M Edwards: 88 books
by M.G. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A young salamander named Alexander living in the Amazon River Basin joins his friends Airey the Butterfly and Terry the Tarantula for an unforgettable jungle adventure. Come along with Alexander and friends as they meet birds, monkeys, and other creatures, enjoy the beauty of the rainforest, and...
Contesting Indochina
French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the...
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing
Working in Womanish Ways
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar,...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
Animal health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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Paris and the Marginalized Author
Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers...
Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial...
Phytopharmacy
An Evidence-Based Guide to Herbal Medicinal Products
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Healthcare professionals, including doctors, pharmacists and nurses, are often confronted with patients who use over-the-counter (OTC) herbal medicinal products and food supplements. While taking responsibility for one’s own health and treatment options is encouraged, many patients use these products...
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking
Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community explores and critically analyzes the motivations and uses of social media by women of color. This edited collection seeks to determine how, and why, women of color make strategic use of social media as a social, professional,...
Learning in School-University Partnership
Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...
Gynecologic Oncology Handbook
An Evidence-Based Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Gynecologic Oncology Handbook provides a comprehensive yet concise, practical guide for fellows, residents, specialist trainees, and clinicians in the diagnosis and management of gynecologic cancers. The book addresses the fundamentals of gynecologic oncology, including staging, surgical therapies,...
by Martin M. Black, MD, FRCP
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Highly Commended, Dermatology, BMA Awards 2009
Completely updated throughout—and still the only reference of its kind—the new edition of this well-respected resource offers you a practical guide for the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of a full range of common and uncommon obstetric...
The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide to the Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The Treatment of Drinking Problems has become the definitive text in the field of alcohol problems. It addresses the frontline realities of clinical practice in an informed and empathetic way, whilst grounding this approach in critical scientific review. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been...
Mereologies, Ontologies, and Facets
The Categorial Structure of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The assignment events, objects, state of beings, etc., to an experiential category is a fundamental activity carried out by human (and by other animals). So rudimentary are the processes involved in categorizing that it is indeed impossible to imagine conscious awareness to exist without the presence...
by Allan D. Struthers, Colin M. Feek, Christopher R.W. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Endocrine and Metabolic Disease is in two sections. The first is a systematic review of clinical and therapeutic aspects of endocrine diseases, whilst the second considers the clinical pharmacology of drugs used in endocrinology. All the major areas of endocrinology and metabolism are covered. Thyroid,...