
Keywords: schools, improving, practices, promising
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1578865948
ISBN-13: 9781578865949

Today, there is little deviation from the standard, business-as-usual practices in the world of education. What If? challenges these stale practices and asks the important questions that can improve schools beyond the current state of mediocrity. This book provides more than 25 specific problem-solving strategies for improving education without increasing costs.

Author: Ho Mae-Wan
Publisher: Vital Health Publishing
Keywords: alternative, therapies, promising, science, aids, independent, unraveling
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1890612472
ISBN-13: 9781890612474

This book offers research and clinical support for alternative therapies that appear to be safer, more effective and less costly than the current generation of AIDS pharmaceuticals. Addresses these questions and more: Is AIDS a real disease? Is it a single disease? What is the real extent of the AIDS pandemic? Does HIV cause AIDS? Do conventional anti-HIV drugs work? Are there effective treatments that can be made widely available at affordable costs? Unraveling AIDS is well written and understandable by the general public; moreover, it should be studied by clinicians an

Author: Michael A. Fortun
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: world, speculation, genetics, decode, genomics, iceland, promising
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520247507
ISBN-13: 9780520247505

Part detective story, part exposé, and part travelogue, Promising Genomics investigates one of the signature biotech stories of our time and, in so doing, opens a window onto the high-speed, high-tech, and high-finance world of genome science. In a luminous account, Mike Fortun investigates how deCODE Genetics, in Iceland, became one of the wealthiest companies of its kind, as well as one of the most scandalous, with its plan to use the genes and medical records of the entire Icelandic population for scientific research. Delving into the poetry of W. H. Auden, the novels of Halldór Laxness,