Positioning Techniques in Surgical Applications: Thorax and Heart Surgery - Vascular Surgery - Visceral and Transplantation Surgery-Urology-Surgery

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The success of an operation depends not only on careful clarification of the indications, selection of the right time for operating and proper operating techniques, but also correct preoperative preparation and positioning of the patient.

This work presents safe positioning techniques, which cover the various different surgical disciplines by means of detailed descriptions and more than 450 full-colored illustrations. New techniques, new instruments and devices, developed for example for minimally invasive surgery, or concealed surgical procedures with indirect visualization techniques, are considered.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1912755 in Books
Published on: 2005-12-14
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
313 pages

Air Pollution and Health From Academic Press

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Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things, the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments in our ability to detect and quantify pollutants and a proliferation of urban and rural air pollution networks to monitor levels of atmospheric contamination.
Air Pollution and Health is the first fully comprehensive and current account of air pollution science and it impact on human health. It ranges in scope from meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and particle physics to the causes and scope of allergic reactions and respiratory, cardiovascular, and related disorders. The book has substantial international coverage and includes sections on cost implications, risk assessment, regulation, standards, and information networks. The multidisciplinary approach and the wide range of issues covered makes this an essential book for all concerned with monitoring and regulating air pollution as well as those concerned with its impact on human health.

Key Features
* Only comprehensive text covering all the important air pollutants and relating these to human health and regulatory bodies
* Brings together a wide range of issues concerning air pollution in an easily accessible format
* Contributions from government agencies in the US and UK provide information on public policy and resource networks in the areas of health promotion and environmental protection
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1830119 in Books
* Published on: 1999-05-15
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1065 pages

Editorial Reviews

Barbara Clayton, University of Southampton, UK, Past President of the National Society for Clean Air
"...I recommend this volume most highly. I shall be surprised if Air Pollution and Health does not become a standard work which will require regular updating."

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"This text is a needed addition to the field of air pollution and environmental health. It is likely the most comprehensive book to date on this important subject . . . The wide range of topics will appeal to physicians, immunologists, public health advocates, and others interested in details of the human response to air pollution. . . Among the contributors there are many leading authorities who not only share their experience and perspective, but deliver well-written chapters . . . Physicians, toxicologists (in pulmonary or public health), and epidemiologists will appreciate this text for different reasons--most certainly for its depth and extensive references to current literature . . ."
-Doody's Publishing Services

H.E. Pence, SUNY College at Oneanta for Choice Magazine
"...an authoritative and comprehensive review that should be extremely useful to professionals in the field as well as students..."

The Mask of Sanity (4th Edition) From C. V. Mosby Company

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This is the classic book on the psychopathic personality.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1708507 in Books
Published on: 1964
Binding: Hardcover

Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information (Lea's Communication Series) From Lawrence Erlbaum

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This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. Editor Sandra Braman brings together scholars to examine this convergence in three areas: genetic information and "facticity"; social issues and implications; and the economic and legal issues raised by the production and ownership of information. The work highlights the sophisticated processes taking place as biotechnology and information technology systems continue to evolve.

The chapters in this book approach the complex history of this topic and the issues it raises from a number of directions. It begins by examining the shared features and spaces of biotechnology and digital information technologies as meta-technologies--qualitatively distinct from both the tools first used in the premodern era and the industrial technologies that characterized modernity. Next, the book explores what is and is not useful in treating the types of information processed by the two meta-technologies through a shared conceptual lens and looks at issues raised by the ownership of genetic and digital information. The final chapters are concerned with relationships between information and power.

Defining a future research agenda for communication scholarship, this work is beneficial to scholars and students in science communication, cultural studies, information technologies, and sociology.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #2868133 in Books
Published on: 2004-03-05
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
314 pages
Editorial Reviews

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If, as is likely, the intersection of biotechnology and communication is the next very-big-thing, then this apercu-filled collection provides researchers and policymakers with an attention-demanding heads-up and a compelling agenda for paradigm-creating research.
—Mark R. Levy
Michigan State University

A crucial book about what is happening as biotechnology collides and colludes with information technology. Braman's collection is a survival kit for understanding the radical and powerful ways our lives, environment, and social world are rapidly being transformed by genomics, digitalization, and globalization while at the very same time most of us remain helplessly unaware of the huge impact of these changes. Like Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, this book announces the birth of a new era, analyzes its impact, and advances ways of knowing. Required reading for the 21st century.
—Lennard J. Davis
University of Illinois at Chicago

Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. by Jay Haley

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Amazon Sales Rank: #38877 in Books
Published on: 1993-04
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
313 pages
Customer Reviews

Milton Erickson, Where are you now that I need you?
Extremely interesting portrait of Milton Erickson highlighted by many case studies that are fascinating. Very informative and enjoyable. For those of you who have an interest in psychology and are tired of reading variations of the same idea, give Dr. Erickson a shot. His methods at times are hilarious, yet effective. Entertaining, informative, enlightening. I hope he takes my insurance.

