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ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER YORK HOUSE It was such a lively old house, elegant and airy, but it had one minor flaw. The people who checked in, never checked out-alive. Undaunted by rumors of evil, Cathy Lockwood walked right into the festering heart of the crumbling mansion, determined to find her brother. She was sure he was alive-in some form-and she swore she'd rip York House apart, timber by timber, to find him. She thought nothing human or inhuman could scare her away-until she confronted the horrifying secret that waited for her in the dark, fetid basement. The she could scream to high heaven, but only hell would hear her.
Debra Livingston was an operating room nurse who became a witness in the witness protection program through no fault of her own. She walked in on a heated conversation between a surgeon and a scrub nurse after the death of a senator's daughter who died on the operating table. Debra was warned about what she heard by the scrub nurse who was also her roommate and friend. Sally was killed an hour later in a hit-and-run accident as she was running for her life. The surgeon had died just moments after the confrontation in the operating room. Debra knew she needed to run for her life, or she would end up the same; however, the police got to her first before the mob could kill her. The corruption w...
This manual has been specifically designed and written for use on a company law elective on the Bar Vocational Course. The pragmatic approach adopted by the manual through the use of a worked example containing examples of typical letters, statements, opinions and a statement of case, ensures that the junior practitioner has an opportunity to practice and refine all of the necessary professional legal skills they will require to be successful in practice. Company Law in Practice provides a detailed overview of the salient topics in company law which the junior practitioner is most likely to encounter in the first years of practice. Such key topics covered include the constitution of companies, share and loan capital, directors' and shareholder meetings, the role and duties of directors, shareholder protection, insolvency and compulsory winding up. All topics contained in the manual have been fully revised in light of the Companies Act 2006.
The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years. This book explains to ordinary clinicians why they should be bothered with IT, and what their responsibilities are in making it work. This book provides an enlightening and reassuring read that dispels ignorance and suspicion. The user friendly style is helpful, and friendly panels with tips, warnings, reflective pauses and key points highlight important details. It is also suitable for use as a student textbook. The Clinician's Guide to Surviving I.T. is a must for every doctor, nurse and midwife in the NHS.
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Designed to accompany the company law module on the Bar Vocational Course, this manual gives an overview of the salient topics of the subject. It covers substantive law and provides a foundation for applying the professional skills that barristers need in a company law context.
Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK. It comprises a collection of key essays from eminent contributors on the innovative use and development of information in health care.
JavaFX is a state-of-the-art graphics toolkit that is now built into Java and can be easily integrated with the NetBeans Platform. With JavaFX, you can create advanced user interfaces, manipulate media, generate graphical effects and animations, and much more. The NetBeans Platform provides a framework for building robust, modular applications with long life expectancies. Together, JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform provide the basis for creating visually appealing, industrial-strength applications. Focusing on JavaFX as the front end for rich client applications, this guideās examples cover JavaFX 8 with the NetBeans Platform, NetBeans IDE, and Java 8. Gail and Paul Anderson fully explain J...
By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where Jim Crow discrimination was prevalent - were all too common. In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943. Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brand...
Most often remembered for her gestures, expressive eyes, and body language on the screen, ZaSu Pitts was an unusual actress (and also an excellent cook: she often gave homemade candies to her coworkers, and her collection of candy recipes was published posthumously). This affectionate study of both her private life off-screen and her public persona details how the multi-talented actress become one of filmdom's favorite comediennes and character players. The book includes many rare photographs.