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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

Under en helg ska alla i stan där Greg bor pröva på att leva som man gjorde ”förr i tiden”. Hur ska det gå? Greg som inte ens kan klara sig utan våtservetter …Livet var bättre "på den gamla goda tiden"! Så säger alla vuxna runt Greg, men han tvivlar. Han älskar det moderna livets alla bekvämligheter. Men när hela stan loggar ut för en helg tvingas han pröva på att leva som förr. Det går sådär ...Och på skolans "danande" läger, där det varken finns elektronik eller varm dusc...

Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first centuryIn an increasingly globalized world, a complex and interlocking web of nations, governments, non-state actors, laws, and rules affect human behavior. When crisis hits—whether that be extrajudicial detention, unprompted deportation, pandemics, or natural disasters—lawyers are increasingly among the first responders, equipped with the knowledge n...

Stackars Greg! Ska han få leva ut sina heta sommarfantasier eller sätter mammas pigga förslag på gemensamma utomhusaktiviteter stopp för det?Sommarlovet börjar bra. Greg och Rowley läskar sig på den countryklubb som Rowleys pappa är med i, ända tills det visar sig att de goda fruktdrinkarna inte alls var gratis. Den skuldsatte Greg väljer att hålla sig inomhus och spela tevespel med fördragna gardiner.Men mamma har andra idéer om lämpliga sommaraktiviteter! Som att bada i d...

Greg skriver dagbok, eller loggbok, som han själv hellre kallar det. Den blir perfekt att sätta i händerna på journalisterna när han en gång i framtiden blir rik och berömd. För det kommer han att bli! Först ska han bara tackla tiden på mellanstadiet.Ett nytt skolår precis börjat. Greg upptäcker att han numera får dela korridor med killar som är både större och styggare, och några som redan rakar sig. Själv hör han till en klenare sort, men vet precis hur han ska parera för att vin...

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...

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 ...

Är Greg Heffley ett hopplöst fall? Hans pappa verkar övertygad om saken och hotar att skicka sonen till en militärskola ...Frank Heffley tror att han kan få sin son att bli lite tuffare och anmäler honom därför till organiserade sporter och andra "manliga" aktiviteter. Men Greg förstår inte alls hur han skulle kunna bli en bättre människa, han är ju redan en av de bästa personer han vet, även om han hör till en klenare sort! Och han vet precis hur han ska lirka sig förbi pappans al...