Compartment Syndromes: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Complications
Written by an internationally recognized expert, this book provides a comprehensive text for physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists treating patients with acute and chronic compartment syndromes. Taking a mutlidisciplinary approach, the author delineates difficult material in a clear, concise manner that provides an easier understanding of this technical subject. The text includes the most current research and data on compartment syndromes. It presents in-depth coverage of acute and chronic compartment syndromes, considerations of interstitial space, intramuscular pressure recordings, and limb edema.
Physician's Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual 2008 (Jones and Bartlett Series in Oncology) Completely revised and updated for 2008, this practical handbook is an up-to-date guide to all aspects of cancer chemotherapy. The book provides a comprehensive, easy to use catalogue of over 100 drugs-both on- and off-label-commonly used in cancer treatment. A section on Common Chemotherapy Regimens provides a quick reference to management of specific cancers, arranged alphabetically.
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Becoming a Translator provides the information and advice that translators really need, such as how to translate faster and more accurately, how the job market works, and how to deal with stress. Organized in a user-friendly style, the book provides translators creative activities and exercises designed to speed the learning of both theory and practice.
Spanning more than 4,000 years, from the Early Bronze Age to 325 B.C.E., this Encyclopedia provides an overview of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and more. This 4-vol. set is fully illustrated, and including sidebars, marginal definitions and maps, this set provides an accurate, comprehensive and accessible research reference for students, and is modeled Ancient Greece and Rome and The Middle Ages.
Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in Whole Language Classrooms Providing a practical look at the role of spelling in the overall
language arts curriculum, this book helps those who interact regularly
with young children understand how learning to spell is part of the
broader fabric of learning to write in whole language classrooms. After
an introduction, chapter 1 provides opportunities to explore how
teachers' beliefs about language and literacy learning impact how they
view their students' writing. Chapter 2 introduces three teachers who
tell their personal stories of transition from a traditional approach
to spelling instruction to incorporating the study of spelling in use
in their whole language classrooms. Chapter 3 provides suggestions for
developing ways to systematically study and assess children's spelling
in use. Chapter 4 presents the "nuts and bolts" of spelling instruction
in a whole language classroom. Chapter 5 provides practical help in
communicating with parents about the teaching of spelling in use. The
final chapter responds to questions that teachers most often ask about
spelling instruction. Contains 19 references.
