With comprehensive, highly visual coverage designed for sports clinicians, team physicians, sports medicine fellows, primary care physicians, and other health care professionals who provide care to athletes and active individuals, Netter's Sports Medicine, 3rd Edition, is an ideal resource for everyday use. Editors include three past presidents of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, it includes contributions from world-renowned experts as well as a rich illustration program with many classic paintings by Frank H. Netter, MD. From Little League to professional sports, weekend warriors to Olympic champions, and backcountry mountainside to the Super Bowl field, this interdisciplinary reference is indispensable in the busy outpatient office, in the training room, on the sidelines, and in preparation for sports medicine board certification. More than 1,000 superb Netter graphics, tables, figures, pictures, diagnostic images, and other medical artwork highlight easy-to-read, bulleted text. New coverage of esports, as well as other key topics such as travel considerations for the athlete, EKG interpretation, cardiac disease, diagnostic imaging and ultrasound, injury prevention protocols, and mixed martial arts. Up-to-date information on nutritional supplements, eating disorders, sports and pharmacology for chronic conditions and behavioral medicine, and extreme and adventure sports. Designed for quick reference, with a logical organization by both topic and sport. Online features include downloadable patient education handouts, and handy links. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Robert Sheppard has been at the forefront of innovative poetry since the 1980s. From early contact with Bob Cobbing, Robert Creeley, and Lee Harwood, and a rejection of Movement orthodoxy, Sheppard quickly began to form/reform our perceptions of British poetry. This wide-ranging volume celebrates the writings of Sheppard, offering extensive of his work-from poet, to critic, editor, teacher, and inventor. Including contributions from major contemporaries, as well as a new generation of scholarship, The Robert Sheppard Companion situates the remarkable writing life of one of Britain's most imaginative poets. `Sheppard has been a champion of British poetry that actively resists the complacent and the convenient, the merely competent. That has meant evading bullies who would "banish us," to use Dickinson's phrase. Sheppard's aesthetic justice has never been just for him; his social imagination is at one with poems, essays, teaching, and editing. His work is restlessly agile, generous at heart.' -Charles Bernstein, from `Preface' to The Robert Sheppard Companion `[Sheppard's] poetry skews language to takes on big themes and his writing can be seen as comprehensive poetic chronicling of our times on an epic scale culminating in his Complete Twentieth Century Blues. Sheppard's writing is rough, rude, quirky, serious, learned, and never afraid to be humorous. In short it is as irreverent as it is relevant. Finally, his generosity in writing about and promoting the work of others has been unstinting and invaluable, especially in a country which largely chooses to ignore its innovative poets.' - Geraldine Monk, from `The Robert Sheppard Roundtable' `This book shows how far-reaching and generous Sheppard's writing life has been. He has argued and sung for the benefit of an entire community, to keep opening the possibilities of poetry itself. He stands and stands up for the breadth and depth and future of modern poetry. He's written it, written about it, published it; theorized, organised and celebrated. It is not often that innovative practice, political engagement, a thorough knowledge of poetry, and wit are combined in one body of work. But this valuable Companion provides the necessary spread of insights and perspectives to do justice to the extraordinary range of Sheppard's achievements. And that is some achievement in itself.' -Peter Hughes

Hogarth's Exile, the third installment of the Hogarth Saga, finds Hogarth sent away to St. Elba's Home for Excitable Boys as punishment for his crimes. Here the darkly humorous tale continues as Hogarth is in turn frustrated, tormented, and ultimately, on November 5th, victorious...although in a rather sinister way Look for the next volume in the Hogarth Saga...Hogarth's Return

Hogarth's Trial, the second installment in the Hogarth Saga, continues the story of a troubled boy, Hogarth, that began in Hogarth's Reign of Terror. In this chapter, Hogarth's mother finds in his bedroom the hoard of skulls he's collected. She's angry. The neighbors are enraged and out for blood. But, they'll have to settle for putting him on trial The dark humor and retro-1960s style illustrations in Hogarth's Reign of Terror continue in Hogarth's Trial. Look for the next chapter in the saga, Hogarth's Exile

Hogarth's Reign of Terror is the first chapter in the four-part Hogarth Saga- a story in verse, written by James Delaney and illustrated by Christopher Madden. In this first story, 12-year old Hogarth builds a guillotine and begins dispatching all of the animals in his neighborhood-starting with the cats Why? Not even Hogarth knows All he knows is that he can't stop. This is a darkly humorous tale of evil...suitable for the whole family Look for the next installment in The Hogarth Saga-Hogarth's Trial.

The combination of Stephane Mallarme's esoteric poetry and Maurice Ravel's elusive tonal language presents a multitude of methodological problems for both analysts and performers attempting to study the Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme (1913). While extant analyses of these songs draw on pitch content to make observations about Ravel's interpretation of the text, they fail to consider the fundamental structural importance of Mallarme's poetry. In his autobiographical sketch, Ravel noted that Mallarme's "preciosite so full of meaning" inspired him to compose the Trois poemes. By using the archaic French word preciosite, which carries significant literary connotations, Ravel suggests that his understanding of Mallarme's preciosite served as the compositional impetus for these songs. After establishing Ravel's life-long affinity for Mallarme's Symbolist structures and formal improprieties, this book will present a detailed analysis of "Soupir" and "Placet futile." Both scholars and performers can benefit from these analyses, as they provide insight into the complex structures and symbolic content in Ravel's composition.

An exploration of the possible reasons why people feel the urge to give meaning to life. The book approaches its task by looking at the nature of the universe and our perception of our place in it, and it speculates on how this perception may give rise to spiritual and religious sensibilities. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 (Where Are We?) deals with aspects of the nature of the universe and the way that we perceive it through the distorting lens of our own senses and preoccupations. Part 2 (What Are We?) covers the subject of the nature of life, from its beginnings to the emergence of homo sapiens, and how the development of life has conditioned us to react to our environment in specific ways. Part 3 (Why Are We?) explores our attitudes to mental states such as consciousness and mind, and explores the implications of these attitudes. The author's attitude to the nature of the universe can be summed up in the quote on the book's cover. "We only tend to think that reality is weird when we contemplate its extremes, such as the core of the atom or the edge of the universe - but the place is actually weird all the way through."