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Edited and written by an international "who's who" of more than 100 authors, including anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, bench scientists, a surgeon, and representatives of industry, this text provides a comprehensive history of anesthesia, unique in its focus on the people and events that shaped the specialty around the world, particularly during the past 70 years when anesthesia emerged from empiricism and developed into a science-based practice.
In a world where computers, cell phones, and distractions are commonplace, it takes only seven seconds for a child to disappear and a family’s life to be destroyed. “From the ashes of the unworthy, we shall rise” is the Phoenix Syndicate’s motto. Dive deep into the abyss of selling drugs, human organs, and designer babies to the highest bidder. This is the fate of one Chloe Rodriguez, a young girl whose life hangs in the balance. As she was abducted from her local supermarket, it falls to Leslie Parker, a young detective in the Atlanta Police Department, to find and save her before she is consumed by the flames of the Phoenix. How far will Leslie have to go to save her, and who will be waiting in the darkness to stop the young detective?
The investigative biography of Michael Jackson’s final years: “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before” (ABC Nightline). When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, millions of fans around the world were shocked. But the outpouring of emotion that followed his loss was bittersweet. Dogged by scandal for years and undone by financial mismanagement, Jackson had become untouchable in many quarters. Untouchable pulls back the curtain Jackson’s public person to introduce a man who, despite his immense fame, spent his entire life utterly alone; who, in the wake of a criminal trial that left him briefly hospitalized, abandoned Neverland to wander...
This volume offers a many-sided introduction to the theme of Christianity and international law. Using a historical and contemporary perspective, it will appeal to readers interested in key topics of international law and how they intersect with Christianity.
"The main theme of the 1988 workshop, the 18th in this DARPA sponsored series of meetings on Image Understanding and Computer Vision, is to cover new vision techniques in prototype vision systems for manufacturing, navigation, cartography, and photointerpretation." P. v.
The book 'Science: The Corner Curiosity' targets researchers and scientists worldwide. The book covers classical, conventional, and emergent topics including science's history from ancient times to the present. It covers various scientific topics, knowledge development, scientific research, the scientific community, science and society, and science philosophy. It exhibits post-scientific revolution politics, antiscience movements, metascience, discoveries, innovations, psychology and sociology of science, scientific methodology, and scientometrics. These topics are for prospective researchers and project fellows seeking advanced degrees in science. Science communication, literature, journalism, and revolution are also covered in this book. The author thanks his colleagues and contemporaries for their helpful advice, timely comments, and relevant perspectives. Researchers worldwide will find this work comprehensive and useful. The author is grateful to 'The Almighty Living God (The Supernatural Energy of The Third World)' for helping him in creating this work. May scientists globally get deep understanding in all fields !
This book is the result of the efforts of the speakers and chairmen of the past two EuroSIVA meetings held in Barcelona and Amsterdam in 1998 and 1999, respectively. The manuscripts, brought together in this book, give an overview of the presentations at these meetings and thereby offer an insight into the state of the art of intravenous anaesthesia science and the application of scientific data to clinical practice. The book is divided into four sections, on the modelling of anaesthetic action with special interest in the effect site, the perioperative use of intravenous hypnotic agents, the state of the art of neuromuscular blockade, and, lastly, on opioids as used for perioperative pain relief. We hope that this book reflects the same atmosphere of scientific progress and collaboration in intravenous anaesthetic drug pharmacology that was experienced in the Barcelona and Amsterdam meetings. Furthermore we are sure that it will be of educational value to all of us, anaesthesiologists and pharmacologists, who are involved in the science and clinical application of anaesthesia.
The experiences of Okinawans in mainland Japan, like those of migrant minorities elsewhere, derive from a legacy of colonialism, war, and alien rule. Okinawans have long coped with a society in which differences are often considered “strange” or “wrong,” and with a central government that has imposed a mono-cultural standard in education, publicly priding itself on the nation’s mythical “homogeneity.” They have felt strong pressures to assimilate by adopting mainland Japanese culture and concealing or discarding their own. Recently, however, a growing pride in roots has inspired more Okinawan migrants and their descendants to embrace their own history and culture and to speak o...