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Black, Cara. Murder at the Porte de Versailles. Soho Crime. (Aimee Lecluc Investigation, Bk. 20). Mar. 2022.360p. ISBN 9781641290432. $27.95. M November 2001 brings mixed feelings to Aimee Leduc. Her [...]

Pressly, Nancy L. Unlocking: A Memoir of Family and Art. She Writes. May 2020.256p. ISBN 9781631528620. pap. $16.95. memoir The subtitle of this memoir sums up this book--it is a [...]

To compare disease activity and disability over 2 years in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before and after implementation of treat‐to‐target therapy and identify predictors of adverse outcome. The Yorkshire Early Arthritis Register (YEAR) recruited 725 patients with early RAbetween 2002 and 2009, treated with a step‐up approach. The Inflammatory Arthritis Continuum study (IACON) recruited cases between 2010 and 2014 and treated to target. A total of 384 IACONcases met 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism criteria. Latent growth curves of change in Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) and the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) were compared between YEARand IACON. Latent class growth analysis identified trajectories of change. Baseline predictors of trajectories were identified using logistic regression. The mean DAS28 over 2 years was lower in IACONthan in YEAR. Latent trajectories of HAQchange in YEARwere high stable (21% of cohort), moderate reducing (35%), and low reducing (44%). Only moderate reducing (66%) and low reducing (34%) were seen in IACON. In both cohorts, female sex and fatigue predicted adverse HAQtrajectories (high stable and moderate reducing). Odds ratios (ORs) for moderate reducing compared to low reducing for women were 2.58 (95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.69, 4.49) in YEARand 5.81 (95% CI2.44, 14.29) in IACON. ORs per centimeter fatigue visual analog score were 1.13 (95% CI1.07, 1.20) in YEARand 1.16 (95% CI1.12, 1.20) in IACON. Treat‐to‐target therapy gave more favorable trajectories of change in DAS28 and HAQ, but adverse HAQtrajectory was more likely in women with greater fatigue, suggesting such patients would benefit from interventions to improve function as well as reduce inflammation.

(unabr.) 2 cassettes or 2 CDs. 2:25 hrs. Audio Bookshelf. 2002. cassette, ISBN 1-88333-77-X: $17.95; CD, ISBN 1-88333-81-8: $24.95. Gr 3-6--Mary Pope Osborne's retelling of tales about America's folk heroes [...]

KING-SMITH, Dick. George Speaks. illus. by Judy Brown. 96p. CIP. Millbrook/Roaring Brook. Apr. 2002. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-7613-1544-6; PLB $21.90. ISBN 0-7613-2519-0. LC 2001040421. Gr 2-4--Readers will enjoy this funny [...]

illus. by German Jaramillo. 173p. (In the Same Boat Series). CIP. Coteau. 2002. pap. $7.95. ISBN 1-55050-184-4. LC C2001-911225-4. Gr 4-6--Ana, 13, who lives in Toronto, spends the summer in [...]

AbstractThis article discusses a central paradox behind mobile geography – mobile phones are ubiquitous and bodily intimate technologies, yet the public seems particularly fearful of any spatial proximity to mobile phone masts. Such fears are generally understood in terms of ‘risk perception’, an irrational consequence of media hype, faulty cognitive processing, or communication failure. This merely psychologises what is a deeply spatial paradox. Tbe routine ‘nomadic intimacy’ of mobile phone use establishes place as a mere backdrop to being always ‘on-call’, too absorbed In the ‘busy-ness’ of everyday life to notice what is close at hand. In contrast, what we term ‘place intimacy’ becomes evident when public protest over the unwanted intrusion of phone masts helps refashion familiar places as meaningful, safe and worth protecting.