Creativity is the complex of skills, competencies and skills that enable an individual to produce new ways to combine data elements, or new ways of behaving issues around what constitutes the shared cultural horizon. As such, it contributes to the adaptation of individual psycho-social and even favors the evolutionary success of the groups to which those individuals belong. Ultimately, to create means to produce something new, something that did not exist in that form. Inevitably confronts...

The Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine provides a fast, reliable look-up reference on all chest diseases. The second edition of this comprehensive Handbook has been revised throughout, with additional material on avian flu, pulmonary complications of sickle cell disease, acute and chronic oxygen therapy and updated references to the latest British Thoracic Society guidelines. The Handbook's opening chapters aid diagnosis by addressing the main respiratory symptoms encountered by clinicia...

This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain at both sites.The authors conducted interviews with practitioners, offenders, ex-offender...

This new collection brings together plays and monologues from the National Black Theatre Festival, one of the most historic and culturally significant events—not only in the history of Black theater but in American theater. Held every two years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this gathering of Black theater companies and artists from around the country and across the globe features an extraordinary array of performances, workshops, films, spoken-word poetry, and more. Established in 1989...

Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the must-have resource for respiratory trainees, internal medical trainees and other junior doctors in acute and internal medicine, medical students, and all clinicians caring for patients with respiratory problems. Concise, practical, and designed for rapid access to essential information, this handbook will ensure you have everything you need for the ward, clinic, or in the run up to exams. All maj...

Lapland, northern FinlandLand of the frozen tundra and the midnight sun…Land of the Sami and their reindeer…And a mystery…How does an entire herd of reindeer just vanish?Police detective Lyylia Niiranen thinks the clue lies in the lake.Reindeer herder Ávgos Heikkilä wants his animals back so he can support his family.American scientist Shaun Abernathy is just there to study the northern lights.But something else has other plans for t...

In 1920s Los Angeles, Cornelia Jones moves in the top circles of society, thanks to her privileged upbringing as well as her marriage to the brilliant scientist and inventor, John Jones. But when John, on the verge of completing his latest invention that has the potential to usher in a new technological age, is critically injured in a laboratory accident, it's up to Cornelia to investigate what happened and bring the perpetrators to justice.Good thing she knows magic.Aided ...

Alone.On a space station designed for millions, First Lieutenant Elín Hallsdóttir is alone, with only her memories and the other four members of the shut-down crew.The station orbits the planet, turning from darkness to light to darkness again. Solar storms are growing, the station is dying, but life continues on. Or does it?Elín's past rides with her, and with every rotation of the station her future seems more uncertain. And then the unthinkable happens.Ca...

In a town not so long ago or far away, three gentlemen decide to throw a Christmas party. It will be a festival to remember as new friends are made, adventures and troubles are overcome, and much food and frivolity ensues. Join the three merry friends in their hamlet of Ettingswimple for a jolly good time!

Mrs. Jones, scientist and sorceress.Cornelia Jones' scientist husband is invited to all of the best conferences and symposiums. Cornelia attends this one in his stead, prepared for a day of enlightening lectures and scholarly gossip. After all, in these years following the Great War, scientific progress and discovery unites men as never before.Or does it? The day takes a surprising turn when Cornelia discovers that someone has cast a magic spell – small and seemingly harmle...

Our culture wants you to be happy. It rewards those who smile through the pain, who pretend everything's fine, who compartmentalize grief and get on with life. But everything's not fine. And God does not expect us to pretend it is. He wants all of us—including our pain.Perhaps nowhere in Scripture do we get as full a picture of the heights and depths of the human experience as in the Psalms. The outpourings of emotion never shy away from the darkest moments of life, and yet they al...

Mrs. Jones, bodyguard.Women in the 1920s don't usually protect and defend the men, but Cornelia Jones is an unusual woman.Dr. Braddock has invented a device that he believes will change the face of medical science, and he needs just one more piece to make it work. Cornelia agrees to protect the old scientist on his train trip to retrieve the final piece. But the Caelum, a secret organization that uses science and magic for nefarious purposes, wants the device for themselves...