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Offers a collection of poetry for young readers from numerous visual poets, including Maureen W. Armour and John Hollander.
This book covers sports-related eye injuries, presenting standard processes to enable clinical practitioners to make appropriate decisions on the management of these patients. Sports-related activities are responsible for a large percentage of ocular injuries, particularly among young people, and can even lead to blindness. Given the increasing trend in these injuries and the potential functional loss they entail, it is important to understand how to prevent and to accurately diagnose and treat them. This book discusses the definition, etiology, clinical presentations and signs, treatment, and prevention of sports-related eye injuries, and includes typical clinical cases, together with a wealth of images and illustrative figures. Offering a systematic and symptom-based guide to clinical practice, it will help clinical practitioners to fully prepare for the various challenges posed by sports-related eye injuries.
Once you start poppin', there's just no stoppin'! Raised buttons pop in on every page of these fun, tactile books so kids can press them as they read along, and learn to count. In this newest addition, kids can pop the buttons as they sing the alphabet and search for all the different eye-spy elements of this hunt-and-find animal alphabet adventure! This adaptation of the popular rhyme, "A My Name is Alice," teaches the alphabet in a whole new way!
Discusses ocular and orbital disorders that appear as emergencies and provides a reference for practical hands-on management. The book aims to help physicians evaluate patients with traumatic/non-traumatic ophthalmologic disorders, and develop optimal therapeutic plans.
When Andrew Carnegie's flying locomotive deposits Archimedes the duck (and his telekinetic fish, Finley) in the vast Ohio desert, it is only the beginning of a long and torturous journey involving cannibalism, decapitation and social faux-pas. While Finley tries to create the perfect artificial poker game, the horrors of the backwater city of Zuckerstown come to light... and they are horribly unpleasant horrors indeed! Now, as his companions are brutally murdered in their hotel rooms each night, Archimedes must uncover the dark secret of the Titan Inn... before the killer strikes him as well!
This revised and expanded edition adds over 300 new expressions that help unlock the meaning of everyday expressions. Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who use direct, precise language and `take things literally'. This dictionary aims to dispel any confusion that arises from the misinterpretation of language. It provides explanations of over 5000 idiomatic expressions and a useful guide to their politeness level. Each expression is accompanied by a clear explanation of its meaning and when and how it might be used. The expressions are taken from British and American English, with some Australian expressions included as well. Although the book is primarily intended for people with Asperger Syndrome, it will be useful for anyone who has problems understanding idiomatic and colloquial English. An essential resource and an informative read; this dictionary will assist in a wide range of situations.
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What Is What Was, Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. In the book's seven sections are analyses of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as an Anglification machine, of Silicon Valley at its shaky peak, of James and Dante as travel writers, a Lucretian look at today's cosmology, American fiction in deta...