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When, 12 years ago, Walter Devoto and Angelo Putignano started thinking of being able to somehow help the dentist in the choice of materials and in their use in repeatable and predictable techniques, while respecting the individuality and abilities of single practitioners, they never thought they would reach so many dentists around the world. Today, one dentist out of four knows them and knows what they and the group StyleItaliano formed around them and to which they owe so much have done in these years. Simplification and predictability have been the leitmotifs behind their work and focusing on those themes has allowed them to develop techniques and tools to optimize the use of new materials that are transforming aesthetic restoration into one of the most appreciated and requested disciplines in Dentistry. StyleItaliano members have followed them on a long and difficult path from their great initial distrust to awareness and competence. They have shown the highest possible quality dentistry in every country and the members, spread across all continents, are witnesses and interpreters of this. And here is the Styleitaliano Yearbook where they highlight the best interpreters of this Dentistry so that everyone can see, know, and understand the philosophy that guides them, and makes them unique.

Veneers is not a book to impress, but a book to teach, wherein the author's deep knowledge of the foundations of dentistry is revealed. The need to carry out adequate diagnoses that consider functional aspects fundamental to achieving success in this compromised type of treatment is emphasized. The book answers a number of questions: Is veneering a challenge? What do you need to have a predictable key to success in your workshop? And – What did I have to learn and remember well, after an era of uncertainty, trials, and material choices, to treat this therapy as an ordinary but demanding clinical procedure? Through detailed clinical cases, this book shows when veneers are indicated, when to avoid them, what risks lie in wait, how to prepare the teeth, what type of materials to use, and how to proceed with cementation. It also shows where this type of treatment is going in the future, with the incorporation of the digital workflow. This book is a must for clinicians dedicated to esthetic restorative dentistry.

Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Color, and Literary Comedian humor -- each having serious social import--Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence. Moving through more than six decades of Walter Blair's works, Essays on American Humor: Blair through the Ages provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline he developed. Hamlin Hill has selected and ordered this collection to show the scope of Blair's expertise, which encompasses the careers of tall-tale characters like Baron Munchausen as well as the achievements of such real-life humorists as E. B. White. The pieces range in time from Blair's introduction to the 1928 edition of Julia A. Moore's poetry to his 1989 introduction to a work commemorating Davy Crockett's two-hundredth anniversary. Historical and biographical essays, source-and-influence studies, and analyses of texts constitute the bulk of the book. An entire section is devoted to discourses on Mark Twain, Blair's major subject.

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.

"This volume of never-before-published material is the result of the avocational efforts of the late Walter M. Camp, who was fascinated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Camp, who died in 1925 before he could complete his proposed masterpiece, spoke with and corresponded, between 1908 and 1925, with 109 individuals who either belonged to Custer's cavalry or to his Indian scout force, or were civilians attached to Custer's regiment. The letters were written by such notables as Generals Edward S. Godfrey, Owen J. Sweet, Charles F. Roe, Colonels Chas. A. Varnum and George S. Young, First Sergeants John Ryan and Charles Windoph, Sergeants Daniel A. Knipe and Stanislas Roy and Privates Augustus L. DeVoto, James M. Rooney, William O. Taylor and Peter Thompson. To this array Hardorff has added thirty-three letters composed by Camp and sent to various correspondents. The letters deal with various aspects of Custer's approach to and attack of the Indian village, the burial of the dead, the transfer of their remains in 1881, and the placement of the markers in 1890"--Jacket.

Eugene Walter's first novel is about a young man from a small central Alabama town who goes south of the "salt line" to Mobile to work in a bank and study law. As soon as this unnamed pilgrim arrives, he realizes that--although he is still in Alabama he has entered a separate physical kingdom of banana trees and palm fronds, subtropical heat and humidity, old houses and lacy wrought-iron balconies. In the "land of clowns" and the "kingdom of monkeys "in the town that can claim the oldest Mardi Gras in America--there is no Puritan work ethic; the only ruling forces are those of chaos, craziness, and caprice. Such forces overtake the pilgrim, seduce him away from the beaten career path, and set him on a zigzag course through life.

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