Since the respiratory airways branch to all parts of the lungs and ready access is provided through the nose or mouth, exploration of these passages for direct visualization or tissue sampling has long been a clinical challenge. This would be particularly helpful in diagnosing those pulmonary diseases that involve the bronchial tree or affect the surrounding lung parenchyma which prove difficult to diagnose or define by indirect methods. The pioneering efforts of Chevalier Jackson in 1918,...

Negotiate your way through any deal!In today's fast-paced business environment, where a single e-mail exchange can make or break your career, it's important that you know how to clearly and effectively discuss an agreement's terms in person as well as online. The Only Negotiation Book You'll Ever Need guides you through every stage of the process--from identifying opportunities to closing the deal--with useful negotiation techniques and tips for adapting c...

Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political expansion.In The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the composition o...

The deep-time account of all existenceearths skin, which is vibrantly alive in the whispered heartbeats of outcrops, glaciers, and mountainsis stored quietly in the DNA structure of Homo sapiens. My essays emphasize these deep push-and-pull memories that have vanished from our present-day mind-set. My hope is that this book will embolden some readers to resurrect the glow of earths deep time.

The worldwide increase in population has led to numerous innovative approaches to the difficulties posed by food production and agriculture in general. New Technologies for Constructing Complex Agricultural and Environmental Systems presents high-quality research on the design and implementation of information systems in the fields of agronomics, mathematics, economics, computer science, and the environment. This book gives holistic approaches to the design, development, and implementation...

THE GROWTH OF TRUTH SUMMARY From the time she could barely walk, Debbie Raymond-Pinet has seen first hand the spectral world that surrounds all of us. She has been witness to out of body experiences and she has visited the Other Side to return to the physical world after witnessing the halcyon of heaven and the entities of hell, including a physical beating that nearly killed her. Her mission is to share what she knows and to reveal what waits beyond this earth so that the readers of this ...

This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor´s Dilemma, the theory of legal fictions and the categorization of contracts. The unifying problematic of these contributions concerns the conditional structures and, more particularly, the relat...

The integration of recent technological advances into modern business processes has allowed for greater efficiency and productivity. However, while such improvements are immensely beneficial, the modeling and coordination of these activities offers a unique set of challenges that must be addressed. Automated Enterprise Systems for Maximizing Business Performance is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the modeling and application of automated business systems. Fe...

Airline pilots often have to face sudden, unexpected situations that can become potentially dangerous. They are trained to deal with these situations, but sometimes the lack of time before the situation deteriorates and the associated stress can compromise their basic cognitive sequence and lead to a serious incident or even an accident. This book identifies common denominators in pilots’ reactions to dangerous, unexpected events and highlights behavior common to all in complex, stressful ...

**Do you want to clinch a sale? Get a better salary? Make a terrific deal on a new house?Then get ready to negotiate!Your life is all about bargaining--everything from setting a price with a vendor at work to talking to your teenager at home about an allowance.** Experienced negotiators have a huge advantage in these discussions, because they know what words and phrases work. And you can join their ranks.Here's your essential guide to what to say at each stage of th...

What's the one thing you can do to improve both your business and personal life? Learn to negotiate. Negotiating effectively is the key to getting what you want when you want it. Negotiate well, and you maintain control in any situation, at home or at work. From purchasing a home and asking for a raise to compromising with spouses and children, The Everything Negotiating Book takes you step by step through the negotiating process, enabling you to:Communicate your goa...

In recent years, the role of information and communications technologies in the development of agriculture and environmental issues has received significant attention in different types of international forums. With new technologies constantly developing, there is a need for research dedicated to technological progress. Innovations and Trends in Environmental and Agricultural Informatics provides emerging research on the design, development, and implementation of complex agricultural and e...