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January 2021Humoral cytology atlas
by Duan Aijun
This book mainly introduces the morphological characteristics of body fluid cells and describes the cell pictures in detail. A total of 12 chapters, including serous cavity fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, joint cavity fluid, prostatic fluid/testicular hydrocele, sputum/alveolar lavage fluid/bronchial brush, gastric juice/vomit/gallbladder puncture fluid, puncture fluid /Skin scraping, eye/sinus discharge, vaginal discharge/amniotic fluid/tissue puncture fluid, urine, stool and rare types of body fluids
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January 2019Tetanus, Second Edition
by Patrick Guilfoile, Ph.D.
Tetanus is a very serious, potentially fatal disease that typically occurs in people who have not been vaccinated. Caused by Clostridium tetani, it generally enters the body through a deep wound in the skin, such as a puncture caused by stepping on a nail. While rare in the United States and other developed countries, tetanus kills approximately 300,000 people a year worldwide. Tetanus, Second Edition describes the characteristics of the disease, which includes powerful muscle contractions and a form of paralysis called lockjaw, and details its prevention and treatment. The historical background of the disease and the future trends of treatment and prevention are also covered. A better understanding of tetanus can help everyone take steps to make this disease even less common. Chapters include: Tetanus History of Tetanus Treatment of Tetanus Prevention of Tetanus Future Prospects Regarding Tetanus.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2023Celta and the Fallen Moon
by Victoria Iver (Author), Victoria Iver (Illustrator)
Celta and two rats live in a house near the old lighthouse. Every evening, the girl curls up in a big chair and reads fairy tales to her pets. But today the book had to be put aside - the Moon fell in her backyard! The unexpected guest is convinced that her business is useless and nobody needs it. So Celta sets out with Moon on a journey to prove that she is wrong. This kind and heartwarming story will give young readers faith in themselves and teach them that everyone in this world has value. From 3 to 8 years, 1853 words Rightsholders n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua
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March 2024The Strategy of Rescue
The past and present of a power-political concept
by Johannes F. Lehmann
"Rescue” has two fundamentally different “existential” dimensions. One is aimed at “saving” individual lives that are in danger. Firefighters, for instance, rescue people from fires, while the sea rescue services rescue shipwrecked people from the Mediterranean. The second dimension of “rescue”, on the other hand, concerns systems – think of the bailing out of banks, the euro or the climate disaster – and so points to a larger context that creates the conditions for “life” to even be possible, or at least to be preserved. The complex subject of this stringent essay is just to what extent politics enable or prevent “rescue attempts”, to what extent it understands its actions as “rescue actions”, and how decisively the “narrative”, i.e. the “talk of rescue”, ultimately dominates our entire understanding of politics.
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Advancing the Frontiers of Monetary Policy
by Tobias Adrian, Douglas Laxton, Maury Obstfeld
The book outlines efficient operational procedures, central bank communications, financial stability issues, and the importance of incorporating financial conditions in inflation-forecast targeting. It also reviews the experiences of Canada, the Czech Republic, India, and the United States. The analysis argues for assertive policies and maximum transparency, especially when long-term expectations tilt toward high inflation or deflation.
