Intarsia Workbook: Learning Intarsia Woodworking Through 8 Progressive Step-by-Step Projects
Intarsia is made accessible to carvers of all skill levels through these eight progressive projects. Each project builds on the project before it, successively increasing in difficulty.
Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention, and Control
Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine. But while the tendency is to blame it all on human error, it is a much more complex problem that involves overburdened systems, constantly changing technology, increasing specialization, and a cycle of continual funding shortfalls made even more acute by resource-wasting inefficiencies.
Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done
Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed. From giving up cigarettes to increasing your productivity at work, you may simply have neglected to give yourself the proper incentives.
English is used almost universally in all kinds of communications. On its part, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, just behind Chinese. For these reasons, business and personal communications between English and Spanish-speaking people are increasing. Thus, a program that can translate between both languages would be very useful for all types of users.
German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America - Reception, Adaptation, Transformation
This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century -- the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic.
