John F : 989 books
The Haunting of Henry Twist
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified...
Beginning Analysis
On the Processes of Initiating Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How does a psychoanalysis begin? What goes on when analyst and prospective analysand meet for the first time, and what processes are activated to make the project for an analysis possible?
This unique contribution to the surprisingly sparse literature on this most essential aspect of the psychoanalytical...
The RealAge Diet
Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Food Can Make You Younger!
Dr. Michael Roizen presents his program for eating the RealAge way: a diet that is good for your overall health, plus works to delay or even reverse aging. If there's one thing you will learn from this book, it's that no matter who you are, if you eat foods that are high...
by David M. Albala;Leonard G. Gomella;Allen F. Morey;John P. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Oxford American Handbook of Urology provides authoritative point-of-care guidance on all aspects of the field covering both benign and malignant conditions as well as medical and surgical management. Incorporating diagnosis and treatment advice from established published guidelines as well as...
by Stephen A. Benjamin, Caleb E. Finch, John C. Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research,...
Lectures Notes
Clinical Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Featuring updated content throughout, this new edition of Clinical Medicine Lecture Notes is a concise guide to both history taking and examination, and to the essentials of clinical medicine on a system-by-system basis.
The text is divided into two sections, with part one exploring communication...
by Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, John B. Kerrison, D. Virgil Alfaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Macular Surgery, Second Edition serves as a comprehensive and contemporary review of macular diseases and their management. An exhaustive review of the latest proven surgical techniques and therapies for treatment of macular disorders is provided, with emphasis on proven techniques from extensive...
by John H. Gould, F. E. Chadwick, William H. Rideing
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Ocean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances. A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move propellers or paddlewheels.
by Thomas F. Fuller, John N. Harb
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
A Comprehensive Reference for Electrochemical Engineering Theory and Application
From chemical and electronics manufacturing, to hybrid vehicles, energy storage, and beyond, electrochemical engineering touches many industries—any many lives—every day. As energy conservation becomes of central...
Decision Making in Health and Medicine
Integrating Evidence and Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and...
Landing Together
Pacific Amphibious Development and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Investments in amphibious capabilities by U.S. partners and allies in the Asia Pacific is altering the range of capabilities available in that region. It is also changing the types and frequency of exercises partner nations seek to undertake with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team. This study examines...
Televised Redemption
Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
How Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society.
The institutional structures of white supremacy—slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration—require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral...
Transforming IQ into “Orthopédie Mentale“
An Introduction to A. Binet and V. Vaney on Mental Orthopedics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This volume discusses Alfred Binet’s works on pedagogy based on his “Orthopédie Mentale”. Binet had empirically found that his idea of a test of general intelligence could be replaced by a test on “problem areas”. These problem areas were then to be specifically addressed and improved...
by John Stainer, F. Flaxington Harker
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Begun in 1793, this series features 6 symphonies, Nos. 99–104. Perennial favorites include the "Military" symphony (No. 100), the "Clock" symphony (No. 101), and "Drumroll" (No. 103). Reproduced from an authoritative early edition.