Pieces Of Silva is a book of my many years as a Professional Session Singer / Recording Artist / Minister / Marriage Celebrant and General Officiate / and more.The stories are true and very humorous from coming out of the night life in NZ & Australia to experiencing a profound life changing epiphany which led me into 40 plus years of church life and Ministry from Preaching Teaching and a lot more...plus dealing with some very frightening situat...

I was encouraged to write my story Under The Afro while being interviewed for my new 2005 album Out Of The Shadows as the journalist said I had a story to tell.So this book is about my childhood life in Auckland NZ in the beautiful suburb of Orakei surrounded by amazing beaches and landscape. It covers a wonderful era of the late 50s ...schooling ..playing on the streets and more then it goes on to my troubled teenage years around the early 60s and then onto my extensive music year...

Seymour Slater is a little bug who lives in a tree down the backyard of suburbia with his family and friends.They have adventures and fun as they step out into the big world around them.Like meeting the cows next door and waking on the first frosty morning to step onto the ice and slip slide...It's full of humour suspense surprise and more.Enjo...

Sharing my experiences with family as a child on our various outdoor trips and activities together making for some of the best memories.

This book provides a detailed account of the intricate mechanisms and regulation of epithelial chloride transport, offering valuable insights into the regulation of salt balance in various vertebrate epithelial tissues. Over sixty years ago, J. Wendell Burger discovered that the rectal gland of elasmobranchs was the extrarenal organ responsible for excreting the salt gained by the animals. Since then, the rectal gland of elasmobranchs has been the only organ enabling whole organ, tissue, c...

This book has been written keeping in mind the needs of the student and curriculum. The content is exhaustive and cannot be found in any single textbook, Indian or foreign. Its uniqueness is the packaging of the basic and the clinical aspects of immunology in a single book. The goal of creating this book is: • To put forth the concepts involved in immunology in as simplified a manner as possible for the students whose first language is not English • To reduce to the minimum, description of...

Essential for ob/gyn physicians, primary care physicians, and any health care provider working with pregnant or postpartum women, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, 12th Edition, puts must-know information at your fingertips in seconds. An easy A-to-Z format lists more than 1,400 of the most commonly prescribed drugs taken during pregnancy and lactation, with detailed monographs designed to provide the most essential information on possible effe...

Now in four convenient volumes, Field’s Virology remains the most authoritative reference in this fast-changing field, providing definitive coverage of virology, including virus biology as well as replication and medical aspects of specific virus families. This volume of Field’s Virology: Emerging Viruses, 7th Edition covers recent changes in emerging viruses, providing new or extensively revised chapters that reflect these advances in this dynamic field.

This revised edition of Charles Brook's Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology provides endocrinologists and pediatricians in training with a fully up-to-date clinical guide presenting evidence-based practice in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of pediatric endocrine disorders. New chapters include “Endocrine complications of chronic disease” and “Endocrine neoplasia.” In addition, the chapter structure has been revamped for easier access and now includes: a key poin...

This issue of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics provides an update in Gynecologic Oncology. Vulvar/Vaginal, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer are all covered, along with early detection and screening, and genetics and hereditary risk. There is also an article on trends in cancer care in North America, which discusses cancer care and cost and sustainability as well as practice evloution.

Fibroids are benign growths of the uterus. They are the most common tumours found in women (20-30% of women), usually in later reproductive years. This book covers evidence-based indications for treatment of uterine fibroids in gynecology, the management of fibroids in pregnancy, surgical treatments and outcomes, rare fibroid syndromes, and more.

Bundled with the eBook, which will be updated regularly as new information about each virus is available, this text serves as the authoritative, up-to-date reference book for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as medical students pursuing a career in infectious diseases.