Each volume in the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedures, including pathologic, radiologic, bronchoscopic, and surgical aspects. You’ll be able to determine the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis; stage the disease; and choose the best initial treatment for early stages. Based on current evidence in the literature, authors provide clinical, hands-on tools to help you make informed decisions on precisely what tests and imaging studies are needed to diagnose and stage each type of cancer. Practical, authoritative, and highly-illustrated, this volume in the brand new Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer series covers current protocols and the latest advances in diagnostic imaging and molecular and serologic markers for ovarian cancer. Apply expert advice on the best “next-step plan for different presentations and tips for less invasive protocols. Get clinical, hands-on tools to help you make informed decisions on precisely what tests and imaging studies are needed for accurate diagnosis and staging. Clear figures, tables, and boxes illustrate step-by-step care of the full range of problems encountered. Better manage your patients with procedural video clips and more on the included CD-ROM. The small size and convenient format make this an ideal purchase for diagnostic reference. Outlines the steps after diagnosis to guide you through formulating a treatment or patient care plan. Emphasizes important points—such as vaccines, paracentesis, and laparoscopic procedures for staging—with “key points boxes at the beginning of each chapter and pedagogic features throughout. Summarizes the process of accurately diagnosing and staging cancer in a logical, almost algorithmic, approach for easy reference. Discusses the treatment of early-stage disease so you have clear options for care. Complements the procedures outlined in the text with full-color photographs and line drawings to reinforce your understanding of the material. Features a CD-ROM showing video clips of diagnostic procedures, as well as all of the images, tables, and drawings from the text to help you better manage your patients.
Does love at first sight really happen? Is there a difference between love at first sight and obsession? Davina Stuart, farmer and bestselling author of Second Harvest, shares a flight to Los Angeles with Hollywood's latest heartthrob, Quinn Thomas. Three hours of in-flight speed dating and Quinn's in love. Davina is not so sure. She's older and wiser. She'll settle for a one-night stand but he wants more. Davina's cows and her children are her life. She's not so sure about Hollywood and its glamour. Blue jeans, cowboy boots and her pickup truck are more her style. Quinn is tired of the plastic starlets, his empty bed and his lonely heart. Hed give up everything, including his career, for the love of a woman, his woman. Forever Love follows their whirlwind romance as the widow of two years, who thought her time for romance was over, finds love with a man who has to have her in his life, to love her forever.
Love's Games is the third book in the Davina & Quinn Series. Following Forever Love and Love's Promises, Love's Games continues the story of Quinn and Davina Thomas. Will Quinn Violate Davina's Two Rules? Hollywood's latest heartthrob is a devoted family man who has it all-two Oscars, a beautiful wife and two kids who adore him. The problem is, Quinn Thomas, wants more. In Love's Games, the stakes are high and losing isn't an option. He's willing to jeopardize everything he holds dear to win his heart's desire. Davina Stuart Thomas has only two rules for her husband- no games and no cheating. - Will Quinn risk the love of his life to get what he wants? - Will Davina be able to forgive him if he does? - Will their children be able to forgive them both?
Does love at first sight really happen? Is there a difference between love at first sight and obsession? Davina Stuart, farmer and bestselling author of Second Harvest, shares a flight to Los Angeles with Hollywood's latest heartthrob, Quinn Thomas. Three hours of in-flight speed dating and Quinn's in love. Davina is not so sure. She's older and wiser. She'll settle for a one-night stand but he wants more. Davina's cows and her children are her life. She's not so sure about Hollywood and its glamour. Blue jeans, cowboy boots and her pickup truck are more her style. Quinn is tired of the plastic starlets, his empty bed and his lonely heart. He'd give up everything, including his career, for the love of a woman, his woman. Forever Love follows their whirlwind romance as the widow of two years, who thought her time for romance was over, finds love with a man who has to have her in his life, to love her forever.
It's easy to make promises in the name of love. Yet when life happens and it happens to be in Hollywood, sometimes promises can be difficult to keep. Love's Promises is the sequel to Deborah Armstrong's debut novel, Forever Love. Davina promised Quinn her heart and Quinn promised to keep Hollywood out of their bedroom. It's the premiere of Lovestruck, Quinn's new romantic comedy. The lights dim, the movie starts and then their world comes crashing down around them as Davina watches Quinn break his promise on the silver screen. Other works by Deborah Armstrong Forever Love 5 Stars from Brenda Casto for Readers' Favorite Ms. Armstrong provides the readers a wonderfully sweet romance, with a bit of sizzling heat, and the added twist of some suspenseful moments to make this a quick read that left me wanting much more! Love's Promises 4 stars from Kathryn Bennett for Readers' Favorite Deborah Armstrong has woven a very real and passionate story in Love's Promises. A fine blend of suspense and romance makes this a great read.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."" Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President. "Exploring the Faith of America's Presidents" is an engaging, enlightening and inspirational resource which examines the role faith has played in the presidency throughout American history--and much more! ""It's refreshing to read a perspective on the foundations of our country that's not driven by partisan political parties. This book quotes ALL Presidents, BOTH Republican and Democrat. It tackles head on the mistakes and the triumphs of our flawed American history."" Rev. Rufus Smith, Sr. Assoc. Pastor, Hope Presbyterian Church, Cordova, TN.
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on 'the rise of the individual.' Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction over and against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.
Because her father works for NASA at Cape Kennedy, fifteen-year-old Kathy gets a privileged, close-up look at the 1969 Apollo space missions, including the Apollo 11 trip to the surface of the moon.
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