Improve your ability to perform and interpret emergency ultrasound exams with this unique pocket atlas. Featuring more than 400 ultrasound images, dozens of illustrations, and concise, bulleted text, "Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound" allows you to instantly compare and contrast your real-time i[...]
Suitable for both students and practicing pharmacists, this title details how genetic makeup affects a body's response to drugs. It covers everything from individual molecules to systemic diseases, and examines both fundamental concepts and the advanced technologies.[...]
Suitable for any emergency medicine exam - or for use as a clinical refresher, this book includes radiographs, color images, line drawings, and ECGs, all designed to enhance your understanding of the material and helps you to meet the challenges of visual diagnosis in practice and exam situations.[...]
The full spectrum of emergency medicine at your fingertips -- and small enough to fit in a pocket NOW IN FULL COLOR Written by clinicians engaged in the day-to-day practice of emergency medicine, this handy manual is derived from Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, 7e, the field's most trusted text. Co[...]
The cornerstone text in emergency ultrasound--fully updated and expanded Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound has virtually defined the field since the first edition was released. This trusted classic expertly covers the training, techniques, and diagnostic skills for successful point-of-care ultra[...]
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Here, he writes about his disillusion with the Communist system and an extraordinary journey that he made around China in search of himself and his country.[...]
Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. This is a funny novel about the absurditi[...]
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter.[...]
Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories, weaving[...]
When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives. Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats and breadmarge sandwiches. But Janie isn't like the rest of them. She wants a different life. And Janie, born and bred for combat, i[...]
Nearly everything you know about China is wrong! Yes, within a decade, China will have the world's largest economy. But that is the least important thing to know about China. In this enlightening book, two of the world's leading China experts turn the conventional wisdom on its head, showing why Chi[...]
"A witty and lively novel set somewhere between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh." --William Dalyrymple, "The Guardian"
Reminiscent of early Roddy Doyle, "Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma" begins with our singular heroine's less than idyllic birth and quic[...]
This text is an updated and expanded technical summary of all the electrodiagnostic techniques available in the clinical neurophysiology laboratory. It includes descriptions of the nerve to be studied, the stimulation procedure, technical comments and results of previous studies. The book also inclu[...]
As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three [...]
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic p[...]
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic p[...]
This text has been written primarily for the specialist market of second and third year undergraduate and post-graduate students of economics. The clear explanations and basic principles that underpin the text, however, make it readily accessible to non-economists coming to environmental economics f[...]
"Shou fi ma fi?" will enable students to communicate orally in Levantine Arabic, the variety of Arabic spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and western Jordan. The text assumes familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and it is highly recommended that students have a reasonable foundation [...]
A precocious baby is beyond bored in his mother's womb. He's ready to play on the swingset, meet other boys and girls, and to canoe But until then--what will he do to pass the time?[...]
The first spiritual guide of its kind, the TAO ORACLE offers an exciting new look at the I Ching. Instead of cards and sticks, this clear, simple book unlocks the secrets of the I Ching using beautifully illustrated cards featuring paintings, symbols, colours and key words. Speaking to the individua[...]
Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct lecturer at prestigious Midwestern University, until he is unceremoniously fired one crisp autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, Nelson's right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages com[...]
Dai Wei has been unconscious for?almost a decade.?A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, he was?caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As the millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei's naked chest, a [...]