Besides the mortality rate the value of an operative procedure is measured against the incidence and the degree of undesirable postoperative sequelae. In the surgical treatment of gastroduo denal ulcerations vagotomy is now competing with the success fully established resection therapy. Since this latter method has been further developed during the last years and late results are rare, a comparison between both types of operation is difficult. Meritoriously, the authors have tried to perfo...

Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880–81 is a nineteenth century travel and social observation account that documents Ireland during a period of intense agrarian unrest. It stands as an important historical narrative in travel literature, offering firsthand impressions of rural hardship, political tension, and landlord–tenant conflict. This literary work gains importance through Disturbed Ireland, presenting a narrative grounded in Ireland 1880–81 agrarian ...

The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the Church of the East more generally in the late antique and early Islamic periods. Adam H. Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of the school movement and reasses...

A Christian supernatural thriller set largely in Vatican City, opening on the death of a pope and the conclave that follows. Veteran war correspondent Sean Burke and his colleague Luis Ortega find themselves unwitting players in an invisible war between Heaven and Hell when the archangels Raphael and Gabriel, disguised among the press corps, work to counter a demonic plot to install a corrupted American cardinal - secretly the son of Lilith, granddaughter of Satan - as the new pope. As the...

LIFE IS A JOURNEY.Sometimes the road is smooth.Sometimes it feels like I-95 in Virginia during rush hour.In this heartwarming and often hilarious memoir, Bruce H. Becker invites readers to ride shotgun through a lifetime of adventures, misadventures, family road trips, military assignments, faith-filled moments, and lessons learned the hard way.From driving through fog-covered Italian highways and transporting Grandma's ashes across America, to raising child...

The Seven Deadly Sins: A Bible Study is a comprehensive biblical guide that examines the seven deadly sins through the lens of Scripture, revealing how these destructive attitudes and behaviors affect the human heart and relationship with God. Rather than viewing these sins as isolated actions, the book presents them as spiritual conditions that gradually shape character and influence every aspect of life.Each chapter explores one of the seven deadly sins-pride, gr...

LIFE IS A JOURNEY.Sometimes the road is smooth.Sometimes it feels like I-95 in Virginia during rush hour.In this heartwarming and often hilarious memoir, Bruce H. Becker invites readers to ride shotgun through a lifetime of adventures, misadventures, family road trips, military assignments, faith-filled moments, and lessons learned the hard way.From driving through fog-covered Italian highways and transporting Grandma's ashes across America, to raising child...

Turn, Turn, Turn is a Scripture-based devotional and Bible study that explores the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes 3, where Solomon declares that there is "a time for everything under heaven." Through a series of themed chapters, the book examines the different seasons of life and reveals how God's purpose is present in every moment-whether joyful or painful, productive or challenging.Each chapter focuses on one of life's appointed seasons, including times to be bo...

A 21-chapter Christian Bible study exploring the gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit, paired with companion sermons for each major theme. The book opens with a foundational overview of spiritual gifts - their divine origin, purpose, and the unity-in-diversity model Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 12 - before moving chapter by chapter through individual gifts (Love, Tongues, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, Fear of God, and additional gifts of service). The second...

Prevention of disease and injury, including early identification of risks and disease and optimal control of potentially debilitating or fatal complications of chronic conditions, is the area of clinical medicine that holds the greatest promise for improving human health. Each year a long list of major, but potentially preventable health problems exacts a terrible human and financial toll. These problems urgently need our attention, especially as major advances in curative medicine become ...

This delightful Fable illustrates the intimate relationship between doubt and hope. As well, it shows the powerful role love plays in conquering fear. We want our loved ones, most significantly our children, to have hope, yet often we forget to support explorations of their worries and terrors- the very places from which hope springs. This Fable subtly reveals how strength of will emerges from successful battles with personal witches, warlords...the places that hold our fears. When we deeply ...

The Arctic troposphere (0 to ca. 8 km) plays an important role in environmental concerns for global change. It is a unique chemical reactor influenced by human activity and the Arctic ocean. It is surrounded by industrialized continents that in winter contribute gaseous and particulate pollution (Arctic haze). It is underlain by the flat Arctic ocean from which it is separated by a crack-ridden ice membrane 3 to 4 m thick. Ocean to atmosphere exchange of heat, water vapor and marine biogen...