What's your legacy? How much is enough? How do we get to more and better giving?  In Give While You Live Peter Winneke shines a light on best practice giving, maximising impact and how it will enhance your purpose and legacy. Explore 35 case studies, commence or revamp your charitable giving approach for transformative results and use a family foundation as an educational tool for your children. This frank and constructive book, part memoir, part practical guide, highlights the joy of giving and the reforms required that would lead ...

Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property , social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater ...

In this 5th edition of the concise and clearly written best selling title, all the chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded, particularly the sections on the retinal, macular, phacoemulsification, lasik, new equipment and ophthalmic drugs. The book is generously illustrated with more than 200 colour pictures and is an excellent volume for medical students, general practitioners, ophthalmic students and all paramedical personnel who have to deal with common eye diseases.

Miles Thompson, an R'B singer-turned-music teacher, is still reeling from the violent loss of his only son when he crosses paths with Ja Kendrick Brown, a fifteen-year-old homeless piano prodigy.  As the two form an unlikely bond, they soon discover that music and friendship have the power to help a sonless father and a fatherless son find life after loss.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26 th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2018. The 41 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: planarity variants; upward drawings; RAC drawings; orders; crossings; crossing angles; contact representations; specialized graphs and trees; partially fixed drawings, experiments; orthogonal drawings; realizability; and miscellaneous. ...

Das Buch ""Vierteljahrsschrift Fur Psychiatrie V2, Books 1-4: In Ihren Beziehungen (1869)"" von Max Leidesdorf ist eine Sammlung von vier Ausgaben der psychiatrischen Fachzeitschrift ""Vierteljahrsschrift Fur Psychiatrie"". Die Ausgaben wurden im Jahr 1869 ver������ffentlicht und behandeln verschiedene Themen im Bereich der Psychiatrie, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Beziehungen zwischen Patienten und ihren Familien oder Betreuern. Die Artikel sind von verschiedenen Autoren verfasst und bieten einen Einblick in die ...

Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order. She analyzes how working class men organized to fight for the recognition of their citizenship rights, how they defended those rights when faced with repression and economic restructuring and how they contested the terms of globalization as it wrested from them their masculine identity of 'worker-fathers'. Healy also demonstrates how these men battled employers and masculinized political ...

This book explores the diverse range of practical and theoretical challenges and possibilities that digital technologies and platforms pose for Holocaust memory, education and research. From social media to virtual reality, 360-degree imaging to machine learning, there can be no doubt that digital media penetrate practice in these fields. As the Holocaust moves beyond living memory towards solely mediated memory, it is imperative that we pay critical attention to the way digital technologies are shaping public memory and education and research. Bringing together ...

The papers in this collection were originally presented at the 13th International Conference on Persons, held at the University of Boston in August 2015. This biennial event, founded by Thomas O. Buford and Charles Conti in 1989, attracts a host of international scholars, both the venerable and the aspiring. It is widely regarded as the premier event for those whose research concerns the philosophical tradition known as 'personalism'. That tradition is, perhaps, best known today in its American and European manifestations, although there remains ...

The Motor Boys Over the Rockies; Or, A Mystery of the Air, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of Language ...