Product Description: Trauma management is an everyday necessity in small animal practice, and the correct approach to managing fractures is vital for both short-and long-term success. This manual describes the theory and key concepts of fracture fixation and healing and deals with orthopaedic surgical principles and instrumentation and approaches to different types of fracture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In 1763, Giacomo Casanova leaves Italy for the solitude of England, but his peaceful days soon come to an end once he meets and begins to fall in love with the young and beautiful Marie Charpillon. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Major changes are happening in child and adolescent therapy. The contexts in which the work is done, the range of problems tackled, and the models of intervention adopted are all in flux. This book is an overview of current developments...read more

A master mixologist offers a comprehensive guide to the art of the mixed cocktail, presenting detailed recipes for 450 mixed drinks, from the classic Gimlet and Gin and Tonic to the Singapore Sling and Pink Lady, with secions on frozen blender drinks, hot drinks, party punches, nonalcoholic cocktails, and tips on setting up a home bar.

Product Description: The plants were pushing the houses back, each millimetre of growth adding to each tendril a new triumph of organic force. ‘We’re just starting summer rains, right?’ Babalwa asked rhetorically. ‘It’s October, right? And it rains hard up here?’ We were driving through the matchbox houses of Katlehong...read more

From one of the world's greatest prose writers, this is a remarkable psychological novel examining the duality of the human consciousness. Velchaninov, a rich and idle man undergoing a moral crisis, is confronted in St. Petersburg by Trusotsky, the loyal husband of Velchaninov’s former lover. Trusotsky informs Velchaninov that his wife has died, and from here this fascinating novella charts the development of the two men’s lives. Beautifully portraying the confused and changing feelings the two men have for one another, this work moves through guilt, hatred, and love. This is Dostoevsky at his best, engaging with his favored themes of tortured minds and neurosis, and treating them in a captivating and highly revealing way.

Product Description: From "Writing on the Road":[Norman Mailer] likes to say that all novelists are actors at heart. Over the years, it's been a useful metaphor . . . a reference to the voices and identities he explores at his desk, but tonight he's pushing it into reality...read more

Product Description: The Gazer Within collects the prose of one of America's favorite poets. Refreshingly candid, laugh-out-loud funny, and, at the same time, intimate, the pieces trace Larry Levis's early years growing up on his father's farm, his decision at sixteen to become a poet, and his undergraduate experience in the days of the Vietnam War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The need for young people still within a school environment to uderstand the world of business has been felt, by both teachers and industrialists, to be essential for enrichment of students' lives and education. Various efforts have been made over the past few years to forge links between education and industry...read more

As a child, John Dyer had felt no pain and could not speak, and after the loss of his family to smallpox, he faces great social challenges, but as an adult, John learns to speak and finally is able to find the human emotions for which he has so long been searching. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.

Product Description: The future is freedom. The Federation, a vast civilization of humanity and its allies and derivatives spanning across hundreds of worlds. The future is cutting edge. Ships travel infinite distances by folding space-time like cloth, to worlds where athletes fence with magnetic fields of atomic scale cross section rotating at near light speed (also known as ""lightsabres"") and genetically re-engineer themselves as nonchalantly as they would with plastic surgery...read more

Mentoring is used in a wide range of situations in education: to assist learning; to help weaker students or those with specific learning needs or difficulties; to develop community or business links; to aid the inclusion of pupils otherwise at risk of exclusion; to develop ethnic links; to enable students to benefit from the support of their peers, to name but a few.The development and proliferation of mentoring and mentoring schemes in education over the last few years has been dramatic, and presents teachers, school managers and leaders, as well as mentors themselves with a challenge. This book presents all mentors plus anyone working with young people with an invaluable guide to approaches to mentoring today. It looks at mentoring as a concept, at what mentoring is, how it is done well and how it can be made more effective. Written by a leading expert on mentoring, this practical and relevant handbook is backed up throughout by inspiring and relevant case studies and examples from schools and schemes internationally.

His optimism about life shattered after a visit to an African massacre site, London photojournalist Clem Glass falls into a deep depression and withdraws from everyone except his mentally troubled sister, whom he nurses back to health, until an opportunity arises to confront his own demons. By the author of Casanova in Love. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

Product Description: Salamandra. Barcelona. 2007. 22 cm. 283 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Narrativa'. Miller, Andrew 1961-. Traducido del inglés por Luis Murillo Fort. Traducción de: The optimists. Narrativa (Ediciones Salamandra) ...read more