Susanne Essex's Books

The Politics of Drugs

Perceptions, Power and Policies

By: Susanne MacGregor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Politics of Drugs

Perceptions, Power and Policies

By: Susanne MacGregor

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere. It focuses on developments in Britain since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971, covering debates at national level and local experiences set in international and European context, emphasizing the interconnectivity between people and countries in this global age. Several institutions and networks are examined to illustrate how they shape the policy process as vessels for ideas and interests and as spaces for individual action. MacGregor discusses arguments around drug policy reform, in particular the role of politicians, the media and advocacy organizations. Her aim is to encourage a more open and intelligent conversation on drugs policy and to question whether the institutional architecture in place is fit for purpose given the great increase of substances available and the underlying variety of conditions and interests currently competing for attention and resources. The is a must read for all scholars of Politics, Medicine and Social Science interested in the current debate raging around British Drug Policy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

364

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137496827

ISBN 13

9781137496829

Woods Lanyer: Woman Poet C

By: Susanne Woods

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Woods Lanyer: Woman Poet C

By: Susanne Woods

Aemilia Bassano Lanyer sought public fame as a poet in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. This book situates her life and work among the major poets of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195124847

ISBN 13

9780195124842

Slime

A Natural History

By: Susanne Wedlich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Slime

A Natural History

By: Susanne Wedlich

A groundbreaking, witty, and eloquent exploration of slime that will leave you appreciating the nebulous and neglected sticky stuff that covers our world, inside and out. Slime. The very word seems to ooze oily menace, conjuring up a variety of unpleasant associations: mucous, toxins, reptiles, pollutants, and other unsavory viscous semi-liquid substances. Yet without slime, the natural world would be completely unrecognizable; in fact, life itself as we know it would be impossible In this deft and fascinating book, journalist Susanne Wedlich takes us on a tour of all things slimy, from the most unctuous of science fiction monsters to the biochemical compounds that are the very building blocks of life. Along the way she shows us what slime really means, and why slime is not something to fear, but rather something to ... embrace.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Melville House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1685890210

ISBN 13

9781685890216

Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses

By: Bernd Kortmann,Tanja Herrmann,Lukas Pietsch,Susanne Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses

By: Bernd Kortmann,Tanja Herrmann,Lukas Pietsch,Susanne Wagner

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume includes the following three substantial studies. Tanja Herrmann's study is the first systematic cross-regional study of relativization strategies for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and four major dialect areas in England. In her research design Hermann has included a number of issues crucial in typological research on relative clauses, above all the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Lukas Pietsch investigates the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. His study is primarily based on the Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech, but also on the FRED and SED data (Survey of English Dialects) for the North of England. Susanne Wagner is concerned with the phenomenon of pronominal gender, focussing especially on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England. This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

385

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published Date

ISBN 10

3110197510

ISBN 13

9783110197518

Hidden History of Salem

By: Susanne Saville

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hidden History of Salem

By: Susanne Saville

There’s more to this Massachusetts seaside town than witches, including a past rich in maritime exploits, literary endeavors, and even ghost cats. Salem, nestled along the rocky coast of Massachusetts, has long been synonymous with witches, despite efforts to emphasize other aspects of the city’s rich history. In this fascinating collection of stories, author Susanne Saville sheds light on the forgotten moments of this noteworthy New England community. Discover Salem’s profitable “Age of Sail,” the important role coffeehouses played during the American Revolution, the scandalous life of Richard Crowninshield Jr. and the unforgettable writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. These revealing stories will not leave the history of Salem in the shadows for long. Includes photos!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1614237905

ISBN 13

9781614237907

Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

By: Susanne Zantop

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

By: Susanne Zantop

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of "Germans" with "natives" in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany’s colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory—or love and blissful domestic relations between colonizer and colonized. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822382113

ISBN 13

9780822382119

Balances

Instruments, Manufacturers, History

By: Erich Robens,Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera,Susanne Kiefer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Balances

Instruments, Manufacturers, History

By: Erich Robens,Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera,Susanne Kiefer

The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent developments. All balance types are described with emphasis on scientific balances. Methods of indirect mass determination, which are applied to very light objects like molecules and the basic particles of matter and celestial bodies, are included. As additional guidance, today’s manufacturers are listed and the profile of important companies is reviewed. Several hundred photographs, reproductions and drawings show instruments and their uses. This book includes commercial weighing instruments for merchandise and raw materials in workshops as well as symbolic weighing in the ancient Egyptian’s ceremony of ‘Weighing of the Heart’, the Greek fate balance, the Roman Justitia, Juno Moneta and Middle Ages scenes of the Last Judgement with Jesus or St. Michael and of modern balances. The photographs are selected from the slide-archives of the late Richard Vieweg (1896-1972) (former President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany), of the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1966) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

