Mark A Kroll

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy: The Engineering-Clinical Interface (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine)

HE IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR, or T"lCD," is arguably the most technologically challenging type of therapy that physicians utilize today. At the same time, engineers who design ICDs are being called upon by clinicians to extend even further the technological envelope in quest of building...

Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe

This book, the first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), explores how the son of middle-class Jewish parents in Prague became one of the most important musicians of his era, achieving recognition and world-wide admiration as a virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer, a sought-...

TASER® Conducted Electrical Weapons: Physiology, Pathology, and Law

TASER Conducted Electrical Weapons are rapidly replacing the club for law-enforcement control of violent subjects within many countries around the globe. A TASER CEW is a hand-held device that delivers a 400-volt pulse with a duration tuned to control the skeletal muscles without affecting the heart...

Cardiac Bioelectric Therapy: Mechanisms and Practical Implications

Pacing and defibrillation have become the leading therapeutic treatments of heart rhythm disorders, including bradycardia and tachycardia. The success of these therapies is largely due to centuries of scientific inquiry into the fundamental mechanisms of bioelectric phenomena in the heart. History o...

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance

Beethoven's ten violin sonatas have long been cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire. The Spring and Kreutzer sonatas are the best known of these works, which stand at the pinnacle of music for violin and piano. Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll's volume The Beethoven Violin Sonatas is the first s...

Atlas of Conducted Electrical Weapon Wounds and Forensic Analysis

Atlas of Conducted Electrical Weapon Wounds and Forensic Analysis provides a comprehensive publication on the subject of Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) wounds and signature markings created by this class of weapon. This volume will serve as a very useful resource for all professions tasked with a...

Playing the Harpsichord Expressively: A Practical and Historical Guide

The art of expressive harpsichord playing was lost when the instrument was replaced by the piano in the nineteenth century. Despite the great strides in harpsichord performance and building made during the last 100 years, the full expressive potential of the instrument has not yet been realized, or ...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was an influential teacher, composer, and musical innovator considered by many to be the greatest pianist of Europe in his lifetime. Hummel played a significant part in the transformation of musical style during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; he...

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mozart's Haffner and Linz Symphonies Arranged for Pianoforte, Flute, Violin, and Violoncello

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Twelve Select Overtures, Arranged for Pianoforte, Flute, Violin, and Violoncello

Strategic Management: Text and Cases

Strategic Management: Text and Cases

1993 Edition of Cases in Strategic Management

Strategic Management: Cases