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The Golden Thread: A Quiet Revolution in Holistic Cancer Care
by Pat Pilkington Felicity Biggart Caroline MyssPat Pilkington was co-founder of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, the first charity to offer a truly holistic approach to cancer care. In this memoir, completed when she knew she was approaching death, Pat tells her story; starting with her childhood, through the early days of the Centre to its growth into Penny Brohn Cancer Care, the globally influential institution it is today. Above all, she shares her own spiritual journey, her deep exploration of faith, love, and what lies at the core of each human life and each human death. She speaks to life, not just to cancer, and shows how the restoration of the human spirit is an essential part of holistic healing. The Golden Thread of the title is the transcendent nature of love that runs though everything, awakening the potential to uplift, inspire, overcome and create anew, even in the face of severe adversity.
Good Clinical Practice in der Gefäßchirurgie
by E. Sebastian Debus Reinhart Grundmann Julika HeilbergerIn dem Buch werden Zielparameter definiert, die im Rahmen eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems unter optimalen Bedingungen erreichbar sind, sowie Strukturen und Prozesse dargestellt, die der Patientensicherheit dienen. Die Ergebnisqualität wird beispielhaft anhand der drei häufigsten im Krankenhaus behandelten gefäßchirurgischen Erkrankungen (extrakranielle Karotisstenose, abdominelles Aortenaneurysma, periphere arterielle Verschlusskrankheit) analysiert. Die Kapitel zur Prozess- und Strukturqualität sowie zur Patientensicherheit sind für alle chirurgischen Fächer in gleicher Weise relevant und berücksichtigen zum Beispiel die Handhabung von Ablaufpfaden und Checklisten, den Personalschlüssel auf Station, die Organisation der Intensivstation oder das Fehlermanagement.
The Good Practice Guide to Therapeutic Activities with Older People in Care Settings (Speechmark Editions)
by Tessa PerrinThere are many activity manuals on the market today but this publication is the first to offer a clear guideline on exactly what constitutes good practice in activity provision. Written by the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA), a charity whose remit is to set standards and disseminate knowledge of good practice in activity provision and to support activity providers who work in care settings for older people, this guide offers: a model of good practice in one concise volume; a benchmark against which activity providers can measure and evaluate their practice; clear links to current national standards; guidance for care home owners and managers who wish to respond to the recent government initiatives on providing activities for their clients; and a call for clinical governance in the emerging 'profession' of activity provision.
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
by Zack McdermottThe story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. This was it - his big dreams were finally coming true. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often darkly funny struggle to claw his way back to sanity, regain his identity, and rebuild some semblance of a stable life. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. Before his odyssey is over, Zack will be tackled by guards in mental wards, run naked through cornfields, receive secret messages from the TV, befriend a former Navy Seal and his talking stuffed monkey, and see the Virgin Mary in the whorls of his own back hair. But with the Bird's help, he just might have a shot at pulling through, starting over, and maybe even meeting a woman who can love him back, bipolar and all. Written with raw emotional power, humor, and tenderness, GORILLA AND THE BIRD is a bravely honest account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him.
The GP's Valentine Proposal
by Jessica MatthewsShe only came to Hope City to solve a huge family mystery. An explosive encounter with a handsome doctor is the last thing Dr. Dixie Albright expects to add to her list of complications. But Dr. Mark Cameron is the key to discovering the truth at the heart of her family's problems. While he has no sympathy with Dixie's relative, he has won his way into Dixie's guarded heart. Now Dixie is at a crossroads: should she put her family's needs above her own, or should she allow Mark into her life? But, as Valentine's Day approaches, Mark shows her where her priorities and happiness really lie…. Hope City — A hospital, a clinic, a community — a place that lives up to its name
Grant's Dissector (Lippincott Connect Ser.)
by Alan J. DettonGrant’s Dissector, Seventeenth Edition provides step-by-step human cadaver dissection procedures for students to perform in the anatomy lab and to recognize important relationships revealed through dissection. More informative and approachable than ever, this updated seventeenth edition broadens students’ understanding of key dissection procedures and readies them for success in healthcare practice. Each chapter is consistently organized beginning with a Dissection Overview that provides a blueprint of what needs to be accomplished during the dissection session and includes relevant surface anatomy. Dissection Instructions offer a logical sequence and numbered steps for the dissection. The Dissection Follow-up emphasizes important features of the dissection and encourages students to reflect on and synthesize the information.
Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology (Graphic Medicine)
by Susan Merrill SquierThis comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.The comics here expose the contradictions, complexities, and confluences around diverse individual experiences of the entire reproductive process, from trying to conceive to child loss and childbirth. Jenell Johnson’s introduction situates comics about reproduction within the growing field of graphic medicine and reveals how they provide a discursive forum in which concepts can be explored and presented as uncertainties rather than as part of a prescribed or expected narrative. Through comics such as Lyn Chevley’s groundbreaking “Abortion Eve,” Bethany Doane’s “Pushing Back: A Home Birth Story,” Leah Hayes’s “Not Funny Ha-Ha,” and “Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story,” by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, the collection explores a myriad of reproductive experiences and perspectives. The result is a provocative, multifaceted portrait of one of the most basic and complicated of all human experiences, one that can be hilarious and heartbreaking.Featuring work by well-known comics artists as well as exciting new voices, this incisive collection is an important and timely resource for understanding how reproduction intersects with sociocultural issues. The afterword and a section of discussion exercises and questions make it a perfect teaching tool.
Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis, Computational Anatomy and Imaging Genetics: First International Workshop, GRAIL 2017, 6th International Workshop, MFCA 2017, and Third International Workshop, MICGen 2017, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Québec City, QC, Canada, September 10–14, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10551)
by M. Jorge Cardoso, Tal Arbel, Enzo Ferrante, Xavier Pennec, Adrian V. Dalca, Sarah Parisot, Sarang Joshi, Nematollah K. Batmanghelich, Aristeidis Sotiras, Mads Nielsen, Mert R. Sabuncu, Tom Fletcher, Li Shen, Stanley Durrleman and Stefan SommerThis book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First International Workshop on Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis, GRAIL 2017, the 6th International Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MFCA 2017, and the Third International Workshop on Imaging Genetics, MICGen 2017, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017, in Québec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017.The 7 full papers presented at GRAIL 2017, the 10 full papers presented at MFCA 2017, and the 5 full papers presented at MICGen 2017 were carefully reviewed and selected. The GRAIL papers cover a wide range of graph based medical image analysis methods and applications, including probabilistic graphical models, neuroimaging using graph representations, machine learning for diagnosis prediction, and shape modeling. The MFCA papers deal with theoretical developments in non-linear image and surface registration in the context of computational anatomy. The MICGen papers cover topics in the field of medical genetics, computational biology and medical imaging.
Grasping the Donkey's Tail: Unraveling Mysteries from the Classics of Oriental Medicine
by Charles Buck Peter EckmanA scholarly yet practical account for modern clinicians of some of the key difficult questions arising from obscure passages in the classics of Chinese medicine. This book offers an interpretation of crucial sections from the classical Chinese texts which have continued to puzzle western clinicians, and serves as a basis for more effective acupuncture treatments. The author discusses Sasang medicine interpretations of specific phenomena, showing where Korean medicine diverged from Chinese, and how the two traditions can inform each other, and the modern acupuncturist. Elsewhere, he discusses the Daoist roots of Chinese medicine, the fundamental differences between Oriental and western medical approaches, as well as various important issues in pulse diagnosis, all of which have practical application for modern clinicians and students.
Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
by Emily DuftonHow earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots, historian Emily Dufton tells the remarkable story of marijuana's crooked path from acceptance to demonization and back again, and of the thousands of grassroots activists who made changing marijuana laws their life's work.During the 1970s, pro-pot campaigners with roots in the counterculture secured the drug's decriminalization in a dozen states. Soon, though, concerned parents began to mobilize; finding a champion in Nancy Reagan, they transformed pot into a national scourge and helped to pave the way for an aggressive war on drugs. Chastened marijuana advocates retooled their message, promoting pot as a medical necessity and eventually declaring legalization a matter of racial justice. For the moment, these activists are succeeding--but marijuana's history suggests how swiftly another counterrevolution could unfold.
Green Biocomposites
by Mohammad Jawaid Salit Mohd Sapuan Othman Y. AlothmanThis book addresses different aspects of green biocomposite manufacture from natural fibres and bioplastics, including the manufacturing procedures and the physical, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of green biocomposites. Featuring illustrations and tables that maximize reader insights into the current research on biocomposites, it emphasises the role of green technology in the manufacture of biocomposites and analysis of properties of biocomposites for different applications. It is a valuable resource for researchers and scientists in industry wanting to understand the need for biocomposites in the development of green, biodegradable and sustainable products for different applications.
Green Biocomposites
by Mohammad Jawaid Mohd Sapuan Salit Othman Y. AlothmanThis book introduces the concept, design and application of green biocomposites, with a specific focus on the current demand for green biocomposites for automotive and aerospace components. It discusses the mathematical background, innovative approaches to physical modelling, analysis and design techniques. Including numerous illustrations, tables, case studies and exercises, the text summarises current research in the field. It is a valuable reference resource for researchers, students and scientists working in the field of materials science.
