This thoroughly revised and updated edition places a greater emphasis on electronic principles, while balanced with electrical principles. It provides a fuller coverage of active electronics, with additional topics on rectifier circuits, JFETs and MOSFETs, and more on DC circuits. Throughout it prioritizes applications and examples and is richly illustrated with artwork and includes supplemental materials like biographies of scientists. A background in mathematics, specifically complex num...

In "Hearts of Thirst," Mimi's life is forever altered when a tragic accident takes her family's lives. Grappling with overwhelming grief and loneliness, she isolates herself for three years, believing she'll never feel joy again. Working at the hospital where she once found solace, Mimi immerses herself in her job, using it as a shield against the pain that lingers in her heart. Everything changes when she meets Daniel, a charismatic doctor with a warm smile and genuine care for his patien...

A sharp exposé of the roots of the cost-exposure consensus in American health care that shows how the next wave of reform can secure real access and efficiency.The toxic battle over how to reshape American health care has overshadowed the underlying bipartisan agreement that health insurance coverage should be incomplete. Both Democrats and Republicans expect patients to bear a substantial portion of health care costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsuranc...

Health Law as Private Law delves into the complex relationship between private law and health care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of public ordering and state-created rules was evident, yet this work reveals the equally important role of private agreements in shaping health care policy. The volume's five sections – theory and structure, reproductive care, costs and financing, innovation and institutions, contracts and torts – include innovative conceptualizations and approac...

What information should jurors have during court proceedings to render a just decision? Should politicians know who is donating money to their campaigns? Will scientists draw biased conclusions about drug efficacy when they know more about the patient or study population? The potential for bias in decision-making by physicians, lawyers, politicians, and scientists has been recognized for hundreds of years and drawn attention from media and scholars seeking to understand the role that confl...

When Jonathon Fairfax accidentally helps a murderer bump off Sarah Morecambe, the secretary of a senior politician, he sets off a chain of events that astonishes him. Jonathon is wrong-footed by even the most everyday things, so he's particularly startled to find himself caught up in a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of government. Teaming up with a suave private investigator, a glamorous grannie and the probable love of his life, Jonathon must confront his greatest fears - includi...

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.Featurin...

Ever feel like the whole world is conspiring against you?Jonathon Fairfax can’t even get on the London Underground without bumping into someone he’s desperate to avoid – like Rachel, his first love, who demolished his heart eleven years ago. She tells him that her terrifying uncle (a man Jonathon knows only as ‘the murderer’) is about to be released from prison.Does the murderer blame Jonathon for his time inside? Will he seek revenge?To find out, Jonathon follows h...

He only knows three things about himself: he’s polite, he likes tea, and everyone wants to kill him.Berlin: a man wakes up in a bin* with no idea who he is. He’s taken to hospital for treatment. Then people start trying to assassinate him.The man has to find out why, how to get them to stop, and what the CIA has to do with all this. There’s also the little problem of working out who he used to be, and why that changed. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Piper and best friend Lance a...

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia's heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row, courtesy of the group's unorthodox decision to record all of their concerts. Meaning that it's possible to follow the band's evolution (a...

Lies, threats, intimidation—these are the global warming alarmists' weapons, and they're only getting worse under President Barack Obama.From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an expos├® of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that supports them.Did you know that most scientists are global-...

The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations and innovative solutions. An international team of scholars addresses the challenges p...