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by Steven G. Gabbe, MD, Jennifer R. Niebyl
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Highly readable, well illustrated, and easy to understand, Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies remains your go-to choice for authoritative guidance on managing today’s obstetric patient. Reflecting the expertise of internationally recognized authorities, this bestselling obstetrics reference...
by David R. Cartlidge, David L. Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Since its first appearance in 1980, Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a welcome and highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment of the Gospels, introducing religious, philosophical, and literary texts comparable to various aspects of the Gospels and illuminating...
Stakeholder Theory
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and diverse. This book examines this body of research...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2
Sorghum utilization around the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Defining Sport
Conceptions and Borderlines
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...
by José Luis Monereo Pérez, Cristóbal Molina Navarrete, María Nieves Moreno Vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Es una satisfacción presentar en los ámbitos académico y profesional la segunda edición de la primera obra de estas características, con una metodología nueva que entendemos de gran valor para hacer más operativa la enseñanza poniendo en práctica las indicaciones del Espacio Europeo de Educación...
Operational Safety Economics
A Practical Approach focused on the Chemical and Process Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Describes how to make economic decisions regading safety in the chemical and process industries
Covers both technical risk assessment and economic aspects of safety decision-making
Suitable for both academic researchers and practitioners in industry
Addresses cost-benefit analysis for safety investments
by Janet L. Peacock, Sally M. Kerry, Raymond R. Balise
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
As many medical and healthcare researchers have a love-hate relationship with statistics, the second edition of this practical reference book may make all the difference. Using practical examples, mainly from the authors' own research, the book explains how to make sense of statistics, turn statistical...
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Education, Work and Social Change
Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.
Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease
Comprehensive Expert Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
At age 42, Barbara L. Gordon was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer. Two years later, it appeared that the cancer had metastasized. Along with her oncologist and other experts, Gordon has written the book that she wished she had as she faced late-stage breast cancer and the prospect of dying from...
by K.R. Hornbrook, C.F. Jr. Meier, J.M. Carney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than ten years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of the...
Eco-Innovation
When Sustainability and Competitiveness Shake Hands
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Eco-Innovation considers the impact industry has on our environmental surroundings whilst exploring the need for more sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development and the general understanding of the interdependence of the environment and the economy are both examined in this thought-provoking new book.
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...