Green Coffee Bean Extract in Human Health
by Debasis Bagchi Hiroyoshi Moriyama Anand SwaroopThe role of green coffee bean (GCB) in human health is of emerging interest to the nutraceutical field, especially given its role in improving metabolic syndrome, including weight management, hypertension, diabetes, and neuroprotection. GCB extract contains a novel antioxidant known as chlorogenic acid (also caffeoylquinic acid), which has been shown to positively affect blood pressure, brain health, diabetes, and weight management. This book provides information on the diverse health benefits of green coffee bean extract, molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways, safety of GCB, dosage, and recommended usage. It focuses on the chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and safety of GCB extract. GCB extract has brought a remarkable revolution in the nutraceutical marketplace. However, some controversies have been demonstrated recently. This book presents the state-of-the-art research studies from eminent scientists around the world on the potential and diversified health benefits of GCB extracts, with particular emphasis placed on the importance to standardize the appropriate extraction technology, quality control and assurance, and broad spectrum safety studies and human clinical studies to substantiate the regulatory claims and position the product in the marketplace.
Grondslagen van de ergotherapie
by Mieke Le Granse Margo Van Hartingsveldt Astrid KinébanianDit boek is een onmisbaar standaardwerk voor de opleidingen ergotherapie en voor ergotherapeuten in de praktijk in Nederland en Vlaanderen. De opzet van deze herziene vijfde druk is grotendeels hetzelfde gebleven. Inhoudelijk zijn echter alle hoofdstukken geactualiseerd. Daarnaast zijn er een aantal nieuwe hoofdstukken toegevoegd, onder andere over ergotherapie in sociaal-maatschappelijk perspectief, technologie in de zorg en het Person-Environment-Occupational-Performance (PEOP) model. Het boek is opgebouwd uit vier delen. Deel I beschrijft de historische ontwikkeling, de juridi-sche en sociaal- maatschappelijke positie van het beroep in Nederland en Vlaanderen, de internationale context en het kennisdomein van de ergotherapie. Deel II gaat in op de kernelementen van de ergotherapie en de professie van ergotherapeut. Deel III bespreekt veelgebruikte inhouds- en procesmodellen. Deel IV gaat in op de praktische toepassing van ergotherapie. De redactie bestaat uit Mieke le Granse MSc (senior docent ergotherapie Zuyd Hogeschool), dr. Margo van Hartingsveldt (opleidingsmanager en lector ergotherapie bij de Hogeschool van Amsterdam) en drs. Astrid Kin#65533;banian (oud-directeur European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy). Aan deze vijfde druk werkten 46 auteurs, uit Nederland en Vlaanderen, mee. Zij zijn werkzaam in verschillende praktijkcontexten, onderzoeksnetwerken en/of hogescholen. Grondslagen van de ergotherapiebiedt hierdoor een rijke afspiegeling van de opvattingen en idee#65533;n over ergotherapie in het Nederlands taalgebied en geeft zo het discours over de inhoud van het beroep weer een nieuwe impuls. Prof. Jan De Maeseneer zegt in zijn voorwoord van dit boek: "In deze veranderende samenleving is de ergotherapie meer dan ooit aan zet. Om dit te realiseren brengt het boek 'Grondslagen van de Ergotherapie' een brede waaier van kennis, inzicht en inspiratie. "
Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy: The Theoretical Basis and Practice Application of Group Intervention
by Marilyn B. ColeIn occupational therapy practice, well designed groups represent social and cultural contexts for occupational performance in everyday life. Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy: The Theoretical Basis and Practice Application of Group Intervention, the best-selling text for over 25 years by Marilyn B. Cole, has been updated to a Fifth Edition, offering strategies and learning tools to place clients in effective groups for enhanced therapeutic interventions. Updated to meet the AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, Third Edition, this Fifth Edition provides guidelines for occupational therapy group design and leadership and guides application of theory-based groups. The theory section clarifies how occupation based models and frames of reference change the way occupational therapy groups are organized and how theory impacts the selection of group activities, goals, and outcomes. Recent examples and evidence are added in this Fifth Edition to reflect the design and use of groups for evaluation and intervention within the newly evolving paradigm of occupational therapy. The third section focuses on the design of group protocols and outlines a series of group experiences for students. These are intended to provide both personal and professional growth, as well as a format for practice in group leadership, self-reflection, cultural competence, and community service learning. A new chapter focusing on the recovery model and trauma-informed care suggests ways for occupational therapists to design group interventions within these broadly defined approaches. Cole’s 7-step format for occupational therapy group leadership provides a concrete, user-friendly learning experience for students to design and lead theory based groups. The settings for which students can design group interventions has been updated to include current and emerging practice settings. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. With a client-centered theoretical approach, Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy: The Theoretical Basis and Practice Application of Group Intervention, Fifth Edition continues a 25-year tradition of education for occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students and clinicians.
Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds: Expert Advice on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People (Generation Next)
by Ramesh ManochaThe world is getting harder for young people, and for the people who care about them: parents, teachers, school counsellors and concerned relatives. Generation Next is an organisation that gathers experts in several fields to provide information for professionals - now that expertise is gathered in this volume for everyone else. Each chapter contains easily accessible information, along with more detail and resources for those who wish to find out more. In this comprehensive volume there will be the latest information on many topics, including: Helping young people get help for mental health problems Bullying Anxiety Depression Understanding self-harm Child sexual abuse Alcohol and Drugs and how to communicate with young people about them Teens, Parties and Alcohol: A practical guide to keeping them safe Eating Disorders Body Image Resilience and Positive Psychology Understanding the Teenage Brain Online Time Management
Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds: Generation Next
by Ramesh ManochaThis is the most authoritative and up-to-date collection of information about a range of issues affecting young people today, including drugs and alcohol, bullying, mental health and eating disorders.The world is getting harder for young people, and for the people who care about them: parents, teachers, school counsellors and concerned relatives. Generation Next is an organisation that gathers experts in several fields to provide information for professionals - now that expertise is gathered in this volume for everyone else. Each chapter contains easily accessible information, along with more detail and resources for those who wish to find out more.In this comprehensive volume is the latest information on many topics, including:Helping young people get help for mental health problemsBullying AnxietyDepressionUnderstanding self-harmChild sexual abuseAlcohol and Drugs and how to communicate with young people about themTeens, Parties and Alcohol: A pratical guide to keeping them safe Eating DisordersBody ImageResilience and Positive PsychologyUnderstanding the Teenage BrainOnline Time ManagementComing in September 2017 is volume 2 in the Generation Next collection: Nurturing Young Minds: Mental Wellbeing for the 21st Century
Grundlagen der Datenanalyse mit R: Eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung (Statistik und ihre Anwendungen)
by Daniel WollschlägerDieses Buch liefert eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Datenauswertung mit der freien Statistikumgebung R. Es behandelt deskriptive Auswertungen ebenso umfassend wie inferenzstatistische Analysen. Neben klassischen univariaten Verfahren berücksichtigt das Buch nonparametrische Tests, Resampling-Methoden und multivariate Statistik. Zudem deckt es die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten ab, Daten aufzubereiten und Diagramme zu erstellen. Die statistischen Verfahren werden anhand von Beispielen erläutert und an vielen Stellen mit Diagrammen illustriert.Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die R kennenlernen und in konkreten Aufgabenstellungen einsetzen möchten, ohne bereits über Vorerfahrungen mit befehlsgesteuerten Programmen oder Programmiersprachen zu verfügen. In die vierte Auflage sind sowohl die Neuerungen von R 3.3.2 als auch jüngere Entwicklungen bei den Zusatzpaketen eingeflossen. Gleichzeitig wurde der Text überarbeitet und um ein eigenes Kapitel zu Diagrammen mit ggplot2 erweitert. Der Text behandelt nun auch allgemeine numerische Methoden wie Nullstellensuche, numerische Integration und Ableitung sowie numerische Optimierung.
A Guide to AIDS (Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences)
by Omar Bagasra Donald Gene PaceThe Guide to AIDS is succinct review of HIV/AIDS from a human-interest perspective. Chapters focus on some of the common patterns and prevention of HIV transmission and debunks misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. Brief descriptions the human immune system and epidemiology of HIV are included. The cultural component of disease, treatment and living with AIDS is central to much of this guide intended to synthesize, explain and de-mystify HIV and AIDS.