A Useful Book
Uncommon Therapy is a good survey of Dr. Milton Erickson's approach to therapy. The book consists of stories from Erickson's case files along with an explanation of the approach that Erickson took. This book is potentially useful for anyone who has problems and wishes to solve them as the techniques could be applied on a personal level. The people who should be interested in reading this book are the professionals who wish vary their and customize their approach to their patients.

My interest in the book was to find out more about Erickson and his therapeutic techniques that I could apply in my own life. It succeeded in satisfying both my aims. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book.

Early Roots Of Cognitive Therapy Still Relevant
Uncommon Therapy is an introduction to the therapy work of famed Medical Hypnotist Milton Erickson. It is more readable than many of Erickson's writings. Haley also adds some of his perspective to the art of therapy.
This book and others like it were written before Cognitive Behavioral Therapy became the dominant therapy in Psychology. They can still contribute insights to therapists seeking a broad background for practicing psychotherapy.
Graduate students and therapists in research settings should definitely read this book to help keep alive a more comprehensive approach to cognitive therapy than is promoted by formulaic cognitive and behavioral therapies that were largely forced on Clinicians by insurance companies pushing science-based, effective therapies; a good outcome for most consumers seeking psychotherapy in most settings.
Haley, using a family life cycle approach (e.g. courtship, weaning parents from children, the pain of old age) uses Erickson's case studies to illustrate Erickson's approach. Nowadays it comes across as proof by anecdote. Experienced therapist do however, have examples of cases that were resolved quickly when the client restructured his/her view,
Erickson's approach contibutes best by showing how a therapist can creatively propose an alternative constuction of a problem posed by the client and by inventing strategies for change. Erickson's own writings have many more detailed examples of cases.

DirectX 9 Graphics: The Definitive Guide to Direct 3D (Wordware Applications Library) by Alan Thorn

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DirectX 9 Graphics is the most comprehensive DirectX graphics reference currently available. Unlike other titles, this unique book takes the reader from beginner to advanced level, demystifying DirectX by starting with the basics of setting up a DirectX application and finishing with the exciting intricacies of real-time 3D animation. In one single volume, this book can help DirectX programmers of all levels make cutting-edge games that sell!
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1006740 in Books
Published on: 2005-05-25
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
500 pages
Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Alan Thorn is an experienced and well-traveled freelance programmer and games developer living in London. He frequently fulfills the roles of programmer, graphic artist, writer, and special effects expert as he delivers creative solutions to some of the largest corporations in the entertainment and leisure industry. He is also the author of DirectX 9 User Interfaces: Design and Implementation.
Customer Reviews

It's an okay beginner's guide, but by no means the "definitive" guide.
This book is a decent introduction to Direct3D graphics, but it's by no means a definitive guide, nor is it a guide to Direct3D9 graphics. A discussion of the real meat and potatoes of Direct3D9, the facet that makes the API so exciting for developers, pixel and vertex shaders, is completely omitted. So it's essentially a Direct3D7 level text.

The discussion of 3D mathematics was abysmal, a lot of the actual math isn't really shown, but how to use the D3DX helper functions are. Worst of all, Thorn didn't show us how to multiply matrices -- LUDICROUS! If anyone wants to be a professional graphics programmer, implementing and developing new algorithms, they're going to need to get to grips with the, sometimes grueling, mathematics.

The discussion of 3D concepts is okay, but it's all extremely basic. I was able to get a very simple, fixed-function game engine running using this book as a reference for some of the API functions, but if you want to make more cutting edge graphics programs, you need pixel shaders to do that.

If you can get this book used and dirt cheap, then it'll be a decent intro to Direct3D, but I suggest you pick up either Wolfgang Engel's Beginning Direct3D Game Programming and/or Frank Luna's book -- both of which introduce pixel/vertex shaders.

After you read the forementioned, "Programming Vertex And Pixel Shaders" by Wolfgang Engel will be most useful, as well as the ShaderX series (also edited by Engel).

Misleading title
This book is not even close to being the definitive guide to Direct3D. At best it's an introduction, and covers even less material than other introductions (eg Frank Luna's book or Wolfgang Engel's book).

The first 20 pages are given over to installing DirectX SDK. Complete waste of time for anyone who can read the SDK install doc. The chapter on video playback is pure filler - that is not part of Direct3D and shouldn't be in the book. You would learn just as much D3D by following the free SDK tutorials or some of the excellent (free) Internet tutorials.

To make matters worse, he defines his own linked list class, instead of using the STL std::list. That's always a bad sign in my book.

All in all very poor. Stick with the SDK docs and Internet tutorials.




Overview and that's all
Well despite an appealing title, it remains an overview. The
author is only giving a small extract of the programming code
which would be hard for someone to pick up without being more
familiar with DirectX structure. Not very useful unless you
know some DirectX but then, does not give a lot more info ....
especially for $49 ! Don't waste your money.