743

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3642364470

ISBN 13

9783642364471

Working With Denied Child Abuse: The Resolutions Approach

The Resolutions Approach

By: Turnell, Andrew,Essex, Susanne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Working With Denied Child Abuse: The Resolutions Approach

The Resolutions Approach

By: Turnell, Andrew,Essex, Susanne

This volume presents a safety-focused, partnership-based, practice model called resolutions, which provides an alternate approach to working with the problem of denied child abuse. It describes each stage of this model and demonstrates the approach through many practice examples.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0335216579

ISBN 13

9780335216574

Designing Research on Bilingual Development

Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments

By: Monika S. Schmid,Sanne M. Berends,Christopher Bergmann,Susanne M. Brouwer,Nienke Meulman,Bregtje J. Seton,Simone A. Sprenger,Laurie A. Stowe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Designing Research on Bilingual Development

Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments

By: Monika S. Schmid,Sanne M. Berends,Christopher Bergmann,Susanne M. Brouwer,Nienke Meulman,Bregtje J. Seton,Simone A. Sprenger,Laurie A. Stowe

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions. The present volume introduces a research design intended to capture a wide range of linguistic data, elicited by means of behavioral tasks, neuroimageing data and free speech from both second language learners and first language attriters of two languages (Dutch and German) representing a wide range of language combinations and ages of onset. Gathering and analyzing such a range of data comes with a multiplicity of problems, many of them linked to the fact that similar tests have to be designed across a range of languages and measurements will have to occur in various locations. The current volume presents a research design appropriate to these questions, discussing the methodological challenges of such a study. It offers advice on how to construct experimental materials which are parallel across different languages set up a protocol for additional measures which can be applied across a wide range of participants combine data from different labs when using different ERP equipment and different eyetrackers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

114

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319115294

ISBN 13

9783319115290

Zanadu

By: Susanne Stephan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Zanadu

By: Susanne Stephan

What do you get when you combine a phonetically spelt outback station, a sarcastic ex-Detective with the last name Standononeleg, a tag-a-long named Duncan and a clapped out old ute? A Queenslander’s idea of humour, a sheep or two and a kangaroo, too many cups of tea, and a murder most foul (and covered in red dust. Everything is covered in red dust there. Check your grundies). You will need to read the rest of the story or the author will make me cark it in the next one.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

203

Publisher

Austin Macauley Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1398424765

ISBN 13

9781398424760

The Appraiser's Handbook

v. 5, Substance Abuse, Palliative Care, Musculoskeletal Conditions, Prescribing Practice

By: Nick Lyons,Susanne Caesar,Abayomi McEwen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Appraiser's Handbook

v. 5, Substance Abuse, Palliative Care, Musculoskeletal Conditions, Prescribing Practice

By: Nick Lyons,Susanne Caesar,Abayomi McEwen

This book contains a foreword by Maurice Conlon, Associate Director, Appraisal and Revalidation Lead, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team. This is an invaluable, detailed guide offering practical resources for medical professionals in the challenging role of appraiser. It assists with confidence, professionalism and competency and contains a comprehensive, up-to-date summary of the 'state of play' for appraising doctors. It also includes sample forms, contracts for guidance and links to web resources. "The Appraiser's Handbook" provides vital information for all those involved in continuing professional development in primary and secondary care. Appraisal leads and managers in primary and secondary care trusts will find it of great interest, as will clinical tutors, GP tutors and deanery educational teams. "This book aims to support appraisers in developing their skills in order to ensure that the doctor whom they appraise, gains the maximum possible benefit from the time spent in, and preparing for, the appraisal. The appraiser will find appraisees who enthusiastically embrace appraisal and those who doubt its use and place in their professional development. Different approaches may be needed to support and understand different individuals." - Nick Lyons, Susanne Caesar and Abayomi McEwen. "This book, written by a trio steeped in appraisal, is a valuable resource for appraisers. It will help doctors learning to be appraisers, and experienced appraisers. It will also help those organising appraisal, to remind them of the aims of the process. Teachers of appraisal will be able to use it to supplement and support their curricula. I believe revalidation, when it arrives, will be the single biggest step towards improvement taken by the profession, since the introduction of the medical register. I also believe this depends upon the inclusion of appraisal within the revalidation package. Putting high-quality, developmental appraisal 'in the water' for the medical profession will bring about a whole-profession shift in terms of lifelong professional development. This book will support that aim." - Maurice Conlon, in the Foreword.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315347342

