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Communication Skills for Mental Health Nurses: An Introduction - Paperback

$55.06

by Morrissey (Author), Jean Morrissey (Author), Patrick Callaghan (Author)This practical book provides a crucial guide to the core communication skills and interventions which are at the heart of mental health nursing.Author BiographyJean Morrissey is Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Patrick Callaghan is Professor of Mental Health Nursing and Director of Research at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, Un...

Nurses! Test Yourself in Pharmacology - Paperback

$40.48

by Katherine Rogers (Author)This book is a quick and easy reference book primarily for students of nursing science undertaking pharmacology modules. It will assist with the revision of key points through the medium of multiple short questions that are accompanied by a set of thorough and detailed answers. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2014

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The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation - Paperback

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by Ngaire E. Genge (Author)THE ULTIMATE READERS' GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographical path . . . A gluttonous criminal's fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle. . . . Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed wi...

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The New Sugar Busters! Shopper's Guide: Discover Which Foods to Buy (and Which to Avoid) on Your Next Trip to the Grocery Store - Paperback

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by H. Leighton Steward (Author)SUGAR BUSTERS (R) forever changed the way Americans eat, offering a delicious new approach to diet and health. The SUGAR BUSTERS (R) Shopper's Guide soon followed-and made finding SUGAR BUSTERS (R)-friendly fare at the grocery store and supermarket a snap. Now, five years later, this revolutionary little guide has been completely revised and updated to include more food selections and more brand names than ever before. Forget measuring, weighing, and counting fa...

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story - Paperback

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by Richard Preston (Author)"The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines."--Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston ...

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The New Sugar Busters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat - Paperback

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by H. Leighton Steward (Author), Morrison Bethea (Author), Sam Andrews (Author)WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST FAT-THE SUGAR BUSTERS (R) WAYWhen SUGAR BUSTERS hit the shelves almost five years ago, it quickly became a diet and lifestyle phenomenon. The millions of people across the country on the SUGAR BUSTERS plan discovered that by simply choosing the correct carbohydrates and lowering their sugar intake, they could shed the pounds they failed to lose with other diets. Now the weight-loss program t...

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by Dianne Hales (Author)EVERY DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP Did you just suppress a yawn? Are you one of the walking weary--the 100 million Americans who suffer from occasional or chronic sleep problems? If so, you know how serious the problem can be: troubled sleepers can lead troubled lives. On an average, we spend one third of our lives sleeping--and how we sleep can make the difference between feeling tired all of the time and facing each day with a fresh, energetic attitude. This...

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by Paolo Milone (Author), Lucy Rand (Translator)From one of Italy's most brilliant psychiatrists, a moving and transformative journey into the most mysterious, heartbreaking, and awe-inspiring corners of the human mindWe speak of doctors most often as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience working in an emergency psychiatric ward, Paolo Milone offers a more complex--and more compelling--picture. With prose at once direct and lyrical, he transports us inside Ward 7...

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves - Paperback

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by Sharon Begley (Author)In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity-the ability of the brain to change in response to experience-reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, an...

Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine - Paperback

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by Harriet Beinfield (Author), Efrem Korngold (Author)"Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in healing will also find much to learn here, as I have. . . . A fine work."--Annemarie Colbin, author of Food and HealingThe promise and mystery of Chinese medicine has intrigued and fascinated Westerners ever since the "Bamboo Curtain" was lifted ...

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by Tess Gerritsen (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are back--and they're going into the wild to find a killer. Die Again is the latest heart-pounding thriller in Tess Gerritsen's bestselling series, the inspiration behind TNT's hit show Rizzoli & Isles. When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the most ferocious beast--right down to the ...

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Rizzoli & Isles: I Know a Secret - Paperback

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by Tess Gerritsen (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles--the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series--continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives. "Suspense doesn't get smarter than this."--Lee Child Two separate homicides, at different locations, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In ...

