Kirjahaku
Etsi kirjoja tekijän nimen, kirjan nimen tai ISBN:n perusteella.
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Kevin B. Shearer
Han Erh: Book Four of The Dragons of Wulin
Kevin B. Shearer
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Senya Dain: Book Six of the Dragons of Wulin
Kevin B. Shearer
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
Containing even more of our philosophies and unique and powerful practice methods, the Story of Senya Dain also happens to be the most violent and action-packed of the seventeen stories. Dain finds himself swept up into a bloody Tong war and the accelerated training methods his Tong brothers use to bring him to a fighting level as quickly as possible. As the theme of the book implies, his Tong has him "training for life and death on the street, not games or play acting." In reading this book you will come to understand, as did Senya Dain, the difference between the battlefield and the gaming arena and the finality of life and death that understanding brings to those who know... and to those who do not.
Gis Erh: Book Seven of the Dragons of Wulin
Kevin B. Shearer
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
Of all the Seventeen Dragons, Gis Erh was the most sudden and furious in his attacks. He studied the Leopard system and the straight saber under an amazing and enigmatic Master, who was both foreign and one of his own Hahn people. Take the journey with him as his quest overlaps that of Senya Dain in the troubled Capital city of the Empire. Learn the mysterious and powerful Ceremony of the Warrior and what it did to make him the man of action and high spirits that he became.
Willow Palm: The Most Powerful Self Defense Pattern You Will Ever Learn
Kevin B. Shearer
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
Torin Feng: Book Five of The Dragons of Wulin
Kevin B. Shearer Sr
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
nidottu
Whether you are an athlete or a martial artist looking for the inspiration to rocket you forward or just looking for the gateway to a new adventure, The Story of Chu Jeng is your ticket. Inspiring selected martial artists and other readers from around the world for more than a decade, this book is finally available to you.Once restricted to the members of a secretive fighting society called Lung Tong, The traditional Story of Chu Jeng now makes available to you many of the powerful fighting principles, practice methods and philosophies of their mystical Way of the Dragon.Nobody reads this story and remains the same.
Tenju Gen - Book Two of The Dragons of Wulin - Following the exciting Story of Chu Jeng; Tenju Gen - The Forest Mist, recounts the mystical tale of the secretive white dragon of Lung Tong and his journey to learn a mysterious fighting art to protect Sanjurra village. Every bit as philosophical as Chu Jeng is down to earth, Tenju Gen will leave your mind flying through the possibilities for a greater life of your own... and thirsting to read it again and again.The Dragons of Lung Tong debated for a long time as to whether or not they should publish this book, because of the higher training methods it contained. It was finally decided to make the methods a bit more cryptic in the text, but they are still there if the reader has the wisdom to perceive.In the end, YOU WIN.
Wang Chi is ordered by the supreme head of his monastery to hunt down and "de-claw" (kill) one of his brothers of the Dragon's Path. Unfortunately for Wang, the one he must de-claw has snapped over to perpetual perfection... and insanity.He sets out in obedience, but wonders what he can possibly accomplish against one whom an army could not hope to withstand.
Public Administration: Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government
Kevin B. Smith; Michael J. Licari
Oxford University Press
2006
nidottu
Public Administration: Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government presents public administration through the lens of politics and the policy-making power of the bureaucracy. By showing how the bureaucracy influences daily life, Smith and Licari bring the field of public administration alive for students. This text dispels the myth that the study of public administration is boring or irrelevant to students' lives by demonstrating just how deeply it pervades our lives. The authors focus on the bureaucracy--"the fourth branch of government"--as a key ingredient in politics and policy-making. This approach is novel, but it accurately reflects the true nature of public administration in America. This book examines our bureaucracy's considerable political power, where it comes from, how it is used, and how it can be controlled. Major Features: * Unique focus on political and policy-making power. This is the first public administration textbook to focus on the political and policy-making power of the bureaucracy. Without abandoning coverage of more traditional topics, this approach is more compelling to students because it demonstrates just how much influence the bureaucracy wields in our daily lives. * Highlights the tension between democracy and bureaucracy. A central paradox at the heart of the political system is democracy's reliance on the very undemocratic bureaucratic institutions that characterize the administrative branch of government. This text seeks to explain why and lay out the implications of that dependency. * Details the role and legitimacy of public administration in a democracy. There is an uneasy and fascinating relationship between the democratically elected leadership in government and the bureaucracies needed to carry out their decisions. This tension forms a running theme throughout the book. * Solid multidisciplinary foundation. This book draws on literature by the most important academics in the fields of both public administration and political science. * Readability. Smith and Licari write in an engaging, informal style that is rich in lively examples and free of academic jargon. Key terms are included in a glossary.
