Staying in town suited Bauer. Dealing with Kat and Badger’s matchmaking? Not so much. But, when a mutual friend calls to say an injured War Dog was dropped off at her clinic—only to then be stolen during the night after she completed surgery to fix his injured stump—well, Bauer is all over it.Mags always liked Bauer, but she kept her personal relationships short and sweet. After all, commitments were too often broken and the resultant pain horrific. However, Bauer refuses to leave ...

Staying in town suited Bauer. Dealing with Kat and Badger’s matchmaking? Not so much. But, when a mutual friend calls to say an injured War Dog was dropped off at her clinic—only to then be stolen during the night after she completed surgery to fix his injured stump—well, Bauer is all over it.Mags always liked Bauer, but she kept her personal relationships short and sweet. After all, commitments were too often broken and the resultant pain horrific. However, Bauer refuses to leave ...

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices, discussions on how to rethink the relationships to these animals have become as heated as perhaps never before. Livestock and Literature examines what literature has to contribute to these debates. In particular, it draws on count...

Since the pioneering work of Donald and his first Lancet paper in 1958, the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology has evolved rap idly. The introduction of grey scale techniques enhanced our ability to identify different tissues on the basis of their texture. However, it was the introduction of the linear array real-time scanner in the mid seven ties that changed ultrasound from being an "eccentric art form" to a readily available and usable technique. This led to the first repor...

Chega às livrarias a aguardada edição integral de A ideologia alemã, de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels. Traduzida diretamente do alemão para o português por Rubens Enderle, Nélio Schneider e Luciano Martorano, com texto final de Rubens Enderle, a edição da Boitempo tem introdução escrita por Emir Sader e supervisão editorial de Leandro Konder, um dos maiores estudiosos do marxismo no Brasil. Além disso, será a versão mais fiel aos originais deixados pelos autores, pois a primeira no mundo tr...

Vertrauen ist in aller Munde. Es spielt für das Miteinander der Menschen eine wichtige Rolle. Gleichzeitig wird allenthalben ein Vertrauensverlust beklagt. Es stellt sich jedoch die Frage, was Vertrauen überhaupt ist. Worin genau liegt seine Bedeutung? Hat Vertrauen gar eine therapeutische Kraft? Wo hat das Vertrauen seinen Platz? Diesen Fragen möchte dieses Buch nachgehen, indem die Medizin in einen Dialog mit anderen Disziplinen aus den Geistes-, Sozial- und Rechtswissenschaften tritt.

After her beloved mentor, Ed Heschen, dies in a car crash, Sierra Bauer, aircraft mechanic, returns to her alma mater to eulogize him. Ed and his family were her lifeline six years ago after she survived a violent attack.Though local law enforcement assures her that Ed's death was an accident, Sierra is certain it was something more when she finds a warning hacked onto his plane and learns someone threatened him before he died.When Ed's widow receives a package Ed sent to h...

An actionable framework for doing politics with Earth’s nonliving, living, and technological agencies to expand planetary habitability.Our Planetary Condition advances a simple yet transformative claim: we do not live on but are part of a planet whose nonliving, living, and technological forces actively shape politics. If keeping the Earth habitable is the defining challenge of our time, then politics must be restructured beyond human-cen...

Jack Bauer will do anything to stop a deadly plot against the world's top religious leaders in this original thriller novel based on the TV series 24.Operating out of a nearly empty space in Los Angeles, the newly created CTU faces its first major crisis. A large amount of plastique explosive has vanished and could be anywhere—in the hands of criminals, crazies, outlaw bikers . . . or Islamic radicals. As powerful representatives of the world's major religi...

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White**’s California Exposures*.”—Kirkus Reviews*Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the li...

The world's most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn't know that another conspiracy is brewing around him—a poisonous plot to violently dictate the future of the free world....

Wir haben insgesamt 70 Kreuzfahrten unternommen und dabei die verschiedensten - meist positiven - Erfahrungen gemacht. Wer erstmals eine Kreuzfahrt plant, dem stellen sich viele Fragen: Wir geben ihnen Antwort darauf (und auf viele andere): Was kann ich von einer Kreuzfahrt erwarten? Welche Reederei und welcher Typ Schiff ist passend für mich? Wie ist das Leben an Board? Gibt es Kleidungsvorschriften?