A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and how they arose in the context of globalization, urban economic restructuring, and the need to make cities competiti[...]
Complete, up-to-date coverage of the operation, maintenance, and overhaul of aircraft powerplants
Offers an introduction to the tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making capital investments; determining cost and using cost information in decision-making; budgeting and perfor[...]
For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlike[...]
A unique how-to manual focusing on the clinical management of the critically ill pregnant patient Since the release of the first edition more than a decade ago, Obstetric Intensive Care Manual has become the go-to guide for obstetricians, intensivists, residents, and nurses seeking immediate, pract[...]
Fighting a guerilla war on foreign soil for the first time in American history, the SEALs in Vietnam found that this atypical form of warfare demanded that new tactics, new strategic applications of force, and a new understanding of a complex social and cultural enmity be found. "SEAL Warrior" goes [...]
Provides comprehensive treatment of international marketing issues, including coverage of Eastern Europe and the Pacific Rim. This title uses mini cases to illustrate the developments in marketing, together with coverage of: South East Asia and the Pacific Rim, Central and Eastern Europe, globalizat[...]
Part of the Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a screen-by-screen, step-by-step approach to learning Visual Basic 6. It covers beginning and advanced skills.[...]
Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Complete Concepts and Techniques provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color screen shots, helping students learn basic through advanced FrontPage 2002 skills quickly and easily.[...]
"Zakim and Boyer's Hepatology" - the defining work in hepatology - presents comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinically relevant developments so you can provide the best possible patient care. Drs. Thomas Boyer, Michael Manns, and Arun Sanyal have reorganized and updated the contents[...]
Based on Hiroyuki Hirano's classic 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace and modeled after the Shingo Prize-winning Shopfloor Series for Lean Manufacturers, this work adopts a proven reader-friendly format to impart all the information needed to understand and efficiently implement lean methodology in a[...]
Fetal heart rate monitoring affects the lives of millions of women and infants every year in the United States alone. Used by all members of the obstetric team - nurses, students, midwives, and physicians - it is the primary method to assess fetal oxygenation in both the antepartum and intrapartum s[...]