Life takes us on several journeys. For these five friends--Brandon, Kevin, Marc, Miguel, and Sun--life will take all of them on an array of journeys. The first journey will be graduating from high school. The second journey will be their acceptance to Bethel College Medical School. The third journey will be as resident doctors, where their lives will take an unexpected turn. The final journey will be a second chance to start life over. Code Blue is the story of five teenage boys who graduate high school and get accepted to medical school at Bethel College. These five medical students will forge a bond in college and become friends. Do these five friends have another interest besides medicine?

Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city’s plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon—street-level entrepreneurs repurposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. How It Works is a compelling study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform. To find out what life is like in these recovery houses, Robert P. Fairbanks II goes inside one particular home in the Kensington neighborhood. Operating without a license and unregulated by any government office, the recovery house provides food, shelter, company, and a bracing self-help philosophy to addicts in an area saturated with drugs and devastated by poverty. From this starkly vivid close-up, Fairbanks widens his lens to reveal the intricate relationships the recovery houses have forged with public welfare, the formal drug treatment sector, criminal justice institutions, and the local government.

An estimated 5-6 lakh people die every year due to sudden cardiac death (SCD) i.e., an unexpected death that occurs within an hour of collapse. This amounts to 10% of total mortality and 1/5 th of all cardiovascular deaths. In sudden cardiac arrest, a sudden dangerous rhythm disturbance of the heart occurs, stopping blood flow to vital organs. Permanent brain damage occurs if the circulation is not restored within 3 to 4 minutes, and hopes of survival become remote by the time they are shifted to hospitals. On-the-spot bystander action in providing a life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cardiac massage) or CPR and early shock to the chest can improve survival by 60 to 80%. This manual comprehensively covers all aspects of sudden cardiac arrest across various age groups and situations. Containing 40 Chapters, 12 Annexures and 175 References, it delves deeply into the historical evolution and latest medical management protocols of this life threatening emergency. The manual will serve as a valuable reference book for all doctors, nurses and para medical staff posted in critical care units, casualty and the periphery.

This savvy guide demystifies the complicated high school admissions process and compiles all of the information into one source so that families can make a well-informed decision when choosing their child's school. Listing more than 140 schools by category--Catholic, Independent, and Public--and providing general information about each one, this resource helps parents narrow their search by outlining each school's curriculum and philosophy, costs, class sizes, percentage of college-bound graduates, and public transportation options. The accompanying timeline begins with the sixth grade and outlines important topics of discussion to prepare parents and prospective students along the way.

An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with authors who saw social justice as a work in progress. Some African American authors did take up the challenge. Pauline Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes led the way in the first half of the 20th century, followed by Ishmael Reed's "anti-detective" novels in the 1970s. Since the 1990s, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead and Stephen L. Carter have written detective fiction focusing on questions of constitutional law, civil rights, biological and medical issues, education, popular culture, the criminal justice system and matters of social justice. From Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter (published in 1901), to Hime's hardboiled "Harlem Detective" series, to Carter's patrician world of the black bourgeoisie, these authors provide a means of examining literary and social constructions of the African-American experience. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.