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      • Paediatric medicine
        February 2014

        Sports-Related Concussions in Youth

        Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

        by Robert Graham, Frederick P. Rivara, Morgan A. Ford, and Carol Mason Spicer, Editors; Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council

        In the past decade, few subjects at the intersection of medicine and sports have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions - especially among youth. Despite growing awareness of sports-related concussions and campaigns to educate athletes, coaches, physicians, and parents of young athletes about concussion recognition and management, confusion and controversy persist in many areas. Currently, diagnosis is based primarily on the symptoms reported by the individual rather than on objective diagnostic markers, and there is little empirical evidence for the optimal degree and duration of physical rest needed to promote recovery or the best timing and approach for returning to full physical activity. Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture reviews the science of sports-related concussions in youth from elementary school through young adulthood, as well as in military personnel and their dependents. This report recommends actions that can be taken by a range of audiences - including research funding agencies, legislatures, state and school superintendents and athletic directors, military organizations, and equipment manufacturers, as well as youth who participate in sports and their parents - to improve what is known about concussions and to reduce their occurrence. Sports-Related Concussions in Youth finds that while some studies provide useful information, much remains unknown about the extent of concussions in youth; how to diagnose, manage, and prevent concussions; and the short- and long-term consequences of concussions as well as repetitive head impacts that do not result in concussion symptoms. The culture of sports negatively influences athletes' self-reporting of concussion symptoms and their adherence to return-to-play guidance. Athletes, their teammates, and, in some cases, coaches and parents may not fully appreciate the health threats posed by concussions. Similarly, military recruits are immersed in a culture that includes devotion to duty and service before self, and the critical nature of concussions may often go unheeded. According to Sports-Related Concussions in Youth, if the youth sports community can adopt the belief that concussions are serious injuries and emphasize care for players with concussions until they are fully recovered, then the culture in which these athletes perform and compete will become much safer. Improving understanding of the extent, causes, effects, and prevention of sports-related concussions is vitally important for the health and well-being of youth athletes. The findings and recommendations in this report set a direction for research to reach this goal.

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        September 2021

        Impact

        Women Writing After Concussion

        by E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne

        In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. Impact offers compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other types of trauma. Contributors: Adèle Barclay, Jane Cawthorne, Tracy Wai de Boer, Stephanie Everett, Mary-Jo Fetterly, Rayanne Haines, Jane Harris, Kyla Jamieson, Alexis Kienlen, Claire Lacey, E. D. Morin, Julia Nunes, Shelley Pacholok, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Judy Rebick, Julie Sedivy, Dianah Smith, Carrie Snyder, Kinnie Starr, Amy Stuart, Anna Swanson

      • Paediatric medicine
        April 2002

        Is Soccer Bad for Children's Heads?

        Summary of the IOM Workshop on Neuropsychological Consequences of Head Impact in Youth Soccer

        by Margie Patlak and Janet E. Joy, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health

        To explore whether soccer playing puts youths at risk for lasting brain damage, the Institute of Medicine brought together experts in head injury, sports medicine, pediatrics, and bioengineering. In a workshop entitled "Youth Soccer: Neuropsychological Consequences of Head Impact in Sports," that was held in Washington D.C. on October 12, 2001, these experts presented the scientific evidence for long-term consequences of head injury from youth sports, especially soccer, possible approaches to reduce the risks, and policy issues raised by the subject. Some of the findings presented by the speakers raised concerns, such as the high concussion rate of high school soccer players, the frequent persistence of impaired brain functions even after other symptoms of a concussion disappear, and the need for a better understanding of when it is safe for players to resume playing after they have had a concussion. But other findings were reassuring, such as studies that suggest that with the type of soccer balls used in the United States, heading is not likely to cause brain injury in youths, nor is playing soccer likely to cause permanent brain damage. This is a summary of the reports from these experts in the field, and the lively discussions that followed them. Topics covered include: causes of head injuries in soccer; how to detect a concussion; the biology of concussion; studies of soccer and football players; the role of protective headgear; and policy implications, such as how to decide when a concussed player should be allowed to return to the playing field.

