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Joints and Connective Tissues
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
*Joints and Connective Tissues - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. *In order to diagnose and manage the patient presenting with musculoskeletal symptoms, it is important to distinguish whether the pathology is arising primarily in the so-called hard tissues (such as bone) or the...
by SparkNotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Europe (1815-1848) (SparkNotes History Note)
Making the reading experience fun!
SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible lessons, the History Guides make...
Quantum Leaps
How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric 'quantum theory' — from...
A Bouquet of Dyson
and Other Reflections on Science and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship...
The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Volume III
The Tiger Unleashed, 1975-1985
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Volume III of The Official History of Britain and the European Community covers the divisions over Europe of the Labour Government (1975–79) and the controversies surrounding Britain’s relations with her EEC partners under Margaret Thatcher.
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The law on administrative procedure regulates the processes through which administrative decisions and administrative projects are elaborated. It is more and more regarded as essential in administrative laws: it is really considered as the central part of it in some systems. In many jurisdictions,...
Essence of Good Health
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Essence of Good Health - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series, gives an outline of the ESSENCE model of healthcare. ESSENCE is a mnemonic:
E - Education
S - Stress Management
S - Spirituality
E - Exercise
N - Nutrition
C - Connectedness
E - Environment
ESSENCE extends and gives further...
by Michael Stoddart
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans with an insatiable appetite for perfumes and fragrances. It explains how smell works and how animals sense the environment. The relationship between sex...
From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity
A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. It starts with the "strange" physics of matter, including particle physics, atomic physics and quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity and their consequences (Chapter I), and it continues by...
Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus E-Book
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. In the 21st Century, the management of type 2 diabetes has become even more important both in the primary health care setting and in the UK government's health policy. With the publication of the National...
Dyslipidemias
Pathophysiology, Evaluation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Dyslipidemias: Pathophysiology, Evaluation and Management provides a wealth of general and detailed guidelines for the clinical evaluation and management of lipid disorders in adults and children. Covering the full range of common through rare lipid disorders, this timely resource offers targeted,...
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry, and universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences...
by Roger G. Finch, MB BS, FRCP
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Well-respected and widely regarded as the most comprehensive text in the field, Antibiotic and Chemotherapy, 9th Edition by Drs. Finch, Greenwood, Whitley, and Norrby, provides globally relevant coverage of all types of antimicrobial agents used in human medicine, including all antiviral, antiprotozoan...
Men's Health
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Men's Health - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. This chapter discusses men’s health including erectile dysfunction, testicular cancer, prostate disease and also deals with the difficulty faced by GPs of getting male patients to present for a regular check-up.