The Fourth Edition of Chassin’s Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas is designed to expand this comprehensive and unique general surgery reference while remaining true to the special character of the work. This unique text continues to provide an emphasis on surgical strategy that is unmatched by other textbooks of surgical technique. It continues to comprehensively cover all non-vascular operations commonly performed by general surgeons. As always, Chassin's explains the conceptual basis of each operation, outlines strategies to avoid common pitfalls, and carefully describes and beautifully illustrates the technical steps of each operation. The Fourth Edition has been expanded and updated by adding both new procedures and new features. A significant new feature, “Documentation Basics” has been added to each chapter providing a bulleted list of key features that need to be listed in the operative note. General surgery continues to evolve. Procedures are added and many operations are done through new minimal access approaches. However, as a surgeon may be called upon to perform an operation that has become rare, Chassin’s unique “legacy” material will be used. In addition, 17 new chapters have been added including 4 new chapters (with new artwork from the original artist) on colorectal surgery. Over 1100 elegant illustrations and new photographs accompany detailed textual explanations. More than ever, Chassin’s Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas, Fourth Edition will remain an indispensable reference for all surgical residents and practicing surgeons.

In 2049, Solano, Thermidor, and the New Athens Special Police must keep the city, which is teeming with corruption and drug dealers, under control.

The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Students of healthcare need to understand how research is applied to practice. This book opens up the concepts that inform qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research in short, concise chapters. A broad approach across healthcare is taken, so readers can gain an appreciation of a wide range of topics from systematic reviews to action research. Chapters also include case studies which link theory to practice.

This is essential reading for nursing students at pre-registration level, undergraduate allied health students and qualified healthcare practitioners who are coming to the subject for the first time.

The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Students of healthcare need to understand how research is applied to practice. This book opens up the concepts that inform qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research in short, concise chapters. A broad approach across healthcare is taken, so readers can gain an appreciation of a wide range of topics from systematic reviews to action research. Chapters also include case studies which link theory to practice.

This is essential reading for nursing students at pre-registration level, undergraduate allied health students and qualified healthcare practitioners who are coming to the subject for the first time.

After having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes his horrifying return in this new epic that features Batman's entire network of partners in crimefighting, including Batgirl, Catwoman, Nightwing, Robin, the Teen Titans and more. While The Joker threatens the very existence of Gotham City, these heroes --and villains--must find a way to survive.

Collects Detective Comics 16-17, Catwoman 13-14, Batgirl 14-16, Red Hood and the Outlaws 15-16, Teen Titans 15, Nightwing 15-16, Batman and Robin 15-17, Batman 17. Also collects the portions of the following issues: Suicide Squad 14-15, Batgirl 13, Red Hood and the Outlaws 13-14, Teen Titans 14, 16, Nightwing 14 and Batman 13.

Join Splat the Cat as he makes going to bed fun in New York Times bestselling author and artist Rob Scotton’s hilarious adventure Splat the Cat Dreams Big.

Fans of Splat the Cat will delight in this 8x8 story about bedtime and enjoy Splat’s always-present enthusiasm.

Fairy godmothers, evil stepmothers, nasty witches, pretty princesses, and a little girl as small as your thumb: enter the magical world of fairy tales! Kids will want to read these seven favorites again and again. Silver Penny Treasury: Fairy Tales includes: Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, and Thumbelina.

This narrative history from Lovett (humanities, Keele U., UK) and Tomkins (history, Keele U., UK) adds to the field of medical humanities by tracing the evolution of knowledge pertaining to a variety of medical conditions. The book is divided into sections addressing emergency care, lifestyle practices such as diet, substance use, and sex, reproductive health, infectious disease, development and aging, diagnosis, intervention, and practitioner roles. Each chapter elaborates the history of a practice or idea, ending with bullet points grounding contemporary relevance. Although aimed at health practitioners, the text is accessible and engaging to a variety of audiences. Distributed in the US by Martin P. Hill Consulting. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section.

This new edition addresses the shifts in scholarly and critical interests in Spenser studies since 1993 as well as access provided by new technology. Notes reflect the information that Spenser’s best readers would have at their fingertips without spoiling the pleasure of reading Spenser for the first time. Mother Hubberds Tale from the 1591 Complaints is newly included. The Ruines of Rome, Spenser’s translation of Joachim Du Bellay’s Antiquitez, is also added to give readers the chance to see Spenser at work as a translator and to give the English perspective on Rome. Sixteen critical essays have been added to supplement fourteen earlier commentaries. Among the perspectives new to the Fourth Edition are those of C. S Lewis, Martha Craig, Gordon Teskey, Jeff Dolven, David Wilson-Okamura, and Jennifer Summit.

