SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together ...

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such ...

These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of Gainsborough’s final paintings and Sterne’s Sentimental Journey; a study of Johnson and casuis...

Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child’s hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the f...

Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policymakers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisis experience. In the new edition of this uniquely comprehensive an...

Eric Malpass erzählt mit menschlicher Wärme, großem Einfühlungsvermögen und historischer Genauigkeit die bewegende Geschichte einer großen Liebe: der tiefen und mitreißenden Beziehung William Shakespeares zu Anne Hathaway, einer jungen Frau von sanfter, ländlicher Schönheit. Wir nehmen teil an Shakespeares glanzvollem Aufstieg zum berühmten Künstler in der brodelnden englischen Metropole und werden auf unterhaltsam-lehrreiche Weise Zeugen einer versunkenen und doch in Shakespeare bis heute...

Greg kämpar med vintern - än är det för varmt, än för kallt. Det enda som lindrar är varm choklad. Men när skolan stänger på grund av all snö räcker det inte med chokladen.Grannskapet förvandlas till ett vintrigt slagfält där Greg och kompisen Rowley måste kryssa mellan allianser, svek och stridande gäng. Hur ska de slippa undan det gigantiska snöbollskriget med livet i behåll?Berättelserna om Greg är en världssuccé – 200 miljoner sålda exemplar till killar och tjejer jorde...

Zero in on the most important cardiothoracic imaging knowledge with Chest Radiology: The Essentials! Ideal as a quick refresher for experienced radiologists as well as an efficient learning tool for residents, this best-selling radiology reference puts indispensible information at your fingertips in a compact and practical, high-yield format. Key Features Master nuances of imaging interpretation through a pattern-recognition approach that features extensive chest radiograph/CT correlations...

Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisis experience. In this uniquely comprehensive...

Alterner le sérieux et le comique dans un recueil d’histoires courtes est une gageure : Lamentations et Consolations respecte cette oscillation. De la Genèse au XXIe siècle en passant par la dernière guerre mondiale, les textes présentés dans ce livre franchissent les siècles et les kilomètres. Par la Vasconie, le Pays basque, les Landes et le Béarn, une Rome des Horace que Corneille n’aurait pas reconnue, l’Alsace, la Bretagne, Paris et sa région, ils enjambent les époques et font tourner...

« Ah… respectable, murmure l’adjudante… respectable… qui est respectable, qui ne l’est pas ? Vaste question. Ceci dit, en effet, on peut vivre trente ou quarante ans avec une personne sans la connaître vraiment et sans savoir qu’elle n’est pas respectable. C’est rare, très rare, mais ça arrive ». Même s’il porte une candeur bonhomme sur son visage rougeaud, le mari de Martine n’est pas respectable. Il ne possède rien, elle est riche. Au fil des années il a convaincu sa femme de son inutili...

Comprehensive textbook for the documentation material required in all Physical Therapy programs. Physical Therapy is one of the fastest growing professions in the US; if they want to get paid by third parties, they need to have a solid understanding of documentation. This book covers every aspect of documentation including reimbursement and billing, coding, legal issues, PT and PTA communication, as well as utilization review and quality assurance.Market / Audience