'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!'

It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbé and the Chevalier, want Euphrasie for themselves.

Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.

All the chapters are completely updated and reviewed by an expert panel; soft leatherette cover and sewn binding; printed in full-color with color-coded sections

This pocket-sized book provides vital information in a concise, portable format. It focuses on diagnosis and therapy, including management protocols, medications, and dosages. Common problems are covered in greater detail. Key facts on uncommon conditions are also presented.

Medical students and interns can find pearls on pelvic and breast examinations and cervical examinations during labor, and they can also prepare confidently for quizzes by quickly glancing over the terminology, etiology, and other background information or using the handbook's mnemonics to recall the key points.

Operative techniques and procedures such as knot-tying, instrument use, perineal laceration repair, amniocentesis, and measurement of AFI and cervical length are illustrated to help trainees learn the basic skills. Thirteen operative dictations describe the common procedures with the latest techniques.

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About the Author:

Thomas Zheng, MD, FACOG, Director of Intern Education, Department of OB/GYN, Maricopa Medical Center, Clinical Assistant Professor of OB/GYN, University of Arizona College of Medicine

A new home on the brink of disaster. A discovery of forbidden powers. And a savage winter fast approaching. Aldim does not suffer the weak.
The battle’s end was supposed to bring peace and establish the Bravers’ new home in the Shiverglades. But all it brought is pain and suffering. With his closest friends lost to another realm, over half of the settlement’s population injured, and missing supply chains, Hal doesn’t have a moment to rest. He may have won the battle with the Shiverglades, but he has yet to win the war. The Beastborne has his work cut out for him if he plans to build a Sanctum that’ll last.Worse, a rival Founder plots against Hal, threatening to unleash an entity that is fated to scar the Manaseed and cull the Bravers Guild once and for all.Fortunately, there’s a lot to turn to that isn’t preordained. A Reaper-turned-friend, inventive koblins, industrious dwarves, Wyrd Strain, and Bonecrafting could defy their fate.And he isn’t the only one with newfound Class powers that might give them a fighting chance.The Bravers Guild needs more than just survival.They need their home whole.
But to do the impossible and reach across the divide between Worldshards to rescue their lost companions, the Manaseed’s Elysian powers must be stronger. Can the Bravers Guild Level Up their settlement and their Manaseed through building, fighting, and crafting to conquer the coming storm, or will they succumb to a doomed fate after all?Continue your epic LitRPG today and dive into another 1,000 pages of Beastborne!

“Makes the Shawshank Redemption look like a holiday camp” – NOTW After a SWAT team smashed down stock market millionaire Shaun Attwood’s door, he found himself inside of Arizona’s deadliest jail, locked into a brutal struggle for survival.Shaun’s hope of living the American Dream turned into a nightmare of violence and chaos, when he had a run in with Sammy the Bull Gravano, an Italian Mafia mass murderer.In jail, Shaun was forced to endure cockroaches crawling in his ears at night, dead rats in the food and the sound of skulls getting cracked against toilets. He meticulously documented the conditions and smuggled out his message. Join Shaun on a harrowing voyage into the darkest recesses of human existence. HARD TIME provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy, brutality, dark comedy and eccentricity of prison life. Featured worldwide on Nat Geo Channel’s Locked Up/Banged Up Abroad Raving Arizona.

New York Times bestselling author Brian Haig delivers his a thriller inspired by a true story about one man running between two countries, trying desperately to escape his past.

In 1987, Alex Konevitch was thrown out of Moscow University for "indulging his entrepreneurial spirit." But by 1991, he was worth $300 million. On track to become Russia's wealthiest man, he makes one critical mistake: he hires the former deputy director of the KGB to handle his corporate security. And then his world begins to fall apart. Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex and his wife escape to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.

Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won't be able to ignore or forget. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

