Instant Notes in Neuroscience (Instant Notes) Instant Notes titles focus on core information and are designed to help undergraduate students come to grips with a subject quickly and easily.Instant Notes in Neuroscience provides concise yet comprehensive coverage of neuroscience at an undergraduate level, offering easy access to the core information in the field. The book covers all the important areas of neuroscience in a format which is ideal for learning and brushing up.
Fully updated and revised, this popular text now contains a chapter on language usage which introduces pragmatics, metaphor, speech and writing, and discourse analysis, a section on sign language, a glossary of key terms, and an expanded further reading section. Trask also addresses issues such as the uniqueness of the human language, language and meaning, variation in language, change in language, learning a first language and attitudes toward language.
Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment This important textbook successfully tackles the lack of evidence for practice in caring for patients with acute heart failure, and provides the reader with practical advice on how to diagnose and treat their patients effectively.Bringing a major public health problem into the era of evidence-based medical practice, this important textbook successfully tackles the lack of evidence for practice in caring for patients with acute heart failure. Providing the reader with practical advice on how to diagnose and treat their patients effectively, key elements of the text include: - a definition of the problem, including its scope and epidemiology - common complications and comorbid conditions - an in-depth review of the pharmacological therapy for acute heart failure. With an interesting focus on the integrative care of the patient, the book includes chapters on psychosocial aspects, nursing care, and disease management, which clarify many issues about the total care of the patient and family that are often ignored in medical textbooks. Comprehensive and easy to use, this is an essential companion to practitioners caring for patients with this increasingly common, difficult, and fatal disease.
This text provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter, and the book includes integrated diagrams and a glossary of technical terms.
Casting a critical eye upon the position described in his previous book, Superstructuralism, Richard Harland claims that structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to language are fatally limited by their focus upon single words. Instead he offers the alternative of a syntagmatic approach, arguing that the nature of meaning is radically transformed in the movement from single words to sentences.
