Essential Surgery is a highly respected, internationally popular textbook that is comprehensive, fully updated and a pleasure to read.The seventh edition provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, from the attributes a surgeon needs, to how to interpret a patient's story, as well as problem-orientated information about diseases and their management, including emergencies. It covers the full range of surgery, including general and gastro-intestinal surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascul...

This open access set, LNAI 16688-16689, constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 26–29, 2026.The 41 full research papers and 8 short papers included in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers cover the following topical sections:Part I: Theorem Proving and Automation; SAT, SMT, and Verification; Intuitionistic, Modal, and Temporal Logics;P...

Personal and communal tragedies provoke intense emotions. In Scripture such emotions were given expression in complaints or laments. Such laments are the most frequent genre of psalm and are also found in the prophets and elsewhere in the Bible. The book of Lamentations is even named for this human response to tragedy. Yet neither lament nor complaint seems to be widely practiced in churches today, except at times of extreme communal catastrophe. Bringing together biblical scholars, liturg...

The new fifth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Urology is a comprehensive and concise handbook encompassing the whole of urology in an easily digestible format with the most current and up-to-date guidelines and recommendations. It spans all topics including urological cancer, stones, infection, bladder outlet obstruction, incontinence, paediatric urology, trauma and erectile dysfunction, and male infertility. Essentially, it also covers the basics of patient assessment, investig...

This open access set, LNAI 16688-16689, constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 26–29, 2026.The 41 full research papers and 8 short papers included in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers cover the following topical sections:Part I: Theorem Proving and Automation; SAT, SMT, and Verification; Intuitionistic, Modal, and Temporal Logics;P...

The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Urology has been fully updated to reflect the significant advances in medical and surgical opportunities since the previous edition, including pelvic laparoscopic and robotic surgery, new drugs in incontinence and male sexual health, and new laser devices for prostate surgery. Guidelines from the European Association of Urology, the American Association of Urology, and the British Association of Urology, as well as NICE, have all been u...

"Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing con...

The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other mea...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2022, held as a Virtual Event, during February 9–11, 2022.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 262 submissions. The papers selected to be included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, includin...

Through a series of highly speculative contributions by both leading and highly acclaimed practitioners and theorists, this book gives a new comprehensive overview of architectures’ most recent practical and theoretical developments.While a few chapters are mostly dedicated to a historical analysis of how we got to experience a new technological reality in architecture and beyond, all chapters including the most forward looking, have in common their rigorous understanding of histor...

This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats. The adaptive aspects are considered with respect to the development of adequate infrastructures designed to support human activities. Given the limitations in bringing materials from Earth, utilisation of in-situ resources is crucial for establishing and maintaining these infrastructures.Adaptive on-and off...

This reference describes the management, control, and prevention of microbial foodborne disease. It analyzes transformations in the epidemiology of foodborne disease from increased transnational food exchange to examinations of new and emerging zoonoses. It also discusses the prevalence and risk of foodborne disease in developing and industrialized