Under the Yellow & Red Stars is a remarkable story of survival, coming of age and homecoming after years as a stranger in a strange land. Alex Levin was only ten years old when he ran deep into the forest after the Germans invaded his hometown of Rokitno and only twelve when he emerged from hiding to find that he had neither parents nor a community to return to. A harrowing tale of escape, endurance and exceptional emotional resilience, Levin’s story also draws us into his later l...

The Rosetta Stone is a large stone tablet (ca. 196 BCE) discovered in Egypt in 1799. It is important because it allowed researchers to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing for the first time.This book is a Rosetta Stone for the jazz guitarist who is ready to take a leap. Within these pages are found the tips, tools, and techniques to transform your playing and understanding of what is possible.This book is my personal masterclass with you. Alex Levine has careful...

Although residents and pediatric ophthalmology fellows examine patients in the clinic, they may not be involved in surgery on the same patients and even less often get to follow the progress of these patients postoperatively. The Wills Eye Strabismus Surgery Handbook is designed to address this challenge in residency and fellowship education as a manual focused on developing surgical plans for strabismus patients.Drs. Leonard B. Nelson and Alex V. Levin an...

Discover the stories behind Kansas City’s delicious and diverse fleet of food trucks.Kansas City’s claim to food fame has come from a long-standing tradition of stellar barbeque. As the city continues to grow and evolve, so does the food scene. Budding entrepreneurs and foodies have launched innovative food trucks that deliver trendy and worldly dishes to the community, all from kitchens on wheels.Chrissy Nucum cooks up decades-old family recipes to offer customers authenti...

The world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, updates and expands its essential guide to AI transformationIn the newly revised second edition of Rewired: The McKinsey Playbook on How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI, five experienced McKinsey leaders deliver an essential and incisive update to their widely read guide to planning and implementing successful Tech & AI transformations.The book walks you throu...

Why the living world may be the next great frontier of physicsThe frontiers of physics can seem impossibly remote—located in the invisible quantum realm or the farthest reaches of the cosmos. But one of physics' most exciting frontiers lies much closer than we realize: within our own bodies and other living organisms, which display astonishingly intricate structural patterns and dynamic processes that we don't yet understand. In Living Matter, leading biop...

Highly Commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards for Surgical Specialties!Many serious, potentially blinding eye disorders have a genetic basis. Currently, there are relatively few ocular geneticists in the world, yet inherited eye disease is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Significant strides have been made in gene identification and acquisition of knowledge on the underlying mechanisms of hereditary eye disease. The field of ocular genetics is be...

Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfict...

This book serves as a comprehensive resource for researchers and regulatory bodies working to establish sound evidence bases through research for the care of children and families affected by abuse. Issues such as consent, anonymous research, and how to interface with the legal system in terms of disclosure and sharing of results are discussed in depth. Ethical Issues in Child Abuse Research also provides insights into questions of ethics in animal research, perpetrator and retros...

In the newly revised second edition of Rewired, five experienced McKinsey leaders deliver an essential and incisive update to their widely read guide to planning and implementing AI transformations.The book walks you through the AI transformation from start to finish. You'll learn how to create a transformation roadmap, build and motivate the talent you’ll need to execute it, create a new operating model, develop a technology environment that works, embed data throughout y...

Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All the Sounds of Fear," "The Sky Is Burning," "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman," and "In Lonely Lands." Though they...

In Authentic PR: How Transparency Can Transform Your Business, legendary publicist Michael Levine—author of the bestselling Guerrilla PR—shows why honesty, candor, and vulnerability are now the most powerful tools in the communications arsenal.In an era when consumers can spot spin a mile away, authenticity isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a survival strategy.From Fortune 500 companies to mom-and-pop shops, Levine illustrates how transparency bu...