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Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

By: Laura A. Kirk

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Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

By: Laura A. Kirk

This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest edited by Laura A. Kirk, MSPAS, PA-C, is devoted to Otolaryngology. Articles in this issue include: Hyperparathyroidism: Workup and Treatment; "Sinus" Headaches: Sinusitis vs. Migraine; Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss; ENT Manifestations of Sarcoidosis; Pediatric Otitis Media; Evaluation and Management of Adult Neck Masses; Vestibular Migraine; Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing; Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV); Infectious and Inflammatory Salivary Disease; Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Neck Masses: An Otolaryngology Perspective; and Indications for Cochlear Implantation.

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185

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323583210

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9780323583213

Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Edinburgh, 1617-53

By: Laura Stewart

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Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Edinburgh, 1617-53

By: Laura Stewart

This work examines Edinburgh's contribution to the outbreak of the British civil wars and its importance in the establishment of the revolutionary Covenanting regime. Early modern urban culture, multiple monarchy and post-Reformation religious radicalism are key themes of the book.

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398

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BRILL

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9047409760

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9789047409762

Smoking Privileges

Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

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Smoking Privileges

Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill.A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes.

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192

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Rutgers University Press

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0813575508

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9780813575506

Holiday Fling

10 Vacation Romances

By: Kristina Knight,Laura Simcox,Ana Krista Johnson,Nora Snowdon,Casey Dawes,Liv Rancourt,J. Arlene Culiner,Susanne Matthews,Robyn Neeley,Jennifer DeCuir

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Holiday Fling

10 Vacation Romances

By: Kristina Knight,Laura Simcox,Ana Krista Johnson,Nora Snowdon,Casey Dawes,Liv Rancourt,J. Arlene Culiner,Susanne Matthews,Robyn Neeley,Jennifer DeCuir

Get swept away from your everyday troubles with these ten vacation romances. A change of scenery and a sexy stranger leads to sparks flying for these charming couples. But when their holidays are over, can they figure out how to turn their flings into forever love? What a Texas Girl Wants: The last thing Jackson Taylor wants in his life is a down-to-earth girl like Kathleen Witte, so why did he just wake up next to her on a Mexican beach with a ring on his finger? Once they're back in Texas, though, this all-business marriage might just turn into an all-consuming love. Summer Promises: Drama queen Carly Foster is stuck performing in a touristy ghost town with charming Asher Day. Is he flirting with her because he's bored or is there room for passionate play off stage, too? Jade's Treasure: Jade Sawyer simply wants to be left alone to manage her family's mountain resort and design her jewelry. Then world-famous author Matthew Riley McLaughlin books a room as a hideout, and their shared need for privacy becomes personal. But can she overlook a shocking betrayal? The Spanish Acquisition: When multibillionaire business mogul Carlos meets struggling art student Lily on vacation in the Dominican Republic, passion ignites. But they must overcome their differences as well as a mix-up of mistaken identity. California Wine: Italian Marcos Gamari has one goal in life: to create the finest wine from the best vineyards in the world. Then he meets single mother Elizabeth Ladina, who shows him that his real dream just may reside here in the mountains of Santa Cruz. Between the Sheets: An annual retreat is the perfect setting for music teacher Maggie Schafer to turn over a new leaf in her love life, but then a pretend romance with handsome Randy Devers gets surprisingly real. All About Charming Alice: Quirky Alice Treemont gives up hope of finding love in rural Blake's Folly, Nevada, until dashing and well-to-do author Jace Constant comes to town to research his new book. Opposites indeed attract, and soon the whole town is determined to make a love match. Just for the Weekend: Multimillionaire Sam Mason is sick of gold diggers. When he meets a role-playing kindergarten teacher at a sci-fi convention in Vegas, she seems like the real thing. Then—surprise!—he wakes up married to this sexy stranger...only to find his new bride has vanished. Is he looking for a swindler or the love of his life? Christmas Dinner: Amanda dreads returning home single for Christmas, but the only available man to play escort is her rival for the TV anchor spot. When he agrees, much to her surprise, they both see a different side of each other under the mistletoe. Trapped in Tourist Town: Cady Eaton dreams of the bright lights of New York City, but she's stuck playing tour guide to travel writer Burke Sanders in tiny Scallop Shores. When deeper feelings develop, can he convince her that everything they need is right in front of them?

