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In a country where health care is increasingly driven by profit, Margin over Mission exposes the dire consequences of corporate ownership in hospitals. James Kelly, an ICU nurse with over two decades of experience, narrates a gripping account of his final year at Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico—a year marred by preventable deaths, administrative changes, and the heartbreaking loss of a once-mission-driven institution to the clutches of Wall Street.

The Catholic Reformation: A Very Short Introduction traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, through the years of unrest in Europe, to its global expansion in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and its continued influence and legacy into the twentieth century.

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama: In Raging Fire of Love, Dr. Kelly James Clark delves into the teachings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and concludes that kindness and compassion lie at the heart of them all.

In un futuro prossimo, a seguito di un evento catastrofico, una casa dotata di intelligenza artificiale perde l'inquilino di cui è innamorata? Saprà gestire la sua assenza o avrà bisogno di sostituirlo? La Casa di Bernardo è una storia toccante che parte dalla domotica per esplorare le nostre debolezze e necessità più intime.

Do you have a hard time fitting exercise into your day? Do you work out occasionally but struggle to commit to a program? Do you frequently tell yourself you’ll go to the gym, then end up on the couch instead? You are not alone. Most people long to be in better shape, whether it’s for functional or aesthetic reasons. Working out has so many benefits - and yet the majority of us never do anything about it. Even those who exercise frequently aren’t happy with the results.

The audiobook gives you a look into the good, the bad, and the ugly side of parenting. Whether your parenting journey was embarked on willingly or (somewhat less so) through an unplanned pregnancy, the upheaval it brings into your life can be truly epic. The arrival of a new baby is a wonderful thing—it turns regular people into mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, godparents, and even grandparents. This new tiny person changes the lives of so many so quickly. However, as the parent, it is your life that is changed the most, and nobody can prepare you for the total upheaval it can cause.

The circus is in town, and on the planet Boon, that’s big - potentially riotous - news. The delicate, decaying political balance maintained by the cloned human grands at the expense of the uplifted dog and cat populations is in danger of toppling under the influence of mysterious forces both outer and inner.

Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

Rebelling against her fashion-drug designer father, freelance journalist and troubled clone Wynne Cage covers a data-heist that places her in the rank of a thief. To make matters more complicated, Wynne must also confront the forces of a world with unlimited bio-technological advantages.

James Patrick Kelly, the author of Planet of Whispers and the co-author, with John Kessel, of Freedom Beach has been nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo awards for his short fiction. This is a fable about a dissatisfied architect who travels "up-time" and changes shape to design a temple for a goddess.

Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject.

La prima raccolta di racconti di Future Fiction: Cosa succede a una casa dotata d'intelligenza artificiale quando perde l'inquilino di cui è innamorata? Qual è la coppia perfetta in una versione tecnologicamente avanzata del gioco del corteggiamento? Quanti segreti si nascondono nella villa di Aethra dove si creano "soggetti d'arte" al cui interno è intrappolata una copia senziente della padrona di casa?

James Patrick Kelly rappresenta il lato umano del cyberpunk e "Festa a sorpresa" è la sua prima raccolta di racconti mai pubblicata in doppia lingua, inglese e italiano. Include i seguenti racconti: La casa di Bernardo, Festa a sorpresa, La promessa dello spazio, Dichiarazione, Yukui!, La scimpanzé dei papi, Una sorella, due sorelle, tre. L'autore: James Patrick Kelly ha avuto una carriera eclettica: ha scritto romanzi, racconti, saggi, recensioni, poesie e sceneggiature.

Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU, in a teaching hospital, in the heart of New Mexico. It is the story of patients and families, suddenly faced with critical illness. In this context, Kelly reflects on the nature of medicine and nursing, on how doctors and nurses see themselves. Drawing on the words of medical historians, doctor-writers, and nursing scholars, Kelly examines the relationship of professional and lay observers, to the meaning of illness, empathy, caring, and the silence of suffering.