Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. Provides an authoritative review of diagnostic, clinical, and management issues in neurocritical care. Offers guidelines for organizing a neurosciences critical care unit and focuses on both neurologic and neurosurgical conditions. Also addresses bioethical issues. Abundant illustrations.
This textbook describes in detail the best and most current methods to care for patients in the emergency department, including initial evaluation, generation of differential diagnoses, problem solving, and management of challenging conditions based on presenting symptoms.
Description : No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody, USN. His mission: break the British Blockade. The only thing in his favor was surprise. Who would expect a Yankee frigate in Long Island Sound at night?
Just a few weeks old, Dasha the cat found herself in a family with an autistic child. The publication of Temple Grandin's book "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour" turned the household into a research laboratory, with the humans observing Dasha's behaviours and the cat experimenting with the 'human guinea pigs'. The feline perspective provides a new outlook on autism conditions, challenging long established stereotypes and analysing controversies in the field with an unbiased attitude and humour.
A MUST READ FOR ALL !!! - stovokor and Mitowka the cat
Professor Spolsky explores the requirements for a general theory of second language learning, and considers the relevance of such a theory for language teaching.