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Simon and Schuster

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144059614X

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9781440596148

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

By: Laura A. M. Stewart

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Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

By: Laura A. M. Stewart

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism, and reconsiders its place within an overarching 'British' narrative. In this volume, Laura Stewart analyses how interactions between print and manuscript polemic, crowds, and political performances enabled protestors against a Prayer Book to destroy Charles I's Scottish government. Particular attention is given to the way in which debate in Scotland was affected by the emergence of London as a major publishing centre. The subscription of the 1638 National Covenant occurred within this context and further politicized subordinate social groups that included women. Unlike in England, however, public debate was contained. A remodelled constitution revivified the institutions of civil and ecclesiastical governance, enabling Covenanted Scotland to pursue interventionist policies in Ireland and England - albeit at terrible cost to the Scottish people. War transformed the nature of state power in Scotland, but this achievement was contentious and fragile. A key weakness lay in the separation of ecclesiastical and civil authority, which justified for some a strictly conditional understanding of obedience to temporal authority. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution explores challenges to legitimacy of the Covenanted constitution, but qualifies the idea that Scotland was set on a course to destruction as a result. Covenanted government was overthrown by the new model army in 1651, but its ideals persisted. In Scotland as well as England, the language of liberty, true religion, and the public interest had justified resistance to Charles I. The Scottish revolution embedded a distinctive and durable political culture that ultimately proved resistant to assimilation into the nascent British state.

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697

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Oxford University Press

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0192563785

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9780192563781

Love's Reckoning (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #1)

A Novel

By: Laura Frantz

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Love's Reckoning (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #1)

A Novel

By: Laura Frantz

On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman and endeavors to keep him in York. Silas becomes interested in both of Liege's daughters, the gentle and faith-filled Eden and the clever and high-spirited Elspeth. When he chooses one, will the other's jealousy destroy their love? In this sweeping family saga set in western Pennsylvania, one man's choices in love and work, in friends and enemies, set the stage for generations to come. Love's Reckoning is the first entry in The Ballantyne Legacy, a rich, multi-layered historical quartet from talented writer Laura Frantz, beginning in the late 1700s and following the Ballantyne family through the end of the Civil War.

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415

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Baker Books

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1441239782

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9781441239785

Six Thousand Signatures: My Trek Through Illinois Politics

By: Kathleen Smith Thomas,Laura Oleen Gough

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Six Thousand Signatures: My Trek Through Illinois Politics

By: Kathleen Smith Thomas,Laura Oleen Gough

Is the playing field level for men and women in Illinois politics, or is it politics as usual? This book chronicles the campaigning experience of one woman's bid for Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. Serious, poignant, thought-provoking and humorous...follow Kathleen's journey behind the scenes through the maze of campaigning.

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Lulu.com

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0557498899

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9780557498895

American Melancholy

Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

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American Melancholy

Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century

By: Laura D. Hirshbein

As American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today--medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical company drug promotional literature--you will find three main pieces of information either explicitly stated or strongly implied: depression is a disease (like any other physical disease); it is extraordinarily prevalent in the world; and it occurs about twice as frequently in women as in men. Yet, depression was not classified as a disease until the 1980 publication of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III). How is it that such an illness, thought to affect between 14 and 17 million Americans, was not specifically defined until the late twentieth century? American Melancholy traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity and illustrates how and why depression came to be such a huge medical, social, and cultural phenomenon. It is the first book to address gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813545846

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9780813545844

Penguin's Poems for Life

By: Laura Barber

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Penguin's Poems for Life

By: Laura Barber

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes - when only a poem will do. Contains an introduction by Laura Barber.

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Penguin UK

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0141889799

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Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

By: Laura A. Kirk

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Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

By: Laura A. Kirk

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Book's by Laura A. Kirk

Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Smoking Privileges

Smoking Privileges

Holiday Fling

Holiday Fling

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Love's Reckoning (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #1)

Love's Reckoning (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #1)

Six Thousand Signatures: My Trek Through Illinois Politics

Six Thousand Signatures: My Trek Through Illinois Politics

American Melancholy

American Melancholy

Penguin's Poems for Life

Penguin's Poems for Life

Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

Otolaryngology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

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