ISBN 13

9781315347349

Wild Waters

A wildlife and water lover's companion to the aquatic world

By: Susanne Masters

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wild Waters

A wildlife and water lover's companion to the aquatic world

By: Susanne Masters

About seventy-one per cent of the Earth's surface is water, and even on dry land we remain closely connected to aquatic life. It provides us with oxygen, food, medicine and materials. Wild waterlife infiltrates our lives in many surprising ways. Every other breath we take is filled with oxygen provided by ocean-dwelling microscopic plants. A type of seaweed provides a means to directly test whether people are infected with viruses, including Covid-19. Robotics design takes inspiration from a pike's ability to accelerate with greater g-force than a Porsche. Wild Waters by Susanne Masters is a celebration of the breadth of wildlife that can be found in and around our varied waterways, from oceans and rivers to rock pools and ponds. Armchair explorers can read a fascinating account of how aquatic plants and animals enrich human life. Swimmers, paddleboarders, dog walkers, families and anyone with a passion for the great outdoors can learn about local wildlife, including when and where to look for different species without causing any harm. With stunning illustrations by Alice Goodridge, Wild Waters provides a tantalising insight into the world beneath the surface.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Vertebrate Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1839811013

ISBN 13

9781839811012

Compliments and Positive Assessments

Sequential organization in multi-party conversations

By: Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Compliments and Positive Assessments

Sequential organization in multi-party conversations

By: Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf

Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a Positive Remark continuum, with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response. Analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively in multi-party conversations of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, the sequences suggest a connection between the address and reference terms in the Positive Remarks and the strategies chosen as a response.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

9027264015

ISBN 13

9789027264015

The Boys In Blue

10 Cop Romances

By: Tami Lund,Nancy C Weeks,Danica Winters,Anji Nolan,Sandy Vaile,Becky Flade,Susanne Matthews,Robyn Neeley,Jennifer Lawler,Winter Austin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Boys In Blue

10 Cop Romances

By: Tami Lund,Nancy C Weeks,Danica Winters,Anji Nolan,Sandy Vaile,Becky Flade,Susanne Matthews,Robyn Neeley,Jennifer Lawler,Winter Austin

It's hard to resist a man in uniform, and when it comes to these ten sexy law enforcement heroes, danger never looked so good. From street beats to under the covers, they're arresting, they're provocative, and they're sure to steal your heart! Undercover Heat: When Agent Kyra Sanders and FBI hotshot Quinn Daniels are assigned to go undercover as a married couple, trouble--and desire--flares. She's got a history, he's got a hell of a secret, and the only answer to this dilemma is almost criminal. In the Shadow of Vengeance: Elizabeth Merlot can't afford to let handsome Detective Noah McNeil discover her secret past. But when trouble finds her son, Noah may be the only one who can save their lives. Montana Mustangs: When a body washes up on the shore of a rural Montana lake, police officer Dane Burke and Aura Montgarten must get to the bottom of this mystery--but Aura has a secret that's out of this world. Can two unlikely souls find true love? Love Is in the Air: When Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Jim Cromwell investigates Maine-based drug ring The Alabatross Alliance, the case leads him to airline pilot Captain Sophie Berg. He's not sure if she's an innocent or his lead suspect, but when she's kidnapped, Jim must decide whether to believe his head or his heart. Inheriting Fear: Detective Luca Patterson has never crossed a professional line until he meets his new neighbor Mya. She's sexy, feisty, and he can't stop thinking about her, but her secrets coincide with Luca's case--and lead to an unexpectedly sizzling interlude in his bed. When lines blur, will love or duty ultimately come into focus? Fated Hearts: Sheriff Carter McAlister offers mysterious newcomer Henley Elliott a job as his assistant. Breaking through her carefully built shell proves to be a near-impossible task, and now a dangerous new presence in the Cove seems to be targeting Henley. Can Henley and Carter leave their secrets and scars in the past to get a second chance at happily ever after? On His Watch: Special Agent Jason Spark is enjoying some welcome peace and quiet when he's called to a 911 call and steps into a horrifying bloodbath straight out of a Hollywood slasher movie. Survivor Nikki Hart believes Jason might be the angel sent to protect her. But when she learns about the secret role he played in her tragedy, can she ever forgive him? Ashley's Allegiance: Ashley Whitman's ready to step up and contribute to the family tea legacy, just like her successful cousins. But as the conspiracy surrounding the farm deepens, so does her relationship with Sheriff Jacob Sanders. Their families have been rivals for years...will a union between them finally bring peace to Emerald Springs? Acts of Faith: Everyone assumed Emma's brother died in a car accident. Then one of his friends asks Emma to meet her so she can reveal the truth, but the whistleblower is brutally murdered before their appointment. There's only one person Emma can turn to for help--her ex-husband, a cop who never wants to see her again. Retribution: The homicide of a criminal lawyer puts Dallas homicide detective Remy LeBeau on a collision course with a professional assassin from his past. Is his relationship with professional barrel racer Cody Lewis the motivation behind the attacks--or a secret weapon that gives him the edge to end this nightmare once and for all? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

