The prequel to ENGLE BYEN: A PLACE TO CALL HOME finds Michael living in his penthouse apartment in a leafy inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. After the unsolved murder of his identical twin brother, Zac, he embarks on a quest to find the killer. Michael's usual happy-go-lucky personality is put to the test in a series of incidents of mistaken identity.A bright light amongst all the grief and confusion is Paul, his parents' gardener. Mi...
What do you do when your life unravels and your best attempts at living utterly fail? Do you listen to the suggestions of others, and to the voices that come from within? In "From My Whispers", the author shares honestly of his life story. At rock-bottom confusion, he begins an adventure into manhood. Along his travels the author opens himself to new theories of life from fascinating mentors, while struggling to reconcile with the voices comin...
This book is intended as a definitive, state of the art guide to robotic surgery that summarizes the field for surgeons at all levels. More specifically, its goals are threefold: to review the basics of robotic surgery, including fundamental principles, technology, operating room setup, and workflow, to describe and illustrate the procedures most commonly performed in a robotic operating room, and to discuss key issues relating to cost, adopti...
This unique and comprehensive text discusses the main causes of posterior hip pathology and recent advances in evaluation and treatment of those conditions, including posterior hip pain caused by discogenic, intrapelvic and extrapelvic disorders. Opening with description of the specific anatomy and biomechanics of the posterior hip and the etiology of hip disease, the next few chapters superbly discuss and illustrate the clinical, psychologica...
This book is a state of the art clinical guide to contemporary materials and techniques for the restoration of individual teeth and implants. It fully reflects the important developments in the field over the past 15 years, including in particular the shift away from wholesale use of crowns towards adhesive dentistry and less invasive extra-coronal restorations. The book opens by considering the principles and evidence base relating to the lon...
This book shows how supervisory control theory (SCT) supports the formulation of various control problems of standard types, like the synthesis of controlled dynamic invariants by state feedback, and the resolution of such problems in terms of naturally definable control-theoretic concepts and properties, like reachability, controllability and observability. It exploits a simple, abstract model of controlled discrete-event systems (DES) that h...
Die Texte dieses Buches stammen aus dem dritten Band der "Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" von Theodor Fontane, erstmals 1870 veröffentlicht. Die in diesem Buch so anschaulich beschriebenen Orte besuchte er im Sommer 1869. Fontane gibt uns einen plauderhaften Einblick in die Geschichte der heutigen Gemeinden Schwielowsee und Werder (Havel).
This book is a comprehensive exposition of the theory, algorithms, and applications of structured low-rank approximation. Local optimization methods and effective suboptimal convex relaxations for Toeplitz, Hankel, and Sylvester structured problems are presented. A major part of the text is devoted to application of the theory with a range of applications from systems and control theory to psychometrics being described. Special knowledge of th...
What's worse than a city under siege?An irritating father on a power trip.I may have spent my entire life wishing I could have my father back, but now that he's here he can just head right back to where he came from.He just won't shut up about broken sights and Drak traditions and things that I can't possibly understand. Mostly because he refused to tell me about them.Thank god, Ilyan thinks he's as much of a quack as I do. Well maybe not a qu...
In his first two novels BLOOD DICE and THE RED JEWEL, acclaimed thriller writer Frank Julius took us to the dark side of the international hotel and casino business. Corrupt Labor Unions, The Russian Mafia, and KGB/CIA agents facing off with hotel moguls Eldon and Kimberley Davis sworn to operate their empire with world class service and integrity.INN-FORMATION takes the reader to a new level of intrigue and heart-pounding adventure.It has alm...
My d*ck never got me in half as much trouble as my heart...We were high school sweethearts. I was head over heels for her and no one could tell me we weren't going to last forever. College? Going pro? My family's money? None of it mattered. She was all I needed.Then she ripped my heart out. But I'm not going to let that happen again. She's back. Invading my life and acting like she was the wronged one. The pain is still there, but I can't keep...