If a consecutive series of patients with lung cancer is followed up until the decision is made about therapy, it emerges that the role of surgery is quite small. Only a very limited proportion will ultimate ly qualify for rationally conceived surgical therapy; most patients are inoperable. In a series of 397 patients investigated at our hospi tal, 78% were inoperable on the basis of preoperative evaluation and a further 3% proved nonresectable at thoracotomy; therefore, only 19% were suita...

Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library SeriesGetting It Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques, presents principles and practices for effective requirements analysis and specification, and a broad overview of the requirements analysis and specification processes. This critical reference is designed to help the business analyst decide which requirement artifacts should be produced to adequately analyze requirements.Examine the complete spectrum o...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction and review of small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE). The book reviews the data regarding appropriate indications and contraindications for the implementation of small bowel capsule endoscopy, while discussing in detail the evolving role of SBCE in the treatment of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, and the management of inflammatory bowel disease, small bowel polyposis syndromes, and refractory malabsorption. Topics such as complications of ...

Blood platelets lack a nucleus. As a result their life span is short and they cannot reproduce themselves. Platelets share these qualities with the red blood cell. Plate lets and red blood cells, nevertheless, serve vital roles in the body. One major function of the platelet is its capacity to aggregate and thereby initiate intravas cular coagulation which often underlies such major diseases as myocardial infarc tion, cerebral infarction, and pulmonary embolism. For this reason in recent y...

Some of the greatest science fiction stories begin with a single impossible discovery. Lost Sci-Fi Books 586 thru 590 brings together five unforgettable adventures where explorers, dreamers, and ordinary people are forced to confront extraordinary worlds and impossible choices.In Star of Panadur, Albert dePina and Henry Hasse send an explorer into the heart of a mysterious alien world where dazzling crystal caverns conceal secrets older than humani...

How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical a...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

Once enemies, now friends. Their fondness for each other has blossomed, but her arranged marriage keeps them apart.During her stay at Charibert, Joslyn came to understand Elric's true character as a kind lord. Admiring the honorable man that he is, her heart teeters on the edge of falling in love with him, yet she knows a relationship with Elric is impossible. When her father arrives to escort her, Joslyn will leave Charibert to wed a man she does not know....

Allie is a lethal weapon, honed and sharpened by her mafia family to be the perfect instrument of fear, ruthlessness, and style.But when her father demands that she marry his sadistic associate, Allie's instincts scream for escape.She flees into the wild world of the Ruthless Renegades MC, seeking refuge and freedom from her sadistic father. However, danger still lurks as she works as a bartender at Quick& Dirty, the bar that the MC owns. Waiting for her father's inevitable retaliation. Am...

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the vio...

This science fiction novel explores themes of extraterrestrial life and cosmic adventure. The story is set on Neptune and revolves around the protagonist’s encounters with the mysterious and advanced inhabitants of the planet. As the plot unfolds, the protagonist uncovers secrets about Neptune and its inhabitants, leading to dramatic and often perilous situations.Hasse’s narrative combines elements of space exploration with speculative fiction, providing a rich and imaginative depiction of...

In a far-future Solar Federation fraying under sabotage, Earth's Correlator DeHarries warns the planetary delegates that Mars, Venus, Callisto, Mercury, and other worlds have all been struck by coordinated disruptions: uranium shortages, stolen research, drug traffic, tampered reflectors, canal failures, and missing technology. As suspicion mounts, he argues that the attacks are too widespread for any one planet and may be driven by alien mind control, setting the stage for a desperate hun...