Falk and Dierking (both science, Oregon State U.) investigate why people go to museums, what they do there, and what, if anything, they take away from these experiences. Writing for museum professionals, especially new ones, they provide a guide for thinking deeply about the complex intersection between people and museums. Among their perspectives are identity-related motivations, museums in society, the physical context of exhibitions, measuring the learning impact of museums, and the 21st-century museum. The first edition was published by Whalesback Books during the early 1990s. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Highlighting performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, this text focuses on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the book describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current context. It is thus an invaluable reference to the CEOs, chief information officers, senior executives, and board members who are shaping health care today and into the 21st century. It will equally appeal to healthcare administrators and managers, healthcare systems specialists, and students in advanced healthcare professional and academic programs.

Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's late masterpiece The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters (but still, nevertheless, a “frightful shit”), and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the characters' local watering hole, is changed irrevocably.
 
Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize, and considered by his son Martin to be Amis's greatest achievement—a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century (except of course Ulysses)”—The Old Devils combines the author's trademark wit and bile with an altogether less characteristic warmth. Few novels have described the physical and emotional attrition of ageing with the candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence that Amis brings to bear on his old devils.

"In the last century, astronauts (meaning space sailors) launched into the heavens, in search of new worlds to colonize-their adventures helping to catalyze the evolution of everything from non-stick frying pans and minicomputers to satellite telecommunications. Their work forced our species to recognize that our Earth is a very rare planet indeed and our only home for the foreseeable future. Now a new wave of explorers, adventurers and entrepreneurs is pioneering novel ways to create wealth in tune withthe twenty-first century reality of a human population pushing towards ten billion people by mid-century and with key elements of the planet's biosphere already coming apart at the seams. These are the Zeronauts. Featuring contributions by twenty-five of the world's leading innovators and drawing on interviews and surveys of many more, the book showcases the pioneers that are at the cutting edge of the global sustainability movement, which the author, John Elkginton, has helped create and lead over several decades. Elkington introduces the emerging disciplines of zero-impact design, engineering and management-through the personal experiences and reflections of the leading practitioners putting us on a path to a zero impact economy: zero risk zero emissionszero pollution and wastezero biodiversity losszero population growth.Leading Zeronauts explain how they came to wake up to the challenges they speak about the mistakes they have made along the way and the lessons they have learned in the process offering their advice on how we can get others to the same point in terms of thinking and action. From this, Elkington distils a concise set of rules for success. Concluding with recommendations for governments, investors, innovators and educators, the book shares the lessons learned from scores of people worldwide who are helping define the scale of the challenges our species now faces and, crucially, developing and deploying at scale some of the solutions that will provide the building-blocks of tomorrow'seconomies and the foundations for some of the future's greatest fortunes. "--

Sent to a hospital by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.

In "Skinheads", John King ci conduce nella cultura skinhead dei giorni nostri spiegando attraverso le storie dei personaggi del libro come non sia mai morta. "Skinheads" è la storia di uno stile di vita, raccontata attraverso tre generazioni di una famiglia: Terry English, skinhead original amante dello ska e titolare di una agenzia di mini-cab, Nutty Ray, street-punk skin e hooligan attivo, Lol, figlio di Terry e nipote di Ray, un ragazzo di quindici anni che si è appena affacciato alla vita. Terry è malato e teme di non arrivare al suo cinquantesimo compleanno, ma va avanti grazie alla sua musica, alla sua adorabile assistente Angie, e alla scoperta dell'Union Jack Club, un locale abbandonato che Terry decide di mettere a posto per poi riaprire. Ray, nel frattempo, è in giro sul mini-cab e stenta a trattenere la sua rabbia, il suo unico sfogo sono i giorni liberi passati in giro con la crema dei Chelsea. Quando però decide di farsi giustizia da solo in un'esplosione di violenza giustificata, il suo futuro comincia a rabbuiarsi.

Features the works of famous and emerging authors published in the science fiction magazine, "Lightspeed," during its first year of publication.

The Highlands was first sighted by Henry Hudson himself and is known as the place where the Jersey shore begins. Its beaches are perennially crowded with sunbathers, swimmers and families. But buried under the sands, the Highlands hides sins from the past. Sandy Hook claimed North America's first European murder victim, a passenger on Hudson's Half Moon. During Prohibition, mobsters supplied Bay Avenue businesses with plenty of booze. A man accused of shooting another with a cannon performed an Old West style jailbreak. And sometimes, soldiers stationed along the shores caused more trouble than they prevented. Read about these and other wicked deeds committed in New Jersey's Highlands.

MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is an unprecedented collection of black-and-white photographs combined with stirring quotations by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
This treasured collection includes images by legendary photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Adelman, and Flip Schulke, and is an unparalleled photobiography  that presents intimate moments from King's personal and public journey. We see King in all his manifestations—as a new father and doting husband, as a civil rights champion leading racial protests, and as a charismatic speaker preaching electrifying sermons. Triumphant events like King delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech and marching in Montgomery are beautifully captured,  as are private moments of him reflecting on his Nobel Peace Prize or working in his study.
 
Threaded together, these words and  images chronicle how Dr. King was not only a driving force  for change but also  a continually evolving individual. A collection to savor and celebrate, these great photographs are an enduring testament to the life and legacy of an international icon.

A book of essays based on the popular lecture series in New York City offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding life, and includes contributions by Dr. Francis Collins, N.T. Wright, and Os Guinness.

Every organization is composed of tribes?naturally occurring groups of between 20 and 150 people. Until now, only a few leaders could identify and develop their tribes, and those rare individuals were rewarded with loyalty, productivity, and industry-changing innovation. Tribal Leadership shows leaders how to assess, identify, and upgrade their tribes' cultures, one stage at a time. The result is an organization that can thrive in any economy.

King, urban design critic for the San Francisco Chronicle shares 50 of his favorite examples of San Francisco architecture in this portable (7x5.2") guide. Grouped into categories of icons, styles and masters, landscape, and change, each entry features two color photographs, the street address, and a brief history of the building. Among the structures showcased are The Pacific Telephone Building, Alexis Apartments, 1019 Market Street, Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School, and the Kayak House at Mission Creek Park. All of the photographs and much of the text, appeared previously in the San Francisco Chronicle. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own food, to combating attacks from diseases and predators, plants have evolved an amazing range of life-sustaining strategies.

Written with the non specialist in mind, John King's lively natural history explains how plants function, from how they gain energy and nutrition to how they grow, develop, and ultimately die. New to this edition is a section devoted to plants and the environment, exploring how problems created by human activities, such as global warming, pollution of land, water, and air and increasing ocean acidity, are impacting on the lives of plants.

King's narrative provides a simple, highly readable introduction, with boxes in each chapter offering additional or more advanced material for readers seeking more detail. He concludes that, despite the challenges posed by growing environmental perils, plants will continue to dominate our planet.

Griffin and Kim, oral and maxillofacial surgeons who teach at the U. of Mississippi and Nova Southeastern U., respectively, compile nine chapters that outline facial cosmetic surgery techniques for oral and maxillofacial surgeons. A group of these surgeons from the US go over techniques for rhinoplasty, otoplasty, forehead and brow lifting, facelift, cosmetic management of the neck, minimal incision facelift, blepharoplasty, dermal fillers and botox, and facial skin rejuvenation, with information on anatomy, preoperative evaluation, treatment goals and principles, procedures, complications, cases, and equipment, with photos and illustrations. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chu, whose background is in medieval studies and religion, has assembled 37 literary accounts of architecture in California, most of them excerpts from larger works of fiction or non-fiction. Among the selections are George Vancouver from A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World, Gray Brechin on early synagogues of San Francisco, Edmond Wilson's "The Jumping-Off Place" from The American Earthquake, Allan Temko's "Bridge of Bridges--A Quantum Leap into Architectural Glory," Robert Duncan in Italian, Herb Caen's "Edifice Wrecks," Mike Davis from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ernest Callenbach From Ecotopia, and William Gibson's "Skinner's Room." No index is provided. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Benedict XVI is an extraordinary presentation of the first five years of Benedict's leadership as pope. The book features over 110 brilliant full-color photos rarely seen outside the Vatican. It also includes thoughtful commentary and warm memories from U.S. Church leaders, excerpts from Benedict's own writings, and provides an essential resource section. Benedict XVI is an invaluable keepsake and resource for Catholics, spiritual seekers, and those interested in how Catholicism touches the world today.

Updated in a new 2^nd edition, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies has been reissued in this Longman Classics edition, featuring a new epilogue: Health Care Reform from Clinton to Obama. Comparing the Clinton administration in 1993 with the Obama administration in 2009 and 2010, Kingdon analyses how agenda setting, actors, and alternatives affect public policy.