How prepared are you to guide your baby through the first and most important year of his life?There's nothing quite like a baby's first months of life, as they are arguably the ones that will have the most impact throughout their entire development.First-time parents and veterans agree that the first year can be one of the most challenging stages to face.Here's some of what you can expect to learn inside the pages of this book:How to properly feed your...

The first book to introduce computer architecture for security and provide the tools to implement secure computer systemsThis book provides the fundamentals of computer architecture for security. It covers a wide range of computer hardware, system software and data concepts from a security perspective. It is essential for computer science and security professionals to understand both hardware and software security solutions to survive in the workplace.

Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons to be learned from its successes and complications. With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente, establishing the partnership was not a sim...

Lyme disease remains a subject of considerable public and clinical interest, and misunderstandings about Lyme borreliosis continue to cause widespread concern about potential long-term disability. Although the infection occurs primarily in highly endemic areas of Europe and North America, these areas are expanding, as global warming leads to a steady expansion of the tick vectors' habitats. In the period since the 2nd edition was published our understanding of the biology, clinical manifes...

Finding the right criteria to use when judging Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is essential if it is to stand up to criticism from those concerned about the importance of evidence-based medicine. This edited volume highlights how CAM requires different research tools and techniques from conventional medicine, and examines effective methodologies for accurately assessing CAM.Addressing a problem which is often cited as the reason for a failure to appreciate the potentia...

Asleep (Drifting) Book One is a raw, unflinching autobiographical journey into the life of Robert Paul––a young boy born into chaos, shaped by trauma, and forced to survive in a world that offers little protection and even less understanding. Inspired by true events, this powerful coming-of-age story exposes the brutal realities of child abuse, neglect, and adolescent delinquency, while revealing the resilience buried deep within the human spirit.Set in the 1970s and 1980s, the sto...

Are You a Believer in Fanciful Things? In Pirates and Dragons and Creatures and Kings?Then sit yourself down in a comfortable seat, with maybe some cocoa and something to eat, and I’ll spin you the tale of Katrina Katrell, a girl full of courage (and daring, as well!), who down in the subway, under the ground, saw something fantastical roaming around. . . .What was it she saw? I’d rather not say. (Who’s ever heard of a Zorgle, anyway?)But if you are curious, clever ...

In Unwinding the Serpent reincarnated beings are charged with gathering vital information from generation to generation so that the human species may continue to evolve naturally. But when a sinister plot to enslave the inhabitants of Earth under an alien Draconian thumb comes to light, our heroes must journey across time to save the human race. Does the human soul leave its imprint on our DNA? If so, can the soul's imprint be traced throughout time? The avatars of Unwinding the Serpent ar...

Puggly, the newly crowned prince of the muddy (and very unfashionable) Kingdom of Spud, is surprised when he receives an invitation to a lavish ball in the oh-so-chic Kingdom of Spiff. The Spiffians are known for the poshest clothes and the fluffiest wigs, so of course Prince Puggly's effort at a grand entrance only ends in humiliation. However, Puggly discovers an unlikely ally in Francesca, the bookish Princess of Spiff. Not only do her Spiffian countrymen have no appreciation for her in...

2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Scripture – Academic StudiesThe striking scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’s head with his own sword in his own bed has inspired the imaginations of readers for millennia. But there is more to her story than just this climactic act and more to her character than just beauty and violence. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of gender ideologies in the book of Judith, from the hyper-masculine...

Bring a cultural-studies toolkit to bear on the world's most interpreted textThe study of the Bible has adapted to the full range of analytical tools available to theologians, scholars, and researchers of every stripe. The marriage between cultural studies and Biblical studies has been especially fruitful, increasingly producing rich and provocative engagements with Biblical texts and contexts. Students of the Bible stand to profit significantly from a volume which...