Part of the highly regarded Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery® series,The Spine, Fourth Edition, is a concise, lavishly illustrated reference covering the most advanced, successful surgical techniques for the spine—all in step-by-step detail. Edited by Drs. Todd J. Albert and Thomas A. Zdeblick, this fully revised edition presents the preferred techniques of surgical masters, illustrated with sequential, surgeon’s-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as superb drawings by noted medical illustrators. New contributing authors and new and rewritten chapters keep you fully up to date with recent changes in the field.
Drawing on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers, here is the enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of the Nobel Prize winning author. Todd shows us a Camus who struggled all his life with irreconcilable conflicts—between his loyalty to family and his passionate nature, between the call to political action and the integrity to his art, between his support of the native Algerians and his identification with the forgotten people, the poor whites. A very private man, Camus could be charming and prickly, sincere and theatrical, genuinely humble, yet full of great ambition. Todd paints a vivid picture of the time and place that shaped Camus—his impoverished childhood in the Algerian city of Belcourt, the sea and the sun and the hot sands that he so loved (he would always feel an exile elsewhere), and the educational system that nurtured him. We see the forces that lured him into communism, and his attraction to the theater and to journalism as outlets for his creativity. The Paris that Camus was inevitably drawn to is one that Todd knows intimately, and he brings alive the war years, the underground activities that Camus was caught up in during the Occupation and the bitter postwar period, as well as the intrigues of the French literati who embraced Camus after his first novel, L'Etranger, was published. Todd is also keenly attuned to the French intellectual climate, and as he takes Camus's measure as a successful novelist, journalist, playwright and director, literary editor, philosopher, he also reveals the temperament in the writer that increasingly isolated him and crippled his reputation in the years before his death and for a long time after. He shows us the solitary man behind the mask—debilitated by continuing bouts of tuberculosis, constantly drawn to irresistible women, and deeply troubled by his political conflicts with the reigning French intellectuals, particularly by the vitriol of his former friend Sartre over the Algerian conflict. Filled with sharp observations and sparkling with telling details, here is a wonderfully human portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who died at the age of forty-six and who remains one of the most influential literary figures of our time.
Brash, sexy, investigative journalist Margo Ross runs her hip news program with wit and intelligence. Tipped off that Albert Einstein might have been murdered by a group of right-wing militarists, Margo pursues the scoop of her life, tangling with a network of clues and an outlandish cast of suspects.
C++: An Active Learning Approach provides a hands-on approach to the C++ language through active learning exercises and numerous programming projects. Ideal for the introductory programming course, this text includes the latest C++ upgrades without losing site of the C underpinnings still required for all computing fields. With over 30 years combined teaching experience the authors understand potential pitfalls students face and aim to keep the language simple, straightforward, and conversational. The topics are covered in-depth yet as succinctly as possible. The text provides challenging exercises designed to teach students how to effectively debug a computer program and Team Programming exercises urge students to read existing code, adhere to code specifications, and write from existing design documents. Examples are provided electronically allowing to students to easily run code found in the text.
Writing in a question-and-answer format, Todd includes questions most frequently asked by clients during the course of his more than twenty-seven years of estate planning practice. Attorneys will benefit by providing the book as a reference for clients, while laypeople can use it as a preparation guide when seeking assistance from an estate planning lawyer.
Over 600 insightful, witty nuggets to motivate and inspire you and everyone else at your school. Teachers, display these quotes in your classrooms! Administrators, insert them into your faculty memos and share them at staff meetings! Why is this book unique? It includes over 100 original quotes from internationally acclaimed speaker and educator Todd Whitaker, features real quotes from real students which echo wit and wisdom for educators, and each quote has a direct connection to your life as an educator.
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A delightful collection of jokes, trivia, lists, quotes, cartoons and timeless “water-cooler wisdom” Today’s American workforce is massive, numbering more than 157 million people. However, these people are stressed out. According to the American Psychological Association, more than 75 percent of us are stressed to the max by our jobs. In a separate study (conducted by Harris Polls), people cited work/money as the most stressful thing in their lives. Clearly, we need a daily dose of some workplace humor, a Job Survival Kit in handy book form. Thank heaven that Wit & Wisdom for the Workplace is on the job! Wit and Wisdom packs a winning blend of humor and insight - sure to brighten up those stressful or tedious days on the job. It’s the kind of book that can have you laughing so hard, you just might get reported to Human Resources!.
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