Focusing on how the radiation process works and how it is applied in sterilizing medical devices and healthcare products, Radiation Sterilization for Health Care Products covers recent developments in radiation technology such as e-beams, gamma rays, and x-rays. The author discusses the design and operation of irradiators as well as factors that affect cost and efficiency. He offers readers practical insights on this critical step in healthcare product manufacturing, its current uses, and ...

Lucas Cole is a Security Consultant, Bodyguard, Investigator and Instructor, who after a night protecting a Film star rapist, and stopping an attempt on their life, later finds out that his brother has been murdered.He then has to travel across the Atlantic, to New York only to get caught up in a power struggle, a kidnapping and a plot for world domination. All while trying to find out what happened to his brother, who is behind it and how to get revenge.

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine

A publication with guidance that can be adapted to any individual circumstances and a centuries old, proven guide on how to live in community with others. Here is Benedictine spirituality in essence: the timeless wisdom of the Rule and a basic orientation and includes Patrick Barry's translation of the "Rule of St Benedict".

This revised and expanded edition highlights the importance of understanding the biologic and psychologic pain mechanisms to prepare clinicians who treat patients presenting with a variety of pain symptoms. The authors include evidence-based research on how the pain experience may be influenced by genetics, gender, or individual psychosocial and health histories. Extending well beyond basic toothache and TMDs, this book covers pathologic conditions of surrounding orofacial structures and n...

This interactive guide is designed to help preservice early childhood educators use self-compassion to mitigate the stress of teaching. Barry argues that learning healthy stress-management strategies while enrolled in teacher education programs will equip students with the resilience needed to manage stress when they enter their own classrooms. The goal is to beat the odds of attrition with higher levels of job satisfaction and fewer instances of burnout. This book includes research findin...

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.

In the explosive continuation of The Nearer the Dawn Saga, Dawn’s First Light plunges readers into a celestial war where love, fate, and sacrifice collide. Gabriel, wounded and desperate, saves Nina from the brink of death, only to discover a powerful soul bond that could change everything. As the two struggle with forbidden feelings and growing threats, old enemies resurface—none more dangerous than Chase, who will stop at nothing to reclaim Nina. With Heaven and Hell on the verge of chao...

Hi, I'm Russell Crow... What! Yeah, I get that all the time. I'm better known as GC. that stands for... Guardian Crow, I appear in my alter ego's new book, called, "Smokebreaker™".I guide readers through a 90 day journey that will end their dependence on cigarettes...For Good!My team, Bulldog Drummin', (he's the re-inforcer), Fernando Llama, (he's the cheerleader and is there to rally readers), yup, he's known as the Rally Llama and finally, Toni Robin, our chief Motivator,...

Luca Santino wants one thing – to get his ex, Madison Langmore, to give him one more chance. Madison Langmore wants one thing too – to survive her abduction. Racing against the clock, Luca must do whatever he can to figure out who took Madison and to where. A deep dive into possible suspects reveals the powerful political Winters Family is at the center of the investigation, once again.

Wed by evil, but saved by good, Mortal Angels Chase James and Nina Luther have finally found their desired scrap of peace and balance. Unbeknownst to them, this is only the calm before the real storm kicks up. Enter the Archangel Gabriel. Tortured by a revenge filled heart, he sets his sights on Nina. Fueled by desire from a mysterious force, will he ruin the soul bond between Chase and Nina, or will Chase’s obsession with eliminating Vincent destroy everything, including himself?

Lured into a false sense of comfort, the Winters, Santino, and Stevens families foolishly believe the storm has passed. As members of each family go missing, an unlikely group of potential suspects must race against the clock to unmask the true mastermind behind recent scandals, and save their loved ones. Corruption, dirty politicians, the mafia, and the biased media slam together in the explosive conclusion of The Fall of Winters Trilogy.