Vitrification in Assisted Reproduction presents standard and new cryopreservation techniques in detail, outlining those that have resulted in success, and providing recommended means for overcoming typically encountered problems. This new edition provides a much broader range of clinical application and data to demonstrate its contribution to the use of vitrified oocytes and embryos. The book also discusses new areas in the field of assisted reproductive technology such as oocyte banking, preimplantion diagnostics at the blastocyst stage, and the burgeoning adoption of elective single embryo transfer. Written by expert scientists and clinical embryologists, this book will help you to consistently and predictably apply vitrification as an important therapeutic strategy in assisted reproduction.

Many people get dogs as companions for their children, but the children are often entirely left out of the training process. Allowing the children to participate will not only help them learn responsibility, but will help them to understand and be close to their dogs. Simple training expercises that can easily be done by children and their parents help children to feel included in all the excitement that comes with having a new dog. Author Michael Tucker knows just the right way to talk to children: his tone is always kind, never patronizing. Parents, children and certainly dogs will find his sensible, patient approach to training irresistible. Michael Tucker is an internationally renowned dog trainer and the author of Howell s Dog Training Made Easy.

Many people get dogs as companions for their children, but the children are often entirely left out of the training process. Allowing the children to participate will not only help them learn responsibility, but will help them to understand and be close to their dogs. Simple training expercises that can easily be done by children and their parents help children to feel included in all the excitement that comes with having a new dog. Author Michael Tucker knows just the right way to talk to children: his tone is always kind, never patronizing. Parents, children and certainly dogs will find his sensible, patient approach to training irresistible. Michael Tucker is an internationally renowned dog trainer and the author of Howell s Dog Training Made Easy.

The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto valley amid an olive grove and fruit trees of every kind. For the Tuckers, it was literally love at first sight, and the couple purchased the house without testing the water pressure or checking for signs of termites. Shedding the vestiges of their American life, Michael and Jill endeavored to learn the language, understand the nuances of Italian culture, and build a home in this new chapter of their lives. Both a celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, Living in a Foreign Language is a gorgeous, organic travelogue written with an epicurean's delight in detail and a gourmand's appreciation for all things fine.

The adventures of two Army mules as they travel from one Frontier fort to another back in the 1880's.

Lived and felt by me. Starting thinking and writing in Marin combat training. Not all will like but it is a part of me.

Timeweave: Synopsis Timeweave is a historical fantasy that starts with a band of Vikings attacking an Anglo-Saxon village and taking the villagers captive. Two survivors, both weavers, are told by a mystical warrior to weave a message asking for help, which is then sent to a weaving shed on a Victorian landed estate. After the message arrives, the landowner's daughter is drawn back in time to the Anglo-Saxon village and this compels the landowner to raise a rescue party to go in search of his daughter and the villagers. Interspersed by further messages between the two centuries there are ambushes, threats of torture, moral dilemmas and hostage taking to be resolved, before the rescue mission is successful and the inhabitants of both eras are able to return to their everyday lives. However, just as everything on the Victorian estate seems to be getting back to normal, there is a final twist with the arrival of a new message from the ninth century. Main theme A force of marauding Vikings attacks an Anglo-Saxon village and captures most of the inhabitants. A mystic warrior, Kenwyn, suddenly appears and offers to help two survivors, Aidan and Sheply, who are weavers. He enables them to magically send a message from one of their looms to the weaving shed of a 19th century widowed landowner, Josiah Armitage. Josiah's only daughter, Emily, becomes involved in the affair. She disobeys him and is drawn back to the year AD 850 by Kenwyn, and because of this Josiah is eventually persuaded to raise an armed force to go on a rescue mission to save Emily and the captured villagers. The rescue group suffers a number of setbacks, and Josiah sends Emily back with the wounded to Victorian times. After a fire at Josiah's estate, Emily returns to be with her father but is taken hostage by the Vikings. After a difficult moral dilemma in deciding how to free her, Josiah and his group are able to bring about the successful outcome of the rescue mission and to return safely to Victorian England. Subsidiary themes There is an ongoing relationship between Josiah's family and the family of his neighbour, a rich widow, Lillian Maddison. Lillian attempts to bring about the betrothal of Emily to her son, Benjamin, and her own marriage to Josiah. In the absence of Josiah on the rescue mission, a romantic involvement occurs between Lillian and Arthur Abraham, a professor of linguistics, who is helping in the rescue effort as a translator. During the rescue mission, Emily feels a growing attachment for both Jack French, from Josiah's estate and Aidan, Jack's ninth century alter ego. As a result of being wounded on the rescue mission, after his repatriation Benjamin Maddison turns violently against Emily and Josiah by getting one of his employees to burn down their weaving shed, thus putting communication and the whole rescue mission in jeopardy. During the final armed engagement against the Vikings, Aidan disappears, presumably captured by the Vikings. Josiah returns to Victorian times successful, but is compelled to investigate the arson attack, and finally discovers that Benjamin is the guilty party. Josiah is a local magistrate and he deals successfully with the treatment of Benjamin and at the same time tries to maintain the impetus of his rekindled relationship with Lillian. There is a slow development of the relationship between Emily and Jack French, but just as Victorian life is getting back to normal, a further message arrives from the ninth century signed Aidan.