      • Fantasy
        August 2014

        A Second Chance

        The Chronicles of St. Mary's series

        by Taylor, Jodi

        St Mary’s is back and nothing is going right for Max. Once again, it’s just one damned thing after another. The action jumps from an encounter with a mirror-stealing Isaac Newton to the bloody battlefield at Agincourt.  Discover how a simple fact-finding assignment to witness the ancient and murderous cheese- rolling ceremony in Gloucester can result in CBC – concussion by cheese. The long awaited jump to Bronze Age Troy ends in personal catastrophe for Max and just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse – it’s back to the Cretaceous Period again to confront an old enemy who has nothing to lose. So, make the tea, grab the chocolate biscuits, settle back and discover exactly why the entire history department has painted itself blue …

      • Romance
        November 2011

        A Dixie Christmas

        by Sandra Hill

        Two magnolias-and-mistletoe-inspired holiday stories from the bestselling author of more than thirty romantic, humorous novels. Laughter and love combine in Sandra Hill’s BLUE CHRISTMAS—with a touch of Elvis magic. Wealthy Wall Street businessman Clayton Jessup III has only one reason for arriving in Memphis a few days before Christmas—to sell off his inheritance, an embarrassingly kitschy hotel named The Blue Suede Suites. His feelings for the Land of Elvis are dark: his long-dead Memphis mother abandoned him and his dad when Clay was a baby, and now Clay wants nothing to do with a southern legacy that couldn’t be more different from his sophisticated big-city life. But then he steps in trouble—literally—when he confronts the bizarre group of Elvis impersonators who’ve set up a living Nativity scene on his property. One slip of a wingtip in some sheep poop lands Clay in the care of gorgeous Annie Fallon, whose big-haired Elvis-girlfriend get-up can’t hide her wholesome, sexy appeal. Annie and her brothers have set up the Nativity scene to earn some badly needed money for their struggling dairy farm. The last thing she needs is an angry Yankee with a concussion and a come-hither smile . . . In JINX CHRISTMAS, sexy NASCAR star Lance Caslow makes a last-ditch effort to win back his ex-wife Brenda. Five years ago, his reckless pursuit of racetrack fame tore them apart and broke Brenda’s heart. Now Lance shows up in Louisiana determined to make things right this Christmas, not just for himself and Brenda, but for their young daughter, Patti. He’s got his work cut out for him, and desperate measures are needed. Lance will do anything to prove he’s worthy of Brenda’s trust again—even join the Cajun Christmas show starring a raucous Cajun family whose menfolk dance for charity events in little more than a smile . . .

      • Computer games: strategy guides
        August 2012

        The Complete Guide To Halo Reach

        by The Cheat Mistress

        Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheatmistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over five million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most.With EZ Guides we aim to help you through the top games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, DS and PSP, step by step from beginning to end in an easy and entertaining way. Along the way we'll teach you about the game's top secrets and the best way to unlock that Achievement / Trophy. EZ Guides are written by dedicated gamers who are here to help you through the difficult times in gaming.We’ve been waiting for this one for a long time now and it’s finally here Bungie’s swansong game is in our hands and ready to play. The game is a prequel to the original Halo and it is set on Reach, a key stronghold of humanity and the last colony between the alien alliance known as the Covenant and Earth. The Covenant has found Reach and they’re going to throw everything they have at it, so you’re going to need to be prepared. Luckily our complete walkthrough guide will get you through the battle with no problems.

      • Health & Personal Development
        March 2021

        The Brain Always Wins

        Improving your life through better brain management

        by John Sullivan

        Now fully revised, The Brain Always Wins is the practical guide to improving your life through better brain management. It is based on one simple fact: Our brain controls and determines everything we do! How we perceive, understand and respond to the world, how we survive, adapt and communicate, how we learn and remember, the decisions we make and the emotions we feel - all are determined by our amazing brain. We have to take care of our brain because it takes cares of us - and the great news is that we can! In this fully updated new edition, the authors have updated the examples to incude the latest scientific research and data, as well as including a full range of new practical PROCESS activities and recommendations. In The Brain Always Wins, John Sullivan and Chris Parker combine science and storytelling, teaching us all how to create our own personalized brain management process. So if you want to improve any - or all - aspects of your life, from personal to professional and anything in-between, The Brain Always Wins will show you how.

      • December 1999

        First And Only

        by Dan Abnett

        For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule. And at the forefront of that crusade are Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only – better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts.   Trapped in the grinding trench warfare of Fortis Binary, the Ghosts find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the crusade’s leader, Warmaster Macaroth. With enemies all around them and no one to trust, Gaunt and his men must find a way to save the warmaster and prevent the Sabbat Worlds Crusade from falling into anarchy – even if it means waging war on their supposed allies.

