Böcker av Michael O'Brien

For more than 80 years this unique short atlas has been the go-to guide to the examination of patients with lesions of the peripheral nerves and nerve roots - appreciated by generations of students and experienced practitioners alike. First published in its original form in 1943 and updated in its sixth edition by highly respected author Michael O''Brien, this book is the perfect companion for all those involved or caring for patients with peripheral nerve injuries and other neuromuscular disorders. It covers mononeuropathies, peripheral nerve lesions, examination techniques and anatomy of the peripheral nervous system, all illustrated with excellent diagrams and high-quality photographs. Aids to the Examination of the Peripheral Nervous System now comes with the complete electronic version for the first time, for easy anytime, anywhere access. Illustrated with exceptionally clear photographs, accompanied by simple anatomical diagrams to aid comprehension Useful tables of the innervation of muscles and the muscle and cutaneous distribution of peripheral nerves Updated to reflect latest changes in nomenclature New diagrams and illustrations, including of the spine and spinal nerve roots, male inguinal region and female perineum Summary table of the common compression and entrapment mononeuropathies, with sites now indicated on the nerve diagrams Access to the complete, enhanced eBook version - makes quick reference easier than ever for busy students and practitioners

This instructional guide has one aim: to teach inexperienced astrophotographers how to take high quality images. Often, basic information about astrophotography is lacking, or is dealt with too briefly in books on the subject. This book is a distillation of the author¿s own experiences, bringing together everything you will need to make the fastest possible progress in deep-sky imaging. The book will teach you how to set up and use your astrophotography equipment in a systematic, easy-to-follow manner, helping you get started while avoiding common mistakes. With a step-by-step walk-through course and a unique observational guide to each object, the book contains a plethora of valuable, beginner-friendly information. Particularly useful is the chapter on troubleshooting, which will help newcomers avoid further frustration when things just don¿t seem to go right! The book also contains a number of easy to advanced DIY projects for imagers working on a budget.

With twenty-three new portraits, including John Graves, Rickard Linklater, Joel Osteen, and Cat Osterman, as well as updated profiles of all of the subjects, here is the face of Texas captured in the faces of noteworthy Texans by one of America's premier

Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases. The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice and explains the unjust Texas 'law of parties.'

Michael O'Brien was a victim of a miscarriage of justice over a murder in Cardiff. He was driven to discover more about the many notorious and dubious convictions made in south Wales over a period of thirty years. This is the shocking result of his research into fifteen cases, and the Miscarriage of Justice Unit in the South Wales Police Force.

The Idea of the American South moves the debate over Southern identity from speculative essays about the "central themeof Southern history and, by implication, past the restricted perception that race relations are a sufficient key to understanding the history of Southern identity.

Imagined by one of the world's foremost JFK scholars, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of America's most glamorous and mythologised president.

Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order

Noted John F. Kennedy historian O'Brien has distilled the findings of his heavily detailed biography of a few years ago into a compact life that touches on all the important issues and incorporates the findings and judgments of major works since the president's death.

Drawn from the notebooks he kept over the course of forty years, A Pillow-Book provides a welcome opportunity to listen in on the conversation poet Michael O’Brien maintained with the world in all its ravishing and rebarbative complexity. That world includes the writers he most valued, the art he practiced so devotedly, the painters and filmmakers that stirred him, the nation that sometimes confounded him, and the city he moved through with such unstinting regard.Consisting primarily of brief passages gleaned from his reading, further enriched by his own observations and commentary, A Pillow-Book captures all the intelligence, subtlety, and wit so manifest in O’Brien’s poems. Michael O’Brien’s A Pillow-Book is a kind of blueprint or x-ray of the sensibility of one of recent poetry’s neglected masters. Unpredictable, quirky, chock-a-block with coruscating insights that are completely individual and revelatory. A treasure.                                              —August Kleinzahler Michael O’Brien was a writer of meditative wit, generous spirit, and a powerful receptiveness to the most fleeting juxtapositions and suggestions. His poetry—spare, rigorous, preternaturally alert, and still profoundly underestimated—found large perspectives in the most minute phenomena, music in the accidental encounters of overheard conversations and other floating signifiers, biographies and social histories in intercepted gestures and stances. A Pillow-Book extracts another kind of music from his reading over many years, and from the dazzling commentary it drew from him. It is a privilege to share, in this oblique fashion, Michael’s astute and endlessly curious intellectual companionship.                        —Geoffrey O’Brien      

Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.

Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whole to understand specific risks in personal injury, agreements, products, borrowing money, employees, independent contractors, and business entity selection. When the manager is aware of the magnitude of the risk and the likelihood of the risk, the manager is in a strong position to determine if the risk is worth taking. This book uses numerous applications from Game Theory to determine how risks of the firm compare to risks of another firm, an employee, a vendor and a customer.Students of business law will appreciate the black letter legal discussions of civil procedure, torts, contracts, the sale of goods, secured transactions, agency, and business associations with tax implications. Aspiring accounting students will find familiarity with many topics that appear on the AICPA exam. Managers will gravitate toward specific guidance with regard to setting up agreements with customers and vendors, creating effective human relations policies, and mitigating firm risks with regard to internal and external stakeholders. Dozens of managers provided input and experience that found its way into the selection of examples in the book ensuring real-world application for many practical business law problems.

Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic; not closure, but recognition."

Considers how Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of President John Adams) looked at the region during various phases of his life. This title also explores the cultural and familial impulses behind those views and locates them in American intellectual history.