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As the reader experiences Georgia March's magical The Cat, the Belly Dancer, & the Cello set at the beginning of twentieth-century Turkey, they will discover not everything is as it seems. Each chapter is a frozen snapshot covering another, waiting to be torn away. Unexpected danger ensnares two belly dancers from Istanbul who tackle it with lighthearted ease until their efforts are met with sinister results. Forced under someone else's microscope, the women come up against aspects of their own characters that bear examination. At the same time, a Canadian woman and her British boyfriend living in Spain venture through the centre of Turkey experiencing calamity and chaos in a country where b...
In 2002, Lippincott published the Manual of Breast Diseases, edited by Professor Ismail Jatoi. The current book, Management of Breast Diseases, is an adaptation of that manual, with Professor Manfred Kaufmann of the Goethe-University of Frankfurt serving as co-editor. Most of the chapters from the original manual have been either extensively revised or discarded, and several new chapters added. This text contains more material than the original manual, but it is still intended as a basic guide for the wide spectrum of clinicians (surgeons, gynecologists, oncologists, radiation onco- gists, internists, general practitioners) who treat breast diseases, both benign and malignant. To compile thi...
Reminiscences, a memoir, is an exceptionally entertaining and uniquely humorous autobiographical account by author H. J. Daniels. This book presents in articulate writing a wide spectrum of intimate, affectionate and bold personal memories, together with serious thought-provoking comments, often infused with curious surrealistic satire. Here, narratives of the authors life happenings, brought about by the intricacies of life, are candidly told in their minutest details; a treasure trove of learning experience. All accounts are presented in a story-telling framework and a remarkably witty manner capable of enthralling adults of all ages. In addition to stories that readers could personally relate to and learn from, Daniels memoir briefly discusses his Aramean ethnic heritage and provides real-life examples of the maltreatment of others, particularly that related to the enslavement predicament endured by thousands of young Yezidi women and girls.
Highlighting the major economic and industrial changes in the lubrication industry since the first edition, Synthetics, Mineral Oils, and Bio-Based Lubricants: Chemistry and Technology, Third Edition highlights the major economic and industrial changes in the lubrication industry and outlines the state of the art in each major lubricant application area. Chapters cover the use of lubricant fluids, growth or decline of market areas and applications, potential new applications, production capacities, and regulatory issues, including biodegradability, toxicity, and food production equipment lubrication. The highly-anticipated third edition features new and updated chapters including those on au...
This text is definitive, scientific, readable, and offers a reference and text for specialist gynecologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists working at a high level in their respective professions. It is an academic text of the highest level being authoritative and comprehensive. It has the correct balance between the specialties of psychiatry
This book covers the synthesis of useful products and intermediates from plant oils, which is a critically important area given current challenge of depleting fossil fuel reserves.
The main aim of the book is to familiarize readers with the concepts of convergence of different connected and smart domains that are assisted by Cloud Computing, core technologies behind Cloud Computing, driving factors towards Cloud Computing, and security challenges and proposed solutions in Cloud Computing. The book covers not only the cloud, but also other pertinent topics such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT and Fog/Edge Computing. The last section of the book mainly focuses on the security aspects of connected technologies. The highpoints of the book is that it reviews the relation and combination of the mentioned topics, which together creates a better understanding about almost every aspect of Cloud Computing & related technologies.
Considerable interest has developed in recent years in crucifers and particularly in their wild relatives, as they contain genetic material that may be utilized for further evolution of superior crop varieties through introgression and distant hybridization. Until now, there has been no single volume that focuses exclusively on the biology and bree