The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.

Timely new edition, set to publish shortly after Brexit to make it up to date with all reforms relating to competition law in the UK and EU Written to be easily accessible to both law undergraduate students and students in related disciplines (such as Business) with straightforward language and any technical terminology fully explained in a supporting glossary. Provides historical context and contemporary information on competition law as well as covering current developments in policy Fully up-to-date and addresses emerging topics including the damages directive, digital markets and Brexit.

It is a truism that almost all the major principles established by the ECJ have been decided in the context of a reference to that court for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 (ex 177) EC. Article 234 facilitates a dialogue between the national courts and the ECJ in order to allow national courts to seek guidance on the appropriate interpretation of Community law principles in a particular legal dispute. From a Community perspective, this process should enhance the uniform and consistent interpretation of Community law throughout the national courts. This book adds to a growing body of literature on the ECJ's role in developing Community law and comprises quantitative and qualitative aspects.It is based on collaborative research, involving 14 Member States, which focused on the Article 234 procedure in relation to competition law and State aid cases. Rapporteurs were appointed in each Member State from which any Article 177/234 references had been made in relation to competition law or State aid. The results presented here follow up competition law-related Article 234 rulings to their domestic legal context, to ascertain what happened in the subsequent legal phase, when parties seek to enforce their rights or rely on other party's obligations, on the basis of the ruling by the ECJ.Each national report is built on a questionnaire seeking information on a range of issues relative to every competition law-related ruling by the ECJ in references from that Member State's courts, including the following: the number of rulings in relation to that Member State; the dates of all rulings; details of the case background, reference questions, and the ECJ ruling for each case; and information, where available, on each post-ruling process. The research is comprehensive in reviewing all competition law-related rulings to 1 May 2004, and pioneering as being the first systematic attempt to collate detailed information on all relevant cases, including crucially the post-ruling process. This research is an important contribution to the literature on the ECJ and its role in developing a competition culture across the Community. Moreover, the importance of ensuring consistency and uniformity in the implementation of EC competition law by national courts has been given added significance following the accession of new Member States. In light of these factors, this book will serve as a reliable groundwork for further studies of the development of European integration, particularly as it focuses on competition law, an area of ever-increasing significance and importance. It is also of distinctive value to practitioners seeking precedents or juridical context on which to build arguments in European competition law.

Timely new edition, set to publish shortly after Brexit to make it up to date with all reforms relating to competition law in the UK and EU Written to be easily accessible to both law undergraduate students and students in related disciplines (such as Business) with straightforward language and any technical terminology fully explained in a supporting glossary. Provides historical context and contemporary information on competition law as well as covering current developments in policy Fully up-to-date and addresses emerging topics including the damages directive, digital markets and Brexit.

Ultrasonography is a crucial tool in successful assisted reproduction but requires a steady hand and can often be difficult for unconfident clinicians. A comprehensive ultrasound imaging reference, this is an essential guide for trainee clinicians, ultrasonographers, and nurses working in the field of assisted reproductive technology. Providing the reader with an overview of the process and a foundation to direct their ultrasound assessment of each patient, it contains highly practical tips and tricks for obtaining the best images. Heavily illustrated with example images, the role of ultrasound in fertility treatment is explained, as well as how to identify the uterus and ovaries, measure the endometrium, count follicles and recognize pathology. The role of ultrasound in assisted reproduction is covered, including transvaginal oocyte collection, embryo transfer, early pregnancy, miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. This is an indispensable reference for clinicians new to ultrasound in assisted reproduction.

A Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the actual bodies attending early modern English playhouses. Amy J. Rodgers demonstrates how the English commercial theater's rapid development and prosperity altered the lexicon for describing theatergoers and the processes of engagement that the theater was believed to cultivate. In turn, these changes influenced and produced a cultural projection-the spectator-a figure generated by social practices rather than a faithful recording of those who attended the theater. The early modern discursive spectator did not merely develop alongside the phenomenological one, but played as significant a role in shaping early modern viewers and viewing practices as did changes to staging technologies, exhibition practices, and generic experimentation. While audience and film studies have theorized the spectator, these fields tend to focus on the role of twentieth-century media (film, television, and the computer) in producing mass-culture viewers. Such emphases lead to a misapprehension that the discursive spectator is modernity's creature. Fearing anachronism, early modern scholars have preferred demographic studies of audiences to theoretical engagements with the "effects" of spectatorship. While demographic work provides an invaluable snapshot, it cannot account for the ways that the spectator is as much an idea as a material presence. And, while a few studies pursue the dynamics that existed among author, text, and audience using critical tools sharpened by film studies, they tend to obscure how early modern culture understood the spectator. Rather than relying exclusively on historical or theoretical methodologies, A Monster with a Thousand Hands reframes spectatorship as a subject of inquiry shaped both by changes in entertainment technologies and the interaction of groups and individuals with different forms of cultural production.

