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Kaplan Nursing School Entrance Exam 2022-2023 Study Guide: 4 Full-Length Practice Tests and Prep Book [3rd Edition] - Paperback

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by Joshua Rueda (Author)Test Prep Books' Kaplan Nursing School Entrance Exam 2022-2023 Study Guide: 4 Full-Length Practice Tests and Prep Book [3rd Edition] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the Kaplan Nursing exam This comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Find out what's inside this guide! Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to help overcome your exam! Introduction Get a thorough breakdown of what the test is and...

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Lifestyle: The Practitioners' Guide Volume 3 - Paperback

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by Leon I. Hammer M. D. (Author)In Lifestyle: The Practitioners' Guide, Dr. Hammer shares his wisdom and unique perspective on the critical role that Lifestyle plays in any examination of health and disease. He discusses a wide range of topics from diet to exercise, sleep to ecology, even touching on such diverse subjects as the choice of a partner and risk-taking. Written for practitioners, Lifestyle will not only benefit those receiving treatment but those offering it as well.Author Biograp...

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by Aaron Hermann (Author)As patients and consumers, we often have OTC questions for our doctors and pharmacists. But what if there was a way to get answers from a pharmacist at your own convenience? Enter Aaron Hermann. As a retail pharmacist, Hermann has fielded countless queries from customers over the years, and over time, he found that most patients were just looking for a quick reply to the same basic questions related to OTC medications and ailments. In The OTC Handbook, Hermann deliver...

Operations Management for Healthcare - Paperback

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by Jan Vissers (Author), Sylvia Elkhuizen (Author), Nathan Proudlove (Author)This fully updated edition of the bestselling textbook on Health Service Operations Management provides an invaluable reference for students and researchers in the fields of healthcare management, operations management and patient flow logistics. Featuring theoretical frameworks and a comprehensive set of practical case studies, this book also covers subjects such as hospital planning and supply chain management in h...

Theorising Occupational Therapy Practice in Diverse Settings - Paperback

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by Jennifer Creek (Editor), Nick Pollard (Editor), Michael Allen (Editor)Practice theory provides a way of understanding everyday life, but until now its application in occupational therapy has not been much developed. Theorising Occupational Therapy Practice in Diverse Settings draws on practice theory to explore the conditions for occupational therapy practice in a variety of clinical and non-traditional settings. With examples from around the globe, the chapters of the first section unfold...

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by Graham Mason (Author)Osteopathy without borders explores the science application of osteopathic medicine. The reason for the title is that osteopathically I explore the interrelationships of the anatomy and physiology. It is a book for those intending to use the involuntary mechanism to treat their patients, it is aimed at students and practitioners alike and is basically a compilation of my lectures that I have given over the years. I look at how to palpate and how the membrane surrounds ...

The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy - Hardcover

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by Scott Burris (Author), Micah L. Berman (Author), Matthew Penn (Author)Public health law isn't just for lawyers. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Originally published in 2018, The New Public Health Law was the first textbook to arm lawyers and public health professionals of any background with the tools to fully exploit the potential of law to improve public health. This refreshed second edition furthers the transdisciplinary approach of the first edition with key updates to case law and ...

Don't Back Down: Your guide to living well with a spinal cord injury - Paperback

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by Derek Jones (Author)In a single moment, your world has changed dramatically.Now you may be overwhelmed with terminology, questions and decisions, and struggling to envisage your future - but more is possible than you may dare to hope.Don't Back Down is an empowering guide to getting your life back on track after spinal injury. It gives you the knowledge, tools and strategies that will help you build resilience and reclaim agency. Inspirational case studies demonstrate that a spinal cord in...

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A Different Kind of Courage: One Man's Story of Triumph Over Paralysis - Paperback

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by Paula C. Squires (Author)Despite a catastrophic injury that leaves a young man paralyzed from the neck down, he overcomes insurmountable odds to live independently. His journey shows the resiliency of the human spirit when life changes in an instant. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2022

Supporting Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia - Paperback

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by Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows why Southeast Asian countries need to prioritize core sectors ranging from tourism to digital trade as they hammer out policies to boost post-COVID-19 recovery and secure a greener future. The first in a four-part series, the report looks at the pandemic's impact on Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, and the Philippines relative to the need for multistakeholder taskforces that can help core industries recover and grow. It shows why poli...

