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This comprehensive guide enables parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to play an active and effective role in their child's medical care from diagnosis to early adulthood. With a focus on working with health care providers to ensure the best treatment for your child's unique...

This is an age old story of love between a man, a woman, and how sometimes in finding love you have to take on the whole world, and at times... even two. The Allun: a dying race of women from the planet Ki, have their eye on earth, and mankind is the hot commodity... perfect for breeding with. With...

Tonya Callahan is struggling to become a jockey in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing. But there is something more sinister then sexism at work at the small Southwestern track where Tonya lives with her father, a successful trainer. Just as she is about to obtain her apprentice jockey’s...

The only gynecology textbook to combine a comprehensive medical reference and a full color surgical atlas in one beautifully illustrated volume A Doody's Core Title for 2017! Williams Gynecology, Third Edition is specifically designed as a practical quick-reference guide for practicing...

Daniel, a knight of the church, is finally living the life he has always dreamed and is married to the woman he has loved forever. Together, they live in a cottage in Lough Inch, the village where they both grew up. Daniel receives a summons from the church to go on a mission. Upon arrival at the...

Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...

If the eyes are indeed the “windows to the soul,” then there might be a deeper significance to the emergence of an eye problem like nearsightedness than one might think. In Conscious Seeing, Dr. Roberto Kaplan explains that how we see is the largest determining factor in what we see. When we look...

Audience: Pharmacy students, Pharmacy Residents, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioner Students, Physician Assistants, and primary care physicians Each chapter uses a standardized approach to therapeutic decision making: systematic review of the literature, specific recommendations, treatment algorithms...

Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...

The government tells us that we should eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits daily. Unfortunately, the average person is lucky to have two servings in a typical day, children even less. In their new booklet, Drs. Mindell and O92;Donnell tell us how greens can protect us against heart...

This seminal work, Research and Ethics for the Medical Profession, shares a common thread among all its contributing authors, and that the medical and nursing profession are obligated to act compassionately, honestly, and with respect for the betterment of their patients. Doctors have a moral duty...

This book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics. Topics include bio solids, biofluids, stress, balance and equilibrium. Students are encouraged to contextualize principles and exercises within a “big picture” of biomechanics. This is an ideal book for undergraduate students with interests in biomedical engineering.

Unless forced by circumstances, people in modern societies go to great lengths to deny death, to the extent that even death of a loved one from natural causes tends to catch us unprepared and unable to cope with its consequences. Death as the result of a sudden, catastrophic event (traffic accident,...