New Releases by Andrew Kaufman

An ideal resource for both the novice and experienced surgeon, Practical Facial Reconstruction: Theory and Practice is a practical, step-by-step guide to facial repair, written by a highly experienced authority in the field. In this fully updated 2nd Edition, Dr. Andrew Kaufman walks you through decision making in repair design and execution, offering tips, pearls, and key points that make seemingly complicated flaps less complicated, and repairs more aesthetic and functionally successful. Abundant illustrations and numerous new videos provide real-world visual guidance on soft tissue facial reconstruction. Covers cheek, forehead, nose, lip, ear, and eyelid reconstruction, with ample pearls, tips, and key points for each repair. Walks you through the thought process of evaluating a surgical defect, analyzing it, and designing and executing the repair to achieve optimal functional and cosmetic results. Shares Dr. Kaufman''s personal tips, tricks, and pearls for every repair, with the goal of simplifying and demystifying many useful reconstruction techniques. Features hundreds of high-quality, step-by-step photographs and line drawings throughout, plus more than 30 all-new procedural videos. Covers simpler as well as more complex repairs, including bilobed transposition flaps, helical rim advancement flaps, unilateral and bilateral rotation flaps, cartilage grafts on the nose, rhombic transposition flaps, melolabial transposition flaps, advancement flaps on the nose, lips, eyebrow, and forehead, island advancement flaps, and much more. Provides a unique theoretical and practical framework for identifying defects and developing a reconstructive plan that can be applied to a wide variety of situations beyond those covered in the book. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

Aesop meets Anaïs Nin in these absurdist stories of very unexpected redemption Getting to the Shamrock Motel isn’t easy. It’s just off Concession #18, but you can’t get there through a sequence of lefts and rights. To find the Shamrock you have to be lost – not just on the map, but in your heart and soul. The Shamrock Motel does not accept reservations. The only way to get a room is by walking into the office and asking Rosemary, the owner/operator for one. Try not to stare at her hair. Fair warning: no one spends the night, or even an hour at the Shamrock without experiencing some form of transformation. Whether it’s accidently sleeping with a bear, turning yourself into a river, or getting entirely too intimate with the sun, time spent at the Shamrock will make you wiser, stronger, sexier, and more yourself. Even if that’s the last thing you want. These linked stories explore the intersection of personality and desire, love and lust, the joy and sadness of being alive and in love. Heated pool, cable TV, and a shot at redemption: the Shamrock Motel offers it all. Credit cards are accepted, but cash is preferred.

An ideal resource for both the novice and experienced surgeon, Practical Facial Reconstruction: Theory and Practice is a practical, step-by-step guide to facial repair, written by a highly experienced authority in the field. In this fully updated Second Edition, Dr. Andrew Kaufman walks you through decision making in repair design and execution, offering tips, pearls, and key points that make seemingly complicated flaps less complicated, and repairs more aesthetic and functionally successful. Abundant illustrations and numerous new videos provide real-world visual guidance on soft tissue facial reconstruction. - Covers cheek, forehead, nose, lip, ear, and eyelid reconstruction, with ample pearls, tips, and key points for each repair. - Walks you through the thought process of evaluating a surgical defect, analyzing it, and designing and executing the repair to achieve optimal functional and cosmetic results. - Shares Dr. Kaufman''s personal tips, tricks, and pearls for every repair, with the goal of simplifying and demystifying many useful reconstruction techniques. - Features hundreds of high-quality, step-by-step photographs and line drawings throughout, plus more than 25 all-new procedural videos. - Covers simpler as well as more complex repairs, including bilobed transposition flaps, helical rim advancement flaps, unilateral and bilateral rotation flaps, cartilage grafts on the nose, rhombic transposition flaps, melolabial transposition flaps, advancement flaps on the nose, lips, eyebrow, and forehead, island advancement flaps, and much more. - Provides a unique theoretical and practical framework for identifying defects and developing a reconstructive plan that can be applied to a wide variety of situations beyond those covered in the book.

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet''s observations and encounters during months spent in post-genocide Rwanda, but on his numerous extensive interviews with survivors, all of whom lost most if not all of their families, and with convicted genocide perpetrators, conducted in prisons. The result is a startling book of poems that by turns is unthinkably horrifying, heartbreaking, and enraging, yet which at times breaks unexpectedly into stunning revelatory moments of grace. As a poetry of witness this book reveals what it is like to carry on with daily life in a society where nearly every adult male is either a genocide survivor or perpetrator, almost every woman either a survivor or the wife of a perpetrator, and where nearly every child at the time of the genocide witnessed multiple killings, often of immediate family members. Ranging from free verse to stanzaic forms, this book by an NEA-award-winning poet uses tools and methods of poetry to distil each of its many varied voices to its essence, allowing those who are heard in these poems to speak for themselves, often in juxtapositions that lend the book the structure and tension of a drama. Considered more broadly, The Rwanda Poems is a book about the extremities of evil that the human psyche is capable of enduring and inflicting, and the resulting psychic costs to survivors and perpetrators.

