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This volume on pediatric retina covers all aspects of pediatric retinal diseases as their understanding, diagnosis and management is still under evolution and a challenging task. Newer diagnostic and surgical techniques are being developed and are being adapted for better visual outcome in pediatric cases. It comprises of 10 chapters describing the medical and surgical aspects. The text and figures have been provided in a lucid manner to enhan...

This volume on pediatric retina covers all aspects of pediatric retinal diseases as their understanding, diagnosis and management is still under evolution and a challenging task. Newer diagnostic and surgical techniques are being developed and are being adapted for better visual outcome in pediatric cases. It comprises of 10 chapters describing the medical and surgical aspects. The text and figures have been provided in a lucid manner to enhan...

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One family, two very differerent worlds.When same sex marriage is approved in Australia, Sydney lawyer Justin Wong calls home and turns his mother Madeline's world upside down. Madeline is a respected society matron and a church elder in her hometown, Tenangan. Born into poverty, she is a Malaysian success story. Meanwhile, Justin has fought his own battles as gay Asian man to rise to the top of his profession and finally find love. When Madel...

Ein einfaches Leben hat Ah Tao als Hausmädchen der Familie Leung über 60 Jahre lang geführt. Von den fünf Generationen, die sie mit großgezogen hat, ist nur mehr Filmproduzent Roger in Hongkong verblieben. Doch auch von jenem muss Tao sich trennen, als sie infolge eines Schlaganfalls in ein Altenheim verlegt wird. Für die in Würde gealterte Dame ein echter Neuanfang.

Ein einfaches Leben hat Ah Tao als Hausmädchen der Familie Leung über 60 Jahre lang geführt. Von den fünf Generationen, die sie mit großgezogen hat, ist nur mehr Filmproduzent Roger in Hongkong verblieben. Doch auch von jenem muss Tao sich trennen, als sie infolge eines Schlaganfalls in ein Altenheim verlegt wird. Für die in Würde gealterte Dame ein echter Neuanfang.

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Paul Chan's monumental projection Sade for Sade's Sake takes the work of the notorious pornographer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), as a departure point for a nearly six-hour-long rhythmic study of bodily ecstasy and bodily repetition. Chan brilliantly renders the foremost quality of Sade's pornography--its fanatical appetite not just for the identifying of sexual possibilities, but for their enumeration and classification--a...

The growing interest within the construction industry in future scenario planning has not always corresponded with an understanding of how futures thinking is shaped in policy-making. Constructing Futures: industry leaders and futures thinking in construction takes a thematic approach to the future of the UK construction industry. It presents the results of a series of in-depth interviews conducted with leading construction figures and then s...

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A provocative dialogue about art as a form of wrongdoingOne of Plato's most controversial dialogues, Hippias Minor details Socrates' claims that there is no difference between a person who tells the truth and one who lies, and that the good man is the one who willingly makes mistakes and does wrong. But what if Socrates wasn't merely championing the act of lying--as the dialogue has been traditionally interpreted--but, rather, advocating the p...

Inspiring tips, techniques and projects for transforming paper into folded works of art.

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Orphan Christopher Columbus Wong invents a family for himself against a backdrop of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, in this novel by a founding figure in Asian American studies.