A car accident landed Briana in the hospital, but not as a patient. No, when she finally opened her eyes, it was to find herself in the morgue, lying on the ceiling with a prime view of her covered body. And yet, when an angel appeared to lead her on to her new celestial home, Briana was anything but ready to go. So when another woman burst through the clouds, leaving behind a dying body, Mallory leapt back to Earth, back in time, for a second chance at life.

After seven long years of marriage to Alexandra, Jareth had fill of treacherous women. Although he’d vowed never to love again, when his wife suffered a mishap giving birth to a child that wasn’t even his, suddenly she was not her usual, viscous self. Now she was laughing, calling herself Briana, and turning his life upside-down. He told himself it didn’t matter what she did, he was stubbornly determined not to be drawn in by the same deceptive charms that had fooled him once before. Read the rest of this entry »

Out of Time is a great example of the wonderful treasures you can find if you get lucky. Despite the ‘paranormal romance’ subtitle, Out of Time is really more of a time travel romance with a paranormal complication as part of the conflict than an actual paranormal romance, since neither of the leads go bump in the night, but it is a really good time travel romance.

An accidental trip to the past, lands Professor Simon Cross and his graduate Assistant Elizabeth West in New York during the summer of 1929. Being stranded out of time with only each other to rely on, allows the unacknowledged attraction between the pair to come to light. (For those concerned with sensuality level, Simon and Elizabeth’s relationship does become physical and the first love scene is descriptive but not as detailed as most main stream paranormal romance and nowhere near the paint-by-numbers descriptions of the more erotic stuff). Read the rest of this entry »

Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care.

It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales. Read the rest of this entry »

This is book about the political and cultural history of western Europe, published in 1902, well before the world wars or any of the other sweeping historical changes to Europe in the 20th century. It’s a book that opines on the nature of political franchise, war, and militarism, written scant years after the American civil war by a professor at Colombia before America had a major military role in the affairs of the world.

A history of Europe written when Germany was still a loose confederation of states guided by Bismarck, Russia was ruled by a Tsar. Words cannot express how fascinating this unique historical perspective on history turned out to be. Read the rest of this entry »

Though a highly idiosyncratic writer and thinker, like any author Thucydides betrays the influences of the literature and research of his day. Books have traced his connections to contemporary medicine, sophistic rhetoric and argumentation, philosophy, and drama (Cochrane, Finley, Solmsen, Cornford, Hunter, etc.), as well as to his historical predecessor, Herodotus (484–414).

Thucydides’ polemical historiographical strictures on the methods of historical research and presentation are not necessarily directed against Herodotus, since other authors, in poetry and in prose, treated the same prior events that Herodotus also mentions. For instance, in the case of the comments on the notorious Delian earthquake, the two authors seem to pass each other in the night—oblivious to the specifics that the other has mentioned. Read the rest of this entry »