Rose finds herself alone to carry on her late husband’s dream of having the best ranch in Texas. She has no knowledge of ranching but is willing to learn. However, when things don’t look good to keep the ranch, Rose meets Brody, a cowboy with ranching experience. Brody becomes the hired hand to help out on the ranch, but will it work or will things take an unexpected turn for Rose? Rose will face hardship during her unexpected journey in ranching. Will she lose her late husband&rs
In The Art of the Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut, author Yolanda Plumley explores the penchant for borrowing in chansons and lyrics from fourteenth-century France, uncovering a practice integral to the experiments in form, genre, and style that ushered in a new school of lyric.
Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds! Transcultural Nursing, 9th Edition shows you how to apply assessment and intervention strategies to individuals from a variety of different cultures. Based on Giger and Davidhizer's unique transcultural model, this text helps you deliver culturally sensitive care with use of the six key aspects of cultural assessment: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. Practical, real-world coverage shows how an understanding of cultural variations and individual patient needs will help you promote safe and effective care. - UPDATED! Content throughout reflects the latest research and thinking related to transcultural nursing, as well as updated Census data. - UPDATED! Cultural chapters reflect the shifting experiences of cultural groups in our society. - NEW! Jamaican Americans chapter addresses the unique cultural and healthcare needs of this population. - UNIQUE! Individual chapters on the six key aspects of cultural assessment allow you to also apply the Transcultural Assessment Model to cultures not covered in the text. - Twenty-four chapters on specific cultural groups apply this assessment model to the clients most commonly encountered in United States healthcare settings. - Case studies and critical decision-making questions in each chapter help you apply the assessment framework in practice. - Client care plans in culture-specific chapters demonstrate how to apply principles to specific client needs. - Coverage includes information on biological differences among individuals of different racial groups; differences in drug interaction and metabolism specific to various ethnic groups; and clustering of certain pathologies in specific racial groups. - Discussions of spirituality throughout the text present a holistic approach to culture and beliefs that provides a more integrated approach to assessment. - Review questions in each chapter (with answers found in the back of the text) help reinforce knowledge.
Invasive alien species can upset ecosystems and are one of the main causes of species extinction. While it is preferable to concentrate efforts on measures to prevent their introduction, it is also possible to control their spread or eradicate them. In this publication methods of control or eradication are presented and discussed.
Do broken hearts ever mend? Alone and lonely after her divorce, Veronica is propelled outside her comfort zone when she meets Roderick, a tall, chocolatey Adonis and sworn bachelor who reawakens all her starving erogenous zones. Romantic sparks ignite while Veronica tries to juggle her mysteriously giddy 19-year old daughter. Then there's the Foster family's dysfunction. Veronica's bossy and feisty sister Victoria and their mother Josephine – sadistically hilarious, deliberately hurtful, and always unpredictable, never short on insults or crazy antics. Just when all appears well, secrets and deceit are revealed. When Roderick is exposed at the center of it all, the cracks in Veronica's heart resurface, and her world is thrown into a tailspin. Angry and vengeful she tries to put Roderick out of her life, while he, stung by Veronica's disregard, regrets surrendering his heart to her. Conflict and redemption war as these lovers are faced with the gray areas of life and love to which no rules apply.
The most authoritative, comprehensive, and clinicallyfocused guide to operative thoracic surgery--updatedwith the latest techniques and technologies A Doody’s Core Title for 2019! Adult Chest Surgery is a thorough, hands-on guide to the modern practice of general thoracic surgery. Broad in scope and straightforward in style and presentation, this classic is an outstanding reference for any clinician in need of a comprehensive description ofthe clinical nature of general thoracic surgery. Like its award-winning predecessor, the second edition of Adult Chest Surgery focuses on providing concise descriptions of current techniques and surgical principles for the most common thoracic surgical problems encountered in the clinic and the operating room. This edition is enhanced by 40 new chapters devoted to a range of topics including new endoscopic techniques for antireflux surgery; percutaneous thoracic tumor ablation; peroral esophageal myotomy; robotic techniques for lobectomy, esophagectomy, and thymectomy; and other new minimally invasive approaches to standard thoracic resections. It is also enriched by more than 250 new detailed illustrations of procedures, bringing the total number to 850. Adult Chest Surgery features a logical organization based on anatomy, and each section has an overview chapter, which summarizes the relevant anatomy, pathophysiology, and diagnostic and procedural options. Throughout, operations and diagnostic procedures are highlighted in succinct, illustrated technique chapters.
Rose finds herself alone to carry on her late husband’s dream of having the best ranch in Texas. She has no knowledge of ranching but is willing to learn. However, when things don’t look good to keep the ranch, Rose meets Brody, a cowboy with ranching experience. Brody becomes the hired hand to help out on the ranch, but will it work or will things take an unexpected turn for Rose? Rose will face hardship during her unexpected journey in ranching. Will she lose her late husband&rs
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