A Guide to Hematology is a valuable, hands-on, laboratory manual for the practitioner and technician. It provides step-by-step guidelines for the collection and processing of blood samples and interpretation of the hemogram. It also serves as a guide to patient assessment and treatment planning for all common hematological disorders and diseases in
This is the story of the young Adolf Hitler, an insignificant young man from provincial Austria who suddenly emerged as a momentous historical figure and ultimately the very personification of evil. How did that happen? To answer this question, the narrative takes the reader into the mind of the man before the monster. 150 pages of intriguing appendices substantiate the work's provenance. It tells the story of the seventeen-year-old school drop-out and starving artist; the vagrant who spends years on the streets and in the shelters of Vienna; the Lance Corporal who is fatefully changed by the First World War. In the aftermath of that Great War, amongst the ashes of a demoralised and bankrupt Germany, the narrative follows the bizarre series of events that culminate in this lonely and eccentric young man becoming 'The Fuhrer' of the Third Reich.
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum," or, in English, "Never a Step Backward," is a history of six families and the circumstances that led to their displacement from the Old to the New World. The Latin motto on one family's crest provides the theme. The origins of these families covered Northern Europe from West to East. Some arrived in America early in the 17th century; others did not make the journey until the dawn of the 20th century. For most, religious persecution dominated the early years here recounted. This recurrent tragedy of human nature extended from the Reformation-spawned religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries in Western and Central Europe to the sanctioned bigotries of Czarist Russia 200 years later. Political and economic repressions in their homelands were close companions. In many respects, the peripatetic lives of Alan and Janet Davidson reprise their family histories: Never a Step Backwards. Alan, born in Connecticut, and Janet, a Californian, first glimpsed life's possibilities as undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. Marriage, childrearing, and Alan's graduate education in medicine took them to San Francisco, Denver and Palo Alto. In the decades that followed, Alan's positions in academic radiology established the family in Madison, Connecticut, Marin County, California, and, lastly, as empty-nesters in Washington, D.C. When an unlikely opportunity arose to retire on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Archipelago of Washington State close-by the Canadian border, the authors made the Pacific Northwest their home. For more than two decades their island life, dominated as it was by nature, proved to be a transformative idyll. Recently, Alan and Janet have settled in Seattle where they enjoy that city's urban pleasures.
Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so small groups of ordinary men and women determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu leads one of these groups in helping downed British airmen escape back to England. As the German military police heighten surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched by the Reich to destroy them all.
An investigator must solve a seemingly impossible theft in this comedic sci-fi mystery by New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster . The room—surrounded by cameras, motion sensors, and alarms, and guarded by rotating security crews twenty-four seven—was supposed to be impenetrable. No one should have been able to approach the vault unseen. So how did the irreplaceable pharmaceuticals stored there get stolen? How did someone breach the vault three times and escape unnoticed and without leaving a trace? It’s a mystery that falls to insurance adjuster Roderick Manz to solve. Assisted by a humanoid robot, an AI, and an off-world partner named Vyra with secrets of her own, Manz is on the hunt for the most clever thieves he has ever encountered.
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. A reading and examination of his letters from 1935 to 1945 reveal someone who led an extremely complex, fascinating, and creative life, mostly as a public employee. While Lomax is noted for his field recordings, these collected letters, many signed "Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge," are a trove of information until now available only at the Library of Congress. They make it clear that Lomax was very interested in the commercial hillbilly, race, and even popular recordings of the 1920s and after. These letters serve as a way of understanding Lomax's public and private life during some of his most productive and significant years. Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. Here he speaks for himself through his voluminous correspondence.
Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction author and physician, also writing under the names of Dr. X and Al Edwards, wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. Nourse helped pay for his medical education by writing science fiction for magazines and continued after retiring from medicine.
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