3390

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440596964

ISBN 13

9781440596964

Volunteering and Social Inclusion

Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

By: Susanne Strauß

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Volunteering and Social Inclusion

Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

By: Susanne Strauß

By comparing the institutional settings in Germany and Great Britain, the study reveals differences in labour market regulations as the most important influence on the interrelation between unemployment and volunteering. In addition, Susanne Strauß identifies differences regarding gender, education and the type of volunteering organisation

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3835055739

ISBN 13

9783835055735

Climate Change and Tourism

From Policy to Practice

By: Susanne Becken,John Hay

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Climate Change and Tourism

From Policy to Practice

By: Susanne Becken,John Hay

The contribution of tourism to climate change, and the likely consequences of climate change for key tourist destinations, has been well reported and discussed. Yet, there is a lack of evidence-based systematic practical advice as to how the tourism industry should respond to the challenge of climate change. Building on a sound conceptual understanding of the links between climate change and tourism, this book shows how the tourism sector might best respond. It not only focuses on the roles of supportive policies and institutions in ensuring a strong "enabling environment" for practical responses, but also on the practical responses themselves. This practical approach is presented through a large number of case studies and examples which illustrate how policy and industry initiatives have been implemented in tourism, and if or why they were successful. The majority of examples come from places such as the Caribbean, Spain, the Maldives, Nepal, and the UK, as well as Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the Pacific. The examples are presented within an overall framework that facilitates the translation of adaptation and mitigation policies into practice. This book offers the tourism industry, students and academics the opportunity to advance from the earlier, more conceptual texts on tourism and climate change by taking a much more practical approach. Its global coverage, through the use of international case studies, fosters a cross-fertilisation of ideas and initiatives. This text provides a detailed analysis of best practices in the face of climate change, across countries and geographically diverse tourist destinations and operations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

298

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113647174X

ISBN 13

9781136471742

Input and Evidence

The Raw Material of Second Language Acquisition

By: Susanne Carroll

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Input and Evidence

The Raw Material of Second Language Acquisition

By: Susanne Carroll

Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback, repetitions, reformulations) play a role in language acquisition in addition to that played by ordinary conversation. At the same time, it embeds discussion of input within a framework which includes a serious treatment of language processing, including the problem of modularity and the question of how semantic representations can influence grammatical ones. It lays the foundation for the development of a truly explanatory theory of SLA in the form of the Autonomous Induction Theory which combines a model of induction with an interpretation of Universal Grammar, thereby permitting, for the the first time, a coherent approach to the problem of constraining induction in SLA.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

490

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9027224935

ISBN 13

9789027224934

Food Aid in Sudan

A History of Power, Politics and Profit

By: Susanne Jaspars

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Food Aid in Sudan

A History of Power, Politics and Profit

By: Susanne Jaspars

In 2004, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international agencies found they had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid. As a result, acute malnutrition remains persistently high. Food Aid in Sudan argues that the situation in Sudan is emblematic of a far wider problem. Analysing the history of food aid in the country over fifty years, Jaspars shows that such aid often serves to enrich local regimes and the private sector while leaving war-torn populations in a state of permanent emergency. Drawing on her decades of experience as an aid worker and researcher in the region, and extensive interviews with workers in the food aid process, Jaspars brings together two key topics of our time: the failure of the humanitarian system to respond to today’s crises, and the crisis in the global food system. Essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences studying the nature and effectiveness of contemporary humanitarianism, development and international aid.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

219

Publisher

Zed Books Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786992116

ISBN 13

9781786992116

Looking at Jewelry

A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

By: Susanne Gänsicke,Yvonne J. Markowitz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Looking at Jewelry

A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

By: Susanne Gänsicke,Yvonne J. Markowitz

What is a cabochon? What are the various types of gilding? What is vermeil? This accessible book—the first of its kind—offers concise explanations of key jewelry terms. The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. Jewelry encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of materials and techniques used in its construction is extraordinary, even revolutionary, with new substances and methods of fabrication added with every generation. In any given society, master artisans have devoted their time, energy, and talent to the fine art of jewelry making, creating some of the most spectacular objects known to humankind. This volume, geared toward jewelry makers, scholars, scientists, students, and fashionistas alike, begins with a lively introduction that offers a cultural history of jewelry and its production. The main text provides information on the most common, iconic, and culturally significant forms of jewelry and also covers materials, techniques, and manufacturing processes. Containing more than eighty color illustrations, this guide will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of jewelry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

