This new, completely updated edition provides the reader with an abbreviated version of "Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest, 3rd Edition". As in the expanded text, all chest diseases are discussed in a logical pattern from etiology and pathogenesis to prognosis, allowing for quick reference to the area of interest. Topics reviewed in the book ...
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines for the first time West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In ...
A team of doctors and psychologists from the Western Multiple Sclerosis Center, the largest MS rehabilitation center in the country, offer this groundbreaking workbook for helping people with MS manage every aspect of their lives, covering topics ranging from managing medical and psychological symptoms to improving their sex lives, ...
Addressing the critical issues in community re-entry in a very practical manner, this book is suitable for all members of a community re-entry or brain-injury rehabilitation team. "Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Practical Vocational, Neuropsychological, and Psychotherapy Interventions" provides innovative guidelines for allied health ...
This handy pocket reference provides differential diagnoses for disease of the chest. Based on the authoritative Fraser et al; Diagnosis of diseases of the chest, 4th edition, this concise yet complete text covers virtually every chest problem likely to present in practice. Easily portable, and organized in tabular form to provide quick access to ...
Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies and texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in New Zealand, South and East Africa, Bulgaria, ...
Sir James George Frazer's comparative study of anthropology, folklore, and myth has been an influential work for writers and a standard text for scholars since its original publication, in several volumes, in the early part of the 20th century. Frazer was a professor of social anthropology and a classicist.
This book addresses one of the key features of contemporary government policy: how to integrate the economic role of agriculture with the societal role of the rural environment. Historical agricultural policy has focused on encouraging production while protecting farmers from market risk. However, production surpluses combined with growing concern ...
Milos Forman, whose intelligence and artistry lie behind the films "Hair", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Ragtime" and "Amadeus", explains that his reason for becoming a film director was his fascination for story-telling which is reflected in the stories contained in this book.
Poet George Barker was convinced his biography could never be written - "I've stirred the facts around too much". Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and irresistibly entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. Around Barker cluster painters, writers, humourists.
This volume concentrates on one of the world's oldest, and most buoyant, book cultures: South Asia. It examines the transition from manuscript to hand press, orality and performance, scripts and nationalism, libraries and copyright, and the recent international vogue for Europhone writers from the region. A particular focus is on overseas ...
This work describes an approach to diagnosing and treating people with epilepsy (though not confined to this condition) with a view of the patient as an integral human being, comprising both their seizures and the psychical and social situation. This book inquires into every treatment's goals, whilst including the patients' (and their relatives') ...
A comprehensive guide to what you should - and should not - eat before, during and after pregnancy, compiled by a dietician, gynaecologist and nutritionist who all work for the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition, Sheffield. The book aims to provide both background information on the importance of nutrition, and practical, day-to-day advice on how to ...
This is a French reader useful for beginning through intermediate students. "Mort a Paris" (Fraser and Williams) is a wonderful selection of adventure and mystery. It holds student attention while providing exposure to the French language in context. This reader is 48 pages in length.
The book is divided into four sections: * A broad-based medical overview provides a basic discussion of the course of the MS disease process, its diagnosis and symptomatology, medical treatments, and rehabilitation. * A discussion of neuropsychological concerns, including concepts of importance in vocational rehabilitation and the specific ...
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