Healthcare is a complex industry that requires efficiency, safety, and quality of care. Hospitals utilize structured problem-solving methodologies like the Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle and A3 thinking to achieve these goals. However, many healthcare professionals lack formal training in these methods.Healthcare Kaizen in Action: 30 Case Studies for Rapid Improvement presents 30 real-life examples of Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs) in various healthcare settings. This boo...

This book examines how street art transformed Medellín's Comuna 13 from one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods into a thriving tourist destination, exploring both local community dynamics and global forces of urban renewal and touristification.Shaped by a long history of violence, political conflict, and forced displacement, Comuna 13 has undergone a striking transformation from the 2010s onward. This study traces the complex processes set in motion by street art interventi...

An examination of scientific controversies in which challenging the accepted position led to great intellectual rewardsThe word “hunch” has many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary; this book’s title references this one: “A premonition or intuitive feeling that something . . . may be the case.” Such premonitions are often dismissed by those in academia and the institutional scientific community. Author Claudio Vita-Finzi, on the other hand, demons...

A remote town. A desecrated grave. And a dead man who may not have stayed dead.When Brother Anselmo is called to investigate, old fears resurface—of restless corpses, forbidden rites and the sanguisugae: the dead who return among the living.As rumours spread and fear takes hold, Anselmo must separate superstition from evidence and uncover the human motives concealed behind ancient beliefs.But in a world where the dead are feared almost as m...

When unresolved grievances are amplified by tragedy, how long can the appearance of stability last?The noble families of Vurtgoren look forward to the wedding season, but not everyone is celebrating.For those who mourn their dead, vengeance is portrayed as the only way to find closure.As the two sides meet, is conflict inevitable, or will cooler heads prevail?The Price of Vengeance is the second book in The Great Fal...

July, 1315. Months of relentless rain, unseasonable cold and famine have pushed a city to the edge of unrest.Within the Cathedral precinct, the canons of the Chapter begin to die—one after another, each death more disturbing than the last.Brother Anselmo soon finds himself drawn into an investigation where fear, superstition, ecclesiastical rivalries and violence are dangerously intertwined. As unrest spreads through the streets and powerful institutions pu...

A monastery built on the ruins of a dead city. A series of violent deaths. And an eclipse that seems to confirm the darkest fears of an entire community.When Brother Anselmo arrives at an isolated mountain monastery as a visitor for his Order, he finds a community already gripped by unease. Strange signs have appeared in the sky, old stories have resurfaced, and whispers of curses and evil presences are growing louder.Then the deaths begin.While fea...

Twenty years ago, a servant vanished after a sacrilegious theft from the crypt of Santa Maria di Avasinis.Now a Franciscan arrives with three scraps of parchment, supposedly written in blood by Mattia, a former monk condemned as a heretic. In them, he confesses to the servant’s murder.When the buried remains are found exactly where the parchments say they will be, the old crime seems solved.Anselmo is not convinced.Then anot...

A monastery built on the ruins of a dead city. A series of violent deaths. And an eclipse that seems to confirm the darkest fears of an entire community.When Brother Anselmo arrives at an isolated mountain monastery as a visitor for his Order, he finds a community already gripped by unease. Strange signs have appeared in the sky, old stories have resurfaced, and whispers of curses and evil presences are growing louder.Then the deaths begin.While fea...

The present book is a collection of original manuscripts describing the rationale, the mechanisms and the clinical application of special dialysis techniques such as On-Line Hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF), Expanded Hemodialysis (HDx) and Hemoadsorption combined with Hemodialysis (HAHD): what we call today the 'triad of special treatments of uremia'. These extracorporeal techniques represent a new frontier in the area of extracorporeal blood purification for patients with end stage kidney disea...

In a remote mountain village, fear has returned with the wolves.Eight years after a woman known as the Lady of the Wolves died amid violence and superstition, men connected to that night begin to die one after another.When Brother Anselmo, a Benedictine monk, arrives in the village, he finds a community ruled by old hatreds, ancient beliefs and secrets no one wishes to uncover. The evidence points to wolves. The villagers are certain of it.Anselmo i...

Carvalhaes invites readers into a spiritual practice of resistance and renewal for our climate-challenged world. At its heart lies a simple yet profound ritual of three gestures-rising, bowing, and prostrating-performed within one's own bioregion as a way to reconnect body, spirit, and land. These embodied actions ground us in our places, teaching us to attend to the skies and trees above, to honor human and nonhuman neighbors around us, and to remember the histories benea...