A Guide to Practicing Medicine in Challenging Environments Wilderness and Rescue Medicine: A Practical Guide for the Basic and Advanced Practitioner provides the critical insight and tools required to practice medicine in remote or challenging environments. There is no place in field medicine for un[...]
Demonstrates mathematics' usefulness and relevance to students' daily lives through topics such as calculating interest and understanding voting systems. This text emphasizes problem-solving skills, practical applications, and the history of mathematics, and unveils the relevance of mathematics and [...]
"At the end of last year, an extraordinary work of detective criticism briefly appeared, despite legal threats. Kent Johnson's "A Question Mark Above the Sun "(Punch Press) movingly speculates that Kenneth Koch forged one of Frank O'Hara's greatest poems as a posthumous tribute to his friend. A noir[...]
A philosophical look at the movie "Inception" and its brilliant metaphysical puzzlesIs the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. "Inception" is a m[...]
The only text dealing exclusively with rare or infrequently encountered malignancies in adults and childrenNow in its "Fourth Edition, Textbook of Uncommon Cancer" is designed to help clinicians manage the treatment of uncommon cancers, for which, in many instances, there are few established guideli[...]
What would today's technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That's the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott[...]
New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers the next book in the multiple New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. There are two sides to any quarrel... unless there are more. Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin and[...]