From the twisted mind of Jason White are nine previously uncollected stories of isolation, desperation, horror absolute, and despair. Within these pages you will meet a man who becomes obsessed with a room that whoever enters does not come back out; a woman learns from a demon how to protect herself from the man who's been hunting her; a man who has lost his family to a house fire finds that there are creatures living inside the ruins of what was once his home. Within you will also find a young couple who see a poster advertising a heavy metal concert and decide to go, but find that the...

A small team of agents join forces with a man calling himself the new Black Knight. With the help of the Black Knight's old army partner, they fight to bring down one of the world's largest criminal empire

With contributions from leading international academics across the biological sciences, this handbook takes a critical look at the key contemporary issues and debates in the field. The 31 chapters are divided into four parts:

Part I Determination of Substance Misuse

Part II PK and PD in Relation to Patterns of Use

Part III Detection and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Use

Part IV Controversies and New Approaches

This Handbook is an excellent reference text for the growing number of academics,...

This book describes the diverse roles that growth factors and cytokines play in skeletal muscle. The extracellular environment has profound effects on the biology of skeletal muscle. The soluble portion of this environment includes a rich milieu of growth factors and cytokines which have been shown to regulate virtually all facets of the response of skeletal muscle to external stimuli, whether it be exercise induced metabolic shifts, remodeling in response to trauma or loading of the ongoing pathology associated with neuromuscular disease.

The chapters included in this work...