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Familiar faces, hidden lives Familiar faces, hidden lives Howard Brown A former senior health-services official speaks honestly and plainly about what it is like to be gay in America. A classic of gay history. Introduction by Randy Shilts. OL13350336W
The Divided Self The Divided Self R. D. Laing First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with… OL145047W
Great cases of Scotland Yard Great cases of Scotland Yard Emlyn Williams,Andrew Garve,Julian Symons,Clive Egleton,Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy,Elizabeth Jenkins,Winston Graham,Eric Ambler,Russell Braddon Commissioned to investigate these cases and develop a classic mystery story, eight of England's most distinguished mystery writers have recreated some of Scotland Yard's most exciting and notorious c… OL15160663W
Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries Jose M Fanelli As recent events in Southeast Asian have demonstrated, the fragility of a country’s financial sector can have severe macroeconomic consequences, affecting its ability to manufacture, import, and expo… OL15179228W
Random family Random family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles a… OL15844775W
Bad company Bad company Steve Wick New York Newsday reporter Wick examines the events surrounding the 1983 murder of movie producer Roy Radin. Both Radin and the woman accused of masterminding his death, a former Miami drug trafficker… OL15854691W
Who killed George Polk? Who killed George Polk? Elias Vlanton Reconstructing the murder, investigation, trial, and aftermath, Who Killed George Polk? offers a penetrating analysis of the willingness of the American media - including CBS and a committee of promi… OL15857138W
Runaway devil Runaway devil Robert Remington Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose uncover the facts behind a multiple murder committed on April 23, 2006--a case involving the unlikely young love between a twelve-year old girl and … OL15974056W
Selling women short Selling women short Liza Featherstone "Betty Dukes is a devoutly religious African-American woman who didn't know the meaning of sex discrimination until she started working for Wal-Mart. She joined the company to get ahead, hoping to be… OL16039359W
As nature made him As nature made him John Colapinto The true story of a family who spends 14 years trying to raise their son as a girl after his botched circumcision. OL16064265W
Boys and girls learn differently! Boys and girls learn differently! Michael Gurian Explores the biological gender differences which influence how boys and girls learn and discusses how the American education system can be adapted to better serve various learning rates. OL16071924W
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle Rebecca Solnit,David Solnit Summary:"From dawn to dusk on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meeting, facing cops firing tear gas and rubber bullets, the National Guard, and th… OL16227646W
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks,Margarida Trias,Jonathan Davis In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable w… OL1811898W
The macroeconomics of scaling up aid The macroeconomics of scaling up aid Andrew Berg This study analyzes key issues associated with large increases in aid, including absorptive capacity, Dutch disease, and inflation. The authors develop a framework that emphasizes the different roles… OL18407525W
Team of Rivals Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical por… OL1856010W
Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels Christoph Wulf "Notre analyse est une étude de cas thématique dans laquelle on cherche à savoir comment, à l'aide de rituels, est générée une communauté dans quatre domaines de socialisation.... Notre étude se conc… OL19107836W
Du monopole au marché Du monopole au marché Pierre-Éric Tixier,Renaud Damesin Propose une synthèse des mutations en cours dans les grandes entreprises publiques françaises, comme France Télécom, La Poste, EDF, la RATP et la SNCF. Montre les stratégies adoptées pour s'adapter à… OL19844301W
Internet marketing 2010 Internet marketing 2010 Julia Jouffroy,Guillaume Ber,Martin Tissier Un exposé des grands prinicpes, acteurs et techniques du marketing et de la communication sur Internet et la téléphonie mobile et 62 analyses de campagnes marquantes de l'année 2009. OL20876908W
The doctoral examination process The doctoral examination process Carolyn Jackson,Penny Tinkler "It also incorporates a wealth of information that most supervisors and examiners only acquire through years of experience ... this book deserves to be widely read and, if it is, it should contribute… OL20886352W
Against the grain Against the grain Gillian Ranson "Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The … OL21377859W
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