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This midwife's handbook is designed to provide practicing nurse midwives and obstetric nurses with quick access to important clinical information. It is a comprehensive reference that offers brief overviews of pregnancy, the intrapartum and postpartum periods, as well as gynecological and medical conditions that impact childbearing.

Reviews the current state of knowledge of neutrino masses and the related question of neutrino oscillations. After an overview of the theory of neutrino masses and mixings, detailed accounts are given of the laboratory limits on neutrino masses, astrophysical and cosmological constraints on those masses, experimental results on neutrino oscillations, the theoretical interpretation of those results, and theoretical models of neutrino masses and...

This 2003 book examines China's militarism, concluding that today's leaders may use force more readily than their predecessors.

Ethics in Engineering Design - based on papers presented at the International Engineering and Product Design Education Conference, IE&PDE, 2023 - provides that platform and addresses the full spectrum of design education.

Michael Karol, the author of "Lucy A to Z, " has done it again! "Lucy in Print" digs deep to give Lucy fans (and who isn't one?) a unique look at Lucille Ball, her TV shows, and her co-stars, as reported by the press over the past 60 years. With commentary and analysis by the author, and visit to Lucy's birthplace in Jamestown, NY, and two lost plays about" I Love Lucy"!

A sequel to Under My Hat, Another Hat finds Lettie as mayor of Denata, her small town. She is elected by a write-in vote while on her honeymoon. Having worked many years as a hair stylist, Lettie is not a politician and has no knowledge of how to lead a community. But she is a hard worker and a fast learner, and she quickly informs herself of the town's needs. Then she begins to recommend changes.Changes pose a threat to the contented communit...

This dog tale is different. It is told by a dog and is a simple but moving account of the life and adventures of little Eloise, "La Piccola Pooch, " the little poodle. Little Eloise changed hands in a relatively short time. With this new owner she came to know love, friendship, warmth and a lot of fun. A tale for dogs and dog lovers.

_The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in the Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a Machiavellian fiend, plots abound, and virtue is in peril. Shimmering just beyond the horizon is the land of Branlon, the country of minor poets, a refuge from the treachery and danger of politics and power. A satirical romance in the best Cabe...

_The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in the Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a Machiavellian fiend, plots abound, and virtue is in peril. Shimmering just beyond the horizon is the land of Branlon, the country of minor poets, a refuge from the treachery and danger of politics and power. A satirical romance in the best Cabe...

An entry in the classic Kai Lung series.

David Lindsay (1874-1945) was a successful British businessman who turned to writing after the first World War. Unfortunately, his most famous work, A Voyage to Arcturus, proved to be a commercial disaster at the time of its release, and he spent the rest of his writing career struggling to achieve commercial success, with little result. A Voyage to Arcturus is a remarkable book on many levels. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy calls it "dazzlingly ...

Controversy, passion, and a totally new viewpoint are what Raoul Lowery Contreras brought to more than 200 American newspapers in 1988 when Washington, D.C.'s Hispanic Link distributed his inaugural Op-Ed columns.Contreras is so controversial and passionate that his views draw pain, rage, attacks, complaints and compliments from myriad critics and friends.During a one hour radio program, he was called a "paid agent of the CIA, " a "Sandinista ...

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In the collegiate teaching environment, you meet many interesting teachers, students, and administrators. Situations arise that can be happy, sad (even, tragic), confrontational, sexual (explicit, mostly), and surprising, sometimes all at once!

An adoptee's search for identity takes her on a journey from Minnesota to Korea and back as she seeks to resolve the dualities that have long-defined her life: Korean-born, American-raised, never fully belonging to either.

This handbook breaks down key information on cultivating bonsai into 101 easy-to-grasp tips and gives quick answers to all gardener's questions.

Chapter by chapter, the working writers who wrote this book share the concrete details of the writing life....What you read in these pages is what you would hear working writers talk about over coffee or cocktails."--Samuel G. Freedman, prize-winning author and associate dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, from the "Foreword

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Mike Rejest is a dedicated Special Agent for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is responsible for the Southwest region and has over 35 law enforcement officers reporting to him. Over the past year, however, he has detected an ominous trend developing. It appears as if an environmental terrorist may be operating from somewhere in the 4-state territory Rejest oversees. Cattle barons have been executed in the ...

The Wallet of Kai Lung was a thing made deliberately, in hard material and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humour by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention, in the English tongue. It was meant to produce a certain effect of philosophy and at the same time it was meant to produce a certain completed interest of fiction, of relation, of a short epic. It did all these things. . . . It is one ...