Provides a fictional account of the lives of African explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and of their search for the source of the Nile

Burton and Speke

Literature & Fiction

HARRISON, William

United States

St Martins Pr

Mountains of the Moon

Genre Fiction

Ballantine Books

Gain a thorough understanding of the business side of health care with the practical approach in Harrison/Harrison/Taylor's INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, 2E. This health care finance book is specifically designed for readers with little or no accounting or finance background. The latest discussions detail cost reimbursement programs, economic factors driving the rising costs of medical services and health care reform -- from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 through future trends. Health care-related examples show you the importance of what you're learning as you study the basics of health care accounting and finance, from accounting fundamentals, operating the cash drawer and bank reconciliation through more complex issues of cash management, budgeting and variance analysis and revenue cycle management. Engaging case scenarios, helpful learning features and optional MindTap digital further reinforce what you learn.

Introduction to Health Care Finance and Accounting (MindTap Course List)

Medical Books

Harrison,Carlene

Taylor,Carol

Administration & Medicine Economics

Cengage Learning'

From Library Journal From the Twenties the name of Cavenaugh was synonymous with big game hunting in East Africa. Now in the Eighties, Chili Cavenaugh and his sons Coke and Lucien reunite to hunt a marauding leopard preying on a remote refugee camp. Narrated from Lucien's point of view, the novel examines the Cavenaugh's compulsive womanizing and the conflicts it has created between the three men. Harrison ( Burton and Speke, In a Wild Sanctuary) is as deft at evoking the desolation of drought-stricken Africa as he is at portraying the psyches of men for whom the hunt and the kill are primary urges. More than an adventure story, this novel of male relationships and rites of passage lays bare the dichotomy between men's drives for dominance over women and nature and their quests for love.- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Set in modern-day Kenya, this taut, intelligent novel features an estranged family of renowned hunting guides. Following the ban on big-game hunting, Chili Cavenaugh, a legendary, American-born hunter, lives on memories; his 40-year-old son Lucien opens a safari outfitting store; Lucien's older brother Coke flies tourist planes. Their story is introduced when Lucien agrees to help an attractive American relief doctor transport medical supplies from Nairobi to a refugee camp in Northern Kenya. After a leopard kills a child in the camp, and returns to strike again, Lucien asks Coke and Chili to help him track and kill the animal. Harrison's prose is lean and spare, sustaining narrative tension. In chapters alternating between the hunt and flashbacks that illuminate a lifetime of conflicts among the hunters, Harrison ( Burton and Speke ) weaves a subtle, effective tale, his characters deeply etched and memorable. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Three Hunters

Random House]

When the close confidante of the U.S. President is murdered in Africa, a rag-tag task force assembles to solve that crime &amp; similar ones: people killed evidently by cobra venom. Can a cadre of disparate govt. agencies headed up by a veteran contract operator &amp; an offensive lower functionary succeed?Author Harrison has written several novels with an Africa setting: here, a killer moves unimpeded into Nigeria, Egypt, &amp; Zanzibar, fairly taunting law enforcement &amp; the comic American opera set up to capture him. @The center of the task force is Charlie Hazo a.k.a. the Professor, who's survived a dozen swipes from death, &amp; Peter Foxx a.k.a. the Little Buddha, whose noisy ambition &amp; noisier dining habits preclude that "refined sexual act" he imagines himself capable of.Even after the task force falters in Africa, the Little Buddha's still manuvering for open access to the White House &amp; an office @the Pentagon: &amp; to acquire all that, he agrees to be the killer's next target.First published in 1981 in the shadow of Munich &amp; Watergate, Savannah Blue is the tale of people succeeding despite themselves. Rounded out by Harrison's sparse, occasionally harsh (the lost, bewildered cop &amp; the mamba attack) prose. No longer in print but worth the search.

Savannah Blue

Action & Adventure

R. Marek

Colloquial Russian is a practical course in everyday written and spoken Russian requiring no prior knowledge of the language. It is ideal for anyone seeking to gain a sound command of the contemporary language, whether studying independently or with a teacher. The course is designed to encourage the learner to gain and practise essential language skills, and pays special attention throughout to learning the cyrillic alphabet. The twenty lessons introduce core situations that the individual might encounter in Russia, ranging from asking for directions and ordering a meal to writing letters and discussing business opportunities. The course includes: * situation-based conversations * a range of texts * useful and practical vocabulary * clear, concise grammar notes * a variety of exercises with answer keys * a ready-reference grammar * an English-Russian and Russian-English glossary * an index of grammatical terms Colloquial Russian is accompanied by two interactive 60-minute cassettes recorded by native Russian speakers. These cassettes complement and reinforce the material covered in the book, but the emphasis on core language skills and situations means that they can be used as an invaluable accompaniment to any Russian language course. The cassettes include pronunciation exercises, dialogues and passages to listen to, role-plays to participate in, and a full range of other exercises to help develop language skills. The book and cassettes are available separately or in the form of a course pack.

Colloquial Russian

Clarkson, Yelena

Le Fleming, Stephen

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

This is a compact, two-way dictionary providing a comprehensive vocabulary for general purposes. It has some 25,000 entries in each of its 2 sections, and a supplement of new words has been added to the present edition.

Russian Dictionary: Russian-English, English-Russian

Reference

Le Fleming, Svetlana

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

First Published in 1967. Holinshed's Description of Britain is allowed to contain the most curious and authentic account of the manners and Customs of our Island in the Reign of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, in which it was written. His History of the transactions of the British Isles, during these periods, possesses all the force and value of contemporary Evidence, collected by a most skilful Observer; and the peculiar Style and Orthography in which the work is written, furnish a very interesting document to illustrate the history of the English language.

Holinshed's Chronicles England, Scotland and Ireland: England, Scotland, and Ireland

History

Hooker, John

Holinshed, Raphaell

Vowell

Europe

In the near future, there will only be corporations, comfort, conformity and Rollerball. In the very near future, they will produce a war every week during prime time and televise it to the rest of the world. They will call it Rollerball. Within the eye of Jonathan E., the world's most gifted athlete performer, you can see the murderous game which has replaced war. Eighty thousand people are watching from the stands, two billion more are following the game on multivision. It's violence for all, by proxy. The winners survive and receive all the best that the world can offer. Lucky losers are only maimed. Unlucky losers die!

Rollerball

Warner

"… for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow but a great many, through Persian delicacy crept in among us, altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." — Of Woods and Marshes, The Description of England Originally written as part of an introduction to Holinshed's Chronicles, The Description of England provides an unparalleled account of life in Shakespeare's England. A cleric and historian, William Harrison (1535-93) compiled detailed accounts of nearly every aspect of English life: food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, castles and palaces, antiquities, metals and minerals, dogs, fish, cattle, languages, inns and thoroughfares, rivers, the appearance of the people, and much more. Brimming with fascinating information, enlivened by the author's wide-ranging curiosity, keen-eyed observation of his country and country men, and unabashed nationalism, the book is a monumental reference that ranks today as a classic of social description. As the editor, Georges Edelen, points out in his Introduction, "No other work of the age gives so compendious and readable an account of life in Shakespeare's England, and no similar book has been so deeply quarried by later writers on the period." Now students, historians, Anglophiles — all who are interested in Renaissance England — can immerse themselves in this richly detailed study and enjoy a colorful, realistic picture of English life four centuries ago.

The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life

Dover Publications

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