In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote—including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, and movies he admired; The Great Gatsby, his favorite book; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; and more. This book, published in a handsome, oversized format, collects these unpublished interviews and is a visual history of Macdonald’s professional career. It is illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world’s largest private archives of Macdonald ephemera; reproduces, in full color, the covers of the various editions of Macdonald’s more than two dozen books; collects facsimile reproductions of select pages from his manuscripts, as well as magazine spreads; and presents rare photos, many never before seen.

As the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaching and coaches in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as a vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change. Using in-depth case studies of elite disability sport coaches from around the world, across a wide range of sports and disciplines, the book offers a framework for critical reflection on coaching practice and the reader’s own disability sport experiences.

This work gathers 12 articles by organizational scholars, most from the US. An intro section deals with benefits and dilemmas of applying organization and management theory to religious organizations. The rest of the book contains essays on studying religion and organization at the micro-level, religious organizational forms and practices, religion and institutional theory, and religion and social movements. Some specific topics are pastor practices in the era of mega-churches, Max Weber’s value spheres and institutional theory, the institutional complexity of religious mutual funds, interfaith social change, and organizations in the religious-environmental movement. The book is distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

iSpeak is an integrated program that helps students practice, build confidence, and achieve success in public speaking. Connect Public Speaking provides students a wealth of resources to prepare and plan speeches, while LearnSmart — McGraw-Hill’s proven adaptive learning system — guides them toward mastery of key course concepts. Additionally, Connect’s highly flexible Speech Capture tool saves instructors valuable time in managing assignments and evaluating student speeches.

Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960 and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left. Goodman, at the time well into middle age, was a maverick anarchist who broke every mold, and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book's success established him as one of America's most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words.

Growing Up Absurd takes the crisis of disaffected youth as indicative of the crisis within the culture at large, which Goodman describes as being run by corporations that provide employment  (when they do) but not work in any meaningful sense, work that engages body and soul. Disaffected youth was in this sense at the forefront of a disruption of a social order that was, if not directly politically repressive, humanly repressive, stifling the real human potential which, surely, a good society would serve to unleash, encourage, and pass on.

Based on the author's life-long practical experiences both in the industry and in research, this best-selling, state-of-the-art guide to the operation of commercial flower and vegetable greenhouses presents coverage in the order in which decision-making concerns occur for a person entering the greenhouse business. Exceptionally comprehensive –yet accessible–GREENHOUSE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT, 7/e provides detailed, step-by-step instructions in layman's terms for ALL aspects of the business–from the physical facilities, to the day-to-day operations, to business management and marketing.

The clinical microsystems model is the approach for quality improvement in health care, endorsed by the American Hospital Association and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Written by three leading experts in clinical quality improvement—authors of the bestselling Quality by Design—The Clinical Improvement Guide combines theory and principles for assessing and improving front-line clinical units with field-tested and refined practical tools to form a comprehensive approach to clinical improvement, assessment, and measurement of processes, outcomes, and performance for all the settings in which health services are delivered.

A supernatural thriller hailed as “the new BUFFY.” Horror has a new name and it is HEXED. Finally available in trade paperback! Collected in one volume for the first time, it's the series that took the comics world by storm and introduced readers to the next great supernatural heroine – Luci Jennifer Inagcio Das Neves or Lucifer for short. They say there is no honor among thieves – put that thief in the occult underground and you have a whole different kind of nasty. When Lucifer takes a new job, more than the macabre underbelly of the city is exposed, but also the secret that could jeopardize her whole existence. And so begins the greatest supernatural thrill-ride that will have you cursing Lucifer's name until the last page.

The Dave Brubeck QuartetÂ's 1959 album Time Out changed the sound of jazz and American music. BrubeckÂ's experimentation with meter, harmony and even Turkish rhythms eventually earned him the cover of Time Magazine; the first jazz musician to achieve such a feat. Saxophonist Paul DesmondÂ's composition “Take Five” went on to become the first million-selling jazz instrumental single on the Billboard Hot 100. This folio celebrates the albumÂ's 50th anniversary with full-color artwork from the original record, and a 10 page write-up from jazz historian Ted Gioia. All seven compositions from the monumental recording have been carefully arranged for Easy Piano. Titles: Blue Rondo Ă  la Turk * Strange Meadow Lark * Take Five * Three to Get Ready * KathyÂ's Waltz * EverybodyÂ's JumpinÂ' * Pick Up Sticks.

Ultrafast Phenomena XVI presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including both ultrafast optical technology and the study of ultrafast phenomena. It covers picosecond, femtosecond and attosecond processes relevant to applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Ultrafast technology has a profound impact in a wide range of applications, amongst them biomedical imaging, chemical dynamics, frequency standards, material processing, and ultrahigh speed communications. This book summarizes the results presented at the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena and provides an up-to-date view of this important and rapidly advancing field.

With a rich variety of contributions from some of Word Music's most accomplished arrangers comes the ultimate wedding keyboard songbook, Weddings' Best! This versatile collection features all new arrangements of the 20 most requested piano solos for Christian weddings, from contemporary ballads to traditional marches. Arranged at the medium difficult level, Weddings' Best! also includes chord symbols and optional C instrument duet parts, and is a must-have resource for any piano library.

Quality by Design reflects the research and applied training conducted at Dartmouth Medical School under the leadership of Gene Nelson, Paul Batalden, and Marjorie Godfrey. The book includes the research results of high-performing clinical microsystems, illustrative case studies that highlight individual clinical programs, guiding principles that are easily applied, and tools, techniques, and methods that can be adapted by clinical practices and interdisciplinary clinical teams. The authors

• describe how to develop microsystems that can attain peak performance through active engagement of interdisciplinary teams in learning and applying improvement science and measurement;
• explore the essence of leadership for clinical Microsystems;
• show what mid-level leaders can do to enable peak performance at the front lines of care;
• outline the design and redesign of services and planning care to match patient needs with services offered;
• examine the issue of safety;
• describe the vital role of data in creating a rich and useful information environment;
• provide a core curriculum that can build microsystems' capability, provide excellent care, promote a positive work environment, and contribute to the larger organization.