Patients with perianal diseases such as dermatitis do not just visit the dermatologist; they are seen by family doctors, internists, pediatricians, general surgeons, gynecologists, and urologists. This book is truly multi-disciplinary, introducing the surgical specialties to medical proctology and related fields. The procedures described allow effective management of both common and less common diseases, including all the secondary problems that may arise. With increasing travel and increa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does it truly mean to be free? Why do we crave what we crave? And why does happiness slip through our fingers so quickly?The Whisper of Will takes you on a journey into the deepest questions of human existence. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and cosmology, Dr. Hanan Stein unravels the hidden forces that shape our thoughts, emotions, and choices.Do w...

Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans is an audacious family saga that transforms immigrant genealogy into an experiment in modernist form. Centering on the Hersland and Dehning families, it traces Americanization, inheritance, temperament, and repetition across generations. Its famously recursive prose—insistent, analytical, and rhythmically incantatory—rejects conventional plot in favor of typologies of character and consciousness, placing the novel beside the great early-twentieth-ce...

Three Lives (1909) presents three rigorously observed portraits: The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Lena, women whose constrained lives unfold in the fictional town of Bridgepoint. Stein's prose is deliberately repetitive, analytic, and rhythmically insistent, transforming ordinary speech and domestic circumstance into an early modernist experiment in perception. Situated between nineteenth-century realism and the radical innovations of the avant-garde, the book is especially notable...

The Christmas Porringer is a delicate holiday tale in which a simple household object becomes the vessel of charity, memory, and spiritual renewal. Written in the graceful, decorative prose characteristic of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, the story joins the tradition of Christmas moral fiction shaped by Dickensian sentiment yet softened for young readers. Stein's attention to domestic detail, old customs, and the emotional life of childhood gives the n...

Every year, more online or technology-enhanced learning experiences are added to the landscape of education, and the number of students taking online courses on residential campuses continues to grow. In addition, new instructional tools are creating environments that are mobile, interactive, and collaborative. These trends present challenges to the online classroom, and this book will help instructors meet those challenges.Jump-Start Your Online Classroom prepares a first-time online inst...

When dominant Vivian decides her straight submissive Joel needs to expand, she offers him a single, devastating proposal: sleep with men while she watches and directs every moment.Joel has spent three years in perfect surrender to Vivian. He kneels when she tells him. He opens when she commands. He finds the deepest peace he has ever known in the precise, loving structure of their D/s relationship. For him, submission is not weakness — it is the place where everything finally makes...

"[An] evocative portrait" of one of the most influential and enigmatic American art dealers of the 1960s (Barbara Rose, The New York Times).In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, had been the first to show Andy Warhol's pop art, and had introduced the new genre of installation art. An eccentric art dealer and founder of the Green Gallery on Fifty-Seven...

He had eleven months left. His biology didn't wait.Emery Sato is twenty-four, unregistered, and running out of time. In a near-future America where the Designation Act requires every omega to submit to Bureau-assigned bonding by twenty-five, Emery has spent six years doing the impossible: hiding. Black-market suppressants, forged beta papers, a stockroom job in a desert town too small to notice him. Eleven months from aging out of mandatory assignment. Eleven months from free....

Julian thought his father's debt was a matter of money. Marcello Viti is here to prove it's a matter of skin.When twenty-three-year-old Julian finds his family's historic Roman estate gambled away, he expects a legal battle. Instead, he meets The Baron—a fifty-two-year-old billionaire with a reputation for ruthlessness and a private, predatory craving for absolute control. Marcello's offer is simple and devastating: six months of J...

Short presentation of aspects important for the application of X-ray contrast media: Composition and properties of contrast media, handling with respect to stability, purity and sterility; applications, interaction, risks; drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of side effects.

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics.Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, wi...