This compact yet comprehensive handbook will allow emergency staff to investigate and treat hand injuries with confidence, and just as impor tantly, to see at a glance which patients should be referred immediate ly to a specialist hand surgeon. Written in a concise and accessible s tyle, it is illustrated throughout with clear and informative diagrams .

What's life all about? When reading or watching the daily news, or going about our life, we often witness or experience suffering and injustices. Whether it's an Act of God, or some form of human error or cruelty, we have to wonder at why it happens. Why do good people, innocent babies and animals often seem to get hurt through no fault of their own? Why does there appear to be more rudeness and rage than ever before? Even our home, our planet Earth is being hurt possibly beyond any correction. And then, at almost the same time, we wonder if there's a life after we die, and if we will come...

Contains Cicero s De Oratore and Brutus, influential sources over the centuries for ideas on rhetoric and training for public leadership.

The De Oratore, written in 55 B.C., argues that rhetoric is socially significant because states are established and maintained through the leadership of eloquent men.

The three books of dialogues in this volume feature discussions between well-known figures in Roman history, including Lucius Crassus, Marcus Antonius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Quintus Marcius Scaevola, Caius Aurelius Cotta, Julius Caesar Strabo Vopicus, and...