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The New Global Threat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Aileen Plant Eng Hin Lee Tommy T Koh, PUBLISHER: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated, NA

Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilkins, Robert Ed. / Stoller / Scanlan, Craig L., PUBLISHER: Mosby Elsevier Health Science, An outstanding revision of the classic EGAN'S FUNDAMENTALS, this comprehensive text provides excellent coverage of the role of respiratory care practitioners, scientific bases for treatment, and clinical applications. It progresses from the foundations of respiratory care to applied anatomy and physiology, assessment, discussion of specific respiratory illnesses, basic therapy, acute and critical care, and preventive and long-term care. Special features have been designed with the student in mind and include outlines, active learning objectives, key terms and glossary, "Mini-Clinis," "Rules of Thumb," and bulleted key-point summaries. To improve students' clinical-skill application, CPGs and TDPs are included in appropriate chapters to familiarize students with the use of patient care guidelines and decision trees.

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lawson, Nigel, PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, "Clear, analytical and compelling." -"The Economist" In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Secretary of State for Energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on a number of grounds, that global warming is not the devastating threat to the planet it is widely alleged to be, and that the remedy that is currently being proposed, which is in any event politically unattainable, would be worse that the threat it is supposed to avert. Argued with logic, common sense, and even wit, and thoroughly sourced and referenced, Lawson has written a long overdue corrective to the barrage of spin and hype to which the politicians and media have been subjecting the public on this important issue.

Atlas of Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Syndrome

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grundy, Scott M., PUBLISHER: Current Medicine, In this updated fifth edition of the Atlas of Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Syndrome (formerly the Atlas of Atherosclerosis), the editors have compiled a comprehensive update on the field of atherosclerosis. This four-color atlas includes detailed legends and extensive reference listings for hundreds of illustrations, algorithms, schematics, and images. This new edition focuses more closely on metabolic syndrome, as well as comprehensively covering many other topics including diabetes and vascular risk, obesity management, dietary concerns, drug treatment, gender and ethnicity differences, and many others. The striking, four-color format combined with the breadth of information it contains make this book an invaluable resource for physicians, cardiologists, and all professionals involved in the study and treatment of atherosclerosis.

Global, noglobal, new global

Genoa (Liguria). - Contains bibliography, Internet addresses, notes and appendix. - On the events that took place during the G8 meeting, Genoa, .

The Atlantic in Global History:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge / Seeman, Erik R., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This reader, composed of original essays by leading authors, expands the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically. It firmly places the Atlantic within global history and the coverage expands into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays present events that formed the nations and cultures of the Atlantic region and show their global roots and how they intertwine with non-Atlantic communities of the world.

Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Arnove, Robert F. / Torres, Carlos Alberto, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Comparative Education examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces. Issues related to the governance, financing, provision, processes, and outcomes of education systems for differently situated social groups are described and analyzed in specific regional, national, and local contexts. New in this edition is a concluding chapter by Carlos Torres indicating the current challenges and new directions for scholarship and teaching in comparative education. Chapters discussing the United States', Latin American, Middle Eastern, Russian/East European, and African education have been updated to reflect the changes in these regions and new educational trends and politics. Visit our website for sample chapters

The Final Warning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patterson, James, PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Young Readers, Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth's biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they're hunted by the world's nastiest villains. Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studying the effects of global warming. In this remote wilderness--whether pursued by corrupt governments, bioengineered bad-guys, or the harsh forces of nature--survival of the fittest takes a new twist

Global Electioneering: Campaign Consulting, Communications,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sussman, Gerald, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Global Electioneering explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Gerald Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of politics and asserts that it is instead affected by economics, industry, and the organizational power of new communication technology.

Crime and Terrorism Risk: Studies in Criminology and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kennedy, Leslie W. / McGarrell, Edmund F., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Crime and Terrorism Risk is a collection of original essays and articles that presents a broad overview of the issues related to the assessment and management of risk in the new security age. These original articles show how researchers, experts and the public are beginning to think about crime and terrorism issues in terms of a new risk paradigm that emphasizes establishing a balance between threat and resources in developing prevention and response strategies.

Walking Across America: A Hitchhiker's Guide to a Nation in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Keefer, Rick, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, After traveling and encountering so many individuals for which the anational identitya just doesnat fit, I decided to ask questions and to see what the people are really about. The manufactured ideals and the false sense of unity are failing as the corporate lies create global instabilities. Socially and economically, the lies, manipulations, and rhetoric of 100 years are coming to a possibly dangerous conclusion. Do we as a nation want to continue the atrocities within our borders and around the globe, or do we want to change the way in which we live to do what is best for the global community? I have walked the highways around this beautiful country, helping friends along the way. I look to a new beginning and a new way of thinking about our nation and the policies that have led to the global crisis of today.