Public-sector investment funds (especially pension funds) have been increasingly pooled and managed by investment management firms in Ontario. Pooled asset management generates a net benefit to public-sector spending patterns by realizing benefits from economies of scale, including reducing costs associated with the duplication of fund management while also enhancing risk management. However, a focus on pooling public-sector pensions has meant that the possibility of consolidating other public-sector assets, like municipal cash reserves, has received less attention.Ontario''s local governments are accumulating significant liquidity reserves. Municipal reserves come in various forms, each symbolizing a distinct savings category. This report''s calculations show that in 2020, Ontario municipalities, counties, districts and cities held $39.7 billion in reserve funds. In the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), excess municipal reserves coincide with population and housing growth rates, while some non-GTA areas have also accrued substantial holdings. Occasionally, these savings are held in cash and equivalents. This study finds that local governments collectively held $20.1 billion in cash and temporary investments in 2020.The growth of municipal reserves and cash balances raises questions about how best to manage and utilize these funds. The point is not that municipalities are mismanaging their reserves and cash holdings. Instead, this report suggests that Ontario''s local governments could collectively benefit from pooling these reserves and cash holdings. One just needs to look at recent municipal investments as proof. In 2020, municipalities earned a return of just greater than 2 percent on their reserves through interest and investment income.Clearly, cities could be getting better investment returns. One potential solution is improving the coordination between local governments and Ontario''s public-asset management institutions such as ONE Investment and the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO). Both are knowledgeable about municipal needs, consolidating public funds and dispersing investment returns.To implement better pooling and higher-return investments for municipal government, the Ontario government should consider legislative changes to the Municipal Act and Development Charges Act to remove limits on investment durations and improve clarity on investment pooling. With careful planning and collaboration among municipal governments, the province and other agencies, the consolidating of public funds in Ontario can benefit local governments, public agencies and the communities they serve.

Apprenez le russe facilement et rapidement ! Vous ne connaissez du russe que les mots " vodka " ou " spoutnik ", mais vous prévoyez de partir bientôt en Russie ? Vous souhaitez pouvoir vous débrouiller à l''oral, mais aussi savoir lire en caractères cyrilliques pour vous repérer sur place ? Alors Le russe pour les Nuls est fait pour vous ! Alphabet, vocabulaire, grammaire, orthographe et conjugaison... Ce livre propose des leçons pour toutes les situations de la vie pratique : courses, sortir, rechercher un emploi, se loger, se déplacer, etc. Découvrez aussi les us et coutumes russes, ainsi que dix choses à ne jamais faire en Russie et dix phrases qui vous feront ressembler à un vrai Russe.

“Expansive and imaginative.” —Kirkus Reviews “Irreverent and bursting prose... Fans of Mark Leyner will enjoy Kaufman’s messy string of outrageous scenarios.” —Publishers Weekly Part modern fable, part detective novel, a journey through grief in the imaginary world of Metaphoria. One cold winter night, Charlie shares a cab with a stranger in a purple hat. As they talk, a cloud of purple smoke overwhelms him and he wakes up to find himself behind the only desk in the Epiphany Detective Agency. Charlie, as it turns out, is trapped in Metaphoria, an otherworldly place that reality has forgotten, a place where everything means something else. His first client is Shirley Miller, who insists on hiring Charlie to find her husband''s missing heart. In fact, she''s so insistent that she replaces Charlie''s heart with a bomb. He has twenty-four hours to find Twiggy Miller''s heart - and its meaning - or his own will explode. Tender and brutal, optimistic and despairing, this modern fable by the author of the cult hit All My Friends Are Superheroes takes a fresh look at what it means to fall into, and out of, love.

Grâce aux Nuls, le russe, c''est dans la poche ! Les bases de la langue : la prononciation, les rudiments de la grammaire, la conjugaison, la transcription phonétique simplifiée. Entamer la discussion : les salutations, les présentations, poser des questions, parler de la pluie ou du beau temps. Communiquer efficacement : commander au restaurant, faire des achats, réserver à l''hôtel, sortir en ville. Se débrouiller : avec les nombres, dans les transports, au téléphone, en cas d''urgence. 4000 mots et expressions.

A welcome addition to high school, college, and library collections, this eBook examines the biographical facts of United States Supreme Court justice Benjamin Cardozo''s life, including his background in the law, the paths that.

