Medical & Nursing

25001 books

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - Paperback

$17.95

by Michael Lewis (Author)Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirtee...

Sold Out

E.R. Nurses: Walk My Rounds with Me: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes - Paperback

$18.99

by James Patterson (Author), Matt Eversmann (Author), Chris Mooney (With)They save our lives every day, and we've never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America's greatest unsung heroes. "The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses ... are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here." -Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN "James Patterson's account of the twilight world betwe...

The People's Pelvis: An All-Age, All-Gender Coloring Tour of Pelvic Health! - Paperback

$23.74

by Rachael Wilder (Author), Noël Kalmus (Illustrator), Abe Louise Young (Editor)The People's Pelvis is a fun journey through pelvic, sexual and emotional health! This unique book transforms anatomical information into direct, everyday language and practical advice. Accompanying coloring pages illustrate the information and playfully empower readers to take their health into their own hands. Learn fascinating details about human bodies and how to care for them with a new look at the all-import...

A Primer for the Clinician Educator: Supporting Excellence and Promoting Change Through Storytelling - Paperback

$84.22

by Larrie Greenberg (Author)This concise, introductory primer has been written specifically for clinician educators (CEs), particularly those new to the role and those working to further develop their experience and knowledge. Drawing on his dual roles as a pediatrician and medical educationalist, the author uses story-telling and personal experience alongside practical tips and tricks to support the reader in their teaching, patient care and educational scholarship, helping both junior facul...

Sold Out

Case Reviews in Ophthalmology - Paperback

$135.07

by Neil J. Friedman (Editor), Peter K. Kaiser (Editor)Using a highly effective case study format, Case Reviews in Ophthalmology, 3rd Edition, incorporates both medical knowledge and clinical judgement to help you achieve the best possible results on practical exams. This carefully compiled study resource provides more than 165 relevant cases covering every aspect of the field: optics/refraction, neuro-ophthalmology/orbit, pediatrics/strabismus, external disease/adnexa, anterior segment, and p...

Sold Out

$153.88

by Neil J. Friedman (Editor), Peter K. Kaiser (Editor), William B. Trattler (Editor)Quickly master what you need to know in all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology, including the latest information on today's standard diagnostic techniques, medical treatments, and surgical options. Review of Ophthalmology, 4th Edition, is designed to maximize easy retention and quick recall, distilling key information into highly relevant and easy-to-digest bullet points. This bestselling review tool offers a...

$41.02

by Stephen Goss (Author)It is Sunday, June 20, 1756, in Calcutta. Fort William has been overtaken, and most of its occupants have fled or been killed. Only 145 denizens remain, and nothing could prepare them for the horrors that await them in the Black Hole, a minuscule military prison in which they will be crammed for the night. Only twenty-two will survive, emerging from the mass of dead bodies in the stifling Calcutta dawn. During this dark episode in British-Indian relations, one resolute...

Sold Out

New Horizons in Smile Design, an Issue of Dental Clinics of North America: Volume 66-3 - Hardcover

$169.27

by Behnam Bohluli (Editor), Shahrokh C. Bagheri (Editor), Omid Keyhan (Editor)In this issue of Dental Clinics, guest editors Drs. Behnam Bohluli, Shahrokh C. Bagheri, and Omid Keyhan bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Smile Design. An all-new topic to Dental Clinics, smile design offers patients a custom-tailored plan that reflects their unique needs and personal goals. In this issue, top experts cover everything from the basics of treatment planning to specific techniques and...

Sold Out

Small Animal Orthopedic Medicine, an Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice: Volume 52-4 - Hardcover

$152.17

by Felix Duerr (Editor), Lindsay Elam (Editor)In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. Felix Duerr and Lindsay Elam bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Small Animal Orthopedic Medicine. Mobility and orthopedic challenges are common issues that can negatively impact the quality of life and overall health of small animal companion pets. This issue covers a wide range of topics to help practicing veterinarians identify, assess, treat, and mana...

