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Lion's Breakfast is a both a love story and a dystopian novel set in about 2050 AD. The elderly population has expanded to such a degree that society must look at new ways of looking after elderly people so that they no longer are a burden on the young tax-payer. In this new world, everyone over the age of 60 must live in a Twilight Zone -a ghetto where healthcare and money are in short supply, and there are extensive restrictions on relationships between the Old World and the Young World. It is age apartheid. On his 60th birthday, Tom Fleming, a former army surgeon, moves to a Twilight Zone....

Shining light on the truth behind an epic historical fiction of women warriors, told as never before, 'Sarmatian Girl' is wonderfully imagined and impossible to put down. The goddess Tabiti is smiling on the day Alce, on the cusp of womanhood, slays her first man in single combat. With this kill she has proven her worth and gains the right to be called a Sarmatian, one of the fierce and feared women warriors who can fight and ride as well as any man in Urartu. Her feats in battle have earned the admiration of Queen Antianeira, who can see a great destiny in the young girl's future. Her first...

Researchers from many disciplines, with both basic and clinical perspectives, came together in this volume to review and debate issues pertaining to the investigation and control of tissue oxygenation in acute medicine, as well as treatments to improve tissue oxygenation when abnormal. In this latter context, special emphasis is placed on understanding the effect of blood substitutes on the circulation and on the potential roles of this family of compounds in clinical medicine.