      • Fiction

        The Complete Callaghan Tetralogy

        by Kim Ekemar

        THE COMPLETE CALLAGHAN TETRALOGY thriller series consists of four books:    THE LOST IDENTITY CASUALTIES Coming out of a coma, Matthias Callaghan finds himself tied to a hospital bed, wrapped in bandages and suffering from amnesia. As he gradually recovers his memories, Callaghan discovers that he – in a case of mistaken identity – has been mutilated and subject to a full face transplant while being comatose. After being released from the hospital Callaghan spends months in solitary depression using his intelligence to plot his revenge on the five people who have caused him the loss of his identity and former privileged life. What he learns the hard way is that his revenge must encompass the Russian Mafia, a treacherous lawyer, his former business partner, the wife he recently has divorced and his estranged father.    WHERE THE BONES OF A BURIED RAT LIE After a second face transplant, Matthias Callaghan eases into a different life together with his new girlfriend Samantha. Not until too late does he realise that the Metropolitan police, the Russian Mafia’s legal adviser, a gangster boss named Flint and a group of swindled octogenarian ladies continue their attempts to confront the person they believe he is. The sudden reappearance of his ex-wife makes his life trickier still. Then, when his former business partner is released from prison, Callaghan is sued for millions. Hard pressed from all sides, Callaghan decides his only way out is to adopt one of his former identities and negotiate an assassination.    THE QUARRY AT THE CROSSROADS When he’s taken in for questioning by the police, Matthias Callaghan is faced with two options: to maintain the identity he has been obliged to adopt or to reveal his real one. For different reasons, in either case he risks going to prison and losing a fortune. Callaghan realises that he must flee Europe and decides to start a new life in Australia. After selling off everything he owns, he travels to USA to shake off any pursuers. Unknown to him, he’s followed by an assassin who catches up with him at a desert hotel, Callaghan changes his escape plan and crosses the border to Mexico. Unaware of the extent of the manhunt mounted to find him, he’s all of a sudden preyed upon by the FBI, Interpol, two competing drug cartels, a London gangster kingpin and the Russian Mafia.    THE TOLLBOOTH IN THE LABYRINTH Chased across the world by police and criminals alike, Matthias Callaghan eludes them by hiding in Australia. With his girlfriend Samantha, he starts a new life in the belief that he hasn’t left traces behind allowing Interpol, the Russian Mafia and a London gangster named Flint to find him. Six months later he finds out that he’s wrong. Once again on the run, he and Samantha escapes to Bali where they try to come to grips with Callaghan’s quandary. The pair settles on a daring plan to remove all threats to Callaghan’s existence and allow him to recover his true identity.

      • Business, Economics & Law
        February 2019

        The Resilience Toolkit

        Powerful ways to thrive in blue-light services

        by Jonathan Rees

        Today’s workplace is fast-paced, highly complex, and sometimes even life-threatening. Yet it is possible to thrive in the ‘pressure cooker’ of modern work life. We all have the right to enjoy rather than just endure work. In the unpredictability of even the most challenging environments, the route to success and fulfilment at work is to build our resilience. This ground-breaking book provides a highly effective toolkit that will empower you to survive, thrive and flourish in the dynamic and fast-changing context of blue-light services. Discover how to: Be ready for the unexpected, feel calm and confident under pressure and avoid burnout Reduce stress and anxiety by understanding the essential components of a resilient work life Evaluate your own resilience factor with the Workplace Resilience Instrument

      • Science: general issues
        January 2019

        Science for Heretics

        Why so much of science is wrong

        by Barrie Condon

        WHY SO MUCH OF SCIENCE IS WRONG! Barrie Condon shows that science is broken Science is everywhere, our medicines, our transport, what we eat and drink. Like it or not, we can’t make real progress without it. There’s just one dilemma ... What if there are profound problems with all aspects of scien􀆟 fi c theory and methods? Could it be that the idea of universal laws underpinning reality is a falsehood and, as a result, we need more and more scien􀆟 sts, and more and more compu􀆟 ng power, to produce greater and greater elabora􀆟 ons of our theories to make them fi t inconvenient experimental data? For the fi rst 􀆟 me, we have a book that dares to summarise these profound concerns in a way that is accessible to the general reader, who lacks a scien􀆟 fi c background. It also provides a warning to Mankind of the risks we run by not acknowledging the, o􀅌 en, hollow founda􀆟 ons on which science is built.

      • Romance

        Thomas is Telling the Truth

        by Alex Jordan

        An entertaining, moving and feelgood novel. Mattie wants another baby, a sibling for son Thomas. An intelligent child, he truly believes his own tales of a pink house and the children who live there. When Mattie discovers Rob is cheating on her, they separate. Helping financially, her parents discover a diary written in 1941. Through the help of family and friends, Mattie becomes stronger and happier. But the diary and a passionate love affair cause her to wonder if Thomas is telling the truth.  Is it possible for someone to have lived before? Is this life really all there is?  And has her Grandma Beattie been watching over her - all this time?