Eine Frau, ein Mann und die guten wie nicht so guten Zeiten einer ganz normalen Ehe. Eigentlich ist alles ziemlich gewöhnlich an Stacey und ihrem Mann. Bis sie in den seltsamsten Banküberfall aller Zeiten verwickelt wird. Denn der Räuber will nicht etwa Geld oder Schmuck stehlen, nein, der Dieb hat es auf einundfünfzig Prozent ihrer Seele abgesehen! In den Tagen nach dem Überfall beginnt Stacey immer weiter zu schrumpfen, sie wird immer kleiner, sogar winzig, und hat Angst bald ganz zu verschwinden. Was hat der Dieb ihr wirklich gestohlen? Wie bekommt sie es zurück? Und was hat ihre Ehe mit all dem zu tun?

Dans ce livre : les bases de la langue (la prononciation, les rudiments, de la grammaire, la conjugaison, la transcription phonétique simplifiée) ; entamer la discussion (les salutations, les présentations, poser des questions, parler de la pluie ou du beau temps) ; communiquer efficacement (commander au restaurant, faire-des achats, réserver à l''hôtel, sortir en ville) ; se débrouiller (avec les nombres, dans les transports, au téléphone, en cas d''urgence). 4000 mots et expressions. Des phrases pour toutes les situations !

Achieve optimal results in reconstructive surgery involving flaps and grafts with this up-to-date reference written by leading dermatologic surgeons. Using a systematic approach, Flaps and Grafts in Dermatologic Surgery, Second Edition, by Drs. Thomas E. Rohrer, Jonathan L. Cook, and Andrew J. Kaufman, offers practical, easily accessible guidance in this challenging area, including anatomical considerations, the delicate nature of tissue movement, principles of aesthetic surgical closures, relevant tissue biomechanics, and much more. Covering everything from the basic linear and arciform closures, to the more challenging V-Y advancement flaps, and complex staged interpolation flaps, this text clearly presents not just the "how to do it" but more importantly the thought processes behind the selection and execution of each reconstructive procedure. - Describes which flap or graft to choose in specific clinical situations, how to execute each repair (with a multitude of images and diagrams), and how to minimize the risks as well as manage potential complications. - Provides algorithms to assist with flap and graft choices, as well as hundreds of superb full-color illustrations throughout. - Includes an all-new chapter on Surgical Complications and Scar Revisions. - Includes access to high-quality videos showing exactly how the flap/graft is incised, moved, and sutured. New videos include the Rhomboid Transposition Flap for Defect on the Lower Lid, the Island Pedicle Flap with Canthal Suspension, and the Primary Lid Repair with Diagonal Tarsal Suture Sine Marginal Sutures. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

"A novel about a man understanding life through his visits to small claims court."--

Despite evidence that the ability to taste is weakened by obesity and rescued with weight loss intervention, few studies have investigated the molecular effects of obesity on the physiology of taste. Taste bud cells undergo continual turnover, even in adulthood, exhibiting an average life span of about 10 days, tightly controlled by a balance of proliferation and cell death. Recent data reveal that an acute inflammation event can upset this balance. I demonstrate that chronic low-grade inflammation brought on by an obesogenic diet reduces the number of taste buds in gustatory tissues of mice, by attenuating the renewal of taste cells, and is likely the cause of taste dysfunction seen in obese populations. ...

The Isthmus: A New Path Between the Seas... The Isthmus will chronicle Panama''s recent emergence through photographer Andrew Kaufman''s decade-long project to document the people and places shaped by the construction of the new Panama Canal. Begun in 2004, Kaufman''s quest to document Panama''s transformation has taken him to all corners of Panama, from the Pacific entrance of the canal (under the Bridge of the Americas) to Panama City''s gleaming high-rise neighborhoods to the slums of Chorillo and Curundu, to the lands of native tribes the Embera, Guaymi, and Kuna. Featuring interviews with many of Kaufman''s photographic subjects, including engineers, construction workers, business leaders, bus drivers, school teachers, historians, poets, and artists, the project will offer a comprehensive look at a country and people trying to find their place in a globalized world.

Tom es perfectamente normal, pero todos los que lo rodean son superhéroes, incluida su esposa, la Perfeccionista. Por desgracia, el exnovio de la Perfeccionista también es un superhéroe, y se venga de ella hipnotizándola para que no pueda ver a Tom. Convencida de que la ha abandonado, la Perfeccionista decide mudarse, y Tom tiene que hacer un último y desesperado intento para conseguir que ella lo vea. Un libro de culto sobre el amor, los amigos, y las rarezas que nos unen.

Ils sont 249 sur Toronto et proche banlieue. 249 superhéros, sans cape ni identité secrète. On y trouve Super-Je-danse-trop-bien comme Super-je-tape-l''incruste, Super-Gros-Feignant comme Super je-change-d''humeur-à-lavitesse-du-son : des superpouvoirs qui les isolent du commun des mortels. Aussi quand Super-Perfectionniste a rencontré Tom, un garçon ordinaire, l''a-t-elle trouvé... différent. Quant à Tom, il l''a trouvée... par-faite. Mais pourquoi, depuis qu''ils se sont mariés, est-il devenu invisible à ses yeux ? Sa mission : réussir à se faire voir par celle qu''il aime et qui prend l''avion pour refaire sa vie, loin de lui.

