Using a multidisciplinary, team-oriented approach, this unique title expertly covers all the latest approaches to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with critical cardiac illness. Led by Dr David L. Brown, a stellar team of authoritative writers guides you through cardiac pathophysiology, disease states presenting in the CICU, and state-of-the-art advanced diagnosis and therapeutic techniques.

A visually appealing format, new chapters, and thorough updates ensure that you st...

A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think.

Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask oursel...

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warf...

Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today's greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide prov...

Business Partner is an eight-level business English course that teaches real-world language and business skills.

- Authentic videos with expert commentary on key business topics.

- Innovative video-based communication skills training.

- Practical training in functional business skills.

- Financial Times content on a wide variety of topics.

- A flexible, modular approach to personalise what students learn.

- Multiple opportunities to work on realistic case studies.

Essential chemistry for health careers and everyday life.

Now available with Achieve, Guinn’s Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The third edition focuses on core concepts and necessary maths skills, and features a revamped organization to align with traditional course organization and shorter, more condensed chapters. Easily digestible content and ...

Infecties zijn op de intensive care veelvoorkomend. Patiënten worden met een infectie opgenomen, of kunnen een infectie oplopen op de intensive care. Ernstige sepsis en septische shock zijn belangrijke doodsoorzaken bij intensive care patiënten. Antibiotica zijn effectieve medicijnen indien tijdig toegediend en ook passend bij de bacterie die de infectie veroorzaakt. Infecties - bacteriën - antibiotica zijn dus een drie-eenheid, die voor een effectieve behandeling gedegen kennis behoeft. D...

A synthesis of biomechanics and neural control that draws on recent advances in robotics to address control problems solved by the human sensorimotor system. This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach-which uses the framework of robotics to understand sensorimotor control problems-offers a more complete and accurate description than either...

"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."

In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official n...