"A Physiotherapist's Guide to Measurement" is an essential tool for both the student and clinician who will gain ready access to a wide range of common measurement techniques. This exclusive handy guide gives detailed images of the various measuring methods used in practice, such as goniometric meas[...]
Describes how to apply common electrotherapy modalities to a patient in the clinical setting. This title guides the student through the process from start to finish, covering various safety issues, contraindications and precautions. It also features step by step instructions accompanied by photograp[...]
"Neuromusculoskeletal Clinical Tests: a Clinician's Guide" is an essential tool for both students and clinicians working in the orthopaedic/musculoskeletal field. Recalling, applying and interpreting correctly the vast range of clinical tests is a difficult task for even the most experienced clinici[...]
Managing Credit Risk, Second Edition opens with a detailed discussion of today's global credit markets-touching on everything from the emergence of hedge funds as major players to the growing influence of rating agencies.[...]
An in-depth overview of some of the most readily applicable essentials of modern mathematics, this concise volume is geared toward undergraduates of all backgrounds as well as future math majors. Topics include the natural numbers; sets, variables, and statement forms; mappings and operations; group[...]
Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteor[...]
Critics of the policy-making process argue that private interest groups exert too much influence on the decisions of government, but only rarely has this proposition been examined systematically. This book draws on interviews with more than 300 interest groups, 800 lobbyists, and 300 government offi[...]
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our[...]
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Procrastination. Disorganization. Distractibility. Millions of adults have long considered these the hallmarks of a lack of self-discipline. But for many, these and other problems in school, at work and in social relationships are actually symptoms of an inborn neu[...]
ONE LAST TIME is the remarkable true story of internationally acclaimed psychic medium John Edwards. John Edward began having psychic experiences when he was no more thn a toddler and in ONE LAST TIME he reveals how he discovered, and gradually developed his amazing power to foretell the future and[...]
Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug. 32 pages, smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.[...]
What do you get if you combine William Young's "The Shack" with Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons"? The answer is "Fallen Masters" by "New York Times" bestselling author John Edward. An internationally renowned psychic, John Edward has helped millions of people to connect with loved ones on the Other S[...]
A major criticism of Hegel's philosophy is that it fails to comprehend the experience of the body. In this book, John Russon shows that there is in fact a philosophy of embodiment implicit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Russon argues that Hegel has not only taken account of the body, but has do[...]
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he[...]
Focuses on the intersection of religion with moral and political issues. Also included are three important essays: Human Sacrifice; George Eliot's Life; and Buckle's Philosophy of History. The last section is composed of nearly two hundred pages of excerpts from Acton's remarkable letters and unpubl[...]
Carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an Index of words, meanings, titles, characters, and places. 50+ illustrations.[...]
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.[...]
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.[...]
Twenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made [...]