James McClure

Transforming the Care of Serious IllnessPalliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness. Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "e;genius award"e; in 2009, opens the...

Naomi Stride was a wealthy woman, and her death has left several people richer--none more so than her twenty-six-year-old son Theo, with whom she had long had bitter differences over money. She was also a controversial woman, a writer whose novels had been banned in South Africa. But was it for money, politics, or some other unknown reason that she...

A Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi InvestigationHandsome twelve-year-old Boetie was strangled and stabbed. Was he the victim of a pedophile? On whom was he spying?From the Trade Paperback edition....

Structure and ApplicationsA significant proportion of modern medical technology has been developed through biomimetics, which is biologically inspired by studying pre-existing functioning systems in nature. Typical biomimetically inspired biomaterials include nano-biomaterials, smart biomaterials, hybrid biomaterials, nano-biocomposites,...

A Kramer and Zondi Investigation Set in South AfricaHugo Swart, faithful churchgoer and respected citizen, is found stabbed to death on the floor of his kitchen just before Christmas, on the hottest night of the year. If Mr. Swart's Reverend is to be believed, no one in the world could have a reason to kill him; the murder was most likely a...

The year is 1962. Young Lieutenant Tromp Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad has been ordered up to Jafini, a small, dusty town in northern Zululand, to investigate the "e;hero's death"e; of the town's chief detective, Maaties Kritzingeranother Afrikaner maverick, and one with many secrets. Kramer finds himself...