Durante un incontro casuale in treno, poco prima dello scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, il politico e industriale Charles Rainier racconta a uno sconosciuto di quando, nel 1917, fu colpito da una granata e perse la memoria. Rainier si risvegliò su una panchina a Liverpool nel 1919, di nuovo in possesso di tutti i suoi ricordi, tranne che per quei due anni di vuoto. Tornato a casa e presa in mano l'azienda di famiglia, Rainier è diventato un uomo di successo ma la lacuna nella memoria e un matrimonio non troppo riuscito lo rendono insoddisfatto e infelice. Muovendosi tra diversi piani temporali, la storia struggente di una incessante ricerca della memoria e della felicità racconta con sensibilità e acume gli anni che fanno da ponte tra i due conflitti mondiali.

Durante i quarantadue anni in cui ha insegnato a Brookfield, Arthur Chipping per i suoi studenti è sempre stato Mr Chips. Dai tempi della guerra franco-prussiana fino ai grandi cambiamenti del Novecento e la Prima guerra mondiale, Chips ha visto passare generazioni di ragazzi. E ora che si è ritirato a vivere davanti al college, ripensa alla sua vita nella scuola, alla donna che ha amato, al mondo che con lui tramonterà per sempre. Da "Addio, Mr Chips!" sono stati tratti un film hollywoodiano di grande successo nel 1939, un musical nel 1969, due serie televisive e un radiodramma.

Hugh Conway ha avuto modo di vedere il peggio dell'umanità dalle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale. Adesso, a oltre dieci anni di distanza, è un diplomatico inglese di stanza in Afghanistan e di nuovo si trova in mezzo a una guerra civile, che lo costringe ad abbandonare il paese a bordo di un aereo insieme a un suo sottoposto, a una missionaria e a un uomo d'affari americano. Ma il velivolo viene dirottato e si schianta al suolo in mezzo ai picchi himalayani, dove Conway e gli altri vengono trovati da una misteriosa guida che li conduce nella valle sconosciuta di Shangri-La, una sorta di paradiso terrestre dove gli abitanti vivono da secoli in pace e armonia e dove i superstiti vengono accolti con ospitalità e amicizia. Ma quando il capo della comunità si ammala, Conway si troverà di fronte a una scelta difficilissima che rimpiangerà tutta la vita. Proprio grazie a Orizzonte perduto il mito di Shangri-La, inteso come eden immaginario e rivoluzionario, si diffonderà influenzando tanta parte della letteratura, musica e cinema del Novecento (Frank Capra nel 1937 ne trasse un celebre film). E l'avventura epica narrata nel romanzo continuerà a essere la più affascinante e longeva utopia della letteratura, che a oltre ottant'anni dall'uscita ammalia ancora i lettori di tutto il mondo, rendendo questo un libro di culto.

Brothers Danny and Clay Gunn were brought up an ocean apart, but blood will out. Both served in the military, and both know how to kill, taking work as private military contractors and freelance ‘fixers’. But when they save a female journalist in the Nevada desert, it is they who become the targets, stalked by a paramilitary team known only as The Presidents, under orders from the heart of government. To stay alive they must turn the tables, stop running, and become hunters once again.

Over the past two decades, the Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry has become one of the most trusted textbooks on clinical restorative dentistry. By integrating time-tested methods with recent scientific innovation, the authors promote sound concepts for predictable conservative techniques. Now in its fourth edition, this classic text has been completely updated with full-color illustrations throughout and substantial revisions in every chapter to incorporate the latest scientific developments and current research findings. In addition, a new chapters on color study and shade matching address new areas of focus in the preclinical curriculum. A valuable resource for understanding the scientific basis for current treatment options in dentistry.

Knowledge is a significant organizational resource. In order to build and sustain a competitive advantage, this knowledge must be protected within an organization’s core businesses from discovery by competitors. Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage: Issues and Potential Solutions examines current research in support of knowledge management by focusing on how knowledge resources can be used to create and sustain competitive advantages. By combining imitation and innovation theories, this book is a vital resource for information system and management professionals, students, and researchers in order to achieve an organization’s competitive advantage.

"The works reproduced in this book were exhibited in their entirety in an exhibition titled 'Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker' at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, from April 21-June 11, 2011" -- from colophon.

The Politics of Expertise offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain, through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Using specific case studies of the homelessness, environment, and international aid and development sectors, it demonstrates how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century.

NGOs have contributed enormously to a professionalization and a privatization of politics, emerging as a new form of expert knowledge and political participation. They have been led by a new breed of non-party politician, working in collaboration and in competition with government. Skilful navigators of the modern technocratic state, they have brought expertise to expertise and, in so doing, have changed the nature of grassroots activism. As affluent citizens have felt marginalised by the increasingly complex nature of many policy solutions, they have made the rational calculation to support NGOs, the professionalism and resources of which make them better able to tackle complex problems. Yet in doing so, support rather than participation becomes the more appropriate way to describe the relationship of the public to NGOs. As voter turnout has declined, membership and trust in NGOs has increased. But NGOs are very different types of organisations from the classic democratic institutions of political parties and the labour movement. They maintain different and varied relationships with the publics they seek to represent. Attracting mass support has provided them with the resources and the legitimacy to speak to power on a bewildering range of issues, yet perhaps the ultimate victors in this new form of politics are the NGOs themselves.

Written for educators, policy makers, business leaders, and others interested in education policy and practice, this volume from the National Research Council's Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills reports on what was learned from the research base in cognitive, developmental, educational, organizational, and social psychology and economics, as well as other research, to define the terms "deeper learning," "twenty-first century skills," "college and career readiness," and related concepts. It classifies them within clusters of competencies; outlines different strands of research on the importance of these competencies to success in education, work, and other areas; and discusses deeper learning and twenty-first century competencies in English language arts, science, and math, as well as teaching and assessing transferable knowledge and skills in formal and informal learning environments. It identifies research-based methods and instructional design principles for developing knowledge and skills, key elements in the larger educational system that may help or hinder implementation of interventions to support deeper learning and the development of these competencies, and conclusions and recommendations. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The classic 1933 novel that introduced Shangri-La to the world focuses on one woman and three men who, in a paradisiacal community deep in the mountains of Tibet, experience physical, cultural, and spiritual transformation.

The Golgi apparatus (GA) is typically comprised of a series of five to eight cup-shaped, membrane-covered sacs called cisternae that look something like a stack of deflated balloons. The GA is often considered the "distribution and shipping department" for the cell's chemical products. This book traces the first 100 years of GA discovery from the first published accounts from Pavia, Italy, in 1898 to the Centenary Celebration in Pavia, Italy, in 1998 to our most recent discoveries. It summarizes the past 50 years beginning with the modern era of GA discovery, leading up to the present era with almost exclusive focus on molecular biology.

Focusing on the management of caries as a disease and the restoration of individual teeth, the 20 chapters in this textbook describe direct conservative fillings fabricated from dental amalgam, resin composite, and resin-ionomer materials, and techniques for partial-and complete-coverage indirect restorations of gold alloy, porcelain, metal-ceramic, and resin composite. Both black and white images and color photographs are provided. The third edition consolidates the two chapters on cast-gold restorations into one. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

These pictures are shocking visual testimony to the unspeakable ferocity of violence against blacks in this country in the not-too-distant past. The photos are part of the Allen/Littlefield Collection and are on deposit in the Special Collections Department, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University. James Allen provides notes on the content and context of the photos; Congressman John Lewis provides a foreword; writers Leon F. Litwack and Hilton Als contribute commentary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)