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February 2022Graffiti & Co
by Rémi Vidal
A scribbling story, people will be talking about. As his dad is walking him to school one morning, Sasha comes across a weird message written in red paint on a wall : “Police, you are sausages”. In the next few days, several similar slogans appeared all around town. Do we have to seek and unmask the one who gets already called “the rude graffer” and most of all : what does he want to say through his mysterious messages ? A story in 4 episodes : The rude graffer (08:10) Whether it is at school or at home, Sasha, Susie and their friends only hear about one thing : this “rude graffer” who causes turmoil all around town. His mysterious messages do not spare anyone : the police, fire-fighters, hairdressers and even gardeners… Deflated (11:00) As if it wasn’t enough, a deflater barges in. Soon uncovered by Sasha, she confesses to him why she proceeds to attack car tires. Torn between disapproval and sympathy towards the deflater, Sasha doesn’t know what to do… Diving into her schemes or exposing her ? Madam Lucette (09:54) What if the deflater was in cahoots with the rude graffer ? That is what Sasha is wondering. While the police runs in circles, he thinks he might have a lead to get to the “rude graffer”... Uncovered (12:08) We thought the case was settling down but the graffer started defying kids in his messages. That was all it took to get Sasha and Susie, his best friend, to join their efforts to once and for all unveil the mystery… https://cutt.ly/dOocqDJ
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EconomicsJuly 2021The Financial System Limit
The world's real debt burden
by David Kauders
Why were economies sluggish before the pandemic arrived? Why have interest rates paid by businesses and households been rising even though deposit rates are nil? Does the policy of bailing out economies, now followed by most governments and central banks, bring any dangers? In The Financial System Limit, investment manager David Kauders puts forward three radical theories which together provide the answers to these questions. These theories show that Keynesian economics has gradually turned from a benefit to society, into a damaging scheme. Other economic policies are also not addressing the fundamental problem, which is the world’s inability to afford debts already created. The author challenges the existing academic and political consensus about how economies should be managed. The old arguments about sound money versus stimulus, as well as contemporary arguments that governments controlling their own currency can create as much credit as they wish, are fundamentally inappropriate to the deflationary world that we are moving towards. Whether you are a concerned individual, an academic, politician, banker or even a policymaker, read about a different view of the current financial orthodoxies, one that will provoke serious debate and even action. "Radical thinkers might have a point” was how the Financial Times described David Kauders’ first book The Greatest Crash: How contradictory policies are sinking the global economy. This new book offers further original thought.
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MedicineMay 2018Syndromes Myofasciaux Douloureux - Tome 1
Examen et traitements manuels
by Jan De Laere, Véronique De Laere-Debelle
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FantasyLyre
by Helen Harper
Yuri, a half Japanese-half English girl, has struggled ever since her beloved father drowned when she was a child. The circumstances of his death were anything but natural - he was drawn into a storm by the sensual singing of a group of sirens and Yuri's life has been overshadowed by the threat of the gods of Olympus ever since. However, when she meets Ozzy, a soulful singer who goes on to become one of the country's biggest rockstars, she attempts to put her past behind her. Unfortunately, fate has not finished messing with her just yet. The second book in the Olympiana series, although able to be read as a stand-alone, Lyre follows the classic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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May 2023A Heretic's Manifesto
Essays on the Unsayable
by O'Neill, Brendan
We need more heretics. Throughout history, it has been those brave enough to puncture the prevailing groupthink who have propelled society forward. But they are in shockingly short supply today. In this collection of original essays, Brendan O’Neill remakes the case for heresy – and commits a few heresies of his own along the way.
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Biography & True StoriesSanatorium
by Abi Palmer
A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart.Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces — bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night — interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut.
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November 2020The Science of Why, Volume 5
Answers to Questions About the Ordinary, the Odd, and the Outlandish
by Jay Ingram
Have you ever wondered if octopuses are from outer space? What Mexican jumping beans are? Or if banana peels are really slippery? If questions like these are keeping you up at night, you can rest easy. Bestselling author Jay Ingram is here to answer all the whimsical and whacky wonderings that have baffled people since the dawn of time. From our bodies to our pets (and other beasts) to the natural world around us, Ingram tackles science topics big and small, such as:Did dinosaurs sit on their eggs?What is our funny bone?Is there a specific muscle that makes dogs cute? Because who hasn’t pondered whether plants have feelings? Or if Robin Hood was a real person? Or what humans will look like in the future? Teeming with amusing answers to bemusing questions and handy and hilarious illustrations this latest volume separates fact from fiction, lesson from legend, and myth from marvel. Endlessly illuminating and entertaining, The Science of Why, Volume 5 is five times the fun for new and old readers of the series.
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Thriller / suspenseJune 2014Global Raider
by Jame McKenna
When the American Air Force conducts final tests on Global Raider, the new unmanned bomber capable of deploying missiles from the outer stratosphere, terrorists close in to steal the aircraft and cause a major disaster. On advice from the Security Services, Juliet Walsh, daughter of Wat Walsh, Global Hawk’s manufacturer, is sent to a safe house in Britain under close protection of her bodyguard Lisa, and Seb, a young SAS officer, to whom she becomes attached. But betrayal, deceit and corruption allow Juliet’s abduction. Seb is blamed, but is the real enemy Lisa or head of Walsh Security? While Global Hawk flies towards the Middle East with its deadly load of missiles, two sides wrestle for control as Seb hunts for Juliet and her abductors. Can her father allow the murder of his only child for the sake of American prestige, or will one innocent life be sacrificed to the intransigent hatred between terrorists and US government? Only Seb can change the balance, but who does he trust?