134

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1606066102

ISBN 13

9781606066102

Snowbound Snuggles

6 Winter Romances

By: T.F. Walsh,Jennifer DeCuir,Mary Hughes,Ellen Parker,Susanne Matthews,Katriena Knights

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Snowbound Snuggles

6 Winter Romances

By: T.F. Walsh,Jennifer DeCuir,Mary Hughes,Ellen Parker,Susanne Matthews,Katriena Knights

Let it snow, let it snow! It’s time to stoke the fires and pour a glass of cabernet as you join these sexy couples who find love while they’re stranded together. Cloaked in Christmas: Wulfkin Cacey Varg and her daughter have made a new life in Finland, far from her abusive ex. But as Christmas approaches, Cacey learns he’s coming to take their daughter. A massive snowstorm prevents her from fleeing and instead delivers a sexy stranger, powerful hunter Vincent Lyall, to her doorstep. Is love potent enough to win when two sexy wolf shifters, an unwelcome past, and animalistic urges wreak havoc on the holiday season? Wynter’s Journey: Tragedy tore Wynter and Sam apart twelve years ago, and now she’s back at his doorstep, widowed, desperately broke, and very pregnant. What’s a nice guy to do but offer her shelter? But living under the same roof quickly leads to old feelings resurfacing, even if Wynter is determined to leave the pain of Scallop Shores behind. Now the one person Sam wanted to forget is the one person he can’t let go. Edie and the CEO: Edie Rowan is passionate about workers’ rights, but when her protests backfire, championing the little guy gets her in trouble with sexy CEO Everett Kirk. He sends her to attend management camp—and even drives her there himself. But when they are forced to seek shelter in a snowstorm, they let down their professional guard, and the sparks start to fly. Starr Tree Farm: Laura Tanner returns home a year after her husband’s death and reunites with Brad Asher, a wounded vet who has come back to pull his life together. When her husband’s murderer targets Laura, too, can her childhood-playmate-turned-devilish-man unravel the secret before it’s too late? On His Watch: Special Agent Jason Spark is enjoying some welcome peace and quiet when he’s summoned to a 911 call and steps into a horrifying bloodbath. Survivor Nikki Hart believes Jason might be the angel sent to protect her, and willingly goes into hiding with him in a mountain cabin far from civilization. But when she learns about the secret role he played in her tragedy, can she ever forgive him? As If You Never Left Me: Rey and Joely Birch had what they thought was a perfect marriage … until it fell apart. Joely picked up the pieces and built a successful retail business. Now Rey is back on the doorstep of her mountain cabin, determined to win her heart again. But will his carefully laid plans disintegrate when she finds out what really brought him to Colorado? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1630

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1507207352

ISBN 13

9781507207352

Beyond Observations

Narratives and Young Children

By: Susanne Garvis,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Narelle Lemon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Observations

Narratives and Young Children

By: Susanne Garvis,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Narelle Lemon

This book provides important insights into narratives and young children. It is structured to help others learn more about the importance of narrative approaches and early childhood education. The first section of the book explores the concept of narrative across the current research field. The second section explores a range of different narrative methods related to young children.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

151

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9462099685

ISBN 13

9789462099685

Internalizing Globalization

The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism

By: Susanne Soederberg,Georg Menz,Philip G. Cerny

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Internalizing Globalization

The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism

By: Susanne Soederberg,Georg Menz,Philip G. Cerny

This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of neoliberalism and a more market-oriented version of capitalism. The book examines how distinct social structures, political cultures, patterns of party and interest group politics, classes, public policies, liberal democratic and authoritarian institutions, and the discourses that frame them, are being reshaped by political actors. Chapters cover national experiences from Europe and North America to Asia and Latin America (Chile, Mexico, and Peru).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

0230524435

ISBN 13

9780230524439

Fresh

A Perishable History

By: Susanne Freidberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fresh

A Perishable History

By: Susanne Freidberg

That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journeyÑnot just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Opening the door of an ordinary refrigerator, it tells the curious story of the quality stored inside: freshness. We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. Fresh traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress. Susanne Freidberg begins with refrigeration, a trend as controversial at the turn of the twentieth century as genetically modified crops are today. Consumers blamed cold storage for high prices and rotten eggs but, ultimately, aggressive marketing, advances in technology, and new ideas about health and hygiene overcame this distrust. Freidberg then takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Fruit, for instance, shows why beauty trumped taste at a surprisingly early date. In the case of fish, we see how the value of a living, quivering catch has ironically hastened the death of species. And of all supermarket staples, why has milk remained the most stubbornly local? Local livelihoods; global trade; the politics of taste, community, and environmental change: all enter into this lively, surprising, yet sobering tale about the nature and cost of our hunger for freshness.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

