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The Gardens of Suzhou
Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, and Garden of the Peaceful Mind, as well as other lesser-known but equally significant gardens in the Suzhou region. Unlike the acclaimed religious and imper...
Attacking Myasthenia Gravis
Using his insight as a longtime physician, Dr. Ron Henderson describes the productive life he lives despite having a rare autoimmune disease known as myasthenia gravis (MG). He also provides a forum for three other MG patients to share their inspirational stories. A disease unfamiliar to many, myasthenia gravis means "grave muscle weakness" and causes severe weakness and loss of strength in voluntary muscles in various parts of the body. Often debilitating, MG falls into the category of "autoimmune" diseases, which all involve problems related to the immune system. Explaining MG symptoms, treatments, research, and disease-management tips, this book becomes a useful guide for MG patients, the...
Achieving Quality Improvement
Achieving Quality Improvement follows a quality management consultant "in action" through visits to four client companies that request advice. The consultant begins by discussing quality improvement in the context of Total Quality Management (TQM), then visits a chemical manufacturing company, a food and drink can company, a water company, and an engineering company to discuss aspects of quality improvement related to process capability, customer requirements, and precision of test methods.
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The Bastard Is Dead
Paul Burke is an ex-pro cyclist from Montréal, Canada who has settled down to a quiet, unproductive existence on the French Riviera. He’s managing to pay the bills, but spends most of his time just killing time. Then the Tour de France comes to town and Burke finds himself caught up in one death and then a second. As he tries to sort out what has happened, Burke knows life will never be the same for him‒and those around him.
Eternity
Dr. David Winters’ intellect is the greatest the modern world has ever known. He snatched fully functioning nanites right off the pages of science fiction and made them a reality. His latest discovery, however, will make the nanites pale in comparison, and he’s going to give this one to the world. With its impact on people and on the Earth itself so significant, however, will Winters’ latest discovery lead to an incredible new beginning for humanity, or will it usher in its downfall?
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Keeper of the Dead
Detective Rena Foss was hit hard by a tough case that left her feeling less like a cop than the keeper of dead children's memories. She abandoned her fast tracked career in Minneapolis for the promise of light case loads and little supervision in rural Nevada. She soon discovers there are monsters hunting children everywhere when a star athlete turns up missing. Her victim Kammy Johnson is the perfect kid on the surface smart, attractive, likeable and talented. When Rena starts digging she realizes the girl has been playing a dangerous game involving blackmail and manipulation that might end with her dead. When the kidnapper contacts the parents she knows the chances of getting the girl back...
Kent State: An American Tragedy
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction A Kirkus Reviews and New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences. On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans—National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen—many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft—op...
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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