How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist - Paperback

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by Andrew Newberg (Author), Mark Robert Waldman (Author)God is great--for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies, a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences, and the authors' analyses of adult drawings of God, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discoveries: - Not only do prayer and spiritual practice reduce stress, but just twelve minutes of medi...

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The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine - Paperback

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by Bernard Lown (Author)The real crisis in medicine today is not about economics, insurance, or managed care--it's about the loss of the fundamental human relationship between doctor and patient. In this wise and passionate book, one of our most eminent physicians reacquaints us with a classic notion often overlooked in modern medicine: health care with a human face, in which the time-honored art of healing guides doctors in their approach to patient care and their use of medical technology. ...

Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Nobel Prize Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by John G. D'Angelo (Author)The Nobel Prize is science's highest award, as is the case with non-science fields too, and it is therefore arguably the most internationally recognized award in the world. This unique set of volumes focuses on summarizing the Nobel Prize within organic chemistry, as well as the specializations within this specialty. Any reader researching the history of the field of organic chemistry will be interested in this work. Furthermore, it serves as an outstanding resourc...

Proinflammatory and Antiinflammatory Peptides - Paperback

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by Sami I. Said (Editor)"Analyzes the role of peptides in promoting or suppressing inflammation. Thoroughly examines the therapeutic potential of key peptides, analogs, agonists, and antagonists that influence cell injury and repair." Number of Pages: 760 Dimensions: 1.3 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 23, 2019

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by George B. Bridgman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, ...

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by Lizzie Stark (Author)The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens.From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world to a cosmic egg. An...

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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health - Hardcover

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by Anupam B. Jena (Author), Christopher Worsham (Author)Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected--but predictable--events can profoundly affect our health. - Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? "Fantastically entertaining and deeply thought...

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by Nicola Griffith (Author)From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foeSo Lucky is the sharp, surprising new novel by Nicola Griffith--the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS...

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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves - Paperback

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by Eric R. Kandel (Author)A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist's probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book...

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by John McPhee (Author)Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age--about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, physicians who work with the unquantifiable idea that a doctor who treats your grandmother, your father, your niece, and your daughter ...

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The Island of the Colorblind - Paperback

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by Oliver Sacks (Author)Part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery, this moving book by the "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and bestselling author of Awakenings takes us to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam to explore the genesis of disease, the wonders of botany, and the complexities of being human. "Sacks's total immersion in island life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage of discovery. As a travel writer, Sacks ranks ...

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by Oliver Sacks (Author)Front JacketBalanced, authoritative . . . brilliant. --"The London Times "Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental functioning as for its discussion of the migraine." --"The New York Times Book Review The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the m...

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by Oliver Sacks (Author)Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of...

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The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It - Paperback

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by Marcia Angell (Author)During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs....

An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis - Paperback

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by Charles Brenner (Author)Front JacketThis standard introduction to psycho-analysis has been thoroughly revised to clarify and refine the concepts presented, and two new chapters have been added. Comprehensive and lucid, Dr. Brenner's volume is the indispensable orientation to the subject for both laymen and students.Author BiographyCharles Brenner is one of the best-known and most highly respected psychoanalysts in the world. He is a former president of the American Psychoanalytic Associati...

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by William McNeill (Author)The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." --The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly conceptualize...

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Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body - Paperback

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by Jo Marchant (Author)A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice? If so, then you've experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body. Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea...

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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution - Paperback

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by James D. Watson (Author), Andrew Berry (Author), Kevin Davies (Author)The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editin...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Hardcover

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by Bill Bryson (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." --The Washington Post Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a ...

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Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B: Reactions and Synthesis - Paperback

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by Francis A. Carey (Author), Richard J. Sundberg (Author)Advanced Organic Chemistry has maintained its place as the premier textbook in the field, since its first appearance in 1977. This two-part, fifth edition has been substantially revised and reorganized for greater clarity. The material has been updated to reflect advances in the field since the previous edition, especially in computational chemistry. The control of reactivity to achieve specific syntheses is one of the overarching goal...