In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879–82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking.
Technological advances in hardware and software provide powerful tools with the potential to design interfaces that are powerful and easy to use. Yet, the frustrations and convoluted "work-arounds" often encountered make it clear that there is substantial room for improvement. Drawn from more than 60 years of combined experience studying, implementing, and teaching about performance in human-technology systems, Display and Interface Design: Subtle Science, Exact Art provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide for ecological display and interface design.Written from the perspective of cognitive systems engineering and ecological interface design, the book delineates how to design interfaces tailored to specific work demands, leverage the powerful perception-action skills of the human, and use powerful interface technologies wisely. This triadic approach (domain, human, interface) to display and interface design stands in sharp contrast to traditional dyadic (human, interface) approaches. The authors describe general principles and specific strategies at length and include concrete examples and extensive design tutorials that illustrate quite clearly how these principles and strategies can be applied. The coverage spans the entire continuum of interfaces that might need to be developed in today's work places. The reason that good interfaces are few and far between is really quite simple: they are extremely difficult to design and build properly. While there are many books available that address display design, most of them focus on aesthetic principles but lack scientific rigor, or are descriptive but not prescriptive. Whether you are exploring the principles of interface design or designing and implementing interfaces, this book elucidates an overarching framework for design that can be applied to the broad spectrum of existing domains.
Health Communication in the 21st Century
Kevin B. Wright; Lisa Sparks; H. Dan O'Hair
John Wiley Sons Inc
2012
nidottu
This popular and engaging text on health communication is now revised and updated in a second edition that incorporates recent research and boasts new material on topics such as crisis communication, social disparities in health, and systemic reform. Fully revised second edition of this popular and authoritative textIncludes fresh material on topics such as crisis communication, health care reform, global health issues, and political issues in health communicationNew case studies, examples, and updated glossary keep the work relevant and student-friendlyProvides effective strategies for healthcare organizations and individuals in communicating with patientsUpdated and enhanced online resources, including PowerPoint slides, test bank, and instructors manual, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/wright
The concept of profiting from trading volatility is not new, but is known to only a few players in the derivatives industry. Buying and Selling Volatility is the first book to explain this trading strategy in detail without using complex mathematics. Offering a new approach to the subject of options, seen purely from a volatility viewpoint, the author uses illustrations to clearly explain the connection between volatility and options. He explains how investors can profit from the volatility, or lack of volatility, of an option price regardless of whether the market rises or falls. Useful to both novice investors and professional traders, Buying and Selling Volatility also supplies the reader with a risk management software system that is comparable to those used commercially.
The Convertible Bonds (CB) market is growing all the time. To date,over one trillion dollars worth of CBs are in circulation.Corporations are finding this source of fund-raising more and moreattractive. And for different reasons, the buyers are finding CBsincreasingly attractive investment vehicles. There are few works on the subject of pricing convertible bonds.Most books discussing derivative products cover all details ofpricing futures and options in minute detail. Convertible bonds andwarrants are usually mentioned as an after thought in the latterchapters. This is the first book to address the very complex issueof pricing convertible bonds. Kevin Connolly, Researcher of complex volatility trading for RefcoOverseas Ltd. and Lecturer at City University Business School andLondon Guildhall University, has put together an excellenttreatment of pricing convertible bonds, delving into topics suchas: * Returns distributions and associated descriptive statistics * Modeling the share price process * The basic convertible bond model * Introducing the complications * Convertible bond sensitivities * Using equity warrant models to price CBs * Refix clauses Fund managers, hedge players/traders, undergraduates andpostgraduates will find this book invaluable. Easy to understandsoftware on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is also supplied.
The Writing Template Book is a practical how-to guide for academic writers. Because good writers automatically develop their own internal writing templates that impose clarity and structure on their material, this text provides template examples to help less experienced writers produce the reliable, replicable syntax that is essential to good writing. TheWriting Template Book provides numerous examples and practice exercises on writing summaries, thesis sentences, introductions, conclusions, and the bodies of typical essays and papers. Templates are an effective tool for improving performance on standardized tests like the TOEFL® and the SAT®. Writing templates can enhance students’ scores on standardized tests by providing them with a structure that conforms to grading criteria. Students who are able to apply even a portion of the template to their essays will perform at a higher level than if they had not used templates.
Taking Sides, Second Edition, encourages students to form opinions and exchange ideas on important issues to prepare them for participation in academic settings. The text contains an introductory exercise and six units—philosophy (distributive justice), law, ethics, psychology, business negotiation, and linguistics. Within these sections, students are given practice in how to state opinions, compromise, build consensus, speak persuasively, understand group dynamics, write business memos, make presentations, engage in debate, and negotiate. The second edition of Taking Sides includes changes to the order of the units (from the first edition) to improve usability of material (based on student feedback). New to this edition is material aimed at helping students prepare for the independent and integrated speaking tasks of the TOEFL® iBT. Whether students are preparing for the iBT or not, these activities improve students’ extemporaneous speaking skills and develop true fluency.
Panther Gorge captures the adventure of one of the most remote, enigmatic regions of the Adirondack High Peaks. Two thousand feet deep and lined with sheer cliffs, the rugged chasm sits between Mts. Marcy and Haystack, New York's first and third highest mountains. In between the jaws of the peaks sits an intriguing set of natural curiosities: spires, talus mazes, glacial erratics, ponds, rills, and forest. Panther Gorge begins with a detailed description of the area's topography followed by a rich history.Step back into the 1800's and walk in the footsteps of author Alfred B. Street, surveyor Verplanck Colvin, and guides Orson "Old Mountain" Phelps and Jim Goodwin. Jump forward a century and read about the modern day pioneers of rock and ice climbing. Part two of Panther Gorge chronicles the author's decade-long journey with other local mountaineers to develop new rock climbing and ice climbing routes . Vicariously experience a blustery winter ascent up blue ice or enjoy the serenity of exploring on a temperate summer morning. If you are a hiker, climber, adventurer, or someone who appreciates the beauty of nature, Panther Gorge is a key addition for your collection and the only book dedicated to the subject.Other content: - Complete history of first ascents from 1965-2019. - 37 firsthand accounts from 2009 through the winter of 2018. - Foreword by Don Mellor, climber and author. - Illustrations by Nolan Huther. - Over 170 color photographs, maps, and route plates. What others are saying: Panther Gorge is one of our great unexplored frontiers, shrouded by myth and impenetrable krummholz. Kevin has done an outstanding job chronicling this remote wilderness, not only with exhaustive research, but with extensive, first-hand accounts and photography. The sheer number of climbing successes revealed in these pages leaves one slack-jawed. Panther Gorge is a culmination of Kevin's climbing skill and tireless thirst for discovery. Jim Lawyer, Guidebook Author and ClimberA great contribution from one of our finest local mountaineers. Kevin's work has been useful to me on multiple levels. I have thoroughly enjoyed following his expeditions both on foot and paper. As a search and rescue professional, I've relied on his skills and knowledge several times during crucial situations. As an outdoor adventurist, he has taken exploration to new heights in an old landscape. Scott van Laer, Forest Ranger (PBA of NYS)
