Gastrointestinal motility has evolved from an esoteric laboratory tool into a sophisti cated diagnostic technique that is now widely used clinically to guide in management of complex gastrointestinal problems. Today, it is the most rapidly growing subspecialty within gastroenterology. Previously, many of the gastrointestinal motility problems were either ignored or attributed to a disturbance of "psyche." But with the growing knowledge and understanding of how a dysfunction of the gastroin...

Maryland's Black Civil War Soldiers tells the story of the men who served in Maryland's 19th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, through their military and pension records preserved at the U.S. National Archives.Most of the regiment's enlisted men had been enslaved. They came primarily from Southern Maryland and Maryland's Eastern Shore, where Army recruiting parties traveled through the countryside taking enslaved men from farms and plantations. They trained at Camp Stanton in...

At 4 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd opened the door of his Southern Maryland farmhouse to find John Wilkes Booth outside with a broken leg. He knew Booth, having met him a couple of times before, including once when Booth had stayed overnight at the Mudd farm.Only hours earlier, Booth had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. Mudd treated Booth's injury, fashioned a splint for his leg, and allowed him to rest in an upstairs bedroom. Later that day, Mudd lear...

This title was first published in 2000: Robert S. Summers is a distinguished legal theorist whose work has had significant influence in Europe as well as the United States. The study of form and substance in law, the theme of this collection, marks many of his most distinctive contributions to law and legal philosophy over four decades.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was one of the eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. The four who had participated in the actual assassination were executed by hanging. Dr. Mudd and the other three were found guilty of otherwise conspiring with the assassin John Wilkes Booth, and sent to the Fort Jefferson military prison, located on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico, 70 miles west of Key West, Florida. Dr. Mudd and two of the other three were sentenced to l...

This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores implications for general theories of interpretation and of justification. Its authors, who include Aulis Aarnio, Robert Alexy, Ralf Dreier, Enriq...

They call him the Silent Death, because he kills without sound and leaves none capable of speaking in his wake…When the empire's deadliest fae murderer catches her wielding forbidden magic, twenty-year-old Emelin believes her hour has come. Instead, her inhumanly beautiful captor spares her life, but carries her off on his velvet wings into the one place from which no human ever returns:The heart of the Fae Isles. The treacherous Crimson Court, where the Mo...

"You fell in love with a fae executioner. Did you truly think that would end well?"With war looming, Emelin's plan is simple: break the Mother's bindings while her more diplomacy-minded friends persuade the rest of the world to join their rebellion. Unfortunately, their would-be allies are far too concerned about Em's exact connection to the feared and hated Silent Death. They might risk their lives for the world's only unbound mage, but they'll never fight for a f...

Getting fired and dumped in the same 30 seconds makes for a pretty bad Tuesday.But by Thursday, I'll be in Vegas celebrating my brother's wedding. Since I could use a fresh start, he offers me a place to stay with a buddy of his.At the bachelorette party, a raunchy game results in a quest to find me a one-night stand. When a hunk with dark blue eyes and perfect bone structure hits me with a silly line at the bar, my mission is complete. I vow to move on fro...

Welcome to Creighton Falls, New York … a town time forgot where miracles happen …Glamorous city girl Hannah Ford wasn’t thinking when she walked out of a Christmas party and drove three hundred miles into a snowstorm; she just needed to escape. Thankfully local carpenter Sam Taylor comes to her rescue, and the unlikely pair are forced to spend a snowed-in Christmas together.All Sam planned for Christmas was to get drunk alone. The holiday has always been something to be end...

Nothing makes me work harder than when my future husband tells me, "prove your worth".Luke hired me as his publicist so his pro football team owner will see that he's indispensable to the organization. When a defamatory headline hits newsstands, it's up to me to show the world what a Prince Charming he truly is.My solution? A marriage of convenience. It'll get his boss off his back and quiet the slanderous voices. Luke is adamant that this is nothing more t...

"He has to be ready for it, Jess," I say, my voice low and quiet.Jesse nods. "I know. It's just that I'm a fixer, and his broken-ass heart is the one thing I can't fix.""No one can," I say. "I can't fix his broken heart. He has to be willing to be with me with a whole heart. There'd be pieces missing, and seams and cracks, but offered as a whole. I'm worth more than just taking the screwed up mess of him, just to have part. I want more than that—I deserve more. If he can ge...