In 1938, Colette, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, falls for American professor Adam Walker. Within weeks, the young couple married and moving back to the United States, and Colette must say goodbye to the only home she's ever known. After traveling to New York and eventually to her new home in Berkeley, Colette discovers that she's expecting, and life doesn't seem like it could get any better.Colette soon discovers, however, that Adam isn't the man she thinks. Forced to endure ...

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a distinctive abnormality of small cerebral blood vessels, one that has intrigued neuroscientists for decades. The time seems right for a book which examines the phenomenon of CAA using a multifaceted approach: What does it produce clinically? How might CAA be imaged? What are the crucial biochemical/cellular events within cerebral vessel walls that lead to CAA? How can in vitro or transgenic experimental systems be used to understand the etiol...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After Ragnarok, the world did not grow better. Odin, Thor, and Loki are gone, and the few gods who survived have vanished. Now the rules belong to mortals — or to those strong enough to seize them.Auril, foster daughter of Captain Corvin and a young woman hardened by battle, fights to survive in a land abandoned by the gods. At her side walks Aseana, a great white wolf reminiscent of Fenrir, the world-eater of l...

A man collapses at a tram stop during a winter storm in Helsinki.Witnesses assume it’s an accident. By morning, the snow has erased the scene.When investigators discover the truth, a single, precise stab wound, the case appears already unsolvable. No one saw anything. No one heard anything. The city moved on.Detective Jari Rautio refuses to accept the explanation. As he digs deeper, he begins to see a pattern hidden beneath the weather: murders that occur only under...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research...

This monograph explores key principles in the modern theory of dynamic optimization, incorporating important advances in the field to provide a comprehensive, mathematically rigorous reference. Emphasis is placed on nonsmooth analytic techniques, and an in-depth treatment of necessary conditions, minimizer regularity, and global optimality conditions related to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is given. New, streamlined proofs of fundamental theorems are incorporated throughout the text that e...

This book is the fruit of a study group on perception and action that worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiP) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG in the academic year 1984-1985. We express our gratitude to the ZiF for hosting the group and for providing fmancial and organizational support for its scientific activities, including a meeting of the authors of the present volume that took place at the ZiF in July 1986. This is/ the study group's last common product, and it to...

In commissioning this volume of Current Topics in Pathology, the editor of the series, Prof. Sir Colin Berry, asked me to produce something "which is aimed at the general pathologist but from the point of view of the neuropathologist who knows what is not being done well". This was easier said than done. Many aspects of neuropathology are encountered only infrequently in general pathology and are best dealt with by re ferral of material to a specialist unit. Others need more extensive inve...

The dinosaurs are not as gone as you think.Every moment those creatures were alive, sunlight was bouncing off their scales and feathers and skin and scattering in all directions into space. Those photons did not stop. They have been traveling at the speed of light for sixty-six million years. Right now, at this moment, the light that last touched a living Tyrannosaurus rex is somewhere in the universe, approximately sixty-six million light-years from Earth, still carrying the preci...

Butch wolfgirl Lee has had a crush on her old Neighbor Mrs. Henderson for as long as she can remember. It used to be just a childish dream, but now that she's a grown woman, Mrs. Henderson finally seems to have taken notice. When Lee is invited to spend the summer with the Hendersons, things finally start to get hot and heavy.

Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as ...

An introductory note about how you will benefit from reading this book and hopefully gain significantly from the knowledge you will have learned.This book clearly explains the absolute and utter importance of why and how the automatic creation and application of your consciousness is essential to every person who has ever lived on this Planet of ours, who is alive today, and who will live in the future.These comments also basically apply to all other living...