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Every branch of science, every profession, and every engineering process has its own language for communication. Environmental health and environmental science are no different. To work within these major environmental fields, you must acquire a fundamental but wide-ranging vocabulary and knowledge...

In Videofluorscopic Studies of Speech in Patients with Cleft Palate, Drs. M.L. Skolnick and E.R. Cohn present multiview videofluoroscopy as a technique for the radiological evaluation of speech defects in patients with cleft palate. Dr. Skolnick's invaluable contributions as both the originator and...

With Computational Thinking in Sound, veteran educators Gena R. Greher and Jesse M. Heines provide the first book ever written for music fundamentals educators that is devoted specifically to music, sound, and technology. Using a student-centered approach that emphasizes project-based experiences,...

Something to Think About is not a single story that starts on page one and finishes with the words “The End.” Rather it’s a collection of short studies on a variety of topics that range from the Beatitudes to a look at the hummingbird. A single theme can be found throughout that makes each individual...

Understanding of the pathology and causation of anorectal diseases is constantly increasing. This has led to changes in how treatment is cho­ sen. There is almost no anorectal condition for which some new thera­ peutic approach has not been recently tried, and several of these do not involve surgery...

Pocket Companion to Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney distills the essential clinical information from the latest edition of the seminal text on kidney diseases and their management. Michael R. Clarkson, Ciara Magee, and Barry M. Brenner detail the key pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues...

One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo­ affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective...

A Surgeon's Heart: The Calling is an endearing medical theme romance, featuring Jack Roberts, a well-respected pediatric heart surgeon and leader of his profession. When his compassion and dedication to his young patients are challenged by an ever changing health care environment, Jack remains...

I am a retired family physician, having practiced for more than 50 years. It has been my privilege to coach many patients through much turmoil. Some years ago I "stumbled" on a literary work that would become a very deep part of the relationships with many patients. That work was "Conversations with...

Before the survivors of Witchkind were able to find safe haven upon a mighty river’s crescent, secret settlements were spread all across the globe, all hidden from the still evolving Human Race. One of those settlements was built atop a mountain’s peak, and was known as Peace. But their mountaintop...

An action-packed short story in the Clytemnestra Stone series.Ness Stone is retired at the grand age of twenty three. The hitmen, the psycho ex-boyfriends, the nights in the cells, the criminal connections that her gangster father left behind – all that is behind her now. She donated her ill-gotten...

Die Mehrheit der Bürger vertraut den Medien nicht mehr. Viele haben erkannt: Eine von Konzerninteressen, Hochglanzwerbung und politischer Agitation à la "Deutschland geht es so gut wie nie zuvor" (Angela Merkel) geprägte "Berichterstattung" hat mit der sozialen Realität wenig...

There is, perhaps, no contrivance in the wide world more wonderful than a ship--a full-rigged, well-manned, gigantic ship! Those who regard familiar objects in art and nature as mere matters of course, and do not trouble themselves to wander out of the beaten track of everyday thought, may...

An expository commentary on the Special Education Program in the United States, this work offers anyone with an interest in education an inside look at how IDEA is implemented, or not implemented, on some public school campuses. This is not an academic work; the author only offers insight based on...