Count Scarpa

Street Guy

The real-life adventures of a United States Secret Service undercover agent. In Street Guy, a retired special agent in charge details his experiences working undercover against some of New York's most notorious members of the Mafia and traveling overseas on undercover assignments against transnational criminal groups. Street Guy details his experiences investigating crimes, including armored car robbery, the counterfeiting of US currency, financial fraud, and the murder of a government witness. This book shows the reader the gritty side of what it takes to be a Secret Service criminal investigator, a side not often seen by the public. Street Guy gives the reader the excitement, unpredictability, and danger of working undercover. It puts the reader right in the room with members of the Mafia where one mistake could mean death for the undercover agent. Street Guy details the very diverse responsibilities of the Service and opens up a new and exciting look at one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the world.

Schuknecht's Pathology of the Ear

This book is a dedicated text to learn pathologic images seen during EUS. The digital anatomy correlation used in this work is the natural continuation of efforts to apply the University of Colorado Visible Human data set to gastroenterology. The Visible Human data set was created by Dr. Vic Spitzer and colleagues at the University of Colorado and is currently housed at the universitys Center for Human Simulation. The data set consists of high resolution transaxial digital images captured as cadavers were abraded away at 1 mm or less depths. These images are compiled into blocks of data and each structure is identified. This information can be used to pull out and manipulate 3-D structures as well as allowing one to review planar anatomy in any orientation. Using the Visible Human dataset, one should be able to find a normal anatomy correlate to any image found during a EUS examination. However, as important as normal anatomy is, it is the abnormal features which are the crux of an EUS examination. Endosonographers are asked to define lumps, bumps, cysts to find correlates for symptoms and abnormal laboratory findings. Accuracy requires a tremendous amount of skill and experience. To help in this task, we have assembled chapters from a world-wide group of expert endosonographers. These authors have shared their insight and images to help the readers of this work better see and understand some of the complexities uncovered during a EUS evaluation. DVD showing techniques for removal of human temporal bones.

The Lost Heir, Or, The Duke and the Lazzarone