Fluid therapy is one of the most important aspects of patient management in veterinary medicine, and this book provides guidelines for its safe implementation in clinical practice. It describes fluid compartments of the body and considers the factors that affect movement of administered water, electrolytes and colloids. It also covers characteristics of different fluid types, routes of fluid administration and how to approach fluid supplementation. Finally, this book provides information r...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Step into the chilling world of real-life mysteries that have baffled investigators and haunted the public for decades. World’s Most Notorious Unsolved Murders Collection gathers together the most infamous cold cases in modern history—including the Black Dahlia, the Zodiac Killer, and many more—into one gripping true crime anthology.These are stories where the clues are real, the victims were tragically...

The Inuit Way is a mesmerising take on polar travel by explorer and award-winning researcher Edward Cooper. It is a gripping account of the author's travels across northwest Greenland, where he spent several months living and hunting with the Inuit. From there, Cooper and teammate venture across the sea ice on to the Canadian Arctic islands. Here, Cooper's quest is to track down a note left by David Haig-Thomas, a British Arctic explorer, nearly a hundred years previously.Suffering...

In The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper crafts one of the greatest adventure epics in American literature—a stirring tale of courage, honor, and survival during the French and Indian War.Amidst the chaos of colonial conflict, frontier scout Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, escort two British sisters through the perilous wilderness of upstate New York. As they battle enemy forces,...

The distinguished contributors to Sentence Processing, originally published in 1979, offered new articles dealing with theory and experimentation on sentence processing. A number of the chapters presented completely new experimental studies that are discussed within the broad context of theoretical issues involving human perception and production of language. The chapters together represented a type of psycholinguistic research at the time that focused both on the nature of human ...

In 1964 ABC premiered The Addams Family, a kooky TV comedy series based on Charles Addams' comics from the New Yorker. An instant hit, the eccentric family of misfits - Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Wednesday and Cousin Itt captivated fans and became iconic television. Along with its chief competitor, CBS' The Munsters, The Addams Familygave us something TV had never seen before - a ghoulish good time. However, after a hit first season, the series dropped in ratings by season two...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Philosopher, statesman, and visionary—Thomas Jefferson was a towering figure in American history whose ideas and leadership helped shape a young nation. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of the Founding Father, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States explores the complex and brilliant life of the man who penned the words that declared a people free.From his format...

RETREAT FROM AMIENS: MAY 20TH 1940A true account told by a soldier who was thereEarly one morning in the English summer of 1939, Edward Cooper spread a blanket on the short grass of the South Downs high above the Sussex village of Folkington. Before him, he saw the clean lines of the South Downs and the broad panorama of the Sussex Weald, silent in the soft haze that promised the hot day to come.Appreciative of the beauty of it all, he thought of th...

Life Magazine coined 1964 “The Year of the Monster” as The Munsters hit the airwaves that fall. For two seasons fans were delighted to see Herman, Lily, Grandpa, Marilyn and Eddie find their way through modern day 1960s as Universal horror characters. Take a look back at the show’s history and impact. Packed with photos and a trivia challenge, we pay tribute to the campy classic 1960s TV series.

When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry. This interesting tale reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Co-author Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to ride the carousel. This was on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washingt...

Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of stories of “Colored Americans.” They range from well-known figures such as Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth to the common men and women who give poignant insights of their life. Selections consist of short anecdotes, essays, stories, letters and poetry. Many have strong religious and spiritual themes.

An intriguing biography of the American woman sculptor and Civil War–era Washington, DC, fixture.One of America's least known and most controversial women artists of the Civil War era was Vinnie Ream, who sculpted a bust of Abraham Lincoln from life when she was only sixteen years old and had almost no artistic training.She was able, through clever maneuvering and dogged determination, to achieve a commission from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the...