AN ORWELLIAN DETECTIVE STORY IN A DAMAGED UNIVERSE. The Earth has suffered a cataclysmic event. London survives, but only just, through the authority of the Group that took control nearly ten years ago. When the naked body of a man washes up on the banks of the Thames, the regime in charge tries to dismiss the death as another suicide. Senior Verifier Jadon Purgo has other ideas and as he digs through layers of deceit a gruesome truth begins to emerge... David J Rodger has crafted a claustrophobic vision of survivalism. The horrors of the world after Yellow Dawn are kept at bay through corruption and the idealism of rewarding success. But the real horror is what lies at the heart of this new London. This is a thriller you will not be able to put down or forget.

Susie Andrews, a young teenager, has her entire life ahead of her. Suddenly, however, this life seems shattered after she is involved in a tragic car accident. Susie is left paralyzed and she sees no future for herself. But with the love and support of her mother, her best friend, a special guy in her life, and above all, God, she is given the strength to become a survivor.

In Lamentations 3:22, Jeremiah writes: "The faithful love of the lord never ends His mercies never cease."

In these scriptures, God is talking of His mercy for us that He sent us His son to die for our sins and if He can show such mercy why is it that we can't show some mercy for others? His love and mercy for us never ends so why should our love and mercy end? It all comes down to how we should act and love others who may not be at the place we are or maybe not even know the Lord at all. We shouldn't cram it down their throats or even preach to them, but love them for what they are and where they are. That is showing the true message of the Lord.

Mercy is the story of Sam who was sexually and physically abused as a boy. It follows the struggles that he goes through on his way to be shown and accept mercy so that he can heal. Mercy will also allow him to give and receive love through his relationships despite any hardships that he encounters.

Contains Ancient Coins Of India, Mediaeval Coins Of India, Miscellaneous North Indian Coins, And Miscellaneous South Indian Coins.

Contains Ancient Coins Of India, Mediaeval Coins Of India, Miscellaneous North Indian Coins, And Miscellaneous South Indian Coins.

Insulin pump therapy is now a well-established option for treating diabetes. This method of insulin delivery offers the opportunity for people with diabetes to manage their diabetes confidently and competently to achieve good glycaemic control and a better quality of life. "Using Insulin Pumps in Diabetes" covers all aspects of insulin pump therapy in a clear and informative style, and is an essential guide for all health professionals involved in caring for people with diabetes using insulin pumps.

"Using Insulin Pumps in Diabetes" explores issues such as the advantages and disadvantages of insulin pump therapy; the experiences of insulin pump users, how to set up an insulin pump service, how to set and adjust insulin doses and optimising glycaemic control. It also includes chapters on insulin pumps in pregnancy, and in babies, toddlers and young children.

For acclaimed documentary film-maker, Adam Kyle, this was going to be another feather in his cap. Embedded within a team of highly-trained corporate mercenaries, he was covering the start of an operation in England. But when the operation goes terribly wrong, Kyle finds himself battling for his life, his sanity, and maybe even his very soul as a new and dramatic story unfolds, dragging him across the globe...and beyond. It isn't just his documentary that is at stake, but the fate of every living thing in the Universe. David J Rodger's trademark gut-wrenching rendering of a dark and edgy near-future, and relentless narrative pace, are here in palm-sweating abundance, delivered in a tense action-packed novel that plunges you uncomfortably deep into crawling chaos festering and feeding on the membrane of human existence. Rodger's work is a must for any fan of Cyberpunk and the Cthulhu Mythos - Hagen Landsem, K9

At the end of the 20th century, the welfare state is being subjected to fundamental re-appraisal. It is commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new moral economy in which responsibility for welfare and social care is shifted from the state to the family and community. This text critically assesses the range of academic and political debates around the questions such a shift raises, exploring how far social solidarity is possible when social inequality has become so in evidence in the last two decades of the 20th century.

The key questions addressed in this book relate to how we should understand social welfare today. Is it a mechanism for promoting the virtues of altruism and other-regarding social values through the design of compassionate social policies which seek to enhance the quality of social relationships between citizens, or, is it a self-reproducing sub-system of law and politics which operates in accordance with its own internal logic, independently of the human agents who try to steer it towards benign social outcomes? This book questions whether the language of the enlightenment is the most appropriate to describe a socio-political project that is struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing economic and political conditions which now exist in a neo-liberal global world.The main sociological theorists guiding the analysis here are Niklas Luhmann, Jurgen Habermas and Norbert Elias, among others. The key themes analysed in the book are street-level bureaucracy and the interface between the welfare system and the citizen; sensemaking in welfare organisations and in society; the relationship between lay morality and the policy making process; the link between the third sector and philanthrocapitalism; and the emotional dimension of social policy, especially in relation to social work practice. It will appeal to social science students of social and political theory, as well as those seeking an understanding of the changing context of contemporary issues in social policy.