Dieses Buch gibt mit den Beitragen der 14. Jahrestagung der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft fur Paraplegie einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die komplexe Behandlung der nichttraumatischen Querschnittlahmungen. Vorgestellt werden die krankheitsspezifischen Behandlungsstrategien bei Fehlbildungen, zervikaler Myelopathie, spinaler Ischamie, entzundlichen Erkrankungen, Spondylitiden mit spinaler Komplikation und Tumorerkrankungen von allen an der Versorgung Querschnittgelahmter beteiligten Berufsgruppen wie Arzten, Ergotherapeuten, Krankengymnasten, Krankenpflegern und Psychologen."

A young boy. An old man. And a journey of the heart.

"My fraternal twin, Michael, died two hours after birth, drowning from fluid in his lungs. When I was two, my Mom and Dad were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. I was reared by Granddaddy and Granny, who had lived with my folks in the same rented home. I remembered neither my parents' lives nor their deaths. I suppose that's a blessing and a curse. My grandparents had provided details my young mind could understand, but I pushed them away. I did not want them.

Back in that field after thirty years, I stood poised at the edge of an abyss."

End of Summer is a poignant, literary novel that explores the mysteries of life, love and death through the eyes of a nine year old boy...interpreted by the man he grew to be.

A deeply moving and passionate book, Michael Potts' End of Summer is a poignant literary novel about childhood and memory. This is contemporary Southern fiction at its best. In textured language and with heartfelt attention to detail, Potts' nuanced portrayal of rural life in southern Appalachia and a young boy's initial encounter with death reminds us that life at the economic margins can be culturally and spiritually rich, and that even as absences and losses sometimes damage us, these can also strengthen and redeem.
- Michael Colonnese, Ph.D.
Author of "Sex and Death, I Suppose" and "Temporary Agency"

From Field to Thicket won the 2006 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers' Network. Jim Clark, Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Barton College in Wilson, NC, says, ""Mortality haunts these poems of love, family, friendship, and betrayal. Well-crafted but with a casual but elegant formality, they set the scalpel to our conflicted humanity, asking the big questions that don't always have comforting answers."

Horror poems should invade the ordinariness of the day and allow the reader to sense the chill of the uncanny. They should form dream images that haunt during sleep. This broad collection of horror poetry ranges in subject matter from death to ghosts, from dark corners of the human psyche and human behavior to Lovecraftian monsters. They will haunt and they will cling to the mind like an ancient beast's tentacles. Be careful looking over your shoulder if you feel fingers touch it--you may find that the fingers are fleshless but the claws sharp.