In keeping with the last edition, critical pieces on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped together to facilitate classroom discussion. New selections from Jane Grogan, Andrew D. Hadfield, Colin Burrow, Lynn Staley, Lauren Silberman, and A. E. B. Coldiron join the readings on House of Busyrane, and “Amoretti” grows with selections by A. Leigh DeNeef and Helena Mennie Shire.

A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller!

As part of the DC New 52 event, the Green Lantern Corps return, led by fan favorite Lanterns Guy Gardner and John Stewart.

When a new menace, The Keepers, begins to march across the space sectors and devouring not only their natural resources but their entire populations, it is up to The Corps, severely outnumbered, to stop them. The Corps soon find one of their own held by the ruthless Keepers and must figure out a way to save their comrade and defeat the Keepers without the Green Lantern's most powerful weapon, their power rings.

Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, yet our current psychiatric paradigm moves quickly to label and medicate. This groundbreaking book offers a new path for practitioners eager for an optimistic view of pediatric mental health. Scott Shannon combines modern science, cutting-edge psychology, integrative medicine, and clinical wisdom for practical guidance.

When the Phoenix Force sets its sights on Earth, Captain America and the Avengers vow to stop it, but a betrayal within their own ranks spells disaster for the team. Reprint.

Who has been sacrificed? Who is guilty? Who can save us? And who...is The Phantom Stranger? Cursed for a betrayal that affected the very course of history, the Stranger walks the Earth attempting to atone for his sins. His actions have consequences, and as he fulfils his duty, the people he encounters will never be the same. This series re-introduces a number of DC Comics characters into the New 52, including the Spectre, Raven, and Dr. 13.

This new volume in the SIOP Professional Practice Series provides evidence-based guidelines to help practitioners seeking advice, recommendations, and guidance for developing and enhancing high-performance teams. Co-Published by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, this volume features all-star editors and contributors highlighting the evidence, the lessons learned, the principles and the findings that matter when composing and managing work teams. Global I/O faculty and practitioners, students, and HR professionals will benefit from discussion on the organizational influence on teams; the leader's contribution to the teams; and how context matters in teams.

Determined to end the age of technology and return the world to a feudal state, the Mandarin brings an all-out assault on Hong Kong, and the Force Works team must defeat him while Iron Man and War Machine's friendship is brought to the breaking point.

Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD or face criminal prosecution. His wife, Alexa, the chief of detectives, leaves him, seeking a divorce for his dalliance with the accused in the case, a well-known Hollywood actress. His son Chooch won’t even speak to him. Life as Scully knows it is over. Or so it seems... In order to make a living the only way he knows how, Shane seeks employment from a police department that has been known to hire rejects from other departments: the Haven Park PD. The department is a hotbed of corruption, in effect the personal goon squad and collection agency of the town’s mayor, Cecil Bratano. Ushered into the department by his new partner, Shane takes his lessons from one of the dirtiest cops around. But things in L.A. are hardly ever what they seem. Relentlessly harassed by an overzealous FBI agent and under the constant, violent, and hyper paranoid scrutiny of his new comrades-at-arms, Shane finds himself in a snare. His estranged wife may be the only one who can get Shane out of this mess alive. The question is: Is she willing to?

“Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States.”
—from Chapter 4

This is a comprehensive narrative account of the life of Gerald Ford written by one of his closest advisers, James Cannon. Written with unique insight and benefiting from personal interviews with President Ford in his last years, Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life is James Cannon’s final look at the simple and honest man from the Midwest.

Little Red Riding Hood has to deliver goodies to grandma—but when the hungry Big Bad Wolf spots the girl in the woods, he decides to trick her into becoming dinner. “What a big mouth, you have, Grandma…”

Distill 100%–Usable Max-Profit Knowledge from Your Digital Data. Do It Now!

Why hasn’t all that data delivered a whopping competitive advantage? Because you’ve barely begun to use it, that’s why! Good news: neither have your competitors. It’s hard! But digital marketing analytics is 100% doable, it offers colossal opportunities, and all of the data is accessible to you. Chuck Hemann and Ken Burbary will help you chop the problem down to size, solve every piece of the puzzle, and integrate a virtually frictionless system for moving from data to decision, action to results! Scope it out, pick your tools, learn to listen, get the metrics right, and then distill your digital data for maximum value for everything from R&D to CRM to social media marketing!

• Prioritize—because you can’t measure, listen to, and analyze everything

• Use analysis to craft experiences that profoundly reflect each customer’s needs, expectations, and behaviors

• Measure real social media ROI: sales, leads, and customer satisfaction

• Track the performance of all paid, earned, and owned social media channels

• Leverage “listening data” way beyond PR and marketing: for strategic planning, product development, and HR

• Start optimizing web and social content in real time

• Implement advanced tools, processes, and algorithms for accurately measuring influence

• Integrate paid and social data to drive more value from both

• Make the most of surveys, focus groups, and offline research synergies

• Focus new marketing and social media investments where they’ll deliver the most value

Foreword by Scott Monty

Global Head of Social Media, Ford Motor Company

Participating in his class production of Cinderpaws, an excited Splat the Cat is unexpectedly recast in a leading role when Spike is unable to perform as Paw-Prints Charming, a change that prompts serious silliness. By the best-selling creator of the Russell the Sheep series. Original. 100,000 first printing.

