Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known as "the Captain" brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news of the world outside their door.
Key Themes in Health and Social Care - A Companion to Learning
"Key Issues in Health and Social Care" is a learning resource for students in health and social care. It provides an overview of foundational issues and core themes in the field and introduces key areas of debate, moving from an introductory level to in-depth discussion as the book progresses.
The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology CompaniesIn The Chasm Companion, The Chasm Group's Paul Wiefels presents readers with a new analysis of the ideas introduced in bestselling author Geoffrey Moore's classic books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, and focuses on how to translate these ideas into actionable strategy and implementation programs. This step-by-step fieldbook is organized around three major concepts: how high-tech markets develop, creating market development strategy, and executing go-to-market programs based on the strategy.
Eighty years ago, at the end of The House at Pooh Corner, Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; now they are back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties, in this companion volume that truly captures the style of the A. A. Milne classic.
The changes in three editions of The Chef’s Companion mark the transitions in the American culinary scene at large. The main difference in this third edition is the Chinese entries: they have been entirely overhauled. Most are now in Pinyin, the system of romanization that China officially adopted in 1979. The older system, Wade-Giles, remains correct but outmoded.
