John Fry: 24 books
A Mind at Sea
Henry Fry and the Glorious Era of Quebec's Sailing Ships
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec.
A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd’s agent for...
by John Fry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the sixth edition of this work John Fry has reverted to the format of the earlier editions published in 1965, 1970 and 1973 and has presented statistical data drawn widely from many sources. General practice in the United Kingdom and elsewhere throughout the world has undergone many changes in...
by John Fry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport’s development, including the emergence...
by John Fry, I. Higton, John Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The New Contract which came into force on April 1st 1990 includes proposals for the provision of minor surgery services by the General Practitioner. The aim of this book is to assist those doctors undertaking minor surgery in their Practices. It is intended to present a practical, clear and concise...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Almost Pioneers
One Couple's Homesteading Adventure in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy—some might say foolhardy—decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spring over a half-mile away, and fought...
A New Approach to Medicine
Principles and Priorities in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Medicine is news. There is constant public interest in health and disease; in medical miracles and in breakthroughs; in medical disasters, failures and malpraxis ; in deficiencies and defects ofhealth services; and in the rising costs ofhealth care. Medicine is 'big business'. Physicians co me out...
The Family Good Health Guide
Common Sense on Common Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although we have no good definition of 'health', all people have their own ideas of whether they are healthy or not. Based on personal experience and knowledge each person comes to accept that within themselves there is a normal range of feelings and performance, departure from which could be considered...
by John Fry, M. Pollak
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As 'seasoned campaigners' we offer our readers more than 60 joint practice years of commonsense experience on children and their prob lems. Child care is a large and fascinating part of general family practice. More than any other discipline it is a mix of understanding the wide range of normal...
Practice Management Compendium
Part 3: Finance and Reports
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
General Practice is undergoing the most major series of changes since the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948. They concern both concepts of care and practical details of the way care is delivered. In spite of the hostility generated by the changes most of the broad general concepts...
Practice Management Compendium
Part 1: Understanding the Contract
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
General Practice is undergoing the most major series of changes since the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948. They concern both concepts of care and practical details of the way care is delivered. In spite of the hostility generated by the changes most of the broad general concepts...
Reviving Primary Care
A US-UK Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population. In the UK, the quality of care costs less at an annual cost of $1000 per head of population, although care is sometimes delayed through a...
Medicine in Three Societies
A comparison of medical care in the USSR, USA and UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is a personal testimony of faith in the future and in the progression to better health and a better life. It is the testament of a rough and ready measuring device - a practising physician who sought to compare and contrast three systems of medical care to see what can be distilled from...
The Principles and Practice of Primary Care and Family Medicine
Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care professionals...
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