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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'No one interested in the
history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book'
Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'Endlessly fascinating ... History
has returned to Europe, and Iron and Blood is an excellent place to
start getting reacquainted with it' The Times Iron and Blood is a
startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five
centuries of political, military, technological and economic change
to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to
the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's
narrative considers everything from weapons development to
recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military impact on
the rest of Europe has been immense. If there is one constant it
has been the sense of being beset by seemingly more powerful
enemies - France or Russia or Turkey - and the need to strike a
rapid knockout blow to ensure a favourable result. Almost
inevitably, this has in practice meant protracted, relentless and
often unwinnable wars, and - in 1939-1945 - moral catastrophe. The
author of definitive books on the Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty
Years War, Peter Wilson has with Iron and Blood written his
masterpiece. 'Hugely impressive' Richard J. Evans, Times Literary
Supplement
Returning for its fifth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia
has been re-energized by new editors and a specialist contributor
team, while still retaining its much-loved, clear and concise
style. Written for anaesthetists at all stages of their careers,
from trainees sitting exams through to experienced consultants as
well as ODPs and nurses involved in theatre area work and
pre-assessment, this comprehensive guide to the anaesthetic world
is as indispensable as ever. This new edition has been completely
revised and brings you the most up-to-date guidance and information
to keep pace with fast-moving areas of anaesthesia, including a
completely revised regional anaesthesia chapter. Now in full colour
and packed with enhanced illustrations throughout, including new
ECG rhythm strips and illustrations of specialist equipment, the
Handbook also includes colour coding for easier navigation.
Designed for daily use, this Handbook is your essential companion
to anaesthesia, with everything you need at your fingertips whether
on the go or for revision.
Octavia E. Butler said, "There's nothing new under the sun, but
there are new suns." New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the
strange, the unexpected, the shocking-breakthrough stories, stories
shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale
preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New
Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and
British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races
to tell us tales no one has ever told. Many things come in twos:
dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found
throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and
horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and
present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders. Including stories
by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger,
Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex
Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang,
Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcala,
Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter
Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.
Psalms, part of the Bringing the Bible to Life series, a companion
to Zondervan's NIV Application Commentary, explores both the
historical meaning of the biblical text and its contemporary
significance. Psalms provides a journey through a selection of
Psalms, ten sessions with discussion questions, and a closing
section that assists you and your group in responding to God's Word
together or individually.
The Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine, now available in PDA
format, each offer a short but comprehensive overview of an entire
specialty featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions
that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive,
the handbooks offer up-to-date advice on examination,
investigations, common procedures, and in-patient care. Written by
leading American practitioners, these PDAs will be invaluable
resources for students, residents, and practitioners.
These PDA versions enable enhanced, multi-layered access to the
entire text, illustrations, and tables. Other features include fast
access available via the key word search, and a facility for book
marking and annotating the text. It is suitable for Palm and
Windows Mobile.
Heart disease is currently the leading cause of maternal mortality
in developed countries and is expected to increase further due to
advanced maternal age and conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
Maternal Cardiac Care: A Guide to Managing Pregnant Women with
Heart Disease is an up-to-date, multidisciplinary resource for
physicians and advanced practice nurses caring for pregnant
patients with a variety of preexisting and emerging cardiac issues.
Offers comprehensive information on caring for women with heart
disease, in an easy-to-follow, quick-access format. Shares
knowledge from a multidisciplinary group of experts who are well
versed in the team approach needed to treat this high-risk patient
population. Includes extensive references for readers who want to
delve more deeply into specific subjects. Ideal for obstetricians,
internists, cardiologists, critical care specialists, and advanced
practice nurses involved in caring for pregnant patients, as well
as institutions and departments that need detailed guidance on
establishing a maternal cardiac care program. 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.
Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to
provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of
common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the
kinds of problems that were frequently encountered in outpatient
centres at the time. The authors provide a general introduction to
the nature and causes of each of the selected problems, with a
focus on the kind of background knowledge that may be useful in the
planning of initial interviews and the selection of appropriate
interventions. Detailed examples are provided of the questions that
may help elicit information on the history, severity, and causes of
the problems for individual clients, and there is also a brief
discussion of selected formal assessment instruments for each
problem area. A major aim of the text is to teach basic principles
of problem identification, behavioural analysis and a structured
approach to assessment.
Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to
provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of
common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the
kinds of problems that were frequently encountered in outpatient
centres at the time. The authors provide a general introduction to
the nature and causes of each of the selected problems, with a
focus on the kind of background knowledge that may be useful in the
planning of initial interviews and the selection of appropriate
interventions. Detailed examples are provided of the questions that
may help elicit information on the history, severity, and causes of
the problems for individual clients, and there is also a brief
discussion of selected formal assessment instruments for each
problem area. A major aim of the text is to teach basic principles
of problem identification, behavioural analysis and a structured
approach to assessment.
In this terrifying tale of humanity's desperate stand against a
robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining
sci-fi thriller in years.
Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our
world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike--yet massively
powerful--artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global
network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly
becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour--the moment the
robots attack--the human race is almost annihilated, but as its
scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a
determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that
conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who
experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines.
Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, "Robopocalypse" is an
action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real
technology that surrounds us.
From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of
Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military
history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since
before the rise of Prussia and the world wars. German military
history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of
Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and
the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson
challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to
German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds
little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting.
Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the
Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops
but also for resolving disputes diplomatically. Both the empire and
the Swiss Confederation were largely defensive in orientation,
while German participation in foreign wars was most often in
partnership with allies. The primary aggressor in Central Europe
was not Prussia but the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, yet Austria's
strength owed much to its ability to secure allies. Prussia,
meanwhile, invested in militarization but maintained a part-time
army well into the nineteenth century. Alongside Switzerland, which
relied on traditional militia, both states exemplify the
longstanding civilian element within German military power. Only
after Prussia's unexpected victory over France in 1871 did Germans
and outsiders come to believe in a German gift for warfare-a
special capacity for high-speed, high-intensity combat that could
overcome numerical disadvantage. It took two world wars to expose
the fallacy of German military genius. Yet even today, Wilson
argues, Germany's strategic position is misunderstood. The country
now seen as a bastion of peace spends heavily on defense in
comparison to its peers and is deeply invested in less kinetic
contemporary forms of coercive power.
The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the
end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First
World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian
and German unification divide this century in two. In the first
half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst
an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating
technological change. The mid-century wars left an equally
problematic legacy, including aspects that pointed towards 'total
war'. The 26 essays in this volume examine these changes from a
variety of innovative and fresh perspectives.
Communicating the excitement and importance of criminal justice
research, this practical and comprehensive book shows students how
to perform and understand statistical analyses, while helping them
recognize the connection between statistical analyses used in
everyday life and their importance to criminology and criminal
justice. This updated Fifth Edition is packed with real-world case
studies and contemporary examples utilizing the most current crime
data and empirical research available. Each chapter presents a
particular statistical method in the context of a substantive
research story.
This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the
history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and
means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing
animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the
press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of
considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the
influence of scientific and veterinary opinion and the
effectiveness of proposals for supervisory legislation, noting the
current international status and characteristics of present-day
practice within the commercial sector. Animal performance has a
long history, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this
aspect of popular entertainment became the subject not just of a
major public controversy but also of prolonged British
parliamentary attention to animal welfare. Following an assessment
of the use of trained animals in the more distant historical past,
the book charts the emergence of criticism and analyses the
arguments and evidence used by the opponents and proponents in
Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, noting
comparable events in the United States and elsewhere.
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a
household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the
threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic
and resonant. THE EVOLUTION IS COMING In 1967, an extraterrestrial
microbe - designated the Andromeda Strain - came crashing down to
Earth and nearly ended the human race. A team of top scientists
worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable
proportions. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle
continued. And the world thought it was safe.... Deep inside
Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued
to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. And now, a
Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of
otherworldly matter, bearing the tell-tale chemical signature of
the deadly microparticle. With this shocking discovery, a diverse
team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to
investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat. But the microbe is
growing - evolving. And if the team can't reach the quarantine
zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new
Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it. 'A
meticulously crafted adventure story, packed with action, mystery,
wonder, and just enough hard science to scare the hell out of you.
So good!' Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One 'Wilson invokes
the best of [Crichton's classic novel], and updates everything with
terrific flair' Mail Online 'Does a good job of mixing hard science
and thrills' The i 'Satisfyingly amplifies the original' Financial
Times Would make Crichton proud" Washington Post 'Tautly told,
often exciting and tense' SFX magazine
This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the
history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and
means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing
animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the
press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of
considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the
influence of scientific and veterinary opinion and the
effectiveness of proposals for supervisory legislation, noting the
current international status and characteristics of present-day
practice within the commercial sector. Animal performance has a
long history, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this
aspect of popular entertainment became the subject not just of a
major public controversy but also of prolonged British
parliamentary attention to animal welfare. Following an assessment
of the use of trained animals in the more distant historical past,
the book charts the emergence of criticism and analyses the
arguments and evidence used by the opponents and proponents in
Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, noting
comparable events in the United States and elsewhere.
Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
2011 The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War
(1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter
of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to
such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the
major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and,
while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting
rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to
marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder.
The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this
tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether
motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict
was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had
been created but at a terrible price. Peter Wilson's book is a
major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a
fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling
series of events. Wilson's great strength is in allowing the reader
to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to
gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results. The
principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus
Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the
ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive
under impossible circumstances.
This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in
1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a
comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through
the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war
and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday
experience.
"The Bee and the Eagle" brings together a team of international
specialists to present original findings on six key themes of
Empire: political cultures, war and military institutions,
monarchy, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience. With a
comparative approach, it begins in 1806 at the dissolution of the
Holy Roman Empire, and its replacement by a French-sponsored new
political order.
In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an
army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle
and farm their ancestral land. The eloquence of her letter was such
that it made its way into Harper's Weekly. Ten years later, as her
people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War,
she convinced Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to grant the
requests in her letter and free the Paiutes as well. Schurz's
decision unleashed furious opposition from the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, cattlemen, and settlers. A campaign of disinformation by
government officials followed, sweeping truth aside and falsely
branding Paiute chief Egan as instigator and leader of the Indian
forces. The campaign succeeded in its mission to overturn Schurz's
decision. To this day histories of the war appear to be unanimous
in their mistaken claim that Egan led his Paiutes into war. Indian
agents' betrayal of the people they were paid to protect saddled
Paiutes with responsibility for a war that most opposed and that
led to U.S. misappropriation of their land, their only source of
life's necessities. With neither land nor reservation, Paiutes were
driven more deeply into poverty and disease than any other Natives
of that era. David H. Wilson Jr. pulls back the curtain to reveal
what government officials hid-exposing the full jarring injustice
and, after 140 years, recounting the Paiutes' true and proud
history for the first time.
I felt highly honoured when I was asked to write about the
achievements of my late brother, Dr Frank Wilson, MB, BS(Lond.), FF
ARCS, DA, DCH, who was the editor of and a contributor to this
book. Frank graduated in Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital
Medical College in 1949 at the early age of 22. Born in Lancaster,
his one wish was to return to the North. He held house appointments
at Preston, spent his two years of National Service in the Royal
Air Force and attained the rank of Squadron Leader. While on
National Service, his interests turned to anesthetics, and as
Senior Medical Officer on H.M. Troopship 'Devonshire', he developed
a love for the sea. Convinced that anesthesia was his career, Frank
came to Liverpool and attended the University course in this
speciality. The vast experi ence he gained in anesthesia in the
Liverpool Hospitals and on the Thoracic, Cardiac, Neurosurgical and
Paediatric units, ensured his continued interest in resuscitation
and neonatal anesthesia, which led him to design a new tracheostomy
tube when he was at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. He became
Lecturer in Anesthesia at the University of Liverpool and later
Consultant Anesthetist to Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and then to
the Burnley group of hospitals and to Lancaster in 1966."
This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and
the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Using
examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions
the established narrative that violence was only curbed through the
rise of western-style nation states and civil societies. Global
history allows us to reframe and challenge traditional models for
the history of violence and to rethink categories and units of
analysis through comparisons. By decentring Europe and exploring
alternative patterns of violence, the contributors to this volume
articulate the significance of violence in narratives of state- and
empire-building, as well as in their failure and decline, while
also providing new means of tracing the transition from the early
modern to modernity. -- .
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