Strengthening Domestic Resource Mobilization in Southeast Asia - Paperback

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by Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows why Southeast Asian countries need to consider fresh taxation policies after many struggled to finance massive public expenditure programs to combat COVID-19. The second in a four-part series, it considers the impact of the pandemic on countries including Cambodia and Thailand to lay out steps policymakers can take to create healthier fiscal spaces. It illustrates the challenges around informality, collection, and progressivity, and details ...

Inside is Outside: How stomach acid plays an essential role in Leaky Gut and why the Gastro-Test(R) is the missing link in diagnosing and - Hardcover

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by Tim McCullough (Author)For over three decades, Dr. Tim McCullough has helped thousands of patients find their way back to health by diagnosing and treating the most common root cause of symptoms: Leaky Gut. Written for patients and doctors from any background, Inside Is Outside offers an approachable guide to how the breakdown of the digestive system is often the key driver of chronic illness, why stomach acid plays an essential role in gut health, and how to heal and repair Leaky Gut. Muc...

Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy - Paperback

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by Doris Beneder (Author), Angeiika Böhm (Author), Thomas Fuchs (Author)The Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy offer for the first time in English an insight into the guiding ideas of this integrative psychotherapy method, which is consistently anchored in Gestalt psychology (and in this respect also differs substantially from most streams of Gestalt therapy, with which it should not be confused). The anthology includes ten contributions by authors from Austria, Italy, Germany an...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Challenges and Considerations - Hardcover

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by Eleftheria Egel (Editor), Cheryl Patton (Editor)The COVID-19 Pandemic will likely be seen as having had a profound effect on how we live and work, as well its economic and health repercussions. But it also brought ethical issues and challenges into focus, from 'Fake News' to issues of individual freedom.The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Challenges and Considerations addresses issues including the right to vaccinate, and the right to refuse vaccination; the responsibilities of government in a ...

You Are So Much More: An Inspiration for Children Healing from Illness or Injury - Hardcover

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by Serena Tejpar (Author), Anoosha Lalani (Illustrator), Iman Tejpar (Illustrator)Research has shown that building resilience in the face of adversity or challenges helps children and young people develop effective coping strategies and improve long term outcomes across a spectrum of illnesses. You Are So Much More reminds children who have gone through or are going through an illness or injury, that they are indeed so much more. Trauma survivor and medical student Serena Tejpar shares a stor...

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The Fifth Episode: Inside the Manic Mind - Paperback

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by Garrett Campbell (Author)In The Fifth Episode, Garrett Campbell takes you through his five manic episodes beginning in 2014 after graduating from pharmacy school. It goes into great detail regarding the consistent thought patterns held between episodes and will provide you with great insight into how the manic mind works. After reading The Fifth Episode, you will have a greater understanding of how a mental illness such as Bipolar Disorder can affect a person's life. Garrett also shares hi...

Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese Using Language Sample Analysis - Paperback

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by Anita Mei-Yin Wong (Author)Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis brings together 20 years of research on typical development and Development Language Disorder (DLD) in Cantonese. This book begins with a succinct overview of Cantonese, which is a popular variety of Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language. The second chapter describes a new framework of the Grammatical Analysis of Cantonese Samples (GACS), which is developed on the basis of functionali...

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) in UK schools: A parent's perspective - Paperback

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by Carrie Grant (Author), Janise Hurtig (Editor)What is it like to be a child with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) in schools today? What is it like to be a parent to four such children and fight for their rights?Carrie Grant's children have - like all of us - complex identities. Of the four of them, two are autistic, three have AD(H)D, one is adopted, all are of dual heritage, and three hold various queer and trans non-binary identities. In this inspiring and at times heart...

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The Immunity Solution: Seven Weeks to Living Healthier and Longer - Hardcover

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by Leo Nissola (Author)Your immune system determines how well you live. In this must-read book, award-winning immunologist Leo Nissola provides a comprehensive overview of your body's defenses, revealing what can cause problems, how to recognize the warning signs, and how to fight back. Every moment of every day, bacteria, viruses, and other germs attack you, but most of the time you stay healthy. You can't live forever, but there's more to fighting diseases than you might think, including di...

