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Written by renowned author Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP, and featuring high-quality images from Drs. Studdiford and Tully - faculty members at Jefferson Medical College, 'Ferri's Fast Facts in Dermatology" presents 'need-to-know' information on nearly 200 dermatologic disorders. Each topic includes color[...]

Inspired by the conference "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945," hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research.Henry [...]

Since the publication of the firest edition in 1996, Jane's Tanks Recognition Guide has sold more than 32,000 copies worldwide and remains the most authoritative and comprehensive military vehicle handbook available. Thisuser-friendly format makes studing tanks and AFVs that are either on the move,[...]

In one volume a selection of the essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management.The first selection of Drucker's management work from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), this book offers, in Drucker's words, "a coheren[...]

"Schwartz's Manual of Surgery" has become the resource of choice for both practicing physicians, residents, and even surgical clerkship students who are interested in a comprehensive, yet concise on-the-job manual detailing the most current practices and trends. This edition reflects the most extens[...]

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's "Schaum's Outlines". More than 40 million students have trusted "Schaum's" to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. "Schaum's" is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outlin[...]

Linked to one of the most respected texts in surgery, this is the review of choice for all surgeons and residents taking the ABSITE and Surgery Board Exam[...]

The world's bestselling anesthesiology book Morgan and Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology, 5e is a clinically oriented presentation of the basic principles essential to the practice of anesthesiology. It features up-to-date discussion of all relevant areas within anesthesiology, including equipment, [...]

The classic point-of-care guide to the undifferentiated patient - enhanced with even more color photographs Part physical examination primer, part differential diagnosis tool, DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination takes readers a step beyond elementary physical diagnosis. DeGowin's covers all physical e[...]

Designed for the one-semester course, Seeley's Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology is written to allow instructors the ability to accomplish one overall goal: to teach the basics of A&P while fostering the skill of problem solving. Through learning how to solve problems and think critically, studen[...]

This text is designed to help students develop a solid, basic understanding of anatomy and physiology without an encyclopedic presentation of detail. Great care has been taken to select important concepts and to perfectly describe the anatomy of cells, organs, and organ systems. The plan that has be[...]