The classic introductory guide the the principles and execution of the patient interview -- now in full color Cases open each chapter! The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach carefully teaches students the steps in history taking, the most important part of the clinical examination. The book gu[...]
Providing an overview of the field of high-temperature superconductivity, this book focuses on topics, experimental results, and theoretical issues. It reviews conventional superconductors and then presents the structure, normal state and superconducting properties, and applications of the cuprate s[...]
Presents articles on developmental biology and developmental medicine. This volume is intended for researchers, as well as students and other professionals.[...]
"Crime Scene Photography", Second Edition covers the general principals and concepts of photography, while also delving into the more practical elements and advanced concepts of forensic photography. Edward Robinson assists the reader in understanding and applying essential concepts in order to crea[...]
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms. Under the capable and qualified editorial l[...]
The fourth edition of this bestselling text will again provide the latest coverage of the biochemistry and physiology of vitamins and vitamin-like substances. Extensively revised and expanded on the basis of recent research findings with enlarged coverage of health effects of vitamin-like factors, i[...]
Reflecting the bewildering array of changes to the International Tables, this book brings the standard of science, reorganizes the logical order of chapters, improves diagrams and presents clearer explanations to aid understanding. It provides an explanation of how to use the International Tables fo[...]
Suitable for endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and molecular biologists, this title focuses on hedgehog signaling.[...]
Suitable for endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and molecular biologists, this title focuses on sleep hormones.[...]
Understanding the causes and contributing factors leading to outbreaks of food-borne illness associated with contamination of fresh produce is a worldwide challenge for everyone from the growers of fresh-cut produce through the entire production and delivery process. The premise of this book is that[...]
This textbook is specifically designed for upper-division undergraduate or graduate students in life science or pre-medical majors including dentistry or pharmacology, who are required to take a biochemistry or medical biochemistry course, but who are not necessarily biochemistry majors. The book ad[...]
Object-oriented programming enjoys an adoption of its techniques and languages in teaching and in real applications. This book provides an introduction to the diverse aspects of object-oriented programming through a tour of object-oriented languages. It features comparative accounts of languages suc[...]
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Series provides up-to-date information on vitamin and hormone research spanning data from molecular biology to the clinic. A volume can focus on a single molecule or on a disease that is rel[...]
Periodic worldwide economic turmoil over the last few decades has created an environment in which the degree of risk of investment assets is now an important factor in their evaluation. Real Estate Investment: A Capital Market Approach is the first text to examine the effect of such changes on real [...]
For one-semester courses in Introductory Biology for non-majors.Life on Earth, Fifth Edition, introduces students to biology through real-world applications and expanded human-interest case studies that run throughout each chapter. From the authors of the highly successful Biology: Life on Earth, Ei[...]
"A guide that will turn readers into smart and savvy investors. Appel, author of several successful books on investing and editor of the leading technical analysis publication Systems and Forecasts, offers readers even more hot investment tips in his latest offering. Here, he shows readers how to r[...]
For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can be found in the departments of sociology, business and public administration departments. Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System[...]
For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can be found in the departments of sociology, business and public administration departments.Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems [...]
Extensive, real-world applications, carefully integrated with current personal selling concepts. Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value helps readers understand the value of developing their personal selling skills by exposing them to a careful integration of personal selling academic theory and [...]
Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Practical Power Tools! offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis the[...]
"The authors have created a simple, systematic plan that gives investors a long-term edge with minimal effort and reduced risk. They've done all the work for you, and it's rewarding and easy to follow." -Bob Kargenian, President, TABR Capital Management "There are diamonds in them thar hills' - but[...]
'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-[...]
An Indian boy who is a descendant of the Lord of the Sun sets out in search of his father
Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - "My Family and Other Animals", "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods" by Gerald Durrell, are available in a single edition for the first time in "The Corfu Trilogy". Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decam[...]