Great strides have been made in the past several decades in clarifying brain behavior relationships. Most of the research has focused on the direct effects of a brain injury on behavioral functioning. Only recently has attention been given to documenting the mechanisms by which the disruption of various organs and systems compromise cerebral integrity and ultimately how such disruption affects cognition and behavior. It is this relatively new topic of inquiry, medical neuropsychology, that...

Vor die Therapie setzten die Gotter die Diagnose. Otto NiigeJi Renal biopsy has decisively enriched renal diagnostics. Kidney diseases may be monitored during their entire course, and new techniques - such as immunofluorescence and electron microscopy - may be systematically applied, resulting in novel insights into the morphogenesis, pathogenesis, and etiology of kidney lesions. These insights, in turn, have served as new starting points, in the spirit of the quotation above, for the inst...

That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable biographies” of great men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with contemporaries both great and small, makes him a necessary figure of study in multiple fields.Th...

A moving story which is now a major motion picture, Storm Boy is one of the classics of Australian writing for children.Storm Boy saves the life of Mr Percival, and in return the pelican helps Storm Boy’s father with his fishing and joins in the rescue of a shipwrecked crew. The boy and the pelican prove friends to the end.A favourite story, beautifully told.

A gripping story of heat, dust and desperation from a master storyteller. Fourteen-year-old Ernie went out to South Australia’s opal fields with his dad. That was five years ago. They still live in the same dugout, a burrow, not a house, not like the one he used to live in, and his dad’s pretty much given up. So Ernie’s working, tunnelling through sandstone. Some people use bulldozers and gelignite, but Ernie does it the old way, using a pick. And he goes down other people’s old shafts. Th...

The Kindred Trilogy is now complete and available in a box setThirst - Georgie is young, she has her entire life ahead of her, or so she thought. Unexplained events begin to happen, and a trip to the doctor, leads her to find out she is dying. Each day grows harder and more difficult to get out of bed. She just wants to spend what time she has left in the arms of her dream lover. This book is for anyone that has lost a loved one, and wished that Vampires were really real.Hu...

Understanding Judaism and the Jews in the Gospel of John: Polemic, Tradition, and Johannine Self-Identity reopens the perennial question of the Fourth Gospel’s perplexing characterization of “the Jews.” According to the reigning paradigm, the Gospel of John witnesses to a community’s burgeoning sense of religious distinctiveness. Ethnically Jewish believers in Jesus had begun to forge a new identity in contrast to the Jews. Nathan Thiel assesses the weaknesses of the prev...

What do you think of when you hear the word recycling? No doubt you immediately think of a few things to do with nature conservation, the reuse of non-degradable raw materials or waste and waste recycling. You may want to stop reading here because you don't want to be lectured on climate protection and sustainability any more than you already are in the media. But did you know that our bodies also have millions of small "recycling points"? Sure, the whole thing sounds very implausible at f...

In this chronicle, we follow Detective Mike Burrows' investigation into a Las Vegas murder.When a woman is found dead in a hotel room of a Vegas Casino, the investigation falls into the veteran detective's pile of crimes to be solved before he retires. With mysterious plot twists and a healthy volume of suspects, can Mike figure out who killed the victim who liked to live large?Detective Mike Burrows is an aged, well seasoned detective, who is determined to solve every case...

Hunger is the second novel in the Kindred Trilogy.It's a Vampire Romance with lots of bite. Meet Mr. Brandon Rouge the maker of Dominic (Thirst - Kindred Trilogy - Part 1)He has a dry sarcasm that perpetually delivers him into trouble. This is not the guy you love to hate. He's the vampire you hate to love. Why? Because sometimes even the bad Vampires need love to.

In this moving spiritual memoir, Dr. William Thiele shares inspiring stories of the birthing of a monastery without walls among everyday women and men around New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Along the way, core contemplative attitudes, practices, and principles were discovered. He offers these stories of birthing a School for Contemplative Living as a challenging call to a frantic and polarized world. Readers will be drawn toward their own spiritual transform...