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When Jack Dancer awoke on the day his fiance, Leslie, would die in a bizarre bank robbery, he had no inkling that thereafter waking up become such a challenge. Once the dreams started Jack had no idea to where--or when--they would take him. Could he learn to control his dream state adventures and...

This book talks about human health in terms that are easy to understand. It discusses human health from a nutritional point of view, and talks in detail about why the things that we consume have such a huge impact on our well-being. It explains in layman’s terms how we develop disease in...

Over recent years, much renal research has focused on the pathology of the glomerulus, where many primary renal insults occur. However, nearly thirty years have passed since Risdon's study made the apparently anomalous observation that the extent of damage to the tubulointerstitial compartment is...

Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma substitutes. In the United States, crystalloids...

For more than 60 years, the Californian Family Hinman has exercised a very considerable influence on the development and practice of the highest grade of urology, not only in the American West but worldwide. The leitmotiv of the Hinman School has been honest and thoughtful consideration of the problems...

Moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) are one of the most diverse and economically important groups of insects, with approximately 157,000 species worldwide. This book establishes a definitive list of the species that occur in BC, and clarifies erroneous records in past works. It provides a knowledge...

This book is the outgrowth of a week-long conference on sandstone organized by the authors, first held at Banff, Alberta, in 1964 under the auspices of the Alberta Association of Petroleum Geologists and the University of Alberta, and again, in 1965, at Bloomington, Indiana, under the sponsorship...

This work includes the life story of two people in love, who faced insurmountable obstacles to that love. It also contains the life story of both so the reader can evaluate life choices that may be helpful to anyone faced with similar choices. Perhaps the reader may even avoid counterproductive choices...

Spurred by reports in 1980 detailing the ineffectiveness of long-term treatment with benzodiazepines, the authors of this volume began a study to investigate the reasons behind the addiction, quickly adopting a psychological approach to treatment. In testing the efficacy of anxiety management techniques...

Theracomics use the many advantages of comics to teach social and emotional skills to kids. Being both visual and verbal they quickly present social situations from several points of view, inviting readers to develop perspective and understanding. Kids get to ‘try out’ different responses through...

Theracomics use the many advantages of comics to teach social and emotional skills to kids. Being both visual and verbal they present social situations from several points of view, inviting readers to develop perspective and understanding. Kids get to ‘try out’ different responses through the...

Following the untimely death of his parents when he is ten years old, Kenneth Mills is forced to live with his grandmother, Esther, in Osprey Cove, Maine. Esther is controlling and bitter, and she and Kenneth repulse each other. Whats more, Kenneth is unbalanced; as a teenager, he attacks a fellow...