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"Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging "—Steven Shapin, The New Yorker

Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenment—among them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin—gave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism.

Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise, "draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before" (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World). 24 pages of illustrations..
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Following his acclaimed The Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics, No Bloodless Myth by Aidan Nichols summarizes and illuminates the five-volume series Theo-Drama, which develops the heart of Balthasar's theological theory-his exploration of the Good and of the dramatic interplay of finite and infinite freedom.

Theo-Drama builds upon the earlier achievement of The Glory of the Lord and transcends it, opening up new horizons for theological and cultural reflection in the twenty-first century. Aidan Nichols's succinct commentary enables the reader to grasp the main themes of one of the most important theological works in several generations..
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In Bloodless Affairs, Paul Grossman, a gifted mortician, gives into his sexual fetish with an embalmed female corpse. The act is accidentally video taped. When the 8mm tape is discovered by his adversary, the funeral home secretary, a blackmail scheme begins. Paul's continued sexual liaisons lead him and his wife into couple's therapy with Doctor Sonya Robinson. She soon realizes the Grossmans are deceitful. During the third blackmail meeting, Paul goes to exchange money for the videotape. Instead, he finds the secretary's dead body and the tape is gone. Paul Grossman is the type of man we all fear when we die. But for some, he will be feared while alive..
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Victoria Blake's debut novel introduces Samantha Falconer, a private eye whose personal life is every bit as fascinating as her cases.

When she left Oxford, Sam Falconer thought she had put the ghosts of her past behind her. But, while working in London as a P.I., she is summoned home by her brother to investigate the disappearance of a young woman-and confront the trauma she's tried so hard to forget. The closer she gets to Oxford, the more uneasy she becomes. Then, out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for 28 years-her father.

As Sam copes with emotional chaos and investigates her case, she finds that every trail leads back to the university. But academia is stingy with its secrets, and its pursuit of truth is limited by a self-protective instinct that could turn lethal at any moment..
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Bloodless is a riveting novel about the dark side of an industry which controls the most precious fluid on earth-blood Corruption and cover-ups inside the walls of a secret, not-for-profit, tax-sheltered blood banking industry leave you breathless. It is a story you won't want to believe, but in the end, it will leave you repeating, "Could any of this be possible?" Blood banks are perceived by the public as "Houses of Noble Causes." Fifteen million pints of blood are collected each year because of emotional appeals that have been carefully test-marketed to grab the heart strings of a giving and willing donor public. Gerald Thomas Preston, executive director and Dr. Benjamin Quinn Silvers, medical director, by board decree are forced to share co-director positions at Hamilton Regional Blood Center. Bitter enemies, their individual battles for power and financial greed establish an environment that leads to negligence in the center's blood supply and a cover-up that result in the death of an innocent blood recipient. The victim, who receives the AIDS virus, sues the blood bank and finds herself facing the full might of a powerful industry that will stop at nothing to protect their secret world and their pocketbooks. J. Carter Egan is the passionate director of public relations for the blood center who believes completely in the cause for which she works. She discovers that emergency blood appeals are faked, that blood banking is enormously profitable to the top administrators of the nonprofit company, and that personal jealousies spawn the poisoning of the center's blood supply, a negligence that the administrators attempt to cover up. You will not forget Bloodless..
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Section 1 covers common spinal conditions such as cervical, thoracic and lumbar herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis and scoliosis Each problem is explained and illustrated. The classical symptoms, standard signs, traditional and non-traditional treatments along with surgical interventions are explained. Preventative techniques are described. Section 2 shows the medical evaluations and strategies necessary for safe spinal surgery. Basic medical, vascular, cardiac, hematological, pre-operative bloodless and pre-operative bloodless assessments for Jehovah's witnesses are covered. Section 3 takes the patient to spinal surgery. The concepts of radial arterial catheter, foley catheter, central access catheter, swan-ganz catheter, regional anesthesia, hypotensive anesthesia, fluroscopic evaluation, intraoperative neuromonitoring, pre-operative decisions, four-poster table, bovie and bipolar coagulator, Aquamantis coagulator, harmonic scalpel, high intensity headlights, futuristic surgical suite and innovative bloodless instruments along with techniques of surgery are illustrated and explained in language for the general public. Section 4 shows patient case reports displaying standard spinal decompression, complex spinal reconstruction, spinal fusion in Jehovah's witnesses and spinal fusion in patients with hemophilia along with kyphoplasty performed in an osteoporotic older patient. Section 5 is a thorough bloodless terminology dictionary which includes factors such as acute normovolemic hemodilution, allogenic blood and risk factors, anemia, anesthesiology, autologous self-salvage, auto-transfusion, blood safety data, cost of blood transfusion, factors used in transfusion, epinephrine, erythropoietin, fibrin sealants, gelatin and various dietary supplementations such as vitamins B12 and C necessary to augment iron storage..
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