The Dictionary of Basilian Biography contains 632 biographical entries on the members of the Congregation of Saint Basil who died in the years between 1822, when the congregation was founded, and 2002. The dictionary presents the personal background, education, and various appointments as well as the character, talents, and bibliography of each member, while defining the contribution of each in the educational or pastoral work of the Basilian Fathers. This heritage belongs not onl...

Netherfield Park is abuzz with the shocking news of Mr. Collins's proposal to one of the Bennet daughters. Mr. Bingley fears the worst, believing his lady love is the gentleman's choice. His friend, Mr. Darcy, is equally alarmed. Immerse yourself in this enchanting holiday novella to discover Darcy's reason why.

The impact of anthropogenic activities on our atmospheric environment is of growing public concern and satellite-based techniques now provide an essential component of observational strategies on regional and global scales. The purpose of this book is to summarise the state of the art in the field in general, while describing both key techniques and findings in particular. It opens with an historical perspective of the field together with the basic principles of remote sensing from space. ...

The Handbook of Hospital Medicine was originally conceived by Dr Mitchell as a guide for junior medical staff working in his own unit. Its aim was to provide a practical pocket-sized guide on diagnosis, investigation, and general management of some of the more common medical problems. The success of the original book in Dr Mitchell's unit lead to its introduction in other units and hospitals and through the help of Johnson and Johnson to junior hospital doctors throughout South Africa. We ...

Comparative effectiveness research has become essential for shaping regulatory policy, informing economic evaluations, and guiding treatment standardization across healthcare systems worldwide. While traditional randomized controlled trials remain the cornerstone of evidence generation, they have important limitations when treatment effects are heterogeneous. In practice, patients often respond differently to the same intervention due to differences in demographics, genetics, comorbidities...

This book gathers the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA 2020). The areas covered include: Instrumentation and Control, Automation, Autonomous Systems, Biomechatronics and Rehabilitation Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics, Social Robotics and Humanoid Robotics, Sensors and Actuators, and Machine Vision, as well as Signal and Image Processing. As a valuable asset, the book offers researcher...

An interdisciplinary excavation of colonoware as a material archive of African, Indigenous, and colonial entanglements across the early American South.In Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay, Jon Bernard Marcoux, Corey A. H. Sattes, and contributors examine colonoware to explore the active roles that African Americans and Indigenous people played in constructing southern colonial culture and part of their shared history with Europeans.

The Beasts of Nightmares: 40 Monster Books surveys the protean figure of the monster across Gothic romance, supernatural terror, scientific fantasy, imperial adventure, detective fiction, and folkloric tale. Its capacious selection places revenants, vampires, uncanny doubles, prehistoric survivals, artificial beings, and exoticized creatures in productive proximity. From claustrophobic castle narratives to expeditionary romances and speculative visions, the volume reveals how monstrousness...

Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen interest.Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive.His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteor...

A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind.Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw's father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival's privately-run prison, HRO22.Now Mason is following in his father's footsteps — he's an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag.Chamber Therapy promises ...

This latest collaboration of Carolyn V. Platt and Gary Meszaros is a beautifully photographed book that explores Lake Erie and its effects on the birds that make this region their home.Birds of the Lake Erie Region observes a year of weather changes and avian migrations—from the wintertime convergence of ducks and other waterbirds on the lake’s last ice-free areas to the excitement of the raptor and shorebird migrations in the fall.Expert or novice, birders and nat...

In the world of internet legends, time traveler John Titor is the ultimate prize.Idealistic filmmaker Ramon Jimenez is stuck shooting mundane reality shows when he longs to create documentaries that change the world. But needing to keep food on the table has put his ambitions on hold…Until Ramon spots a broken-down car linked to John Titor, an infamous internet legend who, at the turn of the century, claimed to be a time traveler from 2036. This could be th...