Gender, Work, and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gottfried, Heidi, PUBLISHER: Polity Press, This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic transformations not only change the way we work, but how we live our lives. The full extent of changing patterns of employment and the current financial crisis cannot be fully understood in the confines of narrow conceptions of work and economy. Feminists address this shortcoming by developing both a theory and a political movement aimed at unveiling the power relations inherent in old and new forms of work. By providing an analysis of gender, work, and the economy, Heidi Gottfried brings to light the many faces of power from the bedroom to the boardroom. A discussion of globalization is threaded throughout the book to uncover the impact of increasing global interconnections, and vivid case studies are included, from industrialized countries such as the US and the global cities of New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as from developing countries and the emerging global cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Dubai. This comprehensive analysis of gender and work in a global economy, incorporating sociology, geography, and political economy perspectives, will be a valued companion to students in gender studies and across the social sciences more generally.

Sudden Death in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Byard, Roger W., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This volume provides a comprehensive, authoritative summary of the many causes, clinical manifestations, and forensic indicators of sudden death in infants, children, and adolescents. The authors present a detailed analysis of the many disorders responsible for sudden death in this age group, including both accidental and non-accidental trauma, cardiac, respiratory, and neurological conditions, infections, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The authors also provide an autopsy manual with specific investigative procedures for a number of different cases of sudden death. Extensively illustrated and embellished with interesting historical notes, this unique interdisciplinary text will be an indispensable reference.

Politics in Wired Nations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pool, Ithiel De Sola / De Sola Pool, Ithiel / Etheredge, Lloyd S., PUBLISHER: Transaction Publishers, Politics in Wired Nations presents Pool's pioneering work on the social and political impact of communication systems. Included are the first studies of trends in a global information society, and of social networks and the "small world" phenomenon that creates new relationships and routes of informal influence and political power, both domestic and international. Pool describes a nonviolent revolution in freedom and political control as the world changes from the era of one-way mass communications -- targeted to national audiences -- to a new era of abundant, high-capacity, low-cost, interactive, and user-controlled communications on a global scale. He discusses policy choices for freedom, the battlegrounds ahead, and the risks of government involvement in the regulation of new telecommunication technologies.

China and the Global Political Economy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Breslin, Shaun, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, In a relatively short period, the growth of investment to China and the resulting increase in Chinese trade has resulted in a reconfiguration of the East Asian regional economy, and is now altering financial and resource flows across the globe. This book explains how this transformation has come about, focusing on the interplay between domestic politics in China and the transition from socialism on one hand, and the ongoing evolution of global or transnational production networks on the other. It shows that while events in China have considerable global significance, this importance does not necessarily equate with the "power" that some already ascribe to China. Whilst recognizing that global economic integration has contributed to the reduction of poverty, it also shows how it has contributed to the emergence of new social cleavages and the changing basis of communist party rule.

Outline Clin Diagnosis/Horse-97-2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pinsent, J. N. / Pinsent, P. J. / Fuller, Chris, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, Veterinary students and nonequine veterinarians will benefit from this concise textbook on differential diagnosis in the horse. Fully updated and partially rewritten, the second edition contains: -- New information on ultrasonic techniques and echocardiography. -- A new section on methods of pregnancy diagnosis. -- An introduction to several new conditions, including pemphigus, Cushing's syndrome, and thyroid dysfunction. -- An expanded section on skin diseases.

Timebomb

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reichman, Lee / Hopkins Tanne, Janice / Tanne, Janice Hopkins, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Companies, ""A chilling account of... the global resurgence of this disease..."--"The New York Times ""Tuberculosis--a nineteenth century disease--has come back with a vengeance... "Timebomb "is the extraordinary story of courage and cowardice in confronting the global TB epidemic."--Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, President of the University of Miami"

The Outside (Hallowed Ones)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bickle, Laura, PUBLISHER: HMH Books for Young Readers, After a plague of vampires is unleashed in the world, Katie is kicked out of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. Now in exile, she enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two "English" friends and a horse by her side. Together they seek answers and other survivors--but each sunset brings the threat of vampire attack, and each sunrise the threat of starvation. And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can these new people be trusted, and are they even people at all? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, it's up to one Amish girl to save her family, her community, and the boy she loves... but what will she be asked to leave behind in return?

