Musculoskeletal Diseases - Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques
This book represents a condensed version of the 20 topics dealing with imaging diagnosis and interventional therapies in musculoskeletal diseases. The disease-oriented topics encompass all the relevant imaging modalities including X-rays technology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound and magnetic resonance, as well as image-guided interventional techniques.
Polymer Clay: 20 Weekend Projects Using New & Exciting Techniques
It’s the most interesting craft material to appear in the last 30 years—and here are the newest, most innovative techniques around, all needing minimal materials and skill. “Has tips and an interesting variety of projects for beginners...good addition to crafts collections.”—Library Journal. “There’s something in here for every polyclay enthusiast.
Polymer clay jewellery is gaining popularity. A growing number of crafters are eager to learn the art form, while longtime enthusiasts are always looking for new, fun projects. Creative Techniques for Polymer Clay Jewelry will appeal to both groups with: An extensive overview of polymer clay and jewellery-making basics, including tools and materials, blending and finishing; A section devoted to making simple and complex canes such as the leaf cane, rose cane and star cane; 45 step-by-step jewellery projects, each including suggestions for variations so readers can tailor the projects to their own taste
Anyone interested in the popular and adaptable medium of polymer clay will delight in the colorful projects found in Step-by-Step Polymer Clay in a Day. Crafters will welcome Emma Ralph's affordable and beautiful gift ideas, ideas that include wine glass charmers, a millefiore trinket box, stylish napkin rings, clay and metal earrings, colorful pens, and a delicate lattice bowl. With a comprehensive techniques section, which presents such essential techniques as canework, blending, texture, and filligree, along with a creative gallery of projects and project variations, beginners and experienced crafters alike will appreciate the inspiration found in this dynamic and easy-to-follow guide.
The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language: Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context
This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of learner attitudes by employing a range of pioneering techniques of attitude measurement. These methods are largely incorporated from the strong traditions that exist in the fields of social psychology and second language acquisition and utilize both direct and indirect techniques of attitude measurement.
