After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors, which is now based on sonography, computed tomography, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, pushing intravenous urography and angiography completely into the background. Also, new methods ...

We in ophthalmology are fortunate to be able to measure quantitatively many aspects of ocular morphology and visual function. These measurements are either objective (e. g. electroretinography, tonometry, electromyography, visually evoked responses, etc.) or subjective and psychophysical (e. g. visual acuity, visual fields, color vision, etc.). One aspect of corneal physiology and pathology which has so far escaped careful and reliable measurements is corneal sensitivity. Previous attempts...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen voluntee...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team at the newly formed Specialized Combined Taskforce of the NYPD find themselves thrust in the middle of a case as a lunatic serial killer plagues the art world. His victims are being mutilated in what is clear to Stephen as the killer’s twisted renditions of the world’s most acclaimed artists’ canvases.The killer’s masterpieces are strewn across the city at an alarming rate and it is not long before the media and public realize there is a se...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team must find a killer who has crept into the hearts of the public. The city’s worst criminals are being burned alive. It does not take long before the press hails the vigilante killer as a hero. Stephen fears copy-cat killers eager to share in the vigilante’s fame will soon follow suit.While fighting changes in their department, the team must take extra measures not to be side-tracked and keep their focus. The case leaves Stephen and the team ...

ical religious criticism based on the (fictional) founding of the Food Religion, which incorporates Christians, Muslims and even football players as foot-religionb....and following their example.

Köstliche Römertopf RezepteDieses Buch beinhaltet 110 Rezepte rund um das Kochen/Backen mit dem Römertopf.Egal ob für ein leckeres Mittagessen oder als kleiner Snack für Zwischendurch – Mit dem Römertopf lassen sich viele köstliche Gerichte zubereiten.Für Vielfalt ist gesorgt. Das Kochbuch beinhaltet verschiedenste Rezepte und ist nach folgenden Gerichten geordnet:✓ Rezepte mit Fleisch✓ Brot Rezepte✓ Vegetarische Rezepte✓ Rezepte mit Fisch

A heartfelt and reassuring true story about how two young sisters cope when their mother faces breast cancer treatment and recovery.When sisters Abigail and Adrienne learn that their mother has breast cancer, their family faces surgery, chemotherapy, hair loss, and radiation. In Our Mom Has Cancer, the two girls share their real-life experiences with humor, honesty, and warmth, showing how their household finds practical ways to support each other ...

This book analyses the multi-faceted impact armed conflict has on investment treaties. Refuting the common association of the outbreak of hostilities with the termination or suspension of treaties, it not only makes a case for the continuity of investment treaties. The book argues that the impact of armed conflict on such agreements goes far beyond these questions: Changed factual circumstances and public interests as well as international humanitarian law heavily influence the application...

In harmony and balance with the horse – this is every rider's dream. Physical and mental balance are the fundamental prerequisites for a sound partnership of animal and human on any equestrian level. There is, however, also the opposite: Why do we see so many beautiless images of animals in Rollkur and with unclean gaits? Voices criticizing today's equestrian sport and training methods geared toward quick successes are getting increasingly loud. Is this criticism justifi ed? How can we turn...

Well-known and respected theologian Prof. Denise Ackermann openly explores her experiences after she was diagnosed first with cancer, and then with macular degeneration leading to impaired sight. She shares her search for answers in this gripping, thought-provoking book. Honest and revealing, she grapples with her faith in Jesus in this, her “biography of faith” – faith in “the man on the borrowed donkey”, as she calls him. Facing some of life’s hardest questions, she discovers the ability...