More than ten years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners. The students expressed a need for an organized approach to cope with the volume of basic science curricular material presented during the first two years. The...

Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium on Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Gover...

Thirty-five awesome stories - one kick ass meme that started it all.It started as a joke. Storm Area 51 they said. They can't stop all of us they said. But all laughter stopped when the U.S. Air Force mobilized the reserves and pulled out the big guns.However, relentless mockery and derision by the media and the powers that be pushed the weebs and alien enthusiasts too far. What else were they supposed to do? They put on their big girl panties and showed up, determined to fi...

"Upon completing my nursing degree and gaining employment, what followed was truly a humbling and horrendous learning experience."The train wreck that was the start of her second career was far from anything she had experienced. The author, a software engineer, took a decade detour into nursing. Her perspective is unusual because she didn't begin her nursing career quite like other nurses. Unlike software engineering, nursing placed her c...

Have you ever done something that could either make you……or break you?Something impulsive and life changing to test your resolve? Your beliefs?I did; the night I packed my designer bags and kissed the life I’d known goodbye: the easy life. The moneyed life. The life of luxury.The bright lights of the city.With the click of my Louboutin's on the marble floors and the flick of my wrist, I said goodbye—and never looked back.For...

It began with The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter’. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy music, and Electric Wizards is your sonic gazetteer.The voyage is as varied as it is illuminating: from the lysergic blunt trauma of Blue Cheer to the locked grooves of Funkadelic, the aural frightmares of Faust to the tectonic ...

JD MOORE AWARD WINNING AUTHORYou're a young, aspiring pilot eager to put your skills to the test until an incident on your first flight nearly claims the lives of you and your closest friends. You quickly appreciate that life is precious and resolve to make a difference by flying humanitarian missions. You rapidly learn, however, that not everyone on these expeditions shares your sense of charity. Someone is exploiting the missions for unethical purposes. You investigate these unsc...

The Book of Blacklights is a book of thoughts on spiritual, religious, philosophical, practical, and other real-world matters, but from a "Blacklight" perspective. A "Blacklight" can be thought of as one who, among other things, is able to see, and embrace the light in darkness, as well as the darkness in light. It offers a "Blacklight" perspective on thoughts and philosophies such as: why it gets lonely the higher you ascend; saving the world (if it can be done), why, and how; the point o...

Mike is a foley artist who traveled from England to work with his friend Dwain—the first foley artist in the porn industry.On set, Mike finds himself drawn to Chloe, an actress who looks like Marilyn Monroe… if she’d been involved in an industrial accident. The loss of her leg hasn’t stopped Chloe from becoming a top star in Freak Porn.Inspired by his feelings for her, Mike sets out to bring a touch of artistry to the sleaziest corner of cinema by ...

Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems. Until this book was published, there had been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership model with big business. This book assesses the contribution of local enterprise agencies, and how they related to other dimensions of policy responses to unemployment. An important element of t...

The mysterious world of fungi is once again unearthed in this expansive second edition. This textbook provides readers with an all-embracing view of the kingdom fungi, ranging in scope from ecology and evolution, diversity and taxonomy, cell biology and biochemistry, to genetics and genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics. Adopting a unique systems biology approach - and using explanatory figures and colour illustrations - the authors emphasise the diverse interactions between fungi and...

Born of pioneer parents, prairie orphaned at three, he was adopted by a Sioux warrior. Among the Sioux he was known as Prairie Cub. The name Michael was all he had of his ancestry. He lived the life of a Sioux warrior's son until his twelfth summer. When the course of history doomed the Indian's way of life, his father, Thunder Eagle, realizing his son's white heritage gave him a chance for a future, sent his son back into the white man's world.Summer of Two Worlds is the story of ...