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Breaking Free from Long Covid: Reclaiming Life and the Things That Matter - Paperback

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by Lucy Gahan (Author)Making visible the real effects of Long Covid on people and their lives, this guide explores the issues of living with the condition, helping people to make sense of their experiences on the road to recovery. Rooted in the author's personal story of having Long Covid since April 2020, the book offers ideas from Narrative Therapy as a lens through which to address the emotional impact of Long Covid, and shares practical strategies for managing symptoms and regaining quali...

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage - Paperback

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by Rachel E. Gross (Author)A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet.That is finally changing. Today, a new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making--the uterus, ovaries, and vagina...

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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist - Paperback

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by Frans de Waal (Author)In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.Using chimpanzees and bonobos to illustrate t...

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Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 - Paperback

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by Matt Ridley (Author), Alina Chan (Author)"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York Times Book Review) Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search...

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A Practitioner's Guide to Clinical Cupping: Effective Techniques for Pain Management and Injury - Paperback

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by Daniel Lawrence (Author)A modern approach to the medical practice of dry cupping--to reduce inflammation and stimulate immune response; assist in myofascial release; relieve pain; and improve healing and recovery Includes links to instructional online video content A Practitioner's Guide to Clinical Cupping provides a concise, practical, and easy-to-understand guide to safe and effective cupping techniques, integrating up-to-date research on physiology, neuroscience, and biomechanics. Phys...

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Anthroposophy and the Accusation of Racism: Society and Medicine in a Totalitarian Age - Paperback

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by Peter Selg (Author), Jeff Martin (Translator)"No longer should the blood that runs through the ancestors be of sole account. From this point onward, what every single person achieves in one's soul shall count. Every single human being shall be of value during their incarnation..." -- Rudolf SteinerThe original subtitle of Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom (1894)--"the basis for a modern worldview"--points to the lifelong project with which he was engaged: laying the basic groundwork f...

Traditional Medicines Around the World - Paperback

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by Matthew N. O. Sadiku (Author), Janet O. Sadiku (Author), Sarhan M. Musa (Author)Our health is our most important asset. Health and the provision of healthcare is fundamental to the welfare of any nation. The desire to have and sustain good health cuts across national, cultural, geographic, and political boundaries. Every region of the world has had one form of traditional medicine at some stage in its history. Traditional medicines have been a part of human history all over the world, with...

Traditional Medicines Around the World - Hardcover

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The Covid-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough - Paperback

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by Erik J. Dahl (Author)Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster. Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intelligence warnings work-and how they fail-shows why the years of predictions were not enough.Author BiographyErik J. Dahl is an associate professor in the National Security Affairs Department and a faculty member of the Ce...

Evidence-Based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 27: Overweight and Obesity in Adults - Hardcover

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by Charlie Changli Xue (Editor in Chief), Chuanjian Lu (Editor in Chief), Johannah Shergis (Author)The 27th volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series examines the management of people who are overweight and obese with Chinese medicine using a 'whole evidence' approach. Overweight and obesity are recognised as leading health concerns worldwide. They have significant impacts on quality of life and mortality and are associated with many complications and chronic illnesses, in...

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Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts: True Stories of Unglamorous Maladies - Paperback

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by Donna Gerstle Smith (Author)From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales.In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than hostile raiding parties. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were ...

Forensic Art Therapy: The Art of Investigating, Interviewing, and Testifying - Paperback

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by Marcia Sue Cohen-Liebman (Author)Forensic Art Therapy is designed as an educational and informative resource for individuals from a diverse array of disciplines that engage in investigatory undertakings, interview victims and witnesses, and provide evidentiary testimony.The material presented serves as a primer for professionals that may present in court on behalf of a client. Ethical issues inherent in the forensic arena, as well as the use of novel scientific evidence in the form of draw...

Humane Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model - Hardcover

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by Eric Maisel (Editor), Chuck Ruby (Editor)Humane Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model is the second Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is profoundly important. So is exploring alternatives. The Critical Psychology Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series presents solicited chapters from international experts on a wide variety of underexplored subjects. This is a...