A Guide to Psychosocial and Spiritual Care at the End of Life
by Henry S. PerkinsPsychological, social, and spiritual care is as important as physical care at the end of life. Yet caregivers often feel ill-equipped to give that nonphysical care. This book shows how to do it. The book addresses all caregivers who attend dying patients: doctors, nurses, chaplains, clergy in the pastorate, social workers, clinical psychologists, family caregivers, and others. It covers such topics as the functional and emotional trajectories of dying; the varied approaches of patients and caregivers to end-of-life decisions; culturally based beliefs about dying; the differences between depression and grief; and people's views about the right time to die, the death experience itself, and the afterlife. For each topic the book introduces core concepts and summarizes recent research about them. The book presents much of its material in readable tables for easy reference; applies the material to real-life cases; lists the main "take home" points for each chapter; and gives references for additional reading. The book helps caregivers anticipate the reactions of patients and survivors to end-of-life traumas and suggests how caregivers can respond insightfully and compassionately. At the same time the book challenges caregivers to think through their own views about death and dying. This book, therefore, is a must-read for all caregivers―professional and nonprofessional alike―who strive to give their patients comprehensive, high-quality end-of-life care.
A Guide to Specimen Management in Clinical Microbiology (ASM Books)
by J. Michael Miller Shelley A. MillerA Guide to Specimen Management in Clinical Microbiology is the classic reference that addresses and meets the needs of everyone in the "total testing process" circle. It provides complete, concise information on the unique needs of the microbiology laboratory regarding specimen management and is the only single source for the specimen management policies required for laboratory results that are accurate, significant, and clinically relevant. Medical, nursing, and medical technology students, practicing physicians, private practice offices, clinical laboratories, and public health laboratories can turn to this valuable resource to answer their questions on issues such as the correct procedures of specimen selection, collection, transport, and storage in the clinical microbiology laboratory, the rationale associated with the specimen requirements, and proper communication between the lab and its clients.
The Guidebook to Molar Endodontics
by Ove A. PetersThis volume offers readers a pragmatic approach to endodontic therapy for permanent molars, based on up-to-date evidence. All chapters were written by experts in the field, and focus on preparation for treatment, vital pulp therapy, access cavity preparation, root canal shaping, outcome assessment, retreatment, apical surgery, and specific aspects of restorations for root canal-treated molars. The role of micro-CT data in visualizing canal anatomy is compared to cone beam CT, and detailed information on current clinical tools, such as irrigation adjuncts and engine-driven preparation tools is provided. Important steps are illustrated in clinical photographs and radiographs, as well as by schematic diagrams. Tables and check boxes highlight key points for special attention, and clinical pitfalls. Guiding references are provided. Performing molar endodontics is often a daunting prospect, regardless of the practice setting. This is where "Molar Endodontics" is an ideal source of guidance for practitioners. Special devices and recent innovations in apex locators and nickel-titanium instruments have, however, made procedures significantly easier and more practical for non-specialists. This book will help conscientious clinicians to master molar endodontics with well-described and established clinical methods.
Gynaecology by Ten Teachers
by Helen Bickerstaff Louise C KennyFirst published in 1919 as 'Diseases of Women', Gynaecology by Ten Teachers is well established as a concise, yet comprehensive, guide. The twentieth edition has been thoroughly updated by a new team of 'teachers', integrating clinical material with the latest scientific developments that underpin patient care. Each chapter is highly structured, with learning objectives, definitions, aetiology, clinical features, investigations, treatments, case histories and key point summaries and additional reading where appropriate. New themes for this edition include 'professionalism' and 'global health' and information specific to both areas is threaded throughout the text.
Gynecologic Care
by Martin E. Olsen Lisa KederGynecologic Care provides a succinct yet comprehensive discussion of critical knowledge required for gynecologists. Concise, easily accessible chapters allow the reader to quickly review essential material for patient care, or comprehensively study the modern management of gynecology. New residents can quickly cover the breadth of gynecology, while more experienced physicians will find the materials useful for review purposes. Each chapter covers key topics listed by the Committee for Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Gynecologic Care is part of a three book series which covers the breadth of the Obstetrics and Gynecology specialty. The other books in the series are Obstetric Care and Office Care of Women.
The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew #23)
by Susanna GregoryFor the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The twenty third chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew. In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college seems destined for bankruptcy.Determined to see if some of its well-heeled citizens can be persuaded to sponsor Michaelhouse, Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and Master Langelee become enmeshed in the town's politics. They quickly discover that a great many other people in Clare have recently met untimely deaths. These killings, combined with the arrogance Lady de Burgh has shown over the refurbishment of the church and the grotesque behaviour of some of her entourage, have created a dangerous restlessness in the town: an atmosphere intensified when yet more murders occur.One of the victims is a fellow traveller of the Michaelhouse contingent, and Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael feel honour-bound to identify his killer. It is a hunt which takes them deep into Clare's murky foundations and which threatens their own survival as well as that of their beloved college.'A first-rate treat for mystery lovers' (Historical Novels Review)'Susanna Gregory has an extraordinary ability to conjure up a strong sense of time and place' (Choice)