417

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674057228

ISBN 13

9780674057227

The Choice of Achilles

The Ideology of Figure in the Epic

By: Susanne Lindgren Wofford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Choice of Achilles

The Ideology of Figure in the Epic

By: Susanne Lindgren Wofford

This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The book outlines a theory of how and why epic narrative may be said to subvert certain of its constitutive claims while articulating a cultural argument of which it becomes the contradictory paradigm. The author focuses on the aesthetic and ideological work accomplished by poetic figure in these narratives, and understands ideology as a figurative, substitutive system that resembles and uses the system of tropes. She defines the ideological function of tropes in narrative and the often contradictory way in which narratives acknowledge and seek to efface the transformative functions of ideology. Beginning with what it describes as a dual tendency within the epic simile (toward metaphor in the transformations of ideology; toward metonymy as it maintains a structure of difference), the book defines the politics of the simile in epic narrative and identifies metalepsis as the defining trope of ideology. It demonstrates the political and poetic costs of the structural reliance of allegorical narrative on catachresis and shows how the narrator's use of prosopopoeia to assert political authority reshapes the figurative economy of the epic. The book is particularly innovative in being the first to apply to the epic the set of questions posed by the linking of the theory of rhetoric and the theory of ideology. It argues that historical pressures on a text are often best seen as a dialectic in which ideology shapes poetic process while poetry counters, resists, figures, or generates the tropes of ideology itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

846

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804780803

ISBN 13

9780804780803

Danger in A Small Town

6 Romantic Suspense Novels

By: Winter Austin,Becky Flade,Susanne Matthews,Ellen Parker,Tami Lund,Sandy Vaile

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Danger in A Small Town

6 Romantic Suspense Novels

By: Winter Austin,Becky Flade,Susanne Matthews,Ellen Parker,Tami Lund,Sandy Vaile

There’s nowhere to hide in a small town—from danger or love! Passion explodes when these six couples get caught in the crosshairs of secrets and lies. Born to Die: FBI agent Boyce Hunt abandoned Deputy Cassy Rivers to protect her, but when the ex-lovers reluctantly re-team to capture a modern Bonnie and Clyde, their attraction flames to life once more. Fated Hearts: Sheriff Carter McAlister offers mysterious newcomer Henley Elliott a job as his assistant. Breaking through her carefully built shell proves to be a near-impossible task, and now a dangerous new presence in the Cove seems to be targeting Henley. On His Watch: Special Agent Jason Spark is enjoying some welcome peace and quiet when he’s summoned to a 911 call and steps into a horrifying bloodbath. Survivor Nikki Hart believes Jason might be the angel sent to protect her. But when she learns about the secret role he played in her tragedy, can she ever forgive him? Starr Tree Farm: Laura Tanner returns home a year after her husband’s death and reunites with Brad Asher, a wounded vet who has come back to pull his life together. When her husband’s murderer targets Laura, too, can her childhood-playmate-turned-devilish-man unravel the secret before it’s too late? Delicious Deception: Artist Emily Kate Boudreaux runs a restaurant on a Texas bayou because it’s what her family expects. Then sexy chef Connor Rikeland walks into her life and turns her business—and her bed—into one hot adventure. But little does she know, Cajun cooking isn’t Connor’s only talent… Inheriting Fear: Detective Luca Patterson never crossed a professional line until he met his new neighbor, Mya. She’s sexy, feisty, and he can’t stop thinking about her, but her secrets coincide with Luca’s case—and lead to an unexpectedly sizzling interlude in his bed. When lines blur, will love or duty ultimately come into focus?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2246

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1507204353

ISBN 13

9781507204351

Talk German 2 Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn German with BBC Active

The bestselling way to improve your German

By: Susanne Winchester

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Talk German 2 Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn German with BBC Active

