S A H : 254 books
by Jose H. Auday M.D. F.A.C.S.
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
My book describes the significance and difference of low back pain among a child, adult, or elder. It guides the nonmedical reader how to evaluate low back pain, how it should be treated, and it emphasizes a conservative nonsurgical treatment. I wrote a chapter about the anatomy of the lower spine,...
Charlotte, NC
The Global Evolution of a New South City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
Construction Contracting
A Practical Guide to Company Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The definitive contracting reference for the construction industry, updated and expanded
Construction Contracting, the industry's leading professional reference for five decades, has been updated to reflect current practices, business methods, management techniques, codes, and regulations....
The Old Shoes
(The Soul of an Artist)
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Old Shoes is a story about how love changes everything, how art can be a template for healing, how beauty transforms the soul, how support comes from unexpected sources, and how reincarnation can be a manifestation of dreams and a harvesting of seeds planted long ago. Through the lens of art,...
Surgery of Anorectal Diseases
With Pre- and Postoperative Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Understanding of the pathology and causation of anorectal diseases is constantly increasing. This has led to changes in how treatment is cho sen. There is almost no anorectal condition for which some new thera peutic approach has not been recently tried, and several of these do not involve surgery...
Research and Ethics for the Medical Profession
First Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
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...
Transvaginal Colour Doppler
The Scientific Basis and Practical Application of Colour Doppler in Gynaecology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the pioneering work of Donald and his first Lancet paper in 1958, the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology has evolved rap idly. The introduction of grey scale techniques enhanced our ability to identify different tissues on the basis of their texture. However, it was the introduction...
by A. A. Aszalos, F. F. Foldes, L. C. Mark
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is a pleasure to have the privilege of writing the foreword for a book edited by Dr. Francis F. Foldes. Dr. Foldes has collected in one convenient place a discussion and description of enzyme systems of use to the anesthesiologist and to those other individuals, such as undergraduate and graduate...
Alcoholism
A Guide for the Primary Care Physician
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.
by Joanne I. Moore, H.D. Christensen, K.R. Hornbrook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Almost twenty years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacol ogy at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of...