Financial First Aid for Canadian Investors: Stop the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Graham, Michael / Snelson, Bryan / David, Cindy, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, We are in the midst of the deepest global economic downturn in decades. Investors are suffering through the worst market conditions in over 70 years. Even the legendary Warren Buffett counted as the worst in his long, illustrious career. In his annual letter to shareholders, Buffett described as a "write off." Readers need help to learn how to diagnose what is the greatest threat to their long-term financial well being and to follow a course of treatment to recovery. "Financial First Aid for Canadian Investors" is for all the battered and bloodied investors whose portfolios are in tatters and who lack direction about what to do next. The financial meltdown of has also taken a severe toll on financial and investment advisors, with the investing public losing confidence in these professionals. "Financial First Aid for Canadian Investors" examines the lessons to be learned by mistakes made in both good and bad markets. The authors address the common and recurring investment blunders they have witnessed over many years, and offer clear prescriptions for how to repair wounded portfolios. Current and timely, the book includes coverage of the following: The devastating market conditions of , the most severe global financial downturn in over 70 years. What exactly happened in the most recent economic crisis and why, and the fresh lessons to be learned from the meltdown. How to deal with the challenge of a historically low interest rate environment, and the close-to-zero investment returns of today; where else to look for total return (e.g., dividend-paying equities and income-guaranteed products), and how to provide for income in a low-interest-rate environment. The increased need to provide for our own independent financial futures at a time when there must be less reliance on hard-pressed governments. The uniquely Canadian opportunities in the face of the global financial crisis (e.g., the strength of our banking system, our status as an energy power). Entirely new chapters on some emerging, and powerfully positive, securities to help investors mitigate risk, such as Insurance Products and Structured Products.

Respiratory Support

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse Publishing, PUBLISHER: Springhouse Corporation, This guide takes nurses through respiratory assessment; airway management; oxygenation and humidification; pulmonary ventilation; chest tube insertion, removal, and drainage; and much more. A self-test lets nurses measure what they've learned.

The Global Technology Revolution

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anton, Philip S. / Silberglitt, Richard / Schneider, James, PUBLISHER: RAND Corporation, Beyond the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the past, a global technology revolution is currently changing the world. This book discusses the broad, mulitdisciplinary, and synergistic trends in this revolution, including genomics, cloning, biom

A Place of Exile: The European Settlement of New South Wales

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: MacKay, David, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, In recent years, historians have argued that commercial or strategic reasons lay behind the European settlement of New South Wales. This revisionist work reexamines the founding of Botany Bay and reaches quite a different conclusion: that severe penal pressures in Britain were the real impetus for the decision. Drawing on the latest research on crime and punishment in Britain, Mackay uncovers the financial, political, and logistical problems plaguing the British penal system from to , which finally forced the Pitt ministry to look to New South Wales for a quick and desperate solution.

Breathing Disorders in Sleep

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McNicholas, Walter / Phillipson, Eliot A. / Wb Saunders Company, Saunders Company, PUBLISHER: W.B. Saunders Company, Breathing Disorders in Sleep is an authorative reference for all those involved in the clinical investigation and care of patients with sleep-related respiratory disorders. Information is provided in a logical sequence, divided initially into Physiology and Pathophysiology of Sleep and Respiration, Sleep Apnoea and Sleep in Other Respiratory Disorders. From the foundation mechanisms involved, followed by clinical presentation through to management, clinical investigation and diagnosis, McNicholas and Phillipson have defined the current state-of-the-art in a rapidly growing and increasingly complex area.

The Forgotten Generation: French Women Writers of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Milligan, Jennifer, PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers, As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society in the aftermath of the Great War, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. They disputed the prescriptive social and cultural roles ascribed to women and proposed inspiring new definitions of womanhood. Many critics today are oblivious to women's literary achievements during this period, which remain subject to severe critical neglect. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these important women writers have been marginalized in the annals of French literary history and offers fresh readings and reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works.

Will the United Nations Fail in Its Role as Protector of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heffelfinger, Ed, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, The League of Nations failed because member states were unable to set aside their own self- interests. Following World War II, the victorious allies were determined to build an organization that would serve as a protector of world peace. The United Nations was born in San Francisco in , and for fifty years successfully faced the threat of nuclear devastation, the Cold War, the end of colonialism and the emerging power of the developing countries. The end of the Cold War brought about renewed optimism for the future of the United Nations. However, with the dawn of the new century the future of the United Nations remained uncertain. The future of the UN appeared to rest in the organizationas ability to address the threat of terrorism, world hunger and the need to restructure the United Nations to overcome the image of an organization that can accomplish little but talk.

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