Sold Out

Features and Management of Acute and Chronic Neuro-Covid - Hardcover

$194.38

by Marco Cascella (Author), Elvio de Blasio (Author)This book delineates that COVID-19 is a multisystem inflammatory disease and how its pathophysiology can predispose patients to an increased risk of neurological problems. Available data suggest the potential neuroinvasive capacity of the SARS-CoV-2 through direct viral damage and indirect entering the CNS by different routes including the vascular system, the olfactory and trigeminal nerves, the cerebrospinal fluid, and the lymphatic system...

Sold Out

$17.00

by Jim Shepard (Author)This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love's unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions" (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)--from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, ...

Sold Out

Art as a Language for Autism: Building Effective Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Adolescents - Paperback

$80.98

by Jane Ferris Richardson (Author)Art as a Language for Autism addresses the clinical challenges that are common in working with autistic spectrum disorder by exploring how artistic expression can provide a communicative language for younger clients who are set in their thought processes and preferences.Exploring how both art and play-based approaches can be effective tools for engaging therapeutic work, this book introduces strategies to help young clients find expressive "languages" that ca...

Sold Out

Watch Your Back: Nine Proven Strategies to Reduce Your Neck and Back Pain Without Surgery - Hardcover

$27.99

by Ken Hansraj (Author), Gary Crumpler (Illustrator)Nine essential strategies to support your neck and spine, reduce pain, and improve your quality of life--without medication or surgery Back problems are the leading cause of disability worldwide--and most of us will endure acute or chronic back pain at some time in our lives. Surgery and painkillers are not the only answers. Spine and neck expert Dr. Ken Hansraj offers alternative solutions. "There are effective exercises, habits, and techni...

Sold Out

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid - Paperback

$18.00

by Lawrence Wright (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we ... thought we knew well ... [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright's stor...

Crohn's and Colitis the Flare StopperSystem.: A Step-by-Step guide based on 30 years of Medical Research and Clinical Experience - Hardcover

$54.65

by Galina Kotlyar Rd Ldn (Author)Do you have IBD: Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis?Tired of flares and living in the bathroom?Disappointed with both conventional and natural treatments?If you're desperate to poop normally again, this book is for you. The Flare Stopper System was created by Galina Kotlyar, a healthcare professional who is also a former, fully recovered IBD patient. Her innovative program for IBD is backed by over 30 years of research, clinical experience and more than 200...

Art Therapy with Special Education Students - Paperback

$72.88

by Dafna Regev (Author)Art Therapy with Special Education Students is a practical and innovative book that details the best suitable ways to work in the field of art therapy with special education students. This book provides the reader with practical approaches, techniques, models, and methodologies in art therapy that focus on special education students, such as those with ASD, ADHD, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and students with visual and hearing impairments. Each chapter ...

Sold Out

The Epidemic: How Typhoid Devastated an American Town and How the Residents Fought Back - Paperback

$19.95

by David Dekok (Author)The dramatic account of a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, New York, in 1903, and its dark underside--with lessons for today! The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage....

Walking with Fay: My Mother's Uncharted Path into Dementia - Hardcover

$32.38

by Carolyn Birrell (Author)In 2012, Carolyn Birrell flew down to Georgia to kidnap her mother.Fay had been living by herself since her husband's death in 2000 and clung fiercely to her independence. She went to church on Sundays, paid her bills on time, and volunteered at Vacation Bible School every summer. But at 79 years old, she'd begun showing escalating signs of early-stage dementia, each one making it harder for her daughter to discount as simple signs of aging.After receiving calls fro...

A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease - Hardcover

$30.00

by Shilpa Ravella (Author)Inflammation is the body's ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science is uncovering how inflammation may also turn against us, simmering underneath the surface of leading killers from heart disease and cancer to depression, aging, and mysterious autoimmune conditions.In A Silent Fire, gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden in...

Sold Out

The Highland Vet: A Year at Thurso - Hardcover

$33.95

by Guy Gordon (Author), The Thurso Veterinary Team (Author)Discover the charms and challenges of working at Scotland's most northerly mainland veterinary practice. From performing farm animal caesarean sections at all hours to missing special occasions in order to treat much loved family pets in crisis, no two days in the work of vet Guy Gordon and his team are ever the same. Based in Thurso, northern Scotland, the small group of vets and their supporting staff cover a vast area of more than ...

