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 ...

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 ...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Clear, concise, and simple to follow—everything you need to master the documentation process quickly and easilyCommunicating Clinical Decision Making Through Documentation is the top choice for professionals and students seeking complete coverage ...

Eric Malpass erzählt mit menschlicher Wärme, großem Einfühlungsvermögen und historischer Genauigkeit die bewegende Geschichte einer großen Liebe: der tiefen und mitreißenden Beziehung William Shakespeares zu Anne Hathaway, einer jungen Frau von sanfter, ländlicher Schönheit. Wir nehmen teil an Shakespeares glanzvollem Aufstieg zum berühmten Künstler in der brodelnden englischen Metropole und werden auf unterhaltsam-lehrreiche Weise Zeugen einer versunkenen und doch in Shakespeare bis heute...

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...

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...

Greg kämpar med vintern - än är det för varmt, än för kallt. Det enda som lindrar är varm choklad. Men när skolan stänger på grund av all snö räcker det inte med chokladen.Grannskapet förvandlas till ett vintrigt slagfält där Greg och kompisen Rowley måste kryssa mellan allianser, svek och stridande gäng. Hur ska de slippa undan det gigantiska snöbollskriget med livet i behåll?Berättelserna om Greg är en världssuccé – 200 miljoner sålda exemplar till killar och tjejer jorde...

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...

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...

Januar 1889: Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson gelingt es, die verschlüsselte Nachricht eines Informanten aus der Londoner Unterwelt zu entziffern. Porlock, so sein Deckname, warnt in geheimnisvollen Worten vor einer drohenden Gefahr für einen Mann namens Douglas. Statt John Douglas retten zu können, muss Holmes aber dessen Ermordung aufklären. In der Bibliothek des stolzen Birlstone-Anwesens liegt eine Leiche mit zerschossenem Gesicht. Daneben entdeckt Holmes eine geheimnisvolle Karte mit de...

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...

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...