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Patient Care Information Systems
Successful Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information,...
Pathways of Human Development
Explorations of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes,...
by Margaret A. Boden, Liane Gabora, Apara Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity.
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...
Black LGBT Health in the United States
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the...
by Eugene C. Toy, William E. Seifert Jr., Henry W. Strobel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
LEARN BIOCHEMISTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF REAL-LIFE PATIENTS AND PREPARE FOR THE USMLE Step 1
Experience with clinical cases is key to excelling on the USMLE Step 1 and shelf exams, and ultimately to providing patients with competent clinical care. Case Files: Biochemistry provides 53 true-to-life cases...
Drugs and Justice
Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...
Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500
Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal...
A Financial Centre for Two Empires
Hong Kong's Corporate, Securities and Tax Laws in its Transition from Britain to China
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's future is even more interesting:...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
by George M. Woodwell, John P. Abraham, Michael C. MacCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
"This marvelously accessible book highlights a full color presentation of climate science with solutions. On the most highly-charged environmental policy issue of the 21st Century, top climate scientists join forces with 2013 Common Ground Student Essayists to expand public awareness and activism...
by P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter, based on symmetries and conservation...
by George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's...
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...