This groundbreaking book presents compelling data and research which reveals the shocking social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on a global scale. Barnett and Whiteside—experts in the field for over 15 years—argue that it is vital to not only look at the disease in terms of prevention and treatment, but to also consider consequences which affect households, communities, companies, governments, and countries. This is a major contribution toward understanding the global public health crisis, as well as the relationship between poverty, inequality, and infectious diseases.

After a run-in with Sam, the fabled Beast of Birmingham, newly-recruited werewolf hunter Alicia barely escaped to Germany with her wounded partner. Here, there is no such thing as freedom for werewolves. From the moment they're bitten, they are tagged, filed, and monitored. It should be a hunter's dream. All she wants is to lay hands on Sam, the cause of her hate and the source of her nightmares, but she's constantly held back by restrictive orders and a new partner who might be a little too soft-hearted. Revenge must take a backseat to damage control as she finds herself blocked at every turn by bureaucrats who refuse to see the looming threat in front of them. Adam Weiss is spinning a web of insurrection just under the surface of the hunters' control, and all of Europe will be within his reach. While David sinks deeper and deeper into his old life, Sam is just happy to be getting some exercise, and his legend is finding an international stage. With old friends and new, unexpected allies, Weiss will show the wolves of Europe that even bears can be torn down by a pack.

Sam is a werewolf without a cause. He only looks as far ahead as the next drink, the next woman, and the next good time, no matter what he leaves in his wake-mostly bodies and bitter progeny. A ruthless killer and an unrepentant philanderer, he's spent over a hundred years as a drifter without a conscience. He's a tall tale, a folk legend among his kind, affectionately nicknamed "Scratch" for the scars on his face and the marks he leaves on his victims. Alicia is the one who got away. A Marine back from deployment and alone, she thought she'd find comfort in the stranger's Southern drawl. But after barely surviving a night of Sam's affections, she's picking up the pieces when she's approached by a mysterious man with an offer-take control of your life and hunt down the creature who mutilated you along with any more like him. Sam doesn't believe in werewolf hunters, and he definitely doesn't remember any girl named Alicia, but he and the reluctant accomplices caught in his undertow have attracted the attention of the shadowy organization dedicated to saving the world from people like him. In the midst of a chase Sam doesn't even know he's leading, both he and Alicia are about to be within reach of a man with deadly ambitions, and he will draw them into a conflict bigger than either of them were prepared for.

Evidence-based medicine was developed to help physicians decide whether giving a patient a particular medicine is better than doing nothing at all, and occasionally to decide whether one medicinal product is better than another. Yet evidence-based medicine, as it is currently structured, provides only limited guidance for helping physicians decide what kind of care would be best for a particular patient at a particular point in time. To remedy this problem, epidemiologists must find ways to help physicians and laymen make use of epidemiological evidence, as well as experimental evidence. This book discusses the principles, implementation methods and effectiveness of evidence-based medicine.

Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy sheriff, a bootlegger, and a possible "fixer" for both law enforcement and outlaw organizations. In real life he was a good cowboy, who provided for his family the best way he could, and who did so by slipping seamlessly between the law enforcement community and the world of illegal liquor traffickers. Stories say he killed unnumbered men on the border, but he stood trial only twice and was acquitted both times. Barnett lived in the twentieth century but carried with him many of the attitudes of old frontier Texas. Among those beliefs was that if there were problems, a man dealt with them directly and forcefully-with a gun. His penchant to settle a score with gunplay brought him into confrontation with Sheriff W. C. Fowler, a former friend, who shot Barnett with the latter's own submachine gun on loan. One contemporary summed it up best: "Officers in West Texas got the best sleep they had had in twenty years that Sunday night after Fowler killed Graham."