Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Robust screening alongside early diagnosis and prompt management is essential for preserving vision. Advanced ophthalmic nurse practitioners, optometrists and orthoptists are increasingly becoming part of a multi-disciplinary team approach that is designed to provide the best outcomes for our patients. This full-colour book has been written by experienced ophthalmologists and optometrists, and details all that a practitioner needs to know about the condition. It will also serve as a useful reference ...

This book contains true stories from real survivors in the hopes of raising awareness of an uncommon cause of heart attack in women and men. The emotional effect of SCAD can be quite traumatic for both the survivors and those around them. It is hoped that this book will help newly diagnosed SCAD survivors to understand that they are not alone in this journey. It is also hoped that this book will assist those close to the newly diagnosed survivors to understand SCAD and the emotional effect that it has.

Our contributors have shown how many different directions we can take the fairy/folktale, from the very beginning, with are imagined Eden, through shadow puppet theater and magic spells, to end with a happily (or not-so-happily) ever after. Even Goldilocks herself would have to say that this issue is "just right."

An dieser deskriptiv-korrelationalen Studie nahmen 1854 Paare mit Krebs teil. Zur Datenerhebung wurde ein Fragebogen zur Familienleistung verwendet, der die Leistung von Familien in den Dimensionen Problemlösung, Kommunikation, Karten, emotionale Begleitung, emotionale Verbindung, Verhaltenskontrolle und Gesamtleistung untersucht. Alle an dieser Studie teilnehmenden Paare berichteten über ihre Familienleistung in allen relativ angemessenen Dimensionen.

She was the love of his life. Walking away was supposed to keep her safe... Dax's greatest regret is leaving the woman he loved. His only other regret - not being able to tell her how her brother died. Now, he lives by one rule: mission first. When Trinity re-appears as a suspect in his investigation, he must make a hard choice. Duty, or baring his soul to the woman he could never forget?  Base Commander Trinity West has a problem. Top secret material is going missing, and she needs to plug the leak - fast. Solving this case is critical. ...

From Bestselling, RITA  Ⓡ  Award-Winning Author Inglath Cooper, a contemporary romance set in the romantic heart of country music. . .Nashville.   'You think you know what matters in life. Chasing after a dream. Catching it. Holding onto it. Fighting for it, if necessary. Until everything comes to a jolting halt, and you get it. Finally, you get it when it becomes crystal clear that everything you thought mattered doesn't matter at all, unless you have the one thing that really does.' For Holden Ashford, this is CeCe, the ...

The book interrogates the controversial civil - military relations debate in Zimbabwe. The study argues that, theoretically Civil-Military Relations (CMR) describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization or organizations established to protect it. More narrowly, it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority. Studies of civil-military relations often rest on a normative assumption that civilian control of the military is preferable to military control of the ...

In Seven Crossroads of Night Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.  Quimbanda is a Brazilian cult of sorcery that has been preserved in different modalities - either as a secret cult, a necromantic cult, or as an open, religious tradition. Formed of indigenous, African, and European streams of wisdom and sorcery, this unique cult of Exu and Pomba Gira is safeguarded by these amazing entities ...

When Arthur Palmer started working in the homeless shelter, he did not expect to find much humor there. Surprisingly, it permeates the place: it could be found everywhere. It is part of survival, part of moving from one day to the next, especially if the next day does not look like it is going to be any better. This does not seem to make sense in the beginning but as time goes by it becomes very understandable. Arthur began bringing a notebook with him to the shelter to keep him company during overnight shifts and to help him process all that he experienced ...