      • Veterinary anatomy & physiology
        September 2018

        Veterinary Anatomy

        The Regional Gross Anatomy of Domestic Animals (Completes in 2 Parts)

        by Vitthal R.Bhamburkar & Sanjay B. Banubakode

        The text of this book with regional approach of teaching and studying veterinary gross anatomy has been divided in six parts. The first part comprises the basics of veterinary anatomy described in the conventional form of systemic anatomy while the remaining five parts comprise region wise description of gross anatomy. Each of these parts contains the description of all anatomical structures viz. bones, joints, muscles, viscera, blood vessels, lymphatics nerves, etc located in the respective region of the animal body viz. head, neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and the fore and hind limb. Bovine animal, the ox, has been considered as a model species for detail description of the anatomical features, while the major differences or remarkable features in other species like horse, dog, sheep and goat, pig and fowl have been described under a separate heading as Comparative Anatomy at the end of each section. In addition to this, a separate section on Applied Anatomy has been introduced at the end of each regional part. This will make it easy to understand the applications of the anatomical features that form the basis of surgical, diagnostic, medical and obstetrical techniques in the solution of clinical disorders which is the main purpose of regional pattern of learning the anatomy. Because of these distinctive features, the book has become a little voluminous and therefore, had to be split into two volumes. Part-I comprises the first three parts viz-General Systemic Anatomy, Anatomy of Head and Neck and the Anatomy of Thorax while the Part-II comprises the next three parts viz- the Anatomy of Abdomen and Pelvis, the Anatomy of Fore limb and the Anatomy of Hind Limb.

      • Agriculture & farming
        February 2023

        Plant Propagation and Nursery Management For Fruit Crops

        by Rakesh Kumar Jat & Mohan Lal Jat

        This book covers most of the areas of plant propagation including from traditional to recent advances. The emphasis has not only laid on plant propagation techniques and nursery management practices, but also on the ideas and their applications. The book will help the students to understand various techniques of plant propagation and nursery management and their utility in a very simple way.

      • Computer games: strategy guides
        October 2012

        PlayStation

        by The Cheatmistress

        Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheat Mistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over seven million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most. With EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For PlayStation 3, PSP, PS2 and PSone, we aim to help you unlock the game's full potential with a series of tips, cheat codes, secrets, unlocks and/or achievement guides. Whether you want to find out how to spawn specific vehicles, learn how to open up harder difficulty settings, or discover sneaky ways to earn additional ingame currency, we have the answers. EZ Cheats are compiled by expert gamers who are here to help you get the most out of your games.EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For PlayStation 3 & PSP covers all of the top titles, including Batman Arkham City, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception, Mortal Combat, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, LA Noir, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 12, Saints Row the Third amongst many more top titles.

      • Thriller / suspense
        April 2021

        Dress for Death

        DCI Grant McVicar Book 2

        by Diarmid MacArthur

        Friend or Foe? DCI Grant McVicar Book 2 THE BODY A young woman murdered in the changing room of a local supermarket. A suspected terrorist incident. And there may be a serial killer at work THE ENEMY WITHIN There are no easy answers, and it soon becomes apparent that someone in his team is leaking information. Loyalties increasingly strained, answers remain just out of reach. THE ENEMY WITHOUT Confusion and paranoia reign supreme, and Grant’s personal life starts to spiral out of control. With the killer almost within his grasp, he finds himself in mortal danger. Will he be the final victim?

      • Fantasy
        January 2013

        A Symphony of Echoes

        The Chronicles of St. Mary's series

        by Jodi Taylor

        Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max and the team visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, withess the murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches. But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St Mary's - an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself to do it.

      • Children's & YA

        Future History 2050

        by Thomas Harding

        Nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis 2021   It is the year 2020 and a researcher finds a stack of notebooks in a Berlin archive. He starts reading and is shocked to find that this is the history of the next thirty years. Could this really be the story of the future?

      • Adventure
        October 2020

        The Great Martian War

        Invasion

        by Scott Washburn

        A follow-up to the "War of the Worlds" and the entry to the on-going series about the Great Martian War.  After their initial defeat in Great Britain, a second Martain force lands in the US and around the world. President Theodore Roosevelt musters the great minds of the age to combat this new force

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