Practical. In-depth. Invaluable. A guide to the diagnosis of tumors and tumorlike lesions of bone and soft tissue using MRI. This unique encyclopedic guide takes the same approach you apply in clinical practice. It features fully illustrated differential diagnosis tables organized according to MRI findings and the locations of tumors. An in-depth reference section provides information on each lesion. In addition, almost 3000 high quality images make this practical text an invaluable tool i...

In the gray hues of Seattle, two men, Steven and Scott, are locked in a perilous journey beyond the law's reach. Entangled in a world of bank heists and fleeting loyalties, they chase redemption in a society relentless in pursuit. Amid adrenaline-fueled escapades and moral dilemmas, their kinship deepens, culminating in an unexpected bond. The tale traces their odyssey against the unforgiving backdrop of the law, culminating in the tragic end of Hollywood, a man who lived and died on his o...

A unique, easy-to-use, and definitive guide to diagnostic spine imagingAuthored by renowned neuro-radiologist Steven P. Meyers, Differential Diagnosis in Neuroimaging: Spine is a stellar guide for identifying and diagnosing cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine anomalies based on location and neuroimaging results. The succinct text reflects more than 25 years of hands-on experience gleaned from advanced training and educating residents and fellows i...

This book collects plays written by Steven Key Meyers. His 1994 take on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year was a dramatic response to the AIDS epidemic.. The one-man play Chesterfield to His Son, adapting that forbidding nobleman's famous Letters, is an antic-and painfully accurate-dissection of a father's love for his son. Dr. Knox and Mr. Banner examines same-sex desire in 19th-century London and the stories people tell themselves about what m...

Springtime in Siena offers an exciting pair of faux memoirs-two period takes on American ways of growing up, sharply rendered stories that rush with verve and wit to opposite endings.Springtime in Siena follows a hungry young academic leading a semester-abroad group to Tuscany in 1974. Gary sleeps with students of both sexes while mulling the coming post-Watergate, post-Viet Nam era. Coldly modifying his own voracious appetite, he winds up with everything...

That's My Story tells two tales. The first-The Last Posse-is set in 1922 west Texas. Sheriff Jim Groves leads a posse by automobile and horseback after the famous outlaw Frank Holloway. At the same time, Jim's father's grave is opened and his body snatched, apparently to prove an inheritance of Manhattan's notorious billion-dollar Edwards Estate. Narrating is Jim's 12-year-old nephew Bing, who will be tasked with saving the day. (The Last Posse is inspired by the...

"Comedy is the rock and roll of the Eighties!" proclaims Rolling Stone, and right away Rex Black-who owns New York's hottest comedy club, the Gag Reflex-realizes the zeitgeist is going to make him rich: Records! TV! Movies! A national chain! Selling stock!And indeed it rockets Rex on a wonderful trip, along with his wife Perri, A&R Joey, club booker Ashley, club manager Conor and, as his own assistant, Conor's partner Frank. Wall Street titan Siggy Brewst...

Celebrity kidnappings always breed rumors that the victim is complicit. In the 1934 Lucie Spode White kidnapping case, the rumors are true.Falls City's sexy Depression belle is a high-living heiress whose husband expects her to get by on her pin money. Only 25, she won't come into her inheritance until she turns 30! Generous-if ruthless-with her favors, when she can't raise the cash for a room at a hot-pillow motel, Lucie enlists her handsome young lover Harry Thrall in a scheme to...

Even after 13-year-old Max's spinal surgery leaves him paralyzed and on a ventilator, his prognosis for a full recovery is good-so long as he gets to rehabilitation promptly for the physical therapy he needs.But his insurance company's demand for a hefty copay grounds the air ambulance to rehab when Max's parents (Kate and Luther, with him in New York) and grandparents (Archie and Charlotte, holding down the fort in Louisville) refuse to be extorted. Even as the insurance company's...

A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty—and profoundly true—takes on American life.In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy’s womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President’s sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job—...

Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on Am...

A unique, easy-to-use, and definitive guide to diagnostic spine imagingAuthored by renowned neuro-radiologist Steven P. Meyers, Differential Diagnosis in Neuroimaging: Spine is a stellar guide for identifying and diagnosing cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine anomalies based on location and neuroimaging results. The succinct text reflects more than 25 years of hands-on experience gleaned from advanced training and educating residents and fellows i...