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Tratamiento letal

Autor: Robin Cook

Número de Páginas: 501

Una sobrecogedora historia de intriga sobre la delgada línea que separa la ética médica de la ambición sin escrúpulos. Los doctores David y Angela Wilson creen haber alcanzado el sueño de su vida: trabajan en un moderno complejo hospitalario y viven en una apacible comunidad de Vermont, muy lejos de la vida estresante de las grandes metrópolis. Sin embargo, ese ambiente en apariencia idílico, oculta una terrible pesadilla que se cierne repentinamente sobre los Wilson: en el hospital empiezan a descubrirse casos de acoso sexual, violaciones y, lo más inquietante, una serie de pacientes mueren periódicamente de manera misteriosa, presentando síntomas idénticos e inexplicables.

Series de Culto: El Otro Hollywood

Autor: Abdessamed Sahali

Número de Páginas: 148

This book examines how television series, from ones that are original and hilarious to those that are tragic and shameless, have become a great phenomenon among the masses. Este libro examina como las series de televisión, desde las que son originales y descacharrantes hasta las que son trágicas y desvergonzadas, se han convertido en el gran fenómeno de las masas.

El libro rojo de la innovación (con introducción de Ferran Adrià)

Autor: Marcel Planellas

Número de Páginas: 370

Una guía fundamental para los directivos y empresarios que quieren impulsar la innovación de su organización. En tiempos de incertidumbre como los que estamos viviendo, directivos y empresarios se enfrentan al reto de innovar y transformar sus organizaciones, y para ello es necesario explorar nuevos caminos y contar con herramientas realmente eficaces. El restaurante elBulli y Ferran Adrià son un referente mundial en creatividad, y Marcel Planellas ha estudiado sus procesos de innovación hasta convertirlos en una metodología útil y práctica de aplicación en cualquier proyecto profesional o empresarial. El libro rojo de la innovación no es un libro blanco de análisis, ni un libro azul de propuesta, es un libro rojo para pasar a la acción, para ayudarles a impulsar la innovación de sus empresas y prepararlas para los retos del futuro. «Este libro rojo es una invitación para pasar a la acción, para lanzarte a realizar la Auditoría de la Innovación de tu empresa. ¡Al ataque!». Ferran Adrià, elBullifoundation Reseñas: «Siempre he admirado la capacidad de Ferran Adrià para innovar e inspirar. En este libro Marcel Planellas hace un análisis 360o del caso de...

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 200

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Philadelphia Stories

Autor: C. Dallett Hemphill

Número de Páginas: 369

For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell. Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the cobblestone are so familiar, one barely notices the ride. Yet there are other paths to travel, and the ride can be bumpy. Beyond the famed founders, other Americans walked the streets of Philadelphia whose lives were, in their own ways, just as emblematic of the promises and perils of the new nation. Philadelphia Stories chronicles twelve of these lives to explore the city's people and places from the colonial era to the years before the Civil War. This collective portrait includes men and women, Black and white Americans, immigrants and native born. If mostly forgotten today, banker Stephen Girard was one of the wealthiest men ever to have lived, and his material legacy can be seen by visiting sites such as Girard College. In a different register, but equally impressive, were the accomplishments of Sarah Thorn Tyndale. In a few short years as a widow she made enough money on her porcelain business to retire to a life as a reformer. Others faced frustration. Take, for example, Grace Growden Galloway. ...

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Comprehensive Management Plan, Monroe County

Número de Páginas: 294

Media Diversity

Autor: Mara Einstein

Número de Páginas: 259

Media Diversity: Economics, Ownership, and the FCC provides a detailed analysis of the regulation of diversity and its impact on the structure and practices within the broadcast television industry. As deregulation is quickly changing the media landscape, this volume puts the changing structure of the industry into perspective through the use of an insider's point of view to examine how policy and programming get made. Author Mara Einstein blends her industry experience and academic expertise to examine diversity as a media policy, suggesting that it has been ineffective and is potentially outdated, as study after study has found diversity regulations to be wanting. In addition to reviewing diversity research on the impact of minority ownership, regulation of cable and DBS, duopolies, ownership of multiple networks and cross ownership of media on program content, Einstein considers the financial interest and syndication rules as a case study, due to their profound effects on the structure of the television industry. She also poses questions from an economic perspective on why the FCC regulates structure rather than content. Through the presentation of her research results, she...

The Battle over America's Origin Story

Autor: Brian Regal

Número de Páginas: 328

This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of...

Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy

Autor: Rita Almendra , João Ferreira

Número de Páginas: 335

Design is about the creation of meaningful connections to solve problems and advance human wellbeing; the discipline has always explored the beneficial links between form and function, technology and meaning, beauty and utility, people and artefacts and problems and solutions, among others. This book focuses on the crucial connection between design research and design education. Contemporary society grows increasingly hyper-complex and globally competitive. This state of affairs raises fundamental questions for both Design Education and Design Research: Should research skills be integrated into undergraduate courses? How can we modify design courses without compromising the positive aspects of the educational studio experience? Can the three cycles of higher education in design be combined into a creative and inquisitive educational continuum? To examine the relationship between research and education in Design we must address the topic of knowledge, keeping in mind that the development and dissemination of new and useful knowledge is the core purpose of a University. If we agree that design has its own things to know and ways to find out about them, then design knowledge resides...