This thesis examines the mobility patterns of 613 participants from the At Home/Chez Soi Research Demonstration Project on Mental Health and Homelessness who were surveyed in five Canadian cities (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montréal, and Moncton). Participants'' mobility histories are treated as life courses: visualized using a GIS spatiotemporal analysis and complemented by examining their self-described reasons for movement (n=1,750). I contend that homeless mobilities are complex, entangled, and multiple. To better understand these mobilities, I apply relational theoretical perspectives to literature from the mobilities turn. I conceptualize mobility as composed of the relations between various actors. These relations coordinate amidst social differences, histories, and orderings of power. Together, actors and the relations between them, become more than the sum of their parts. To see mobility relationally, is to say that mobilities have emergent properties that reproduce, deepen, or ameliorate marginalization for those experiencing homelessness. I identify a series of actors and their relations composing homeless mobilities via time-space mapping, descriptive statistics, and the exploratory coding of survey data. I conclude by detailing a relational view of homeless mobilities while suggesting that expulsion is one emergent property of this system.

This thesis is an investigation of the intersection between biography and fiction. Specifically, it seeks to use the creative-writing techniques and strategies of metaphoric and allegorical devices in order to tell a story in a manner that resonates with more emotionally resonance than a pure factual or realistic approach. Within the text a narrative approach is utilized to explore the question of which approach creates a narrative that is more real or true: a purely factual, almost journalistic portray of a life, a purely allegorical or metaphorical depiction of that life or whether a complication of the two is in fact the most successful at a full and resonate description. It is the author''s submission and conclusion that the final approach, a combination of both factual and metaphoric techniques, a merging of both subjective and objective experience, that provides the fullest text.

Ria e se emocione com a história de Tom, o melhor amigo dos super-heróis.Existem aproximadamente 249 super-heróis na cidade de Toronto. Tom não é super-herói, mas conhece vários: O Anfíbio, A Pilha de Nervos, A Bronca, O Homem Impossível, O Minigigante, Daquiapouco, A Doma-Rapaz, entre outros. Tom casou-se com uma super-heroína, A Perfeccionista, cujo poder é tornar tudo perfeito. No dia do casamento, Hipno, supervilão e ex-namorado da Perfeccionista, hipnotizou-a: Tom ficou invisível, mas somente aos olhos dela. Depois de seis meses sem notar o marido, a Perfeccionista está prestes a pegar um avião para recomeçar a vida em Vancouver.É a partir de uma bela história de amor que Todos os meus amigos são super-heróis constrói um universo onde amizade, romance, profissões e cotidianos muito parecidos com os nossos ganham uma fina pátina de superpoder ou mostra que superpoderes são apenas questão de ponto de vista. Tom está desesperado para que sua amada Perfeccionista volte a enxergá-lo e amá-lo. Como resolver isto sendo o único ser humano sem poderes dessa história?

Poetry. "Andrew Kaufman''s THE COMPLETE CINNAMON BAY SONNETS bear powerful witness to ''the last loneliness'' of the lost, the forsaken, the outcast, the humiliated, the downtrodden. Divided between the almost paradisiacal Virgin Islands and a New York City Central Booking cell, the poet offers his nightmare flashbacks/angelic visions. ''Swimming in wonder, '' deafened by ''the screaming sirens of pure pain, '' he evokes ''the intifada of the heart.'' ''Yo Professor, '' his cellmates implore him, ''We''re all sad. Tell us a poem.'' Echoing the Psalmist''s ''How can I sing the Lord''s song in a strange land?'' with brave urgency he responds: ''I am here and writing. Please listen.''" L.S. Asekoff"

¿Tienes que viajar a Rusia y no hablas ruso? ¿Quieres atender mejor a los turistas rusos que visitan tu hotel? ¿Te estás planteando abrir mercado en Rusia? ¡No te preocupes! Este pequeño y práctico libro de frases te será muy útil, tanto si eres turista, trabajas en hostelería o eres una persona de negocios, porque te permitirá hablar ruso antes de que te des cuenta. • Un poco de gramática (sólo la imprescindible, de verdad) — las cuatro reglas básicas para que puedas seguir una conversación. • Siempre de buen humor — frases positivas y agradables para animar tu aprendizaje. • Tal como se pronuncia — todas las palabras tienen al lado la transcripción al castellano de a pie, para que sepas cómo hay que decirlo. • Si buscas algo más — si quieres mejorar tu nivel de ruso, también puedes echarle un vistazo a otro libro de esta misma colección, Ruso para Dummies, que va acompañado de unos archivos de audio.