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The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery
Volume 1: Bariatric Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Developed by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery provides a comprehensive guide of information dealing with the ever evolving field of bariatric surgery. Volume 1: Bariatric Surgery covers the basic considerations for bariatric...
Advanced Colonoscopy
Principles and Techniques Beyond Simple Polypectomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
This book provides surgeons and gastroenterologists with state-of-the-art techniques in terms of advanced colonoscopy. Chapters introduce methods of removing polyps that were not previously amenable to colonoscopic snare polypectomy. Advanced techniques such as closure of perforations and intestinal...
Male Infertility
Contemporary Clinical Approaches, Andrology, ART & Antioxidants
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A ground-breaking contribution to the literature, Male Infertility: Contemporary Clinical Approaches, Andrology, ART & Antioxidants offers a comprehensive review of well-established, current diagnostic and treatment techniques for male infertility. This state-of-the-art, evidence-based resource...
The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation
Leveraging Resilience for Life Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak time for people to enhance their optimism,...
Handbook of Neurocritical Care
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Neurocritical care as a subspecialty has grown rapidly over the last two decades and has reached a level of distinct maturity with the advent of newer monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in a variety of brain and spinal cord injury paradigms. Handbook of Neurocritical Care, Second Edition...
Disaster Preparedness for Seniors
A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Disaster Preparedness for Seniors: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals outlines specific disaster scenarios for homebound, community, hospitalized, long term care, homeless and aged veterans. Chapters are written by a diverse group of authors, all of whom offer insight and expertise...
Celestial Sleuth
Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
For a general audience interested in solving mysteries in art, history, and literature using the methods of science, 'forensic astronomy' is a thrilling new field of exploration. Astronomical calculations are the basis of the studies, which have the advantage of bringing to readers both evocative...
Scientific Astrophotography
How Amateurs Can Generate and Use Professional Imaging Data
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Scientific Astrophotography is intended for those amateur astronomers who are looking for new challenges, once they have mastered visual observing and the basic imaging of various astronomical objects. It will also be a useful reference for scientifically inclined observers who want to learn the fundamentals...
Surgery for Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract
A Step-by-Step Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This book provides an educational resource of modern and advanced operative techniques for patients with GI cancers. The textbook is designed to provide a step-by-step surgical approach, highlighting key learning points and potential operative pitfalls. When appropriate, two or more different approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
"In the preface to this impressive and well-produced book, the editors state that their aim is not to describe a new surgical specialty, since most surgeons will soon need to be "geriatric surgeons," but to assemble a comprehensive account that will allow "all providers of healthcare...
Curriculum Models for the 21st Century
Using Learning Technologies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Changing student profiles and the increasing availability of mainstream and specialized learning technologies are stretching the traditional face-to-face models of teaching and learning in higher education. Institutions, too, are facing far-reaching systemic changes which are placing strains on existing...
The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment
Health Policy Innovations and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science. It delineates a new perspective about the creation and potential impact of the ACA and guides the development of health policy that is supported...
Behavioral Sport Psychology
Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Sport psychology is a topic of growing interest. Many professionals read journals such as The International Journal of Sports, Journal of Sport Behavior, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and The Sport Psychologist. In August 2008, Monitor on Psychology,...
by Gopal B. Saha
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The Fourth Edition of Dr. Gopal B. Saha’s Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine was prompted by the need to provide up-to-date information to keep pace with the perpetual growth and improvement in the instrumentation and techniques employed in nuclear medicine since the last edition published...