This meeting was organised on behalf of the Ceramic Science Committee of the Ceramic Industry Division of the Institute of Materials to draw together papers on various aspects of novel production and processing techniques for ceramics. This volume contains the proceedings papers.
Gilian Hemstock's Careerfree Life is bound to serve as an alternative for people sick of the notion of needing a career to be successful. The authors question the importance and validity of choosing a career-centric lifestyle, asserting that a person doesn't need a career to have an easier, financially simpler and even more enjoyable life.
While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in the democratization of West Germany, where fears and anxieties about the country's catastrophic past and uncertain future both undermined democracy and stabilized the emerging Federal Republic.
The only text to cover the full range of adult cardiac, thoracic, and pediatric chest surgery, Sabiston and Spencer Surgery of the Chest provides unparalleled guidance in a single, two-volume resource. This gold standard reference, edited by Drs. Frank Sellke, Pedro del Nido, and Scott Swanson, covers today's most important knowledge and techniques in cardiac and thoracic surgery—the information you need for specialty board review and for day-to-day surgical practice. Meticulously organized so that you can quickly find expert information on open and endoscopic surgical techniques, this 10th Edition is an essential resource not only for all cardiothoracic surgeons, but also for physicians, residents, and students concerned with diseases of the chest. - Features short, focused chapters divided into three major sections: Adult Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. - Presents the knowledge and expertise of global experts who provide a comprehensive view of the entire specialty. - Provides full-color coverage throughout, helping you visualize challenging surgical techniques and procedures and navigate the text efficiently. - Includes new chapters on dissection complications and percutaneous treatment of mitral and tricuspid valve disease. - Offers extensively revised or rewritten chapters on surgical revascularization, acute dissection, vascular physiology, the latest innovations in minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery and percutaneous devices, the molecular biology of thoracic malignancy, robotics in chest surgery, congenital valve reconstructions, novel hybrid procedures in pediatric cardiac surgery, and 3D visualization of cardiac anatomy for surgical procedure planning. - Keeps you up to date with the latest developments in cardiothoracic imaging and diagnosis. - Provides access to more than 30 surgical videos online, and features new figures, tables, and illustrations throughout. - An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
Sea-Change is a novel about humanity's relationship to itself, to other species, and to the sea. The planet is warming, species are becoming extinct, and the sea is changing. At the turn of the twentieth century, two boys, twin brothers, are born in a Newfoundland outport. One goes to school and becomes a powerful financier and industrialist. The other goes sealing off Labrador where he almost drowns and is rescued by the Inuit. One changes the sea through the commodification of fishingand the other is changed by the sea through a shamanic experience. Their intriguing story involves a beautiful Bostonian woman whose strange fate it is to engender a new form of humanity.By turns tragic, funny, and erotic, Sea-Change is a perplexing book, but nomore perplexing than the changes humanity must undergo if we are to survive with other creatures on this blue planet.
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