The first portion of this work is devoted to a consideration of the practical aspects of the proctoscopic examination and thus presents the indications for performing a proctologic evaluation, the information that may be obtained from the patient's medical history, an example of a preprinted data form for use in the recording of the physician's findings, the preparation and positioning of the patient, and the preliminary examination of the anus including the digital rectal examination. The...

Thirty years ago, biologists could get by with a rudimentary grasp of mathematics and modeling. Not so today. In seeking to answer fundamental questions about how biological systems function and change over time, the modern biologist is as likely to rely on sophisticated mathematical and computer-based models as traditional fieldwork. In this book, Sarah Otto and Troy Day provide biology students with the tools necessary to both interpret models and to build their own.The book star...

Pope Gregory I, also known as Saint Gregory the Great, was known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. As a Roman senator's son, and serving as the prefect of Rome at 30, Gregory lived in a monastery he established on his family estate before becoming a papal am...

In November 2001, mere months after the deadly attacks in New York on 9/11, Otto Schmalz and his wife embarked on a journey to Egypt. With security being more stringent and fewer travellers venturing outside of their homelands, tourism in Egypt was down ninety percent, which made it easier to get a close look at the breath-taking monuments and temples.For fourteen days, Otto and his tour companions cruised the Nile for nine days as well as toured the remainder by bus and visited ma...

This is a short collection of documents from the reign of the German Emperor Otto I the Great. This collection includes: the Constitution of Frankfurt (951), Proceedings of the Augustan assembly (952), his coronation oath in Rome (962), the Agreement with Pope John XII (963), Proceedings of the Synod of Rome (964), Ecclesiastical Edict (967), Mandate concerning the enthronement of the archbishop of Magdeburg (970), and Proceedings of the meeting of Papiensis (971). This work includes both ...

In 1960, Otto Schmalz and his wife, Gertrud, decided to take a four-month vacation to their native Europe, where they would tour parts of West Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and Italy, visiting family and friends, and seeing as much of the continent as possible. They went by freighter from Canada and took their car with them. Their goal was to discover and learn about history, culture, food, people, and new things.Having worked for more than two years without a day off, this transp...

The Synod of Ingelheim was called by Otto I the Great, in the then church of Saint Remigius in the German city of Ingelheim. Being summoned at the behest of Pope Agapetus II. It's primary goal was to resolve a long running Schism concerning the archiepiscopal see of Reims, then under the jurisdiction of the German Emperor. The synod was presided by Marinus of Bomarzo, then the Roman Church's primary librarian.

The Ancient Trinity is presented to the reader in three tomes:Volume 1 takes on the form of a myth: a series of short stories, ones as old as the illusion of time itself. The myth is meant to be a cognitive exercise whose resolution will invite the reader to construct a logistical framework effectively addressing the concepts presented to him in the subsequent volumes of the series.The myth continues in Volume 2: Gofer’s Paradox.Volume 2 is the dissertation's introd...

A married couple, Fridolin and Albertina, are troubled by events and jealous of each other's attentions the night before at a masquerade ball. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man, an elderly councilor, whose daughter he finds attractive and vaguely sensual. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who, taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make more choices...

Those skilled in the way of the Rosary can apply each Mystery to their lives, each image in their lives to a Mystery: even their whole life can be seen as one, single Rosary.Such is the way of Dominica, a young girl from Marseille, torn between her desire to serve the Lord and the poor, and her care for a young man and her love of children. A chance encounter with a poor widower and his son outside a hostel in Lourdes sets her off on a path of joy, of sorrow, of glory: on a Rosary ...

This Recent Results in Cancer Research volume provides an up-to-date overview of the multidisciplinary management of locally confined rectal cancer as well as colorectal cancer with synchronous resectable liver metastases. The contents comprise the majority of the invited contributions from the Second St. Gallen EORTC Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference, held on 6-8 March 2014 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by some of the world’s leading experts in the imaging, endoscopy, pathology, mo...

The trilemma of Joan: liar, lunatic, or Lord's anointed. It took over 500 years for the third to triumph over the first two, both in the Church and in France. But these two canonizations—as a Catholic saint, and as Patroness of France—were separate tasks, performed by separate supporters. These are the writings of the leading promoter of her second canonization: as Patroness of France.Beginning with earlier, more lyrical writings on Joan of Arc, this volume's core is a collection o...