"Kenneth Jay has laid out what I feel will generate a next-step evolution in strength training. Even if you have no interest in increasing your military press, the concepts in this book are powerful.Not only does Kenneth break down the essentials to a perfect press, but he also provides 10 innovative drills for shattering plateaus. Whether it is simply stacking two kettlebells in one hand for manipulating the center of gravity or showing how to take advantage of hard-wired reflexes, Kenneth's pursuit of strength allows us to stand on his shoulders (pun intended). Combining science and practical application, Kenneth reveals in Perfecting the Press!principles and techniques capable of assisting you on a journey of strength. This is an intelligent journey based in science and field tested in the Iron Pit. Now read, learn, and apply. Strength is waiting for you!"—Brett Jones, CSCS
"In Perfecting the Press!, Kenneth Jay has successfully combined the hard science of elite performance with an immensely practical training protocol that will make your performance soar. Perfecting the Press will take you on a journey into the physiology of strength mastery that leaves you anxious to read and absorb every page, because every concept can and will make you stronger. From world-class technique development to neuroscience to hyperprecise workout programming skills, Perfecting the Press! has it all. Kenneth has written a book that very few people could. Every page demonstrates his understanding of the science of strength as both a researcher and a world-class athlete who has actually applied these methods to his own strength development.
Read this book. Study it. Apply the information, and prepare to blow away every pressing record you have ever set!"—Dr. Eric Cobb, Z-Health Performance Solutions
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Knowledge of the Kettlebell Military Press
Twelve Axioms You Should Know
Some Advanced Stuff
In a Perfect World
Chapter 2: Using the Latissimus Dorsi (the Lat) Correctly in Your Presses
Three Reasons the Lat Makes Your Presses Stronger When Used Correctly
Chapter 3: Reinforcing Your Press Position: Integrating the 12 Axioms
Chapter 4: Plateau Breaker 1: Center of Gravity Elevation
How to Do It
Why It Works
Warning
Chapter 5: Plateau Breaker 2: Center of Gravity Depression
How to Do It
Why It Works
Chapter 6: Plateau Breaker 3: Upper-Body Plyometrics
How to Do It
Why It Works
Warning
Chapter 7: Plateau Breaker 4: Dynamic Isometrics
How to Do It
Why It Works
Chapter 8: Plateau Breaker 5: Band and Chain Press
How to Do It
Why It Works
Warning
Chapter 9: Plateau Breaker 6: Wobble Board Press
How to Do It
Why It Works
Warning
Chapter 10: Plateau Breaker 7: Contralateral Reflex Press—Power Rack
How to Do It
Why It Works
Chapter 11: Plateau Breaker 8: Contralateral Reflex Press—Band Pulldown
How to Do It
Why It Works
Chapter 12: Plateau Breaker 9: Dead Start Sticking Point Press
How to Do It
Why It Works
Chapter 13: Plateau Breaker 10: Microshock Overload Isometric Press
How to Do It
Why It Works
Warning
Chapter 14: Understanding the Parameters
Intensity
Volume
Density
Fatigue Index (FI)
Chapter 15: Using the Fatigue Index under Diverse Conditions
Chapter 16: Relationships between Parameters: Fitting in the Fatigue Index
Intensity and Volume
Cycling and Rotation
Choosing a Parameter Focus
Hypertrophy
Chapter 17: More on Fatigue
Scientific Explanations

The Brothers Karamazov presents blasphemous, philandering Fyodor Karamazov and his sons: vacillating dishonest Dmitri, intellectual Ivan, spiritual Alexey, and illegitimate, amoral Smerdyakov. Though Dmitri appears to be his father's murderer, as the sons' contrasting characters and outlooks unfold, the matter of who is guilty--by action and by implication--transforms into consideration of the great questions of faith and reason, freedom and responsibility, of suffering and redemption, and of the author's vision for the Russian people's future salvation, themes that preoccupied Dostoevsky throughout his life.

De titel van het boek slaat al meteen de spijker op de kop. In plaats van ervan uit te gaan dat geluk iets is dat je overkomt – of niet –, kun je er beter voor zorgen dat je het zelf creëert. Je kunt eindeloos zitten wachten tot iemand anders je gelukkig maakt of jezelf wijsmaken dat jij niet voor het geluk geboren bent, maar je kunt er ook voor kiezen de handen uit de mouwen te steken en je eigen geluk te scheppen. Het begint met een beslissing. Je kiest om gelukkig of ongelukkig te zijn. Je geluk knutsel je in elkaar als een bouwpakket. Je gelukshuis bestaat uit vier stevige muren die je stap voor stap opricht. De schrijfster toont je, via heel concrete en praktische aanwijzingen, aangevuld met tal van anekdotes, hoe je de mentale, emotionele, lichamelijke en spirituele muur van je gelukshuis in elkaar metselt. Je doet
met haar mee en in vier weken tijd is je gelukshuis een feit en is gelukkig zijn een gewoonte geworden. Zodra je beseft dat je zelf verantwoordelijk bent voor je geluk en dat je het zelf kunt creëren, laat je het je door niemand meer afpakken. Je bent dan meester van je eigen geluk, eens en voor altijd.

Ineke Van Lint (°1957) studeerde Psychologie aan de Universiteit van Gent en is moeder van vier kinderen, auteur, schilderes en zelfstandige psychologe voor kinderen en volwassenen in haar privépraktijk in Luxemburg. Haar intentie
is mensen weer in contact te brengen met hun eigen innerlijke kracht, zodat ze (weer) een gelukkig, enthousiast en zinvol leven kunnen leiden. Ze geeft ook verschillende workshops op diverse plaatsen over persoonlijke groei en ontwikkeling. Meer informatie vind je op haar website www.enthousiasme.info.

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