Best Selling Books by E. Lockhart

Here are how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver''s junior year at Tate Prep: Kim - not speaking, but far away in Tokyo; Cricket - not speaking; Nora - speaking, sort of. Chatted a couple times this summer when they bumped into each other outside of school. But she hadn''t called Ruby, or anything; Noel - didn''t care what anyone thinks; Meghan - didn''t have any other friends; Dr. Z - speaking; and Jackson. The big one. Not speaking. By Winter Break, a new job, an unlikely but satisfying friend combo, additional entries to The Boy Book and many difficult decisions help Ruby to see that there is, indeed, life outside the Tate Universe.

Develop a solid understanding of vascular ultrasound with this practical, point-of-care reference in the popular Diagnostic Ultrasound series. Written by leading experts in the field, Diagnostic Ultrasound: Vascular offers detailed, clinically oriented coverage of ultrasound anatomy, pathology, technique, and diagnosis. This wealth of up-to-date information helps you achieve an accurate vascular ultrasound diagnosis for every patient. Ensures that you stay on top of rapidly evolving vascular ultrasound practice and its expanding applications for everyday clinical use Includes extensively illustrated coverage of sonographic anatomy that depicts pertinent vascular structures of the head and neck, chest and abdomen, and extremities Features image-rich chapters on vascular ultrasound techniques, covering grayscale, color, power, and spectral (pulsed) Doppler imaging, as well as imaging artifacts Provides detailed sonographic descriptions for the vascular diseases and anomalies encountered in clinical practice, including lesions of head and neck, chest and abdomen (including transplants), and extremities, including tips, tricks, and pitfalls Contains a gallery of typical and atypical ultrasound appearances covering a wide spectrum of disease, correlated with CT and MR imaging where appropriate, and detailed artistic renderings Discusses key vascular ultrasound intervention techniques for both diagnosis and treatment Uses a bulleted, templated format that helps you quickly find and understand complex information, as well as thousands of high-quality images and illustrations An ideal reference for radiologists, sonographers, vascular surgeons, and those who are training in these fields Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Here are how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver''s junior year at Tate Prep: Kim - not speaking, but far away in Tokyo; Cricket - not speaking; Nora - speaking, sort of. Chatted a couple times this summer when they bumped into each other outside of school. But she hadn''t called Ruby, or anything; Noel - didn''t care what anyone thinks; Meghan - didn''t have any other friends; Dr. Z - speaking; and Jackson. The big one. Not speaking...By Winter Break, a new job, an unlikely but satisfying friend combo, additional entries to The Boy Book and many difficult decisions help Ruby to see that there is, indeed, life outside the Tate Universe...

The Defense Acquisition System must be improved to better enable transformation. Over the past two to three years many programs that are critical to the DoD and Army transformation efforts have experienced significant cost and schedule overruns, while simultaneously being plagued by serious performance shortfalls. The purpose of this strategic research project (SRP) is to provide insight into the nature of the problem and to suggest actions that can be taken within the existing framework to reverse negative cost, schedule, and performance trends of major programs across DoD and the Army. The focus of the paper will be from a system of systems perspective as it relates to improving the Defense Acquisition System in relation to activities that span key processes in the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System, the Planning Programming and Budgeting System, DoD Experimentation and DoD Science and Technology Initiatives. Over the past 5-10 years there has been a major effort with the DoD and Army to reform and now to transform the Defense Acquisition System. The aim is admirable and seemingly very clear and simple; get required capability to the nation''s warfighters, faster, cheaper and better. To that end, a great deal has been done in the past three years alone, particularly in light of the SECDEF, DEPSECDEF, and CSA guidance to get equipment into warfighters hands sooner than later, even if it means sacrificing performance where necessary - the theme appears to be that new and improved technology will not help if it is not available to US Forces when needed.