Professor Huizing's brilliant text with Dr. John de Groot's magnificent surgical drawings on functional reconstructive nasal surgery is now available in a new and updated second edition. Maintaining its focus on modern surgical concepts and techniques, the book now also includes state-of-the-art contributions from a team of leading international specialists. From surgical anatomy and physiology to diagnosis of nasal syndromes to step-by-step surgical techniques, Functional Reconstructi...

The veteran British endurance racing driver with the most Nürburgring 24 hour race starts at the fearsome 'Green Hell', Peter Cate has achieved success across more than thirty years of top-level competition.RACING HELL is a candid, behind-the-scenes exposé for aspiring racers to better prepare for the realities of a career on the grid and for serious enthusiasts to understand what's really going on behind the pit garage door. From club racing to Formula 1, much about motorsport is misrepre...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.Just days later, three Australian Divisions attacked German positions at nearby Pozières, an...

The definitive story of the Australian campaign in Southeast Asia during World War II from one of Australia's leading military writers.'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the kindness and the brutality; the integrity and depravity; the magnificence and the enormities of men, as revealed by and to those fated to pass th...

In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it.A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest-e...

Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with Stella Adler (his work with her became the found...

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most notably the American 5th Army under the controversial General Mark Clark - was perhaps the campaign of the Second World War that most closely anticipates the coalition operations of today, with its ever-shifting cast of players stu...

In this candid and engaging memoir, a simple retreat in France becomes the setting for a profound spiritual reckoning. As the author journeys from the noise of modern life into the silence of a monastery, he confronts doubt, suffering, and the deeper questions of faith with honesty and insight. Blending thoughtful reflection with moments of humor, this narrative explores the struggle to find God amid confusion and reveals a patient and merciful Lord who meets the soul even in its darkest m...

Mit Herz… Erfahrung, Wissen, Entwicklung - dafür steht Andreas Herzog, der als Spieler wie auch Trainer eine beachtenswerte Karriere hingelegt hat. Die Erfolge Mit Rapid, Werder und Bayern, mit Nationalteams auf verschiedenen Kontinenten haben ihn zu einer Persönlichkeit reifen lassen, die nachdenklich zurück und überlegt nach vorne blickt. … und Schmäh 103 Länderspiele, 103 Anekdoten - auch dafür steht Österreichs Rekord-Teamspieler Andreas Herzog, der Zauberer mit Wiener Schmäh, der nie ...

"Hellboy has accompanied his girlfriend, Anastasia Bransfield, on a trip to Brazil to help colleagues who are conducting an archaeological dig in the jungle.While they’re having coffee, a colleague arrives...through a public square, sick and sluggish and in agony. He falls, and wasps begin to come out of his mouth. When he bursts open, more wasps emerge—his insides are full of a labyrinthine, gray, papery nest.It becomes clear that something sinister and supernatural is at pl...

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. MacArthur's long-awaited liberation of the Philippines. With the famed 1...

Als durch die Reformpädagogik geprägter «politischer Pädagoge» steht der Schwelmer Pädagoge und Schulreformer Fritz Helling (1888-1973) für eine Existenz im bewegtesten und spannendsten Jahrhundert der deutschen Geschichte. Helling war ein engagierter Teilnehmer am öffentlichen bildungs- und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurs in der Bundesrepublik, plädierend für einen unauflösbaren Zusammenhang zwischen Pädagogik und Gesellschaft und folglich für eine pädagogisch-politische Lehrerexistenz. ...