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With advice onparenting coming from several angles, what do you listen to and what do youignore? Develop your own biblical philosophy of parenting and use it to filterthe many ideas that come your way.

In this book you’ll learn how to:

Identify character qualities to address problems

Build internal motivation

Transfer responsibility for change to the child

Teach kids to be solvers instead of whiners

Use creativity to teach your kids spiritual truths

Avoid the “boxing ring”

Envision a positive future

And much more!

With these strategies you’ll be able to move from behaviormodification to a heart-based approach to parenting. Instead of relying on rewards, incentives, threats, andpunishment, you’ll learn how to identify heart lessons to teach your child and implement them in practical ways.

The ChristianParenting Handbook by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, founders of theNational Center for Biblical Parenting, compiles fifty parenting principlesthat use heart-based strategies to teach you how to face daily challenges. Whenparents focus on the heart, kids learn to ask different questions about life.Instead of asking, “What’s in it for me?” they learn to ask, “What’s the right thing to do?” You’ll soon see howa heart-based approach to parenting looks deeper and brings about greater,lasting change.

The daily interaction you have with your children can impactthem for the rest of their lives. With these fifty heart-based strategies,you’ll develop your own biblical philosophy of parenting and gain perspective,greater motivation, and confidence that you’re moving in the right direction.As you envision a positive future for your children, they’ll experience hopeand direction and you will too. Start applying these principles today!

Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising public health concern.

According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness.

Bringing considerable content from her popular stress management Web site on About.com, Elizabeth Scott distills information about stress management into central ideas and strategies for consumers. These include learning to reduce the stress response and stressors, practicing long-term resilience habits, and putting positive psychology research into action. These various perspectives provide a multilayered framework for understanding stress and approaching stress management that is inspirational, action-oriented, and backed by foundational and recent knowledge in the field.

The quick-to-read “8 keys” format of the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can quickly find relief from stress.

This book is a practical guide for the nurse who aspires to be in a senior executive role in a profit or nonprofit organization, an entrepreneur who aspires to creating a business, or the individual who wishes to serve in a governance role on a not-for-profit or corporate board. This book will greatly assist those individuals who work closely with leaders, entrepreneurs and governance experts.

Face It  presents practical hands-on techniques, 3D modeling and sculpting tools with Maya and ZBrush production pipelines, uniquely focused on the facial modeling of 7 ethnicity models, featuring over 100 different models ranging in age from newborn to elderly characters. Face It is a resource for academic and professionals alike. Explore the modeling possibilities beyond the digital reference galleries online. No more having to adapt medical anatomy texts to your own models! Explore the finite details of facial anatomy with focus on skull development, muscle structure, ears, eyes, nose and mouth paired with side by side comparisons of reference photos, anatomical construction and chapter focused 3D tutorials.

• Examine the maturing of the human face from youth to old age, dynamically create ethnic characters with ease and represent the differences between male and female facial models.
• A reference resource with practical hands-on techniques and digital workflows featuring photographic references, sculpting model studies, both in clay and 3D with construction techniques for professional modelers.
• Master the finite details of facial anatomy with focus on skull development, muscle structure, ears, eyes, nose and mouth with practical ease and side by side comparisons of reference photos, anatomical construction and chapter focused 3D tutorials.
• Industry insight with tried and true methods featuring the best practices in 3D applied arts with cutting edge examples, personal portfolios and interviews with top modelers.

Meet Chick Best – a middle-aged, self-absorbed California dot.com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick’s most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. Evelyn is good at spending Chick’s money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is his drug-addled sixteen-year-old daughter, Melissa. Though concerned about his family, Chick has resigned himself to a miserable state of acceptance. That is, until he, Evelyn, and Melissa take a Christmas vacation in Maui. With this, Chick’s life changes… Chick experiences unrequited love at first sight when he observes Paige Ellis emerging from the hotel swimming pool. His obsession, exceeded only by his need to possess her, isn’t diminished when he learns that she is happily married. Instead, Chick’s obsession compels him to drive to Paige’s house, where he runs down and kills her husband. Chick’s life begins to spiral homicidally out of control, resulting in the destruction of everything he holds dear. Will Paige learn the truth about Chick before it’s too late?Fast paced, filled with wry humor, murder, lust, and dead-on L.A. characterizations, Cannell has written his most explosive novel yet.