Best Selling Books by John McPhee

A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. In Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to—people to profile, regions he meant to portray. There are so many examples that he plans to go on writing these vignettes, an ideal project for an old man, he says, and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life. This first volume includes, among other things, glimpses of a frosty encounter with Thornton Wilder, interrogative dinners with Henry Luce, the allure of western Spain, criteria in writing about science, fireworks over the East River as seen from Malcolm Forbes’s yacht, the evolving inclinations of the Tower of Pisa, the islands among the river deltas of central California, teaching in a pandemic, and persuading The New Yorker to publish an entire book on oranges. The result is a fresh survey of McPhee’s singular planet.

Combines Galen Rowell''s photographs with excerpts from John McPhee''s 1977 book, Coming into the Country (page xi)

Landscape photographs accompany selections from McPhee''s writings about Switzerland, Alaska, the West, and the Pine Barrens

"Ethics and Law for the Health Professions" provides an accessible and clinically relevant introduction to ethics and health law. It adopts a reflective approach to a wide range of key areas of modern health care. The layout of the book clearly distinguishes between law and ethics, and its structure is carefully designed to ensure that topics are covered in a logical, sequential order, with each chapter both introducing new concepts and building upon its predecessors. The book draws on case material and ethical thought used in all the health professions, and the second edition has been extensively changed to reflect changes in law and ethics since 1998.

Se c''è un libro in grado di dividere i lettori fra chi rischia di contrarre in una forma o nell''altra il morbo del tennis, e chi invece ne risulta immune, è questo. Dove si rivive, un punto dopo l''altro, la semifinale di Forest Hills 1968 fra Arthur Ashe e Clark Graebner – la prima disputata da un tennista nero agli albori dell''èra Open, ma anche e soprattutto la prima partita di tennis raccontata dall''interno del luogo enigmatico e fino ad allora inesplorato che il gioco abita, e spesso devasta: la mente del tennista. Guardandola per caso alla CBS, John McPhee era subito rimasto incantato dal magnifico arabesco che i colpi dei due protagonistiu00ad – diversi in tutto, e in primo luogo nello stile – disegnavano sulu00adl''erba. Ma rivedendo il match insieme a Ashe e Graebner – ascoltandone i racconti, trascrivendone le reazioni – McPhee lo ha poi ricostruito, in «Livelli di gioco», con due soli accorgimenti: la demoniaca accuratezza descrittiva che ha fatto di lui una leggenda della narrativa americana, e i veri ingredienti del tennis: collera, spavento, esaltazione, freddezza, sconforto, orgoglio. Gli stessi che qualche mese prima McPhee aveva scoperto vivendo per quindici giorni a pochi centimetri di distanza dal prato su cui il tennis moderno è nato, per ascoltare e poi ritrarre dal vero, nel secondo pezzo che compone questo libro, uno dei suoi personaggi più indimenticabili: Robert Twynam, giardiniere capo di Wimbledon.

Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics, 6e, is a unique and comprehensive text for today''s Canadian students and practising professionals. Structured in five parts, the text is written in an approachable and engaging style that effectively covers practice and ethics topics while offering advice for readers to become effective professionals. The authors guide readers through professional licensing, practice, ethics, and environmental practice and ethics using history, case studies, examples, and images to bring the issues to life. The text devotes an entire chapter to preparing readers for the Professional Practice Examination (PPE), including practice questions to bolster success. Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience is up to date with Engineers Canada''s practice and ethics syllabus and is the recommended study guide for this section of the PPE. The coverage in this sixth edition includes all provinces and territories of Canada and contains updated, new, and revised content and cases including the fascinating new case history: "Accidental Overdose: The Therac-25 Radiation Therapy Accidents." This edition has expanded its Employment, Management, and Consulting sections with new and relevant Canadian cases to keep readers engaged and connected to the content. Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics is a vital professional resource for study and reference.

In the quiet still hours of the evening on May 10, 1980, a young nation faced its most crucial hour. Two Cuban MiGs were dispatched by Cuba''s competent authority. Their ultimate destination Cay Santo Domingo a small cay in the southern hemisphere of the Bahamas. Their intended target: HMBS Flamingo, a one-hundred-and-four-foot Bahamian patrol vessel with two Cuban fishing vessels, Ferrocemento 54 and Ferrocemento 165, in tow.The remaining hours in the afternoon will unfold a tyranny of unsettling events resulting in the tragic loss of life and property for the Bahamas. The crises plunged the region into a geopolitical crisis and set in motion a cascading set of circumstances that will affect the young nation for the rest of its existence.Final Sunset is the riveting account of the fatal sinking of HMBS Flamingo by Cuban MIGs on May 10, 1980. It recounts the harrowing tale of heroism and survivorship. The gritty and unrelenting human will to make it home after their routine day took a most unfortunate turn on one of the darkest moments in Bahamian history.

McPhee''s vivid account of the serene landscape, people, and folklore of southern New Jersey''s immense Pine Barrens is complimented by the photography of Bill Curtsinger

Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.