Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History provides a historical sojourn into the varied manifestations of kidney stone disease. Utilizing historical sources and integrating classic material with new concepts, this new volume provides depth and details on stone disease not found in modern overviews on the topic. This volume serves as a very useful tool for physicians and researchers dealing with kidney stone disease.Written by a renowned expert in the field, Urolithiasis: A...

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of cho...

Life as a single mom to a kid that's an entirely different species isn't easy, but Charity is chugging along, doing the best she can.Keeping up with a precocious dragon shifter and working at The Monster's Den account for all her free time. And she's mostly okay with that, if a little lonely.Only the universe seems to love to keep Charity on her toes… She has a shifter stuck in wyvern form living in her courtyard, an antagonistic dragon residing next door, ...

The picturesque town of North Falls is as beautiful as it is deadly.When Nadia is called to help deliver a human woman's little elven babies, she knows she can't say no. After all, she's masquerading as a fertility witch since blood witches were hunted out of existence several generations ago.But North Falls isn't like any other sanctuary city Nadia has been to and the differences are enough to make her blood boil.Haven is run by decent monsters, bu...

The picturesque town of Haven may offer sanctuary for all, but the irony is getting harder to miss: monsters are vanishing.Aline knows better than to meddle. The runaway Princess of Faere learned the hard way what happens when others see what her magic can do.No, it's far better to focus on her own problems, like running The Monster's Den and staying off the paranormal council's radar.Tragedy strikes Haven as things are finally starting to come toge...

"Michael Moran provides patients and practitioners alike with most valuable insights into the clinical phenomena of fuxie and Gu syndrome-traditional approaches to chronic inflammation that have been ignored by most Western and Chinese medicine systems alike, but which are becoming more and more relevant in the age of Lyme disease and post-COVID syndrome. Dr. Moran furthermore directs our attention to the multitudinous suffering experienced by the growing number of chronically fatigued pat...

Emerson Parker is exhausted.She spends her days chasing around her high-energy, half-shifter toddler and her nights working full-time trying to make ends meet.Oh, and add in the absolute cluster of a situation her ex dumped in her lap on his way out? Well, that's just icing on the cake.With virtually no options left, Emerson heads for Haven, a sanctuary city for monsters and humans alike. Survival means taking a job at The Monster's Den—a club that ...

Following the collapse of the former regimes of Eastern and Central Europe and Latin America the choice of all of the democratising countries was to move towards liberal democracy. Likewise in Africa, many authoriatarian regimes seem to be in retreat, perhaps most significantly in South Africa. Democracy seems to be the only valued political system of the late twentieth century, so that even China for example, describes itself as the people's democratic dictatorship. So have we really, as ...

A romantic and adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia.East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown paradise islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas. They were perhaps the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, and even today many remain largely unspoilt, despite the former presence of German, British and even Australian colonial rulers....

"I am blind, and I'm an alcoholic," says Michael W. Moran in his introduction. There was no cure for the congenital glaucoma that caused his blindness, but thanks to a 12–step program and lots of help from others, he put down the drinks and drugs in 1982.Now, 42 years later, he's put together this heartfelt narrative of the main events of his life. The often shocking negatives include the abuse that he and his classmates endured at a Catholic school for the blind, when and how he w...

"A smart, sober and clear-eyed primer on the Post-American Century. Read it, and then demand equally straight answers from those who seek your vote." ―The Seattle TimesThe age of American global dominance is ending. Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge its cherished notion of exceptionalism, and risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure in place since the Cold War.Staggering under ...

You cant succeed without making a plan. Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. The authors have found that annual goals and plans create unforeseen barriers to achieving the best results. This is too short. Instead, a 12 Week Year captures the energy of year-end, and avoids the pitfalls of low productivity annualized thinking. With the traditional annual execution cycle there is an illusion that there is a lot of ti...