This series on the treatment of cancer is sponsored by the UICC. The editors and authors feel strongly that more standar dization in cancer therapy is needed on a worldwide basis. This, of course, is only possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy of making their treatment designs available 'to practising oncologists all over the world. Current Treatment of Cancer discusses all the equipment and methods now in use in cancer therapy. It covers all types of cancer, th...

Oxireductases in the Enzymatic Synthesis of Water-Soluble Conducting Polymers, by E. Ochoteco and D. Mecerreyes*Transferases in Polymer Chemistry, by J. van der Vlist and K. Loos*Hydrolases Part I: Enzyme Mechanism, Selectivity and Control in the Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers, by M.A.J. Veld and A.R.A. Palmans*Hydrolases in Polymer Chemistry: Chemoenzymatic Approaches to Polymeric Materials, by A. Heise and A.R.A. Palmans*Hydr...

One letterTwo days to live.Too many suspects to fear.When Judy gets a death threat in the mail, she's shipped off to a secure location with strangers who received the same warning. Why them? They've got two days to figure it out, and what they have in common.As the clock ticks down, allies become potential traitors. The killer might be among them. Judy must push through her anxiety and uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim.

CVVH, CVVHD and CVVHDF: These terms will soon no longer be a "black box" for you! This book is aimed at physicians and nurses in intensive care units who want to both apply and understand continuous renal replacement procedures. Step-by-step, the functionalities and characteristics of all common renal replacement procedures, such as continuous veno-venous hemofiltration, hemodialysis, and hemodiafiltration, are explained in a comprehensible manner, and the clinical implications of the para...

The state of economics is poor: it has narrowed its focus to a viewpoint whose explanatory power was heavily questioned not only during the global financial crisis after 2007, but whose policy recommendations even enabled the crisis and exacerbated its consequences. Moreover, it seems unable to contribute much to solving the major environmental problems of our time. However, outside of mainstream economics, a critical perspective – heterodox economics – has developed, which rejects the bas...

**2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, HistoryThe gates of hell shall not prevail.**Decimated by war, revolution, and famine, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia was in critical condition in 1921. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution.Christi...

Since the financial crisis of 2008/09, the world’s major central banks have been struggling to return their economies to higher growth and to reach their inflation targets.This concise book analyzes the importance of central bank policies for the economy, and specifically investigates the reasons why they have failed to steer inflation as desired. The author, the Chief Economist at Allianz SE, argues that, in an environment of great uncertainty concerning the pass-through of monetar...

I Joey has always felt out of tune with the world.I Hear With My EyesJoey has always felt out of tune with the world.His teachers don't understand him. His classmates laugh at him. And every day feels like a struggle to fit in. But when Joey sits at the piano, everything changes. The music flows through him-strong, beautiful, and true. It's his safe place, his voice, and his gift.As melodies rise from the keys, Joey discovers someth...

In 1936 John Maynard Keynes published a book that he believed would revolutionise the way the world thinks about economic problems: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Although the book became the foundation of a particular approach to economic theorising – later termed macroeconomics, in contrast to the microeconomics of the Neoclassical school, which had just begun to dominate the discipline in the early decades of the 20th century – it can be argued that Keyn...

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism...

Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex (D-MER) is a unique condition experienced by lactating women, marked by a sudden onset of negative emotions just before the milk release, lasting only a few minutes. In the second edition of 'Before the Letdown: Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex and the Breastfeeding Mother,' Alia Macrina Heise, IBCLC, delves deeper into this phenomenon, offering eleven comprehensive chapters packed with valuable insights and support for mothers grappling with D-MER. This book n...