A new approach to methodical and strategic thinking about tissue reconstruction. All the decision-making processes are broken down into algorithms based on the authors' clinical experience and the current literature. The atlas section describes the 25 most frequently used flaps, and shows them in standardised graphic form along with many practical tips and tricks. New here is the inclusion in the illustrations of practical suggestions for the surgeon, as well as rehabilitation protocols fo...

Have you ever asked yourselfshouldnt life be better than this?Of course there is more to life than the daily grind or whirlwind of chaos you may feel yourself in right now. However, the models for living that have been taught and practiced for ages are all about how to survive and barely keep your head above water. That is only one option.There is also the option to practice a new model, one that involves thriving in every aspect of life.Derived from experiences wit...

The global rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s is widely seen as a dynamic originating in the United States and the United Kingdom, and only belatedly and partially repeated by Germany. From this Anglocentric perspective, Germany's emergence at the forefront of neoliberal reforms in the eurozone is perplexing, and tends to be attributed to the same forces conventionally associated with the Anglo-American pioneers. This book challenges this ruling narrative conceptually and empirically. I...

Those Haunted Days-Mysteries of a Mountain Village, Part One: Guo Xiaodong Where should I begin this story? Let's start with my childhood. My name is Guo Xiaodong. Believe it or not, I've only just found out that I share the exact same name and surname as a movie star-though I'm not sure if our birthdays match. I was born on the first day of the first lunar month in 1980, at the hour of Zi. According to the midwife who delivered me back then, I was born in a "yin" year, "yin" month, "yin" ...

This open access book empirically analyses the competences (input), moderators (process), and disclosure (output) of board chair succession practices for publicly listed organisations in Switzerland. As primus inter pares (Latin for first among equals), the chair of the board of directors holds a unique organisational position. For fulfilling the non-transferable duties pursuant to Article 716a revCO, it is essential that the chair is a person who has rational economic and socio-emotional ...

How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the moveA growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive these parents and children to leave their comfortable lives behind out of a desire to liv...

Highly Commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards for Surgery!Reconstructive surgery of the upper extremity has progressed significantly due to advances in microsurgical techniques, which include the increased popularity of perforator flaps, refinements in functional free muscle transfer, the application of nerve conduits and nerve allografts, motor nerve transfers, and hand transplantation. These innovations have helped surgeons achieve functional reconstruction goa...

Semiconductor heterostructures represent the backbone for an increasing variety of electronic and photonic devices, for applications including information storage, communication and material treatment, to name but a few. Novel structural and material concepts are needed in order to further push the performance limits of present devices and to open up new application areas.This thesis demonstrates how key performance characteristics of three completely different types of semiconducto...

It's powerful to see how even a small act of kindness can ripple outward, touching lives and encouraging others to do the same. That feeling often begins when someone notices another person's struggle and feels moved to help. For children, the instinct to comfort and support others comes naturally, making it especially important to recognize and praise moments when they help others and show kindness.Helping others, sometimes called helpfulness, is a meaningful virtue. It involves d...

The concept of ’mobility’ has sparked lively academic debate in recent years. Drawing on research from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociology and tourism studies, this volume examines the intersection between mobility and hospitality, highlighting the issues that emerge as we encounter strangers in a mobile world. Through a series of diverse empirical accounts, it focuses on the transnational movement of people in the contexts of migration and tourism and examines how hospitality...

Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. Some chapters center on individual genres like hunting portraits, or on specific paintings, such as David Martin's Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray (ca. 1780) ...

Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism.Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminol...