This book offers easy access to the everyday ethics problems that occur in the medical care of children. It contains practical guidance on how physicians and other healthcare practitioners may manage both straightforward and complex ethics problems. The book provides a readable and comprehensive introduction to ethics issues for beginners and is also extremely valuable to experienced practitioners.This work covers important "classical" ethical issues such as privacy, confidentiality, truth...

Our brains do amazing things: they determine our actions, our thoughts, and our feelings. We may not always realize it, but the brain is central to the way we experience life. So what happens when brain circuits break? What are the consequences for our behavior and personality?From Parkinson’s disease to Tourette’s syndrome and depression to psychopathy, Broken Brains reveals the mysteries of brain function—and dysfunction. In this no-nonsense introduction, Ian Mitchell ta...

The system is killing us, and Charley Leibowitz can feel it in his bones. His childhood is plagued with an adult-level awareness of America's prevailing culture and its incredible destruction, but as a suburban kid entirely dependent on his parents, what can he do? Charley weaves through school with a photographic memory, little desire to make friends, a hefty crush on Tabitha Gardner, and a burning desire for things to be different. But when he shows other students they can break out of t...

Solomon Roth is a homeless crypto-animator and freestyle rapper inhabiting an alley in Venice Beach. Everything he touches turns to chaos. His soon-to-be-lover's father is a ruthless record label executive handling top tier artists that either can't seem to control themselves or have targets on their backs. From not- so-casual infidelity with interns to Twitter-inflated accusations of sexual harassment to run-ins with the Italian Mafia; from high-caliber rappers to philosophical drug deale...

With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of Glasgow and its history, in a small way trying to boost the esteem in which such places are held by the people who live in there and by those who visit. Moving away slightly from the working class...

In this updated third edition of the successful and definitive nursing textbook, Nursing Practice is designed to support the student throughout the entire nursing degree. Structured around the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and the latest Standards for Education, it explores a range of clinical and professional issues that the student will need to know in one complete and accessible volume.Written by a number of expert practitioners and academics who are pas...

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic crime writer'Basil Boothroyd's quietly comic classic' Gillian Reynolds, The TelegraphGerald C Potter is the proud author of Death in the Arboretum, described by the Bournemouth Echo as 'well-written'. He works hard on his books, and worries about every comma, adjective and unfortunate typo: but somehow, he never seems to get very much done. However, his wife and f...

This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and cultural trends in the region.Following an introduction that offers the first theoret...

Take a creative journey into self discovery, as you are taught by the Holy Spirit and Jesus to deal with the baggage you pick up along life's journey. During this book you will be entering a society similar to ours, only the act of self discovery is formalized by an organization known as FOYL (Flight of Your Life). Generations of young people have embarked on this journey, where FOYL sends them to distant lands to discover their talents, abilities and futures. However little do you know th...

This book comprehensively presents all the necessary information health professionals need to become Certified Asthma Educators. Competent asthma educators must possess a number of skills: they must have appropriate and sound medical and pharmaceutical knowledge; be proficient and effective educators who can influence their patients’ behaviors for the better; and, finally, they need the administrative and organizational skills needed to set up and run efficient clinics at their places of w...

This is the story of the adventures of Stobcross Gentlemen's Climbing Club. Against all the odds thrown up by the Scottish weather, faulty map reading and the symptoms of physical decline, they strove to maintain the fine traditions of Scottish mountaineering. They battled through their Munros and Corbetts whilst valiantly trying to celebrate Burns' Night, Guy Fawkes Night and Hogmanay in a ritual calendar of the Scottish Hills. Alongside these adventures are explorations of a different ki...

God seeks real relationship. He is not a religion, He is not an idol... He is love. As Christians, we need to learn how to hear and recognize His voice. The Lord can do amazing, awesome things.. if we would just step out and listen. Listening is not easy. It's normal to feel crazy at times, but it is so worth it. Just as in demonstrated in the book of 1 Samuel, we need to be instructed how to recognize God's voice. Sometimes this instruction is from the Holy Spirit himself, however others ...