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The Inuit Way is a mesmerising take on polar travel by explorer and award-winning researcher Edward Cooper. It is a gripping account of the author's travels across northwest Greenland, where he spent several months living and hunting with the Inuit. From there, Cooper and teammate venture across the sea ice on to the Canadian Arctic islands. Here, Cooper's quest is to track down a note left by David Haig-Thomas, a British Arctic explorer, nearly a hundred years previously.Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, Fighting off hungry polar bears, surrounded by the white wolves of Ellesmere Island, Edward Cooper and teammate, who was suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, discover a land steeped in culture and history. Part travelogue, part adventure and part history, this is a thrilling polar travel narrative that offers insights into the people that live in the Arctic year-round. Meet Mikael, a young Inuit hunter who sleeps in a small tent on the sea ice, and fishes for halibut during the winter months. Join Cooper in watching Inuit hunters coach crack teams of dogs across the ice in the year's first dog race. Get to know a former Danish drug smuggler turned hunter. Experience the realities of Arctic life - drinking water carved from icebergs by giant trucks, and the constraints imposed on sanitation by permafrost and freezing temperatures. And journey with Cooper on a life-endangering expedition, where he falls through a crack in the ice into icy waters while watching his teammate continue onwards, oblivious to danger.Reflecting on his experience, Cooper appraises Haig-Thomas's legacy from his time in Greenland, and considers how life has evolved for Inuit families across the following century. Above all, Cooper sensitively discusses Greenland as a litmus test for a world that is evolving geopolitically and through climate change. The Inuit Way is a fascinating book that will be enjoyed by intrepid travellers, adventure junkies, polar enthusiasts, and armchair or real-life explorers as well as people interested in the environment, fishing or indigenous communities.

An intriguing biography of the American woman sculptor and Civil War–era Washington, DC, fixture.

One of America’s least known and most controversial women artists of the Civil War era was Vinnie Ream, who sculpted a bust of Abraham Lincoln from life when she was only sixteen years old and had almost no artistic training.

She was able, through clever maneuvering and dogged determination, to achieve a commission from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the assassinated president—this despite the very real animus against women artists at that time, which is apparent in the heated arguments against granting her the Lincoln commission—arguments spearheaded in the Senate by Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.

Steeped in the history of her time, Vinnie Ream was involved with dozens of senators and congressmen and other powerful men—not least of all Generals Sherman and Custer—and her studio on Capitol Hill became a legendary stopping place for many admirers and tourists. Her statue of Lincoln stands in the rotunda of the capitol building; her statue of Admiral Farragut stands in a Washington, DC, park; other works are in Statuary Hall and various museums. This is an engaging biography of a spirited female artist, and an effective portrait of Washington, DC, in the Civil War era.

Praise for Vinnie Ream

 “Ream’s intellect, artistic talents, indomitable will, seductiveness, and grand ambitions were already evident when she was a teenager newly arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1861. . . . Endlessly intriguing. . . . Kudos to Cooper for resurrecting Ream and enriching so vividly the history of women in art.” —Booklist

“A sharply focused biography, which skillfully exploits unpublished papers, journals and scrapbooks of Vinnie Ream.” —New York Review of Books

Fluid therapy is one of the most important aspects of patient management in veterinary medicine, and this book provides guidelines for its safe implementation in clinical practice. It describes fluid compartments of the body and considers the factors that affect movement of administered water, electrolytes and colloids. It also covers characteristics of different fluid types, routes of fluid administration and how to approach fluid supplementation. Finally, this book provides information regarding both general application and monitoring of fluid therapy, as well as consideration of an assortment of specific clinical circumstances. This book: - Provides the tools necessary to develop an appropriate fluid therapy plan for any small animal patient. - Includes careful consideration of potential adverse effects associated with fluid therapy to help optimize safety and efficacy of fluid administration. - Contains numerous colour illustrations and is written by recognized experts from the USA. With multiple case study examples to help translate theory into practical advice, this valuable book provides a comprehensive and informative resource for veterinarians facing a range of clinical circumstances.

Fluid therapy is one of the most important aspects of patient management in veterinary medicine, and this book provides guidelines for its safe implementation in clinical practice. It describes fluid compartments of the body and considers the factors that affect movement of administered water, electrolytes and colloids. It also covers characteristics of different fluid types, routes of fluid administration and how to approach fluid supplementation. Finally, this book provides information regarding both general application and monitoring of fluid therapy, as well as consideration of an assortment of specific clinical circumstances. This book: - Provides the tools necessary to develop an appropriate fluid therapy plan for any small animal patient. - Includes careful consideration of potential adverse effects associated with fluid therapy to help optimize safety and efficacy of fluid administration. - Contains numerous colour illustrations and is written by recognized experts from the USA. With multiple case study examples to help translate theory into practical advice, this valuable book provides a comprehensive and informative resource for veterinarians facing a range of clinical circumstances.

Fluid therapy is one of the most important aspects of patient management in veterinary medicine, and this book provides guidelines for its safe implementation in clinical practice. It describes fluid compartments of the body and considers the factors that affect movement of administered water, electrolytes and colloids. It also covers characteristics of different fluid types, routes of fluid administration and how to approach fluid supplementation. Finally, this book provides information regarding both general application and monitoring of fluid therapy, as well as consideration of an assortment of specific clinical circumstances. This book: - Provides the tools necessary to develop an appropriate fluid therapy plan for any small animal patient. - Includes careful consideration of potential adverse effects associated with fluid therapy to help optimize safety and efficacy of fluid administration. - Contains numerous colour illustrations and is written by recognized experts from the USA. With multiple case study examples to help translate theory into practical advice, this valuable book provides a comprehensive and informative resource for veterinarians facing a range of clinical circumstances.

El V centenario de la rebelión de las Comunidades de Castilla en el año 2020 invita a un replanteamiento de la interpretación de los acontecimientos, además de a su mera conmemoración. La historiografía tradicional sobre los comuneros, desde la pionera Historia crítica y documentada de las Comunidades de Castilla de Manuel Danvila hasta la visionaria apertura de nuevas catas archivísticas por Joseph Perez, ha presupuesto una escisión horizontal en la sociedad, una dicotomía de privilegiados contra gente llana, de oligarcas contra villanos. Pero lo cierto es que, según iba desarrollándose el movimiento, los intereses en juego empezaron a manifestar otros motivos, y las divisiones en la sociedad se mostraron tanto verticales como estratificadas. Así, en las Comunidades, la interpretación determinista de la historia no es el molde en el que caben algunos de los protagonistas más importantes de los enfrentamientos.Edward Cooper aporta en este libro una sólida investigación genealógica (incluida en forma gráfica), documentación hasta ahora no catalogada, un prolijo conocimiento del terreno –de los edificios, la topografía, las prioridades agropecuarias de la época– y la visión de una nueva epistemología de los datos que pone en tela de juicio el tan consensuado carácter antiseñorial de la Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla.