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A new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives.The main cause of heart disease--the world's number one killer of women and men--is a cancer-like "tumor" inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating. Although this similarity to cancer is well-established in medical journals, most people (and their health care providers) don't approach heart d...

General John Forbes's campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years' War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, native inhabitants of the Ohio Country, and the empire he represented. A close look at the...

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent--and limits--of presidential power. One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today's divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. The President Who Would Not Be King cuts through the partisa...

This collection is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. Lyons's long and influential academic career has been instrumental in shaping generations of undergraduates, postgraduates and early career researchers through his teaching, advising, mentorship and critical reading. Bringing together original chapters from leading scholars in ...

Sie saugen dein Leben aus. Sie sind Gestaltwandler. Um selbst zu überleben, suchen sie sich immer wieder neue Opfer. Sie nehmen sich Körper und Aussehen, Erinnerungen, ja sogar Träume. Der Mensch aber stirbt. Auch Drew ist einer von ihnen. Als er auf Julia trifft, will er sich ändern. Für Drew beginnt der grausame Kampf um eine aussichtslose Liebe.

Sie saugen dein Leben aus. Sie sind Gestaltwandler. Um selbst zu überleben, suchen sie sich immer wieder neue Opfer. Sie nehmen sich Körper und Aussehen, Erinnerungen, ja sogar Träume. Der Mensch aber stirbt. Auch Drew ist einer von ihnen. Als er auf Julia trifft, will er sich ändern. Für Drew beginnt der grausame Kampf um eine aussichtslose Liebe.

On September 3, 1971, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. Their remarkable story is told here for the first time—a unique account of the passion and energy of the gay liberation movement in the sixties and seventies.    At the dawn of the modern gay movement (while New York’s Stonewall riots and San Francisco’s emerging political activism bloomed),  these two young men insis...

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent--and limits--of presidential power. One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today's divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. The President Who Would Not Be King cuts through the partisa...

General John Forbes's campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years' War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded.

This is the remarkable memoir of the first gay marriage in the US, a stirring and unique love story about social change and the will to live an equal life.

Excerpt from A Survey of Agriculture in MalaysiaMalaysia is much too new to permit a worthwhile analysis of its overall agricultural economy. Only now is an attempt being made to improve the uniformity and comparability of statistical data and other economic information. Also, the country has not had, sufficient time to develop its economy to the extent that it gives definite indications of the form it will take. Thus, this study is largely an...

Excerpt from A Survey of Agriculture in MalaysiaMalaysia is much too new to permit a worthwhile analysis of its overall agricultural economy. Only now is an attempt being made to improve the uniformity and comparability of statistical data and other economic information. Also, the country has not had, sufficient time to develop its economy to the extent that it gives definite indications of the form it will take. Thus, this study is largely an...

This book explores the application of Scalia¿s textualism and originalism to education law and reflects upon Scalia¿s teachings and his pedagogy. Education law may seem to be an odd vehicle for considering Scalia¿s constitutional approach, but thinking about schools requires attention to political fundamentals¿freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, equality of opportunity, federalism, and the proper role of the expert. Legal scholars, p...

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History.

An exploration of the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Legal scholars describe how various Christian traditions, including Catholic, Calvinist and Anabaptist, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and striving.

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A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History.

Michael McConnell and Jack Baker are America’s first legally married gay couple. They were married in Minneapolis in September 1971 in a small ceremony officiated by a Methodist minister, with an official license issued by a rural Minnesota county. They met in 1966 in Norman, Oklahoma. In 2010, Michael retired from the Hennepin County Library and Jack retired from his careers in law and engineering. They live in Minneapolis. ¿Gail Langer Karwo...

As a learning tool, Pediatric Heart Sounds offers a unique interactive overview of cardiac auscultation. The book provides a review of the mechanisms behind the individual heart sounds. Pediatric Heart Sounds provides an additional learning tool for medical students and practitioners in preparation for future study or for integration into practical work experience with pediatric patients.

I am trying to share some lessons learned in life and corporate America so that others can avoid the same mistakes I made along the way and enjoy a more successful and balanced life. How did a regular guy competing around peers with the highest of educational pedigrees in the country rise to the top levels of corporate America? What skills did it take for him to earn millions of dollars working in a company rated "Most Innovative" by Fortune M...