This enlightening book was written to help educate readers about soft tissue sarcomas. Sarcomas are found in muscle, cartilage, skeletal muscle, tendons, veins and arteries, skin, nerves, fat, and bone. A better understanding of the cancer of soft tissues will make it easier for patients and their loved ones to first deal—and then, ultimately, successfully live—with it. The book starts by explaining what soft tissues are, how cancers can develop in them, and why the cancers occur in the fi...

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing methods and tools consistent across spatial scales to ensure the convergence of outcomes towards ...

Winner of the 2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Prize for Edited VolumeImage by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at food’s connection to Instagram...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new ...

What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the twenty-first century?This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical evolution from the French Revolution to the present day. Michael Newman argues that socialism has always been a diverse doctrine, while nevertheless containing a central core of interconnected values and goals: a critique of capitalism; an optimistic view of human bein...

Digital minimalism: a guide to conscious digital livingAbout the book:In a world where screen time has become an integral part of our daily lives, "Digital Minimalism" offers a groundbreaking approach to taking back control of our digital existence. This book is not just a guide to reducing distractions; it's a deep dive into a philosophy based on conscious choices and true quality of life in the digital era.Why this book mat...

An alien ship crashed into Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the ice…until glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day.Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has taken charge. But not before something escaped through a breach in the hull.Meanwhile, a pair of Alaska state troopers locate a missing Amazon...

What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines reconciliation with accountability?In this book, Michael Newman accessibly introduces these debates, outlining the key ideas and giving an overview of the vast literature by reference to case studies in such places as South Africa, Cambodia and Sierra Leone. While recognising that every situation is different, he argues that is vital to contend fully ...

May 1945In the dying days of WW II on the American occupied side of Germany’s Elbe River, US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer comes upon the shot-up wreck of a smouldering SS Staff car, with a badly injured driver, nearby a dead German Army officer carrying the ID of a Nazi war criminal, and a young blonde woman, also dead in the back seat.July 1988Art curator Daniel Singer, the adopted son of Colonel Singer receives a mysterious package—a large brown envelo...

What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical evolution from the French Revolution to the present day. Michael Newman argues that socialism has always been a diverse doctrine, while nevertheless containing a central core of interconnected values and goals: a critique of capitalism; an optimistic view of human beings; and the bel...

Arranged and transcribed for guitar duet by Michael Oltman and Laura Newman, here are 15 pieces by virtuoso pianist and composer Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909). Includes the complete selections from Albeniz suites, Cantos de Espana and Suite Espanola in their original form and keys retaining the essence of the piano scores. The book includes the score, first guitar part and second guitar part.

A team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien speciesAn alien ship crashed into Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the ice … until glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day.Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has tak...