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesCheated twice by a fox / 再被狐狸骗一次
by Author: Shen, Shixi / 沈, 石溪
Animal novels are more attractive than other types of novel, because the subject is more likely to puncture the human culture’s shell and all sorts of hypocritical representation of civilization, there can be no conceal and directly show the original ecological life, which ugly and beautiful are fused together. / "再被狐狸骗一次"是一本动物小说，动物小说之所以比其他类型的小说更有吸引力，是因为这个题材最容易刺破人类文化的外壳和文明社会种种虚伪的表象，可以毫无遮掩地直接表现出丑陋与美丽融于一体的原生态的生命。
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Agriculture & farmingThe Right Colour
by Andy Frazier
This touching tale tells of a calf born in a pedigree Aberdeen Angus herd, an unusual calf that although is black in colour, is the wrong kind of black. Her times of hardship and degradation evolve her into a somewhat exceptional character. Now an old lady nearing the end of her life she tells her own extraordinary and comical tale of her exciting journey towards fulfilling her destiny.
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FictionPieces of a Puzzle
by Jenny Gill
Baby Boomer fiction - No 1 in the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey, to the south of London, though each book stands alone. Happily married Alison and Mark are chatting about their coming holiday. She goes to the kitchen to finish supper preparations. When she comes out he has disappeared without a trace, taking nothing with him. She never sees him again. Then 17 years later a solicitor's letter starts her on a search for answers. She needs to piece together the whole puzzle in order to put it behind her and get on with her life. The story is told in two main interleaving threads, one from when Mark vanishes, the other from when Alison receives the letter from the solicitor, interspersed with flashbacks to her life with Mark and earlier happier times. A family saga of love, loss, despair, betrayal, and above all hope.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesAugust 2015Destiny Rising
True Calling Book 3
by Siobhan Davis (Author), Kelly Hartigan (Editor)
EVERY CHOICE HAS A CONSEQUENCE. Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity’s fight for justice and freedom. As haunted memories resurface, old discoveries and new realities conspire to shatter her world forever. Torn in one direction by her unique connection to childhood sweetheart Zane and pulled in the other by a relentless passion for her fiery fiancé Cal, she must make the hardest decision of all. While embarking on a road to self-discovery, her psychic gift evolves and the full extent of her powerful ability is revealed. Then fate lands another savage blow, and she faces the most horrific choice of all. Forced into striking a deal with the enemy, she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice or risk everything she holds dear. When destiny finally rears its head, what will the future hold?
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FantasyWill
The Books of the Five Book 2
by S F Burgess
This is the second book in the Epic Fantasy series The Books of the Five, a five book series where the protagonists are dragged from our own world to Mydren. This is a world of magic where they must fight against the despotic lords of Mydren in a quest to free the people from tyranny. Each book progresses the story and focuses on each of the five main characters in turn. This book is the second in the series and focuses on Will, the avatar of Water. Book Summary: "Often the scars that grieve us the most are the ones we carry deep inside."Hammered with determination and paid for in blood, the connection that binds Will to Conlan and his fellow Avatars has finally been forged and the Five are beginning to discover the extent of their staggering potential.Now these living embodiments of elemental magic pose a threat that the despotic Lords of Mydren cannot ignore. With all the resources at their disposal, the hunt for the Five has begun in earnest.With Conlan's army growing, the time has come for them to cease fleeing and begin their battle for the heart and soul of Mydren. Yet for Will there is only one goal: to see Conlan crowned king, thus securing the future of those he loves.The task of guiding Conlan and his comrades through the oncoming battles will require every last ounce of Will's guile but he has secrets of his own that threaten everything the united powers of the Five represent.With time running out, does Will have the strength to face the encroaching darkness alone?