The bestselling way to improve your German

By: Susanne Winchester

Learn a language for less – get this bestselling Enhanced eBook for HALF PRICE - only £6.99. For a limited time only. Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you’re on. TALK German 2 has already helped thousands of people to improve their German. Whether you’re returning to the language and don’t want to start from scratch or you’ve completed an introductory course, Talk German 2 is the ideal way to take your German to the next level – fast. With its clear and effective approach, you’ll soon be able to engage in increasingly sophisticated conversations and express opinions on a wide range of subjects from food to property, as well as get to know people and cope confidently in everyday situations. Learn faster and smarter using the successful, proven Talk method Develop your language skills with a wealth of activities to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently by taking part in real German conversations. Want to improve your grammar? Get quickly up to speed with our bestselling Talk German Grammar eBook. Easy to follow and specially written to work with this course, it’ll help you easily demystify and unlock the key structures of German grammar and boost your understanding, speaking and listening skills. Search now for ‘Talk German Grammar’. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk German 2: ‘A great asset to learning German. CDs and book are excellent.’ ‘Definitely recommend this book to everyone studying German on their own or anyone who wants to recap and study further.’ ‘BBC Active Talk German series is absolutely fantastic for those who plan on self-learning German’ ‘We are using this as the course book for an evening class, which should be a good indicator for anyone. The book is laid out clearly and is easy to follow.’ Also available: Talk Italian Enhanced eBook, Talk Italian 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk French Enhanced eBook, Talk French 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk Spanish Enhanced eBook, Talk Spanish 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk German Enhanced eBook; Talk Spanish Grammar eBook, Talk French Grammar eBook, Talk Italian Grammar eBook and Talk German Grammar eBook

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Pearson UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

1406683523

ISBN 13

9781406683523

The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

By: Koch, Susanne,Weingart, Peter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

By: Koch, Susanne,Weingart, Peter

With the rise of the ‘knowledge for development’ paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ‘technical assistance’ – a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ‘effectiveness’ of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

398

Publisher

African Minds

Published Date

ISBN 10

1928331394

ISBN 13

9781928331391

Mind

An Essay on Human Feeling

By: Susanne K. Langer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mind

An Essay on Human Feeling

By: Susanne K. Langer

Proposes a theory of evolution that accounts for the development of human intellect from animal mentality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801816076

ISBN 13

9780801816079

Genre in World Englishes

Case studies from the Caribbean

By: Susanne Mühleisen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Genre in World Englishes

Case studies from the Caribbean

By: Susanne Mühleisen

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone Caribbean. A comprehensive framework for the investigation of text production in postcolonial and global English communities is followed by empirically based case studies on specific text formats such as recipes, death notices and obituaries, letters to the editor, newspaper advice columns, radio phone-in programmes, online forums and the music genre calypso. Influences from oral versus literate culture as well as status and function of English versus Creole are considered by highlighting written, spoken and digital genres. All chapters present surveys from a historical and cross-cultural perspective before exploring specific linguistic and cultural features in the Caribbean texts. This volume will be highly relevant for researchers in World Englishes and Caribbean studies, postcolonial pragmatics, genre and media studies as well as linguistic anthropology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

9027257620

ISBN 13

9789027257628

The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

By: Friederike Eigler,Susanne Kord

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

By: Friederike Eigler,Susanne Kord

Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading. Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. While biographical works on women writers exist, this is the first reference to synthesize the wealth of feminist scholarship in German studies. While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics. While some entries are provided for important women writers and other individuals, the bulk of the volume provides information on literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry includes a brief identification of the subject, a discussion of feminist thought on the topic, and a brief bibliography. Entries are written by numerous contributors and reflect a range of critical/theoretical approaches.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

691

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1567507522

ISBN 13

9781567507522

The European Union as a Global Actor

Trade, Finance and Climate Policy

By: Susanne Lütz,Tobias Leeg,Daniel Otto,Vincent Woyames Dreher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The European Union as a Global Actor

Trade, Finance and Climate Policy

By: Susanne Lütz,Tobias Leeg,Daniel Otto,Vincent Woyames Dreher

This book focuses on the European Union as an important actor in international relations and international political economy. The EU negotiates international economic agreements, represents Europe in international organizations, and is a major trading bloc and currency area. To what extent and under what conditions the EU can use its considerable economic power to assert its interests in the international arena is a relevant question for students, researchers and practitioners alike. To explore this question, the textbook introduces the concept of “actorness” and presents an overview of the actorness debate and theories used to explain actorness. In addition, it includes three empirical chapters on trade, finance and climate policy that apply various concepts and theories to study European actorness in the respective policy areas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

303076673X

ISBN 13

9783030766733

The Changing Roles of Doctors

By: Penny Cavenagh,Sam Leinster,Veena Rodrigues,Mick Collins,Susanne Lindqvist,Ann Barrett,Andrea Stockl,Amanda Howe,Alistair Leinster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Changing Roles of Doctors

By: Penny Cavenagh,Sam Leinster,Veena Rodrigues,Mick Collins,Susanne Lindqvist,Ann Barrett,Andrea Stockl,Amanda Howe,Alistair Leinster

