Examination Paediatrics, is designed to assist candidates to pass clinical examinations in paediatrics, particularly at post-graduate level. This book is written for candidates preparing for the Fellowship Examination of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Australian & New Zealand candidates and candidates taking the Australian Examination in other countries), and candidates preparing for the Membership Examination for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) (Part ...

Examination Paediatrics is an essential guide for medical trainees undertaking paediatric clinical examinations. Aligned with current practice and examination format, this new edition provides guidance on history taking, examination procedure, relevant investigations, and management for the majority of chronic paediatric clinical problems encountered in paediatric hospital practice and community paediatric practice.

2020 is not a year we want to remember very much. But all this social distancing and quarantine isolation has produced a bumper crop of recordings: we passed our previous highest number of catalog releases in one year (1083) in mid-October. A competition to estimate what the total would be at the end of the year ensued, and losers have atoned for guessing wrong by contributing a stanza of this tongue-twister poem. The winner, Rosebud, picked 1337, the closest guess to the actual 1336 2020 ...

The North Atlantic coast of North America-commonly known as the Atlantic Coast-extends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States south to Cape Hatteras. This North Atlantic region belongs to the sea. The maritime influence on climate, flora, and fauna is dominant - even far inland. Both on land and at sea, this region is where north meets south, where the great northern boreal forests intermingle with the southern coniferous-hardwood f...

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, this book presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. The authors detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. Within these stages, students focus on performing essential procedures, such as conducting a systems analysis, specifying an impact model, id...

Why am I me? Children want to know the answer.Where do they fit in the world and the universe? Why Am I Me? helps them understand.

On the Home Front takes us to the year 1941; Canada is at war and in Montreal, Canada's metropolis, tensions are high as the conflict in Europe grinds on with no signs of impending victory. The impact of the war has been personal for Alice Assolari, whose only son Charlie is serving overseas with Canada's air force. Close to home, a respected neighbour, Joe Pino, is caught up in a government dragnet targeting residents of Italian origin. Alice, convinced a mistake has been made and Joe has...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...

In this sequel to the acclaimed novel The Genealogist, Alice Tolson adapts to life in Canada following years spent in a Liverpool orphanage. When her father's death in England leads to a long hoped-for return to the city of her birth, Alice's life changes significantly. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend and an aunt; Alice learns of a long-buried family secret and comes to question her goal of resuming life in England. Returning to Montreal, Alice realizes reliving her past...

Picture this: You wake up, grab your phone, and open Instagram, tap the plus icon at the bottom of the screen, select a photo, add a filter and a caption, tap "publish", and you call it a day. Thirty minutes later, you get a notification from PayPal: "Someone sent you $500".Would you like your average "workday" to look like this?See, contrary to what you believe, you don’t need to be an artist, a comedian, or a particularly attractive indiv...

Victorian businessman and volunteer army officer Henry Winterbourne is desperate to avoid bankruptcy. An amateur genealogist who traces his lineage to mediaeval times, Henry is proud of his ancestry, but there are secrets in his past which he dare not divulge. As Henry attempts to negotiate a deal to stave off financial ruin, he is drawn into a conspiracy masterminded by ex-army officer Colonel Algernon Walmsley. Walmsley's manipulations threaten to expose Henry's family secrets, including...