In the sun-drenched, high-stakes world of Scottsdale AZ, secrets are the only thing more expensive than the real estate.Margaret Claire Russell, Maggie to her friends, has almost everything—a trust fund, a designer wardrobe, and a loyal boyfriend, J, who is constantly away on business more often than he's home. She travels to meet him for a passionate rendezvous, but they are far and few between. In the quiet heat of the Arizona desert, boredom is a dangerous thing.When her...

Former rising college baseball star Ryan Jacobs thought his life was set until a devastating injury sidelined his career for good. Trading his bat for a suit, Ryan lands a job at a prestigious accounting firm and gets assigned to his very first big client: the Delta Tau Phi sorority house. Expecting a routine audit of books and spreadsheets, Ryan walks through the front door only to find himself surrounded by stunning, provocative women who are far more interested in negotiating "liquid as...

In a city fueled by corporate ambition and a legendary "hook-up" culture, roommates Mindy, Jenn, and Cece navigate the fast-paced world of their high-end firms and vibrant nightlife. Their regular post-work gatherings at a favorite local hangout, Chloe's, frequently evolve into wild nights out, testing boundaries and shifting perspectives on romance and casual encounters. When a corporate meet-and-greet brings new faces into the mix, the trio finds themselves drawn into a web of temptation...

Twenty-something Ceyla "Cece" Sanchez is doing her best to navigate the fast-paced world of a bustling city, balancing her office job with a complicated personal life. Living in a cramped apartment with her boyfriend, Trey, and his roommates, she feels a quiet resignation as the spark in her one-year relationship fades into routine. But while Cece is contemplating whether she is settling for a life that doesn't truly fulfill her, her adventurous new friends and potential roommates Jenn and...

This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska’s pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how science and biological fieldwork has been carried out in Alaska in the last sixty years. This book tells the stories of how Klein did his science and the inspiration behind the research, while exposing the thinking that underlies particular scientifi...

Stay current with the latest advances and clinical applications of cardiac echo with Clinical Echocardiography Review: A Self-Assessment Tool, Third Edition. Edited by Drs. Allan L. Klein, Craig R. Asher, and Michael Chetrit, and written by national and international experts from the Cleveland Clinic and other leading institutions, this best-selling review tool offers a self-paced, highly effective way to assess and expand your knowledge of echocardiography and improve comprehension and re...

Mrs. Rahlo's Closet: It was a simple request, really. All the aged landlady asked of the young medical student who rented a room in her decaying home was to refrain from opening the closet door. Yes, a simple request. And an impossible one . . .

With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite view, surveying a wid...

The phenomenon of globalization has been debated for decades. While some voices anticipate the demise of globalization and postulate about a return to former borders and glories, the realities of the world present the undeniable truth that we are all in this together. Unfortunately, it takes a crisis to move us from where we are, and the coronavirus pandemic has served that function. This book presents a straightforward commentary on the transformative impact of this global interconnective...

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed ‘maternalism’. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflection...

Primary care medicine is the new frontier in medicine. Every nation in the world has recognized the necessity to deliver personal and primary care to its people. This includes first-contact care, care based in a posi tive and caring personal relationship, care by a single healthcare pro vider for the majority of the patient's problems, coordination of all care by the patient's personal provider, advocacy for the patient by the pro vider, the provision of preventive care and psychosocial ca...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...