An unbiased Genetic Genealogy Workbook - Hardcover

$79.92

by Ir Erik Mols (Author)Genetic Genealogy is booming. Everybody seems to have interest in discovering their origins. In this book the DNA Scientist and hobby genealogist Erik Mols takes you on a tour around Genetic Genealogy and hands you tools and insights to answer your research questions. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2021

Sold Out

Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us about Living Well - Hardcover

$27.99

by Renee Alsarraf (Author)"Written with grace and emotional honesty, Sit, Stay, Heal will live with you long after the last page."-- John Grogan, bestselling author of Marley & MeFor more than two decades, esteemed veterinary oncologist Dr. Renee Alsarraf treated cancer in her beloved canine patients. Then, at age fifty-one, she was diagnosed with cancer herself.Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well is Dr. Renee's unforgettable testament to the extraordinary healing na...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal - Paperback

$16.95

by Mary Roach (Author)"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you ea...

Sold Out

Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of Covid - Hardcover

$37.00

by Shana Kushner Gadarian (Author), Sara Wallace Goodman (Author), Thomas B. Pepinsky (Author)How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives--and our democracy COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the president's political fate i...

Uncovering the Science of Covid-19 - Hardcover

$158.76

by Vincent T. K. Chow (Editor), Sunil Kumar Lal (Editor)The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods all over the world by its myriad of twists and turns. The causative SARS coronavirus 2 continues to defy the imagination by its rapid evolution from the Alpha to Delta to Omicron variants. This book by an international and multi-disciplinary team of virologists, infectious diseases and public health physicians aims to uncover the scientific basis underpinning the virus characteris...

Sold Out

Your Complete Guide to Liver Health: Coping with Fatty Liver, Hepatitis, Cancer, and More - Hardcover

$89.03

by Paul J. Thuluvath (Author)For those with any form of liver disease, this concise, practical guide from a trusted expert will help you take care of your liver and your health.Liver disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world--and it's on the rise. Approximately 3.3 million US adults are currently living with hepatitis B or C, 25% of whom will go on to develop cirrhosis, cancer, or liver failure. More than 3 million new cases of fatty liver disease are reported ea...

Sold Out

Your Complete Guide to Liver Health: Coping with Fatty Liver, Hepatitis, Cancer, and More - Paperback

$22.95

Sold Out

The Concise Guide to Bipolar Disorder - Hardcover

$64.73

by Francis Mark Mondimore (Author)A concise, essential guide to living with bipolar disorder by an internationally known expert.When a diagnosis of bipolar disorder enters your life, you may not be sure where to turn for accurate information about this potentially devastating but treatable illness. Whether you yourself have been diagnosed, or a spouse, parent, child, friend, or employee has developed the illness, the need for information and advice is acute. Presenting the essentials of diagn...

Sold Out

Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer - Hardcover

$121.43

by Janet L. Abrahm (Editor), Bethany-Rose Daubman (Editor), Molly Collins (Editor)Leading palliative care experts illustrate how you can improve both communication with cancer patients and their quality of life.For more than twenty years, this guide has been the go-to resource for busy practicing oncology and palliative care clinicians. This fourth edition, now titled Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, provides physicians, advanced practice clinici...

Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology - Hardcover

$85.50

by Gregory J. Morgan (Author)Traces the history of the study of tumor viruses and its role in driving breakthroughs in cancer research.Worldwide, approximately one-fifth of human cancers are caused by tumor viruses, with hepatitis B virus and HPV being the leading culprits. While the explosive growth in molecular biology in the late twentieth century is well known, the role that the study of tumor viruses has played in driving many of the greatest breakthroughs is not. Without the insights ga...

Sold Out

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid - Paperback

$43.67

by George S. Everly (Author), Jeffrey M. Lating (Author)Learn the essential skills of psychological first aid from the experts--the creators of the Johns Hopkins RAPID PFA method.Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively. PFA can be applied in emergencies, including disasters, terrorist attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the second edition of this essential guide, George S. Everly, Jr., an...

Sold Out

The Concise Guide to Bipolar Disorder - Paperback

$17.99