This handbook is intended to help the physician and sonographer to learn echo concepts and techniques in a "user friendly" way, to help them perform studies and understand concepts in order to collect as much clinically useful information as possible on an individual patient. This book is written as a very practical and easy to read manual. Each chapter highlights the various aspects of echocardiography. Practical tips are displayed throughout the book. This text is well illustrated with 165 photographs and graphical illustrations.
Practical and Decorative Origami (Creative Origami)
Shows how to produce a range of decorative and functional items in origami - the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding. This practical book includes advice on choice of paper, a reference section of basic folds, as well as explicit instructions and colour-coded folding diagrams for each design.
In her usual engaging style, Marilyn Burns conveys the role writing can play when incorporated into math lessons. Numerous examples illustrate how students sort, clarify, and define their thinking through different types of writing-journal writing, solving math problems, explaining mathematical ideas, and creative writing about math. This invaluable and inspiring resource also includes assessment strategies, practical teaching tips and suggestions, answers to frequently asked questions, and samples of student work.
This book is geared toward anyone wishing to overcome math anxiety—from high school and college students to adult test-takers hoping to score well on vocational and certification exams. Now updated and re-evaluated by math experts to ensure the most current lessons and practice exercises.
This comprehensive and empowering guide is filled with practical, effective ways to minimize the effects of divorce on children, and offers immediate solutions to the most critical parenting problems divorce brings. In this go-to resource, Christina McGhee addresses the issues of utmost importance to parents. Offering advice on explaining things to every age group-from toddlers to teenagers-in plain, consistent, and age-appropriate terms, Parenting Apart also offers practical suggestions for parents ....