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This volume of Orthopedic Clinics will focus on Perioperative Pain Management. Edited by members of a distinguished board from the Campbell Clinic, topics in the issue will include: Enhancing Recovery Following Total Knee Arthroplasty; Perioperative Pain Management and Anesthesia; Perioperative Pain...

For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances...

Theresa Daniels wakes up on a strange planet in the embrace of a handsome alien known only as Koless—a king, and the last of his kind. He wants fertile Theresa to submit to him, for her to bear his heir. At first, she’s wary of him. But there’s something oddly familiar about this alien king....

Sixteen-year-old Joel Prickett is on a study abroad program exploring Mayan pyramids in Mexico. He is having the time of his life, until the Mayan end of the world prediction begins to come true!Caught up in events beyond their control, Joel, along with Lisa, the daughter of the expedition's...

"Who are we to argue the choices of the Power?""What am I? I am something that has never been seen before; I am the culmination of centuries. I am the last pureblood of my line. I am someone, I am something that will live for centuries and die a little everyday."With those words Kerrisha...

"I could not believe it when Keri went into a vision following the Council meeting; my heart almost stopped when she started screaming, 'NO'." Kerreth's first words to us as his journal entries join Kerrisha's are filled with worry and concern that soon turn to fear as the still new...

In Book One; The Beginning, Kerrisha Drew-Otlander stepped into her destiny as the Knowledge Guardian of the People of Otland Iis. In Book Two; Bonded, she married her Power Chosen mate, Kerreth Mermshire. Now, in Book Three; Taken, the vision that began at the end of The Beginning comes...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...

Thoracic Imaging: Case Review, by Phillip M. Boiselle, MD, Theresa C. McLoud, MD and Gerald F. Abbott, MD, tests your ability to interpret a wide range of images seen in practice. The completely revised edition of this title in the popular Case Review series features all-new cases and superb-quality...

La prima puntata di un rapporto innovativo sulla crisi dell’economia italiana. Un gruppo di economisti, giuristi e manager si confronta con gli esperti e guarda alle esperienze di altri paesi proponendo soluzioni concrete per superare la spirale negativa tra il riequilibrio dei conti pubblici e...

Time to trade for your life… After the death of a close friend on 9/11, Al Denham is having second thoughts: while outwardly successful, he has a gnawing feeling that City life is no longer for him. Meanwhile, not all is as it seems at Aden Partners. Al’s sparring partner Miles is drawn...

Time series, or longitudinal, data are ubiquitous in the social sciences. Unfortunately, analysts often treat the time series properties of their data as a nuisance rather than a substantively meaningful dynamic process to be modeled and interpreted. Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences provides...

The potential impact of anthropogenic pollutants such as agrochemicals on the environment is of global concern. Increasing use of certain compounds can result in contamination of food, water and atmospheric systems and in order to combat this pollution it is important to be able to accurately monitor...

The Power of Imagination Our imaginations are often treated as relics of our childhood. We are told to grow up and leave that sense of awe and wonder behind. What if these modernistic tendencies were entirely wrong? What if we were meant to live enchanted lives, seeing the world with the joy and amazement? This...