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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

Jorge Luis Borges

University of Texas Press
1964
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This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.
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Men in a Developing Society

Men in a Developing Society

Jorge Balán; Harley Linwood Browning; Elizabeth Jelin

University of Texas Press
1973
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The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico, a large and rapidly growing manufacturing metropolis in northern Mexico with much in-migration, and a sample of 380 men in Cedral, San Luis Potosí, a small, economically depressed community with high rates of out-migration, much of it to Monterrey.The study of men in Monterrey is perhaps the most thorough one yet conducted of geographic and social mobility in a Latin American city. In part, this was possible because of the innovation of collecting complete life histories that record what each man was doing for any given year in the lay areas of residence, education, family formation, and work. These data permit the effective use of the concepts of life cycle and cohort analysis in the interpretation of the men's geographic and occupational mobility.The experience of the Monterrey men in adapting to the varied changes required by their mobility was not found to be as difficult as is often indicated in the social science literature on the consequences of economic development. In part this may be because Monterrey, in comparison with most other Latin American cities, has been unusually successful in its economic growth. The impact of migration also was lessened because most of the men had visited the city prior to moving there and many had friends or relatives in the city.The age of the migrants upon arrival in Monterrey made a significant difference in subsequent occupational mobility; those of nonfarm background who arrived before age 25 fared better than natives of the city. Although it appears that status inheritance in Monterrey is somewhat higher than in industrialized countries, a considerable proportion of men do move up the occupational ladder. And perhaps as important, the Monterrey men, whether or not they themselves are moving up, perceive the society as an open one.The very success of Monterrey's development created conditions that would bring about changes in the educational, economic, and cultural expectations of its inhabitants. Thus, paradoxically, the general satisfaction and the lack of group and class conflict in Monterrey over the previous decades may well have given rise to future dissatisfaction and conflict.
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In Order to Talk with the Dead

In Order to Talk with the Dead

Jorge Teillier

University of Texas Press
1993
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"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold."-from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."
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Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna

Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna

Jorge Ventocilla; Heraclio Herrera; Valerio Núñez

University of Texas Press
1995
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"The earth is the mother of all things"; thus begins this original and accessible book on how the Kuna of Panama relate to the natural world. An integrative project involving Kuna traditional leaders and trained scholars, and fully illustrated by a Kuna artist, this translation of Plantas y animales en la vida del pueblo Kuna focuses on Kuna plant and animal life, social life, and social change as a means of saving traditional ecological knowledge and "returning" it to the community.The authors hope to preserve the Kuna environment not only by reviving traditional technologies but also by educating the Kuna as to what needs protection. While the Kuna have a tradition of living in harmony with the land, the intrusion of the market economy is eroding the very basis of their sustainable way of life.As a response to this crisis, this book seeks to develop native self-awareness and provide a model for collaboration. It will appeal to Latin Americanists, anthropologists, and ethnobotanists, as well as to a general readership in environmental issues.
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Tent of Miracles

Tent of Miracles

Jorge Amado

University of Wisconsin Press
2003
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Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect ""discovers"" his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.
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Visuomotor Coordination

Visuomotor Coordination

Jorg Peter Ewert; Michael A. Arbib

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
1989
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Various brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian brain may thus be regarded as a kind of "microcosm" of the highly complex primate brain, as far as certain homologous structures, sensory functions, and assigned ballistic (pre-planned and pre-pro­ grammed) motor and behavioral processes are concerned. A variety of fundamental operations that underlie perception, cognition, sensorimotor transformation and its modulation appear to proceed in primate's brain in a way understandable in terms of basic principles which can be investigated more easily by experiments in amphibians. We have learned that progress in the quantitative description and evaluation of these principles can be obtained with guidance from theory. Modeling - supported by simulation - is a process of transforming abstract theory derived from data into testable structures. Where empirical data are lacking or are difficult to obtain because of structural constraints, the modeler makes assumptions and approximations that, by themselves, are a source of