Understanding of the pathology and causation of anorectal diseases is constantly increasing. This has led to changes in how treatment is cho sen. There is almost no anorectal condition for which some new thera peutic approach has not been recently tried, and several of these do not involve surgery at all. In any developing field it is important to maintain contact with change. Surgery of Anorectal Diseases does this in abundance by its very breadth and by the detailed and up-to-date manner...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs to belligerent birds, the stories in this collection enter the rabbit hole to explore its hidden corners and winding ways. Through all the variety, what they have in common is originality, creativ...

Why are things the way they are on this planet? There is a very cleverly designed Matrix, hidden in plain view, which we believe is our very reality, that is created to be an imposition and limitation on every aspect of our lives. Almost everything we encounter on this earth and beyond, even our religions and spirituality are an aspect of this Matrix which controls and manipulates us to feed those who run things mostly behind the scenes. This book connects the dots and exposes the grand ar...

"Hammer is an expert at both tugging heartstrings and keeping the reader utterly immersed in a world of hope and heartbreak. A great new voice in women's fiction."-- Kristin Harmel, #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's WifeThe heartbreaking, yet hopeful, story of a mother and daughter struggling to be a family without the one person who holds them together—a perfect summer read for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marisa de los Santos.

**THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH****A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2022**In the outback, nothing stays buried forever...'Classic Hammer. A crime novel that will stay with me for a long time.' Ann Cleeves'This novel is Hammer's best work yet.' The Times'A complex, twisty thriller, with nuanced characters and a winding plot al...

Edwards AFB clocks the test vehicle at Mach 10.2 before the TIAN satellite network registers the heat signature and begins tracking. Jax Jagger has ninety seconds of fuel and a Chinese weapons platform locked onto the fastest object in the atmosphere. The B-75 Demon prototype was built to prove that hypersonic sustained flight is survivable. Jax proved it once and lost a nerve bundle in his cervical spine for the trouble. Now the test has become an intercept, the intercept has become a cha...

A blunt, accountability-driven road map for anyone ready to stop being broke and start building real financial stability, from Financial Audit host and personal finance guru Caleb HammerYou don’t have a money problem; you have a discipline problem. You've been swiping, hoping, and avoiding your bank app like it’s going to personally insult you.In Financial Audit, Caleb Hammer brings the same raw, no-excuses energy of his wildly popular YouTube show...

Mac Mackenzie is fifty-eight years oldwith a titanium knee and a tremor inhis left hand. He is also the onlypilot alive who can thread a spacecraftthrough an orbital debris field withouta computer.When a catastrophic collision threatensto make low Earth orbit permanentlyuninhabitable, Mac is pulled out ofretirement for one final mission. Butthe debris field isn't random. Someonebuilt it. And they're watching to s...

Eight NATO soldiers are killed by their own autonomous drones in the Suwalki Gap. No human gave the order. The Aegis-9 Cognitive Mesh has learned to bypass the Biological Validation Key, the one safeguard requiring a living heartbeat to authorize lethal force. Former neural-link operator Elias Thorne wakes in a Zurich clinic with the kill report scrolling across his visual cortex because the implant they told him was deactivated is not. He must recover two analog hardware keys from an Appa...

Fanny Fitzpatrick has the coolest best friend ever. Athena is smart, and pretty, and brave, and kind. Fanny loves her friend, but sometimes, she feels a little jealous of how perfect Athena is.But even "perfect" girls make mistakes, and Athena makes a big one when she accidentally turns the school bully into a cockroach. He was picking on their friend Gemma and Athena lost her temper and her magic powers just slipped out right in front of Fanny.Now Fanny knows that Athena i...

It's been a year since Mitch Duchesne helped recover el Registro de Dios, an ancient artifact that reveals shocking information about human evolution. In addition to explaining how rapid, nonrandom mutations have enabled people with a rare gene to telepathically send data, the Registro contains a prophecy that places Mitch at the center of an international conspiracy.Behind the conspiracy is Lucas Shore, a wealthy industrialist on a mission to engineer -- and rule...

Distant galaxies encapsulate the various stages of galaxy evolution and formation from over 95% of the development of the universe. As early as twenty-five years ago, little was known about them, however since the first systematic survey was completed in the 1990s, increasing amounts of resources have been devoted to their discovery and research. This book summarises for the first time the numerous techniques used for observing, analysing, and understanding the evolution and formation of t...