Universally acknowledged as the cornerstone reference in the field, Pediatric Rehabilitation brings together renowned specialists from all sectors of the pediatric rehabilitation community to provide the most current and comprehensive information available. The fifth edition has been substantially updated and expanded with evidence-based discussions of new theories, therapies, interventions, research findings, and controversies. Five completely new chapters focus on such emerging areas as the use of ultrasound to guide motor point and nerve injections, rehabilitation of chronic pain and conversion disorders, management of concussions, sports injuries, and neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases in children. This edition also addresses important new directions in genetic markers and tests, cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychological assessment, and rehabilitation for common genetic conditions. Additionally, several new contributors provide fresh perspectives to the voices of established leaders in the field.

Last in the delightfully funny Valentine-and-Lovelace series, Canary finds our two protagonists a bit the worse for wear. Their bar is losing money, largely because someone keeps insisting on leaving dead bodies around. The cops, this is the 1980s, after all, are not wildly interested in the gay community’s little problems, so Lovelace and Valentine set up shop as sleuths, determined to stop the killer before he puts them out of business.

Otolaryngologists and neurosurgeons mainly from the Michigan Ear Institute offer 17 chapters on otologic and neurotologic disorders and surgical procedures used to treat them. They outline step-by-step techniques, surgical pearls practiced at the Michigan Ear Institute, complications, and other aspects, and incorporate newer procedures like over-under tympanoplasty, repair of superior semicircular canal dehiscence, endoscopic retrosigmoid vestibular nerve section, and endoscopic retrosigmoid tumor removal. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Garth Ennis - the creator of Preacher and Crossed - delivers a story like no other, as an unlikely band of canines set out to survive in a world gone horribly mad. When a worldwide plague wipes out humanity, what happens to man's best friend? Charlie was a helper dog and he was good at it. Now he and his friends Rover and Red must escape the bloody city and find their way in this strange, master-less new world. Rover Red Charlie Volume 1 collects issues #1-6 of the comic book series.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Prepare for an ophidian infestation as the sinister Sidewinder assembles a slithering squadron of super villains for sale, under the sensational sobriquet of the Serpent Society! But the Sentinel of Liberty must face this new threat alone, after his partner Nomad's very sense of self is questioned in a life-changing encounter with the maniacal Madcap! The identity crisis continues when Hawkeye wields Cap's shield, the Beyonder takes his face, and Steve Rogers dons the red, white and blue of...Captain Britain?!?

COLLECTING: Captain America (1968) 302-317, material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) 18 (Captain America Epic Collection Vol . 12)

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. In graphic novel format.

On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police riot. Sam's Place, the headquarters for the steelworkers, was transformed into a bloody and frantic triage unit for treating heads split open by police batons, flesh torn by bullets, and limbs mangled badly enough to require amputation.

While no one doubts the importance of the Memorial Day Massacre, Michael Dennis identifies it as a focal point in the larger effort to revitalize American equality during the New Deal. In Blood on Steel, Dennis shows how the incident—captured on film by Paramount newsreels—validated the claims of labor activists and catalyzed public opinion in their favor.

In the aftermath of the massacre, Senate hearings laid bare patterns of anti-union aggression among management, ranging from blacklists to harassment and vigilante violence. Companies were determined to subvert the right to form a union, which Congress had finally recognized in 1935. Only in the following year would Congress pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage and a maximum work week, outlawed child labor, and regulated hazardous work. Like the Wagner Act that protected collective bargaining, this law aimed to protect workers who had suffered the worst of what the Great Depression had inflicted.

Dennis‘s wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in the New Deal era.

Complete coverage of above-grade grounding and below-grade earthing that follows the 2011 National Electrical Code

McGraw-Hill’s NEC 2014 Grounding and Earthing Handbook fully discusses above-grade wiring issues and below-grade earthing issues related to electrical grounding in conjunction with Article 250 of the 2011 National Electrical Code.This practical guide features easy-to-understand language and real-world examples throughout.

Coverage includes:
Above-grade grounding

• Grounding definitions and terminology
• Grounded vs. ungrounded systems
• Service equipment grounding connections
• Separately derived systems and generators
• Grounding branch circuits
• Connections and selection of grounding conductors
• Pipe and structural steel connections
• Equipment grounding conductors vs. grounding
• Isolated ground systems
• Grounding for swimming pools
• Grounding for communications systems

Below-grade earthing

• Sphere of influence
• Earthing electrodes
• Earthing system design
• Earthing calculations
• Soil resistivity measurement
• Testing of existing earthing systems
• Ground potential rise and human safety
• Effects of lightning on an earthing system
• Earthing codes and regulations

Chi ha ucciso il figlio illegittimo di papa Alessandro VI? Per scoprirlo, Rodrigo Borgia invia a Imola, nelle terre del Valentino, Damiata, la bella cortigiana un tempo amante del figlio. Ma una volta arrivata in Romagna, la donna si trova di fronte a un macabro scenario: uno spietato assassino uccide e dissemina, in luoghi che sembrano studiati, parti del corpo amputate alle sue vittime. Ma cosa hanno a che fare queste donne con la morte di Juan? Quando gli omicidi cominciano a moltiplicarsi, il compito di Damiata si fa sempre più difficile e farvi fronte da sola diventa impossibile. Saranno l'ambiguo diplomatico fiorentino Niccolò Machiavelli e l'eccentrico ingegnere Leonardo da Vinci a soccorrerla nelle indagini. Machiavelli, sfruttando le sue doti di profondo conoscitore della natura umana; Leonardo, facendo affidamento sul suo rivoluzionario metodo d'osservazione scientifica. Insieme, i tre si troveranno alle prese con un mondo torbido dove vigono regole ancestrali, un labirinto di antiche superstizioni in cui anche i potenti di turno sono caduti e rimasti intrappolati. E svelare il segreto che avvolge la morte di Juan potrebbe mettere a rischio più di una vita...

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.

Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.

Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.

Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of ‘development’ – defined broadly as problems of poverty and social deprivation, and the various agencies and processes seeking to address these – is normally one that is discussed by social scientists and policy makers, it also has a wider ‘popular’ dimension. Development is something that can be understood through studying literature, films, and other non-conventional forms of representation. It is also a public issue, one that has historically been associated with musical movements such as Live Aid and increasingly features in newer media such as blogs and social networking. The book connects the effort to build a more holistic understanding of development issues with an exploration of the diverse public sphere in which popular engagement with development takes place.

This book gives students of development studies, media studies and geography as well as students in the humanities engaging with global development issues a variety of perspectives from different disciplines to open up this new field for discussion.

When Pope Alexander orders the courtesan Damiata to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of his beloved son, Juan, she knows that failure comes at the price of her own child’s freedom.

However, a string of gruesome murders have left Imola’s residents too gripped by fear to help a lone woman. Enlisting the aid of the obscure Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and the eccentric military engineer Leonardo da Vinci, Damiata sets off to decipher the killer’s taunting riddles: she with her street smarts, Leonardo with his groundbreaking “science of observation,” and Machiavelli with his new “science of men.”

THE MALICE OF FORTUNE* - ENNIS MICHAEL - Random UK

(Book). Having two mega-hits ("American Pie" and "Vincent") back-to-back in the early 1970s rocketed Don McLean to international superstar status. Four decades and hundreds of original songs later, he's charted 21 singles (including five number one hits worldwide), played thousands of live concerts and sold millions of records. Universally recognized as one of America's most brilliant songwriters, his unique songs have been performed and recorded by a Who's Who of elite entertainers, including Elvis Presley, Garth Brooks, Madonna, Chet Atkins, Fred Astaire, George Michael, Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Julio Iglesias, Josh Groban, Shirley Bassey, and many others. This deluxe hard-cover coffee-table autobiography recounts the upbringing and adventures of America's legendary singer-songwriter including the stories behind his songs "American Pie," "Vincent," "And I Love You So," and many other iconic songs that defined a generation. Jam-packed with beautiful full-color rare photos of McLean through his entire life, reproductions of album covers and hand-written lyrics, McLean's story in his own words, and much much more, this deluxe collectible edition features 382 pages which all Don McLean fans will enjoy. Each copy in this numbered edition of 1500 copies is signed personally by Don McLean. Each book is shipped in a protective case to ensure no defects.

Pressure vessels are closed containers designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure. They have a variety of applications in industry, including in oil refineries, nuclear reactors, vehicle airbrake reservoirs, and more.

The pressure differential with such vessels is dangerous and due to the risk of accident and fatality around their use, the design, manufacture, operation and inspection of pressure vessels is regulated by engineering authorities, guided by legal codes and standards.

Pressure Vessel Design Manual is a solutions-focused guide to the many problems and technical challenges involved in the design of pressure vessels to match stringent standards and codes. It brings together otherwise scattered information and explanation into one easy-to-use resource to minimize research and take readers from problem to solution in the most direct manner possible.

• Covers almost all problems that a working pressure vessel designer can expect to face, with 50+ step-by-step design procedures including a wealth of equations, explanations and data
• Internationally recognized, widely referenced and trusted, with 20+ years of use in over 30 countries making it an accepted industry standard guide
• Now revised with up-to-date ASME, ASCE and API regulatory code information, and dual unit coverage for increased ease of international use

Admiral von Spee's German East Asia Cruiser Squadron of World War I stand out amidst the annals of 20th century surface naval warfare. Upon the outbreak of war in August 1914, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst aside from a small number of local vessels, the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas - Home Waters (i.e. the North Sea and the Baltic) and Tsingtao in China, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral Reichsgraf von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cruisers. As it was clear that Spee's relatively small force would be quickly overwhelmed by superior enemy numbers, the Admiralty in Berlin immediately ordered him to weigh anchor and return to Germany, a mission that many were to describe as a Himmelfahrtskommando or suicide mission. Whether Spee made it or not, the main consideration was that he would tie down a large number of enemy warships and thus prevent their deployment in other areas. This Raid title details all aspects of the exciting mission.