The significant healthcare burden represented by skin disorders, combined with the relative scarcity of information sources aimed at non-dermatologist physicians, makes the treatment of skin conditions a challenge for primary care.This new edition continues with the intention of addressing this challenge with clear, concise, and up-to-date information on the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of dermatological diseases from a primary care perspective.All chapters ha...

A desperate man. A mysterious fortune. A bride waiting beyond death.Lima, 1930. Ruined by debt and standing on the edge of suicide, Alistair Ashcroft receives an impossible offer from a stranger: fifteen thousand soles in exchange for a single night and a marriage unlike any other.What begins as a desperate bargain soon draws him into a world where grief, secrets, and ancient promises refuse to remain buried. As the boundaries between life and death grow increasingly uncert...

Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the Euro Area had what it takes to become an optimal currency area. The onset of the crisis in 2010 confirmed challenges in its construction that many had partly predicted. But has the Euro Area changed over time, and what key drivers are necessary to strengthen it in the future?This is the third of three volumes that use optimal currency area theory and applied econometric techniques to provide a compact analysis of the Euro Ar...

Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

Some men fake their death and disappear cleanly. Julian Whitmore was not that kind of man.Set against the gray skies and cold water of Point Roberts, Washington, in the early 1970s, this novel follows a calculated act of deception that unravels in ways its architect never anticipated. Julian Whitmore is charming, intelligent, and entirely without conscience — the kind of man who plans everything down to the last detail and believes that the dead, like the past, stay where you put t...

Glastenbury, Vermont, 1936. Three women murdered in a single month, each with the same clean cut across the throat and a different piece of themselves missing. A local constable who knows everyone in town and can't find the killer. A medical examiner who discovers something during an autopsy that frightens him enough to board a night train to Boston without telling anyone why.He never arrives.What follows is an investigation that moves on two tracks — a state detective sent...

A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designerKarl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and wisdom amused and informed the world. Yet despite a massively public persona, his hinterland remained unknown. What is the truth behind this larger-than-life but enigmatic figure?The journalist and fashion specialist Alfons Kaiser me...

Ardence by Ruben Alfons is a profound poetic journey through the inner landscapes of identity, struggle, and the quiet power of virtue. It does not offer answers—it invites awakening. Each poem is a flame in the dark, a chisel against silence, a step through the fire of self-knowledge. The book speaks to the reader who seeks meaning not in comfort, but in truth. It dares you to examine your wounds, question your strength, and carry your light through the storm. If you long for words that b...