The purpose of this book is to provide the radiologist with information which is "as practical as possible" for the everyday use of computerized tomography (CT) in the field of cervical, thoracic, and musculoskeletal pathology. The approach is simple. For each region the following information is pre sented: (1) a general schematic introduction, summarizing the main indications for CT and its specific usefulness; (2) a series of pictures of normal structures with a precise and practical ide...

Between outlaws stealing children for the coldbright mines and otherworldly creatures, frontier life on the plains of the Alta Estranyazie isn't for the faint of heart.When Bodie Nine, a meandering robot with no directive, is befriended by a family, his missing code gets overwritten: Their only child, Justine, has been kidnapped, and Bodie's new directive is to save her from a life of misery at the bottom of a deep, dark hole in the earth. Obsessed with karma and w...

Before E'rth, there was Epriot Prime.After a 40-year campaign of genocide, humanity teeters at the brink of extinction, only to find that their homeworld is ground zero for a five-sided interdimensional conflict that will leave no race unscathed.Aided by her alien co-pilot and a sarcastic AI, fabled mech pilot Cadian Galas races to find her daughter and notify Epriot High Command of the emerging threat.D'avry, a mage from future E'rth, has followed ...

Time is a weapon-and a wound.She used his powers to hunt a killer across centuries. She used his heart and erased the memory. Now she's back-and she needs him again.Holland Finnery, a war-weary vet turned quiet craftsman, keeps to himself in the mist-choked slums of Dain Burrough. That peace shatters when he finds an unconscious time-bending agent left for dead.She's wanted for murder. He should turn her in. But some unidentifiable turmoil within wo...

Between outlaws stealing children for the coldbright mines and otherworldly creatures, frontier life on the plains of the Alta Estranyazie isn't for the faint of heart.When Bodie Nine, a meandering robot with no directive, is befriended by a family, his missing code gets overwritten: Their only child, Justine, has been kidnapped, and Bodie's new directive is to save her from a life of misery at the bottom of a deep, dark hole in the earth. Obsessed with karma and w...

An alien armada. A demon god's offer of lost technology. An unfulfilled suicide pact.Her daughter was alive. Instead of fulfilling her woefully-overdue suicide pact and going out in a rocket blaze of revenge-filled glory, Capt. Cadian Galas must scour the jungle of a lost continent for a weapon only hinted at existing. With the impending final wave of a forty-year campaign of genocide by an alien race just days away, humanity's clock is ticking. And that's when the...

Earth is a prison and you're living in it. It's called The Construct and its keepers carefully manage the rise and fall of humanity in order to extract soul energy to fuel the galactic expansion of an alien race... but we'll get to that. When an enigmatic magic known as the Astrig Ka'a turns D'avry's life upside down, he finds himself in a struggle to save humanity, not only in his own time and place but throughout Earth's untold histories as well - histories replete with mechanized armor,...

Time is a weapon—and a wound.She used his powers to hunt a killer across centuries. She used his heart and erased the memory. Now she's back—and she needs him again.Holland Finnery, a war-weary vet turned quiet craftsman, keeps to himself in the mist-choked slums of Dain Burrough. That peace shatters when he finds an unconscious time-bending agent left for dead.She's wanted for murder. He should turn her in. But some unidentifiable turmoil within won...

Before E'rth, there was Epriot Prime.After a 40-year campaign of genocide, humanity teeters at the brink of extinction, only to find that their homeworld is ground zero for a five-sided interdimensional conflict that will leave no race unscathed.Aided by her alien co-pilot and a sarcastic AI, fabled mech pilot Cadian Galas races to find her daughter and notify Epriot High Command of the emerging threat.D'avry, a mage from future E'rth, has followed ...

Joyfully Single invites us to embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, wellness, growth, and the brave pursuit of joy. In this groundbreaking book, Pamela Larde PhD draws from a decade of her research to encourage a radical departure from traditional views of singlehood. She proposes an alternative: Revolutionary Joy, a powerful blend of enlightenment, wholeness, and change that transforms our experience of being single.Steeped in evidence-based research and personal re...

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contribut...

The last 10 years has seen explosive expansion of the number of centres performing cardiov- cular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. The majority of this expansion has been in the ? eld of adult ischaemic imaging, but congenital heart disease remains one of the main indications for CMR. Importantly, the greatly improved survival of patients with congenital heart disease gives us a burgeoning adult population living with the sequelae of the disease (grown-up c- genital heart disease – GUCH)....