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The author explores the aches and pains caused by working with VDTs and computers, incorrectly adjusted chairs, and poor lighting. He advises sedentary people on preventing and alleviating the stresses of prolonged sitting. Illustrated.

Sitting on the Job: How to Survive the Stresses of Sitting Down to Work, A Practical Handbook

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“Written by one of the world’s top nutritional physicians, “Eat, Play, and Be Healthy” gives scientifically sound and kitchen-tested advice on creating lifelong healthy eating habits. This book is a solution to the growing epidemic of nutrition-related health and behavior problems in children’ – William Sears, M.D., author of “The Baby Book”. ‘An excellent guide for parents who want to provide the best possible nutritional health for their growing children’ – Ronald Kleinman, M.D., former chairman of the Committee on Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics. With so much conflicting advice coming from the media, your friends, and parenting guides, it’s hard to know whether you’re making the right food choices for your kids. Written by a leading authority on pediatric nutrition, “Eat, Play, and Be Healthy” provides answers to all your childhood nutrition questions – and much more. “Eat, Play, and Be Healthy” shows you how to feed your children to ensure that their young bodies and minds enjoy full and healthy growth at every stage of development. Picking up where Dr. Walter C. Willett’s international bestseller “Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy” left off, W. Allan Walker, M.D., shows how to apply the research-based Healthy Eating Pyramid to a child’s unique needs. Drawing on his forty years of clinical research, as well as the latest scientific findings, he: offers a scientifically proven alternative to the FDA food pyramid; helps you shape your kids’ eating habits from the start; and, provides fun, delicious recipes for healthy foods kids will want to eat.

Eat, Play, and Be Healthy

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This is the first book to cover every angle in the clinical application of biologics. Readers will not only find that all of the biologics currently approved for clinical use are delineated in a standardized way, but also the “differential therapy” with biologics in fields including dermatology and neurology is described in detail and summarized in treatment algorithms. Shorter sections on biologic biotechnology as well as safety and regulatory issues complement the more clinically-oriented central chapters.

Biologics in General Medicine

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Manual of Emergency Airway Management

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“Clear, thoughtful, and thought-provoking, Germs, Genes & Civilization makes the case that infectious diseases have played a major role in shaping society. Clark argues that religion, morals, and even democracy have all been influenced by the smallest and most dangerous organisms on our planet. While you may not accept every argument, you will be stimulated, entertained, and enlightened.”

Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D., President, Stony Brook University, and former Director of the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

“Clark presents an insightful explanation of the invisible history all around us. He conveys the essential facts in a riveting and engaging manner that everyone, including the nonscientist, will find exceptionally interesting and revealing.”

Michael C. Thomsett, author of The Inquisition

“Germs, Genes & Civilization is a fascinating and well-balanced account of how a wide variety of different kinds of microbes have influenced human evolution, culture, society, and even religious thought. Written for a lay audience, the relationships between genes and disease resistance and susceptibility are clearly discussed, and the book concludes with a sober assessment of what may be in store for us in the future.”

Irwin W. Sherman, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside, and author of Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World and The Power of Plagues

The Stunning Hidden Interconnections Between Microbes and Humanity

 AD 452: Attila the Hun stands ready to sack Rome. No one can stop him–but he walks away. A miracle? No…dysentery. Microbes saved the Roman Empire. Nearly a millennium later, the microbes of the Black Death ended the Middle Ages, making possible the Renaissance, western democracy, and the scientific revolution. Soon after, microbes ravaged the Americas, paving the way for their European conquest.

Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.

The “good side” of history’s worst epidemics

The surprising debt we owe to killer diseases

Where diseases came from…

…and where they may be going

Children of pestilence: disease and civilization

From Egypt to Mexico, from Rome to China

STDs, sexual behavior, and culture

How microbes can shape cultural cycles of puritanism and promiscuity

Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today

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How are the experiences of childhood incorporated into the structures of the developing brain, and how do these changes in the brain influence behaviour? This is one of the many questions motivating research in the relatively new field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. This book provides an extensive overview of the methods used to study such questions, and a thorough investigation into the emerging interface between neurobiological and psychological perspectives in the study of typical and atypical cognitive behaviour.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Development is a collection of essays written by international experts in the field. It covers not only traditional topics such as language, attention and memory development, but also includes individual chapters covering the theories of neurocognitive development and methods of studying brain activity in young infants and children. There are additional chapters on hormonal influences on brain and behavioural development, gender differences in the brain, and genetic disorders.
This exceptional series of contributions surveys the study of both cognitive and neural development. The book takes into account brain architecture as well as the behavioural context of development, thus it succeeds in integrating the multiple methods and domains of research that have previously been studied in a more fragmented way. It will be invaluable to upper level students as well as researchers and teachers in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Paediatrics and related fields.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Development

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Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues contains 14 chapters written by world-renowned authorities who describe current work related to theoretical and experimental aspects of ultrasonic scattering phenomenon in biological tissues. Introductory material regarding ultrasonic scattering in biological tissues is presented, followed by discussions on theoretical treatments, experimental approaches, in vitro results on selective tissues, in vivo results on various tissues, and the current status of quantitative backscatter imaging. Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues will be an excellent reference for biomedical engineers, ultrasound specialists, biophysicists, and radiology researchers.

Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues

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The most commonly used 510 German verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English translation, and conjugated in all tenses and forms. The book’s additional features include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and a grammar review. This book includes a bonus CD-ROM enclosed at no additional charge. The CD-ROM presents valuable exercises for students in German sentence completion, word completion, word matching, and conversational dialogue, with answers provided for all exercises.

501 German Verbs with CD-ROM

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Widely recognized as the gold standard of positioning texts, this highly-regarded, comprehensive resource features more than 400 projections and excellent full-color illustrations augmented by MRI images for added detail to enhance the anatomy and positioning presentations. In three volumes, it covers preliminary steps in radiography, radiation protection, and terminology, as well as anatomy and positioning information in separate chapters for each bone group or organ system. High-quality images of commonly requested projections, as well as those less commonly requested, show the reader how to properly position the patient so the resulting radiograph provides information needed to correctly diagnose the problem. Information is also provided on a variety of special imaging modalities and situations, including mobile radiography, operating room radiography, computed tomography, cardiac catheterization, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, nuclear medicine technology, bone densitometry, positron emission tomography, and radiation therapy.

Faculty who are teaching with Merrill’s Atlas may wish to contact their Elsevier sales representative for information about the Electronic Image Collection and the Instructor’s Curriculum Resource.

• All currently performed projections are carefully displayed in consistent format, so they can be easily understood and performed by both students and practitioners.
• Essential projections – those most frequently performed and determined to be necessary for entry-level competency – are identified with a special icon.
• Full color anatomy drawings and positioning photos greatly enhance the learning value of the text, making what has always been the best-illustrated anatomy and positioning text an even more effective resource.
• Diagnostic-quality radiographs provide the best possible examples of the radiographs that the reader will be striving to produce, clearly showing what the radiograph is intended to demonstrate.
• Bulleted lists and step-by-step instructions give clear guidance on how to correctly position the patient or body part and how to perform procedures.
• Summaries of anatomy at the beginning of each procedural chapter identify and describe anatomical terms in a table that enables readers to easily refer to explanations of the anatomy described in the chapter.

• A new chapter on Trauma prepares the reader for this exciting and demanding aspect of radiography, including procedures to rule out life-threatening fractures and to visualize damage from penetrating trauma.
• A new chapter on Surgical Radiography covers fluoroscopic and mobile radiographic procedures for the operating room.
• A new chapter on Geriatrics discusses physiologic changes of age that require changes in procedures and positioning.
• Summaries of pathology tables group conditions and their definitions for each radiographic area in positioning chapters so radiographers and students can review the possibilities for pathology in each positioning area.
• Summaries of projections, included in tables at the beginning of each procedural chapter, are organized by anatomical area and list all the projections described in the chapter.
• Exposure technique charts in the positioning chapters help establish technique factors to use for the various projections.
• New high-quality radiographs in nearly every chapter, including many that demonstrate pathology – plus new MRI images – present the most comprehensive collection of radiographs available in a single source.
• Five new projections include the Folio Method (thumb), the Apple Method (shoulder), AP Both Ankles, the Garth Method (shoulder), and the Judet Method (Acetabulum) – the first three are not found in any other book.

Merrill’s Atlas of Radiographic Positions & Radiologic Procedures, 3-Volume Set

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From America’s leading cancer authority comes a patient’s advocacy book for colorectal cancer patients–and their families–that offers medical expertise, practical advice, and emotional support.

Colon and rectal cancers (or colorectal cancer) affect more and more people each year and account for about 11 percent of all new cancer cases and 10 percent of all cancer-related deaths. More than 95,000 new cases of colorectal cancer were diagnosed in 1998 alone. Recognizing that there is a 92 percent survival rate if these diseases are treated early, the American Cancer Society, the nation’s leader in cancer research, education, and rehabilitation, and Dr. Bernard Levin, one of America’s preeminent physicians and an expert on colon and rectal cancer, now offer the most comprehensive resource for patients and their families to turn to.
        This book contains the most up-to-date information about these related diseases–from basic facts about what to do when confronted with a diagnosis of colon or rectal cancer to the latest medical data, treatments, and procedures. But more important, this book considers the patient’s perspective, providing psychological and emotional support for patients through case histories and anecdotes they can relate to. Moreover, the American Cancer Society’s Colorectal Cancer provides easy recipes and a diet plan to help alleviate stress on the body. This important new book addresses the full range of issues that colorectal cancer patients and their families may face.

The American Cancer Society : Colorectal Cancer