Reiki masters, crystals and astrologers …oh my!Adam McGiver is a Coast Guard EMT, on injured reserve, and thinks all the above are an interesting waste of time. The stars are for navigation on the seasMelanie Cramer, third generation of psychics and healers, charts her life by the stars but prefers to spend her days with computers. She's ready to embark on a global adventure dedicated to databases.When Adam rescues Melanie from a boat that's dead in the water, they ...

Temporary roommates, two lively dogs, and a remote country house – awkward moments will arise.Mark Bradley, a hobby pilot with a demanding new job, faces constant travel with little notice. Desperate to provide his dogs with a stable home, he offers sanctuary to Stacey Houseman, an aspiring goddess who's never owned a pet.Stacey, happy not to be both homeless and jobless, agrees to take on dog duties in exchange for a safe place to stay.But training two energetic do...

A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zoneThe vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that can breathe in air, worms that build entire reefs, and seaweeds that can be mistaken for tar spots—these are as common as the more familiar barnacles that eat with their feet. Unicorn snails lie still on the rocks as they drill into the she...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The unique orientation to pharmacotherapy found in the landmark Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach distilled to a concise clinically focused full-color resourcePharmacotherapy Principles & Practice, Fifth Edition uses a solid evidence-ba...

This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team.Particular themes addressed include the conflict between the child's chronological and emotional ages, the need to work at the child's pace, the importance of the whole-team approa...

Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southern landscape.The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but also to recover information long buried beneath the earliest ur...

All the main concepts from the landmark Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach—distilled down to a concise, clinically focused, full-color resourceProviding a solid evidence-based approach, Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice, Sixth Edition explains how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles of the pharmacotherapy of disease―and their practical application.

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2023, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus, during August 28–September 1, 2023.The 42 full papers presented in this book together with 11 symposium papers and 14 demo/poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to ...

Over the last century, televisions, clothing, and computers have become exponentially cheaper to produce due to robotic automation and manufacturing efficiency. Yet, the cost of healthcare, education, and the performing arts has skyrocketed beyond all rational inflation rates. This terrifying economic divergence is known as Baumol's Cost Disease. Developed by economist William Baumol in the 1960s, the theory explains a brutal reality: certain services require the exact same amount of human...

Built around The Cuban Cowboys' cult song "Jinetero," Jinetero 2.0 is an audacious, darkly hilarious memoir that dives into the business of whoring in Cuba against an expansive backdrop of tragicomic U.S.-Cuba relations. When a Cuban-American musician returns to the island for the first time since his parents' exile, he's pulled into a world where survival, sex, and politics collide with equal parts absurdity and grace. What begins as a quest for creative renewal turns into a searching exp...

Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over Kent and Sussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family, Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham.'You're out of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few women at a dance in a seaside hotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam...