A hands-on, step-by-step guide to properly maintaining your home

Your home requires regular maintenance to operate safely and efficiently. The expert advice in this second edition of "Home Maintenance For Dummies" can help you save literally thousands of dollars each year by showing you how to perform home maintenance yourself

This new edition provides the latest tips on how to tune up your home and make repairs to every room of the house, from basement to attic. By combining step-by-step instructions and expert information, this practical guide gives you the skills to tackle everything from furnace tune-ups to leaky roofs. You'll also learn how to conduct routine inspections, keep major appliances running efficiently, and increase energy efficiency.Shows how to keep your home in tip-top shape, preserve its value, and avoid costly repairsCovers all rooms of the house, in addition to the roof, foundation, and exteriorExplains how to keep all home systems and major appliances running smoothlyIncludes a seasonal maintenance scheduleProvides the latest green maintenance options to help lower your utility bills

James Carey and Morris Carey have a radio show, a newspaper column, and a Web site, all called "On the House, " and appear regularly on "CBS News Saturday Morning." They are also the authors of "Home Remodeling For Dummies"

If you've always wanted to tackle home repairs like a pro, "Home Maintenance For Dummies, 2nd Edition" is your ideal resource

Since the publication of the first edition, there have been advances in both the diagnosis and the management of many of the cholestatic liver diseases. Cholestatic Liver Disease, Second Edition thoroughly updates the topics previously addressed, such as primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholestatic variants of drug hepatotoxicity and viral disease. New treatments, such as the development of the farnesoid X receptor agonists for the treatment of PBC, are highlighted. Current guidelines and areas of uncertainty are also covered. Additionally, new chapters have been added to reflect the changing landscape of cholestatic liver disease. Cholestatic Liver Disease, Second Edition is a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field and is of value to clinicians and researchers interested in patients with cholestatic liver disease provide that will help to guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.

Since the publication of the first edition, there have been advances in both the diagnosis and the management of many of the cholestatic liver diseases. Cholestatic Liver Disease, Second Edition thoroughly updates the topics previously addressed, such as primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and cholestatic variants of drug hepatotoxicity and viral disease. New treatments, such as the development of the farnesoid X receptor agonists for the treatment of PBC, are highlighted. Current guidelines and areas of uncertainty are also covered. Additionally, new chapters have been added to reflect the changing landscape of cholestatic liver disease. Cholestatic Liver Disease, Second Edition is a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field and is of value to clinicians and researchers interested in patients with cholestatic liver disease provide that will help to guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.

This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.

The Guest Editors have put together an issue of clinical reviews that provides the most current look at PBC. Authors, all experts in their respective areas, have submitted articles in the following areas: Changes in epidemiology of PBC; Genetic and epigenetics in PBC; Role of bile acids and the bicarbonate umbrella in the pathogenesis of PBC; Current treatment options in PBC; Work in progress: Drugs in development; Natural history of PBC in the UDCA era: Role of scoring systems; Treatment of Pruritus: Tricks of the trade; Chronic complications of cholestasis: Work-up and Management; Individualizing care: Management beyond medical therapy; Role of liver biopsy: When to do, how to stage; AMA-negative PBC: Is it really the same as AMA-positive PBC?; New thoughts on Overlap syndrome with auto-immune hepatitis; and Current status of liver transplantation for PBC.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

When firefighter John Casey heroically saves an elderly woman named Mrs. Parker in a terrible fire, he has no idea that this one act will change his life forever.

A mysterious letter arrives from Mrs. Parker's attorney, summoning John and his wife, Susan, to a meeting. The couple receives news they never expected. They are the sole beneficiaries of Mrs. Parker's incredible fortune, worth an estimated two billion dollars; they now own homes in Palm Beach, Boston, and New York.

With all this money comes a new challenge. As Christians, John and Susan know they need to be responsible stewards; accordingly, they give to their church and to other charities. Yet as soon as they travel to Florida to look at their new property, strange things begin to happen. Unsavory men begin following them and, unbeknownst to the couple, their own servants are involved in monitoring their every move.

As John and Susan, along with their best friends, Mark and Carol, begin to dig deeper into the Parker family history, they discover a sordid tale full of deceit, murder, demons, and angels. John and Susan must adorn the armor of God if they are to prevail over Satan's minions and emerge with their faith-and their lives-intact.