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Essential Lists of Differential Diagnoses for MRCP
with Diagnostic Hints
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Differential diagnosis texts for the MRCP can overload candidates with detailed information, making revision seem difficult and overwhelming. In contrast, this book avoids exhaustive lists of often rare causes and concentrates instead on a maximum of five of the most common causes in terms of prevalence...
by J. I. Packer
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Theology matters! At last it can be understood easily, thanks to this “layman's language” approach to biblical belief. Authored by J. I. Packer, one of the premier theologians of Christianity, this summary of Christian teaching covers nearly 100 major Christian beliefs from a Reformed perspective....
Cerebral Revascularization - E-Book
Techniques in Extracranial-to-Intracranial Bypass Surgery: Expert Consult
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Cerebral Revascularization: Techniques in Extracranial-to-Intracranial Bypass Surgery, by Saleem I. Abdulrauf, MD, FACS, offers unmatched expert guidance. Through a series of dynamic, step-by-step instructional videos of the most common and uncommon procedures, you will deepen your understanding of...
Legacies, Logics, Logistics
Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Legacies, Logics, Logistics brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007–08, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined theme. When they are brought together and interpreted...
Mobile Phone Security and Forensics
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Mobile Phone Security and Forensics provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones. The author discusses confidentiality, integrity, and availability threats in mobile telephones to provide background for the rest of the book. Security and secrets of...
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
A History of Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new...
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans...
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...
Democracy in America?
What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet the government consistently ignores the needs of its citizens, paying attention instead to donors and organized interests. Real issues are held hostage to demagoguery, partisanship...
Transformative Political Leadership
Making a Difference in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders...
Las 5 trampas del amor
Las 5 trampas del amor
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Por qué fracasan las relaciones y cómo evitarlo
¿Qué son las 5 trampas del amor? ¿Es posible vivir permanentemente enamorado? ¿Por qué nos gustan las parejas de nuestros amigos? ¿Por qué nos enganchan las peores personas? ¿De qué modo nos hacen daño las mentiras románticas? ¿Cómo...
Best Practices from High-Performing High Schools
How Successful Schools Help Students Stay in School and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In their second collaboration, Wilcox and Angelis tell the stories of high school educators who embody best practices in their day-to-day activities—practices that consistently lead to higher student academic achievement across the core subjects for all students. This book shares results of...
Serve and Learn
Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice that middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community...
The Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's...