Some rules were made to be broken... or so Pete Maddox told himself as he fell in love with one of the CIA's most valuable and beautiful assets. "The Asset" is a high-octane CIA thriller set in Venezuela during the period leading up to the 2002 coup d'etat attempt against Hugo Chavez. Pete Maddox is the new CIA Station Chief in Caracas, Venezuela at a time when tensions are already high between the United States and Venezuela. The discovery of a joint Venezuelan-Libyan terrorist training camp in the Amazon jungles of Venezuela sets off a chain of events that will force Maddox to choose...

Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare.

Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science studies on men s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives.

This book discusses both healthy and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing...