Three San Francisco traders become internet gambling pioneers after launching the first fully online sports book, but the fix is in as the professional sports leagues flex their muscle to game the system and turn its founders into fugitives, proving that no bet’s a sure thing.Before the Supreme Court unleashed legal sports betting with its 2018 landmark decision, an unlikely trio of traders from the Pacific Stock Exchange, took a huge gamble and wagered their lives...

Since the publication of the third edition of Geriatric Medicine,extraordinary advances have occurred in the science of aging and the potential for biomedical research to give us answers to many, if not most, of the age-related disorders that threaten the quality of life in older years. At the most basic level, the successful mapping of the human genome was declared complete in the fall of 2000. Understanding the map of the human genome is as important as understanding the map of genomes o...

Prostate Cancer Breakthroughs 2014 focuses on the new tests and safer new treatments that are revolutionizing prostate cancer care today -- with 52 new pages and 4 new chapters than the original PCB edition that has been #1 at Amazon for months. Today, 85% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer receive surgery or radiation, which often impair sexual and bladder function, yet only 15% really need these aggressive treatments. With the new tests, effective and safe newer treatments can often b...

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, devoted to Geriatric Oncology, is guest edited by Drs. Harvey J. Cohen and Arati V. Rao of Duke University Medical Center. Articles in this issue include: Cancer and Aging: General Principles, Biology and Geriatric Assessment; Cancer Screening in the Elderly; Cancer Survivorship: Management of Long-term Toxicities; Socioeconomic Considerations and Shared Care Models of Older Cancer Care; Palliative Care and Symptom Management; Management of Pros...

The risk of cancer increases with age, and the number of older adults seeking treatment is increasing dramatically in line with the aging population. The care of older patients differs from that of younger adults because of differences in the biology of the tumor, age-related differences in host physiology, comorbidity burden and psychosocial issues, which might impact the efficacy and side effects of cancer therapy. Practical Geriatric Oncology is a comprehensive, evidence-based text that...

The discovery of a long lost spaceship transporting an experimental quantum device ignites a system-wide power struggle.Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.Yet once word of the crew’s disc...

An avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest—then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa’s existence in the house and the only one responsible for her fate.By turns disturbing and blackly comic, Christine Leunens’s captivating and masterful novel examines this world of truth and lie...

The discovery of a long lost spaceship transporting an experimental quantum device ignites a system-wide power struggle.Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.However, once word of the crew’s...

About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney’s all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn’t always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.

It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds.In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects ...

Come closer, friend. Let me tell you a story.Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these—...

Corruption runs rampant even in a not-so-distant future where the biggest lottery is rigged so that the only winners are rich and white.In a world that has been ravaged by a destructive alien attack, an opportunity for a lifetime of riches in exchange for serving as consort to one of the alien defenders is indeed a great prize. Down on her luck, Karma will be the first Black consort, despite believing that being an alien's whore is only slightly better than being o...