This fascinating new book describes the evolution of the medical profession and how the role of the doctor and expectations of that role have changed over time. It critically examines developments in the light of both external influences such as the ageing population, patient attitudes and knowledge and government regulation, and internal changes such as the increasing knowledge base, advances in technology and changes in recruitment. Challenges in management, working environment, education and training are considered and practical recommendations for both practising and student doctors are offered. The holistic approach is supported with contributions from both primary and secondary care practitioners together with academics and educationalists. It is highly recommended for doctors and medical students seeking new strategies for understanding and managing change. Sociologists and policy makers, too, will find the wide-ranging perspectives enlightening.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

138

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000605299

ISBN 13

9781000605297

Not So Weird After All

The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility

By: Rosemary L. Hopcroft,Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Not So Weird After All

The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility

By: Rosemary L. Hopcroft,Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber

This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively associated with the number of offspring, with high-status individuals typically having more offspring than low-status individuals. However, humans appear to be different. As societies have gotten richer, fertility has dipped to unprecedented lows, with some developed societies now at or below replacement fertility. Within rich societies, women in higher-income families often have fewer children than women in lower-income families. Evolutionary theory suggests that the relationship between social status and fertility is likely to be somewhat different for men and women, so it is important to examine this relationship for men and women separately. When this is done, the positive association between individual social status and fertility is often clear in less-developed, pre-transitional societies, particularly for men. Once the demographic transition begins, it is elite families, particularly the women of elite families, who lead the way in fertility decline. Post-transition, the evidence from a variety of developed societies in Europe, North America and East Asia is that high-status men (particularly men with high personal income) do have more children on average than lower-status men. The reverse is often true of women, although there is evidence that this is changing in Nordic countries. The implications of these observations for evolutionary theory are also discussed. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the social sciences with an interest in evolutionary sociology, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, demography, and fertility.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

131

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040005926

ISBN 13

9781040005927

Overcoming Agricultural Pollution of Water

The Challenge of Integrating Agricultural and Environmental Policies of the European Union

By: Susanne M. Scheierling

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Overcoming Agricultural Pollution of Water

The Challenge of Integrating Agricultural and Environmental Policies of the European Union

By: Susanne M. Scheierling

World Bank Technical Paper No. 269. Water problems are emerging as the most compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in the 1990s. To address the policy challenges posed by this dilemma, this study focuses on the experience of the Eu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

104

Publisher

World Bank Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0821331183

ISBN 13

9780821331187

On His Watch

By: Susanne Matthews

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On His Watch

By: Susanne Matthews

On leave from the FBI, Special Agent Jason Spark is enjoying some welcome peace and quiet when he’s called on to help the local sheriff’s department check out a 911 call. Expecting a prank or misdial, he unwittingly steps into a horrifying bloodbath straight out of a Hollywood slasher movie, complete with clues scrawled on the wall. Nikki Hart’s husband and son are killed, but she survives, badly beaten and barely clinging to life in a coma. When she awakens, she doesn’t know her name, recognize her face, or remember anything about herself and her past. Terrified, and unsure of whom to trust, she clings to the memory of the angel who comforted her in her darkest moments. The investigation turns up a prime suspect: The Butcher, an elusive hired assassin for the Sicilian mob. As the news of Nikki’s recovery spreads, putting her in this ruthless killer’s sights again, Jason will do whatever it takes to protect the woman he’s learning to love. Nikki’s beginning to believe Jason might be the angel who protected her in her dreams. But when she learns about the secret role he played in the worst day of her life, can she ever forgive him? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440584397

ISBN 13

9781440584398

Techniques and Principles for the Operating Room

By: Matthew Porteous,Susanne Bäuerle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Techniques and Principles for the Operating Room

By: Matthew Porteous,Susanne Bäuerle

Lavishly illustrated, succinct coverage of the latest advances in operative fracture care Reflecting the recent dramatic advances in orthopedic trauma care and orthopedic implants, this highly practical surgical guide provides step-by-step descriptions of new, state-of-the-art techniques as well as in-depth information on classic, time-tested methods. Packed with hundreds of the high-quality, full-color illustrations for which AO books are known, the expert authors of this must-have text discuss operating room principles for different aspects of OR management for ORP (orthotic rehabilitation products) and AO principles of fracture management, and give advice on how to perform common procedures, with an emphasis on the use of surgical instruments. Features: Comprehensive discussion of relative stability, biological fixation, minimally invasive techniques, the correct use of locking head screws and the locking compression plate, and more Concise chapters designed to aid ORP and junior residents as they assist during surgery Full-color illustrations complement thorough descriptions of each step of the procedures AO Techniques and Principles for the Operating Room is an invaluable tool for operating room staff and all residents starting their careers in orthopedic trauma care.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1526

Publisher

Thieme

Published Date

ISBN 10

3132579017

ISBN 13

9783132579019

Book's by Susanne Essex

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email