Operative Treatment of Elbow Injuries is a complete presentation of all surgical approaches to repair of the elbow, demonstrating the most effective management of elbow injuries and problems. Drs. Plancher and Baker have assembled a group of well-known experts to write on the various procedures. Each contributor for each chapter discusses clinical anatomy, physical exam, nonoperative treatment, indications, contraindications, operative techniques and preferred author technique, results and expectations, and complications. Unique features are a separate section on sports medicine, overuse syndromes, arthroscopy of the elbow, soft tissue injuries, compression syndromes and the "hot" new techniques of distraction arthroplasty, and distraction devices for contracture release. With over 450 illustrations, half in full color, this volume will be extremely useful to the orthopaedic surgeon and the sports medicine specialist.

Essentials of Padé Approximants

If you are some times lost for something to say this book will help.Check out all the witticism, oneliners and humor and I am sure that you will agree that this book is for your libery. It will also be a welcome gift.

Quantitative Theory of Critical Phenomena details in a self-contained manner the most popular and extensively practiced methods for the quantitative study of critical phenomena. The text is divided into three parts. Part I deals with the general theory of critical phenomena — its thermodynamic aspects, statistical mechanical framework, classical model, and inequalities. Part II tackles the combinatorial theory of series generation. Part III covers the quantitative analysis of series expansions, which includes topics such as the complex variable theory, the algebraic aspects and numerical evaluation of Padé approximants, and special continuation methods. The book is recommended for mathematicians and physicists who would like to know more about critical phenomena, its theories, and the methods for its quantitative study.

It is now 17 years since the junior author's book Parasitic protozoa was first published, and 13 years since it received limited revision. The study of symbiotic protozoa has meanwhile progressed, and much of the content of the earlier book has been superseded if not displaced by recent knowledge. We believe that there is still a place for an introductory textbook, conventionally arranged on a taxonomic frame work, on this most fascinating group of organisms. It should supplement (certainly not supplant) more modern treatments from different angles. A mountain looks very different if one approaches it from different sides, though a true picture of that mountain can be built up only by the laborious summation of the views provided by all approaches. The immunology and the chemotherapy of protozoal infections are subjects so complex that we do not propose to try to encompass them in this book. We mention briefly the more commonly used therapeutic compounds in the various chapters that follow, without giving details of dosage schedules. Further information on immunology and chemo therapy can be obtained from the books listed at the end of the Introduction; the information we give on chemotherapy is largely drawn from that of James & Gilles. This book can be regarded as an evolutionary descendant of the earlier "Parasitic protozoa", referred to above, extensively revised and much more fully illustrated. We hope that it will prove as useful as its predecessor appears to have been.

I'm glad Jesus did things his way, and not mine. If I'd been in charge of bringing salvation to the world, we'd all be in deep trouble. But there are things that utterly confuse me about what Jesus did. Why did he pick fishermen? Why not make the parables easier to understand? Why a cross of all places? In fact, why die at all? You are, after all, God. So, why did he do it the way that he did? By re-telling a few of the Gospel stories as if I (a firefighter) had been Jesus, and then having JR (a pastor) explain why Jesus did things his way, hopefully we can shed some light on what Jesus' mission was all about, and the decisions he made. God has an amazing sense of humour, and hopefully he won't mind us exploring how ridiculous, how unbiblical, how utterly fruitless and how hilariously inept the Gospels would have become, if I was Jesus.

A training academy for Sunats, an insectile breed of supernatural beings blending with the human race, a hotel that serves up its own brand of redemption right along with its world-famous breakfast, A future where people are disregarded as mere pawns on a chessboard, a cupid who proves to be much more than what Vanetine's Day suggests, a man who realizes he has become a zombie and must battle for his very soul against all inhuman instincts, two men locked in an immortal race against an inevitable fate on a dark road, and a young girl who witnesses a murder and now must turn to the most unlikely source for protection.Seven tales of the macabre, supernatural, fanatical, and dystopian are all presented in the collection of stories brought to you by the minds of seven authors, each bringing their version of spell-binding story-telling in one anthology known as?Seven Doors of Fate.