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Patient-Controlled Analgesia Confidence in Postoperative Pain Control
UMDS University of London, U.K. Text on the physiological, psychological, and technical aspects of patient-controlled anesthesia (PCA). For anesthesiologists, physicians, and nurses. Illustrated. DNLM: Analgesia, Patient Controlled. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460687742
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Struggles in the Promised Land Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
As Salzman makes clear in his introduction, the purpose of this collection is not to offer quick fixes to the present crisis but to provide a clarifying historical framework from which lasting solutions may emerge. Where historical knowledge is lacking, rhetoric comes rushing in, and Salzman asserts that the true history of Black-Jewish relations remains largely untold. To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance. The essays also provide reasoned discussion of such volatile issues as affirmative action, Zionism, Blacks and Jews in the American Left, educational relations between the two groups, and the real and perceived roles Hollywood has played in the current tensions. At a time when accusations come more readily than careful consideration, Struggles in the Promised Land offers a much-needed voice of reason and historical understanding. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460768258
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Spare Parts Organ Replacement in American Society
The developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and the simultaneous rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, are the subject of this vividly written and absorbing new book. In Spare Parts, fascinating, interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that explores the vision of 'the replaceable body'. Themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources underscore a discussion that openly examines the escalating ardor about the goodness of repairing and remaking people with transplanted organs. Likewise, the stories open questions of life and death, identity, and solidarity. This important book offers insights into the symbolic and anthropomorphic meanings associated with the human body and its organs, and into the ways that medical professionals come to terms with the concomitant aspects of transferring vital body parts. Both artificial and donor organs, as well as the process of transplantation, are the subject of a thoughtful discussion which touches on the medical myths and rituals that they generate. Chronologically, Spare Parts begins where the authors' previous book, The Courage to Fail leaves off. More than a sequel, however, this work reflects their increasingly troubled and critical reactions to the expansion of organ replacement. Likely to be controversial, this book is must reading for bioethicists, medical sociologists and anthropologists, health-care lawyers, planners, and administrators, nurses, physicians, medical journalists and science writers, and concerned lay readers. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460843620
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Doctoring The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
Assessing the good and the bad in primary-care medicine, the author explains why primary care is unsuited to the needs of an aging population and shows how medical schools can better train doctors to keep their focus on patients. UP. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460843721
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HarperCollins German Dictionary
-- more than 680,000 entries and translations -- emphasizes the modern language as it's used today -- a comprehensive treatment of the most important and frequently used words in English and the foreign language -- in-depth guide to idiom and phrase usage - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461119026
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Decimals Multiplication and Division
Power Math offers students strategics for developing their basic math skills. Basic math concepts are presented in the context of everyday workplace and life skills. Power Math is perfect for developing the critical-thinking, problem-solving and basic computational skills of your low-level adult learner. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461665229
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Business Reengineering The Survival Guide
Exceptionally practical in approach, this volume provides a “ street smarts” survival guide for business professionals, information systems experts, managers, and executives who have been charged with making radical changes -- i.e., business reengineering -- in their organizations. It outlines a tried-and-tested systematic and interdisciplinary approach that addresses all facets of organization change--in business policies and control, systems and technology, organizational relationships and business practices, and reward programs. Reviews the basic principles for quality business reengineering; shows how to create a new type of team structure that will involve the right people throughout the life of the project; outlines an 8-step life-cycle methodology for getting the reengineering project done as effectively and efficiently as possible; describes obstacles and problems that may be encountered and how to overcome them; and tells how to transition a continuous process improvement mode so reengineering will never have to be done again. For systems des - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461120824
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UNIX for the MS-DOS User
This volume is designed to help MS-DOS power users become rapidly proficient in the UNIX system environment. It focuses on the similarities and differences between the two operating systems, enabling readers to perform all the operations they did in MS-DOS plus those available only on UNIX systems. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461572001
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Angels and Us
Mortimer Adler has always been ahead of his time. In 1982, before the current revival of interest in angels, Dr. Adler published 'The Angels and Us', an engaging look at the various images and hierarchies of angels (including guardian angels). Dr. Adler, the bestselling author of 'Ten Philosophical Mistakes', 'Aristotle for Everybody', and 'The Great Ideas', speculates on the existence of angels; why Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in angels, and the ways angels have been viewed as objects of religious belief and philosophical thought. This is a wonderfully enlightening work on the affinities between angels and human beings. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461116971
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3 Plays Our Town the Skin of Our Teeth the Matchmaker
This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays by one of America's most distinguished writers. Thronton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist. 'Our Town' (1938) and 'The Skin of Our Teeth' (1942) were every awarded the Pulitzer Prize. 'The Matchmaker' (1955) was originally staged as 'The Merchant of Yonkers' (1938) and later appeared as a hit musical, 'Hello Dolly!' (1964). - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118629
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My House in Umbria
Great Books Foundation Discussion Guide available online at www.greatbook.org and www.penguin.com/guides - Books Reading - New - 461123072
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Postcards from No Man's Land Platinum Edition
A powerful novel, told in dual narratives, takes readers on an unforgettable journey through history, as seventeen-year-old backpacker Jacob Todd travels through Amsterdam to honor his grandfather, a soldier who died in a nearby town in World War II, while in 1944, a teenage girl named Geertrui meets an English soldier named Jacob Todd, who must hide with her family. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue. - Books Reading - New - 461123184
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Eternal Light Grandparent Poems A Twentieth-Century American Selection
By one of Poland's most celebrated poets, a collection of poems remarkable for their graceful lyricism, inventiveness, and wit. In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contest; a symphony; a macabre laboratory experiment with a decapitated dog; a postcard from a sister who has 'much to tell'; the discovery of a new star; the irrationality of love; the infinity of (pi). Szymborska's poetry brilliantly captures the wonder of existence. - Books Reading - New - 461123703
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Penguin Pocket Italian Dictionary English-italiano Italian-inglese
Covering both English-Italian and Italian-English, this work offers definitions in an easy-to-use format and ensures that you find the word you need quickly and efficiently. It is a useful handy word-finder for students and travellers alike. - Books Reading - New - 461512900
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The classical medieval poem relating Sir Gawain's romances, his conflict with the Green Knight, and return to the Round Table - Books Reading - New - 461572202
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