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  • The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships

    Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg

    Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports, recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G. Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi period, Dick's accumulation of material and pictures is extraordinary. ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Dying and Disabled Children

    Dealing With Loss and Grief

    In this sensitive and compassionate look at terminally ill and disabled children, professionals from the medical community examine the stresses faced by their parents and siblings. They address the crucial element of communication--within a family and between health care providers and family members--in dealing with a child’s serious illness. Ethical decision making, learning to recognize the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age

    by Scott Woolley ...
    The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends—one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor—who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.This is the origin story of the airwaves—the foundational technology of the communications age—as told through the forty-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Computing

    A Concise History

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    Discover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first use of the word “digital” in 1942 to the development of punch cards and the first general purpose ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • They Made America

    From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

    An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century.The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters who populate Harold Evans's rollicking, brilliant history ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Nurse to Nurse Evidence-Based Practice

    A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering one of the most important trends in nursing todayFrom the co-creator of the Model for Change to Evidence-Based Practice comes the first portable guide to evidence-based practice for direct care nurses in any healthcare setting.Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, case studies, and explicit ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • We Are All Stardust

    Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

    by Stefan Klein ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    "The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound." —Nature"What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?" —Stefan Klein"First and foremost, curiosity." —Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Invention

    Technology and the Human Future

    We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Route 66

    The Mother Road

    by David Knudson ...
    Series Book 675 - Shire Library USA
    Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Americans travelled this great road from those heading west during ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Angels in Disguise

    Stories from America's School Nurses

    School nurses serve on the front lines of the everyday struggle for our childrens health, yet they are often perceived as little more than glorified dispensers of bandages. This false perception, held by many parents, officials, and administrators, does a serious disservice to this dedicated group of health professionals.Angels in Disguise tells the oral history of school nursing through the eyes, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gastrointestinal Physiology

    A Clinical Approach

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume provides a practical hands on guide to gastrointestinal physiology. The book emphasizes an appreciation of basic physiological concepts and their application to novel clinical situations. It exposes the physician-in-training to fundamental principles that are useful in treating patients and lays the groundwork for more advanced study in the future. The authors present relevant cases ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Hospice Care and Cultural Diversity

    Hospice Care and Cultural Diversity captures the richness and differences that make up the United States and its culture. This book shows you the complex issues arising from work with patients of a different culture and encourages research in hospices which support culturally innovative programs. Many people are individually knowledgeable and culturally sensitive, but few hospices have ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD