Colorectal surgery is a key part of the general surgeon's remit and it is essential for the surgeon to be aware of the range of preoperative, perioperative and disease management issues. This practical book provides knowledge and guidance necessary to manage colorectal diseases, A wide randfge of topics is included, including examination procedures, diagnostics, preoperative preparartion and assessment, pain management and surgical skills and techniques.

Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with 'knowledge' being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach--that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic meanings and linguistic texts--and explains the organization of the book. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of linguistic functional model, the three postulates of the Meaning-Text approach (a language is a particular meaning-text correspondence, a language must be described by a functional model and...

This collection will be of interest to linguists, typologists, aficionados of oral narrative, and speakers and learners of Lushootseed and other Coast Salishan languages.