Written By Three Distinguished Authors With Ample Academic And Teaching Experience, This Textbook, Meant For Diploma And Degree Students Of Mechanical Engineering As Well As Those Preparing For Amie Examination, Incorporates The Latest Standards. The New Edition Includes The Features Of Assembly Drawings, Part Drawings And Computer-Aided Drawings To Cater To The Needs Of Students Pursuing Various Courses. The Text Of The New Edition Has Been Thoroughly Revised To Include New Concepts And Practices In The Subject. It Should Prove An Ideal Textbook.
We Are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream
Through the inspiring stories of sixteen students—from seniors at high school to graduate students—William Perez gives voice to the estimated 2.4 million undocumented students in the United States, and draws attention to their plight.
Pursuing Excellence in Healthcare: Preserving America's Academic Medical CentersFor over 100 years, academic medical centers (AMCs) have been the bastion of medicine; providing outstanding care, incubating the discoveries that have improved health care around the world, and training the next generation of doctors and scientists. Delineating the issues that have lead to the current crisis in AMCs, this book provides a radically different model for achieving success.
Added by: elena33333 | Karma: 348.29 | Fiction literature | 18 September 2009
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For over six centuries, the University of Oxford had been an exclusively male bastion of privilege and opportunity. Few dreamed this could change. Yet, in 1879, twenty-one pioneering women quietly entered two recently established residence halls in Oxford in the hope of attending lectures and pursuing a course of study. More women soon followed and, by 1893, there were five women's societies, each with its own principal, staff, and identity.
With insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at a small Long Island guitar school at the age of eight, to a national television appearance backing jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. He makes bittersweet and vivid a young man’s struggle to forge an artist’s life—and to become the next Segovia. And we see him after graduation, pursuing a solo career in Vienna but realizing that he has neither the ego nor the talent required to succeed at the upper reaches of the world of classical guitar—and giving up the instrument, and his dream, entirely.
