This practical 2003 handbook provides an extremely comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to micromanipulation techniques in assisted conception in a clinical setting. It includes detailed, illustrated descriptions of all the common micromanipulation systems currently in use in IVF laboratories around the world and clearly explains how to optimise their successful use. The volume covers state-of-the-art techniques including intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and procedures such as assisted hatching and the blastomere biopsy (for preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD). Valuable information on troubleshooting the potential mechanical and technical difficulties that can arise is provided to help all the practitioners of these techniques, including trainee embryologists and consultant obstetricians, and technicians and scientists involved in animal transgenesis and cloning. It will undoubtedly be of immense value to all doctors and scientists working with assisted reproductive technologies.

A selection of poems from authors nationwide describing American society from a personal point of view. Collectively, they add up to a critical look at the way things are, expressed in poems whose fine quality makes them deserving of attention. Note: A PDF version is available for viewing at the FutureCycle Press website. All proceeds from the sale of the paperback and Kindle editions help support FutureCycle Press's Good Works Project.

The Hunted River is a book of poems dealing with phases of life and mind. The poems examine the struggle between status quo and growth, comfort and change, control and freedom. The voice in these poems ranges from mystic tenor to bass blue collar, all the while asking if nature is what we see, what we cannot see, or what we want to see.

The Gravedigger's Roots is told by the gravedigger himself, a man who is at the lowest point of the social totem pole. He is, however, also a man with spiritual (but not religious) leanings. He tries to understand the work he does and why things happen (or don't happen). He is undeniably a cynic, yet he suspects that life goes on beyond the grave, that after death he may be reborn to a life he'd rather not live, finally to succeed or to fail once again. The gravedigger could be described as a pessimist who is not bereft of hope.

Developing a Photograph of God by Robert S. King is a wonderfully cohesive and morally serious examination of the topic he evokes in the poem When the Road Curves Back "to find out why I'm here." This collection engages the 'dark night of the soul' and the presumptions of optimism; that life has meaning as King says in the last poem "that my small telescope can pull both past/and future back to show me how far/the curious soul has traveled." With a maturity of vision and a language drenched in lyric, King leaves us with remarkable images such as "Serpents of rain/ puzzle of noise and clumsy dance." "the places/where regret nags, dreams freeze and hope crackles down in fire" and "Smell the feathers of the angels burning." These poems, intimate and agonized, swinging between the horns of hope and despair, shed illumination on the grave and haunting philosophical questions. Joan Colby, author of Joan Colby: Selected Poems and other collections"

This small book of poems with much to tell holds poignant vignettes of one woman's life. From the humor and empathy of character studies about people whose lives touched hers to the terror of a nocturnal tornado; from the depth of her love for nature to the life-long love that survived despite wartime separations that often left her to raise four children alone, Thompson heralds the unique joys and struggles of being a woman that embraces all of life.

As a talented young poet and small press editor/publisher (Ali Baba Press), Diane Kistner was right in the thick of the 1970s creative ferment that became the Atlanta Little Five Points "scene." She performed her own work and published the work of other poets, writers, and artists of her day. These poems represent the best from her 1979 book (published under the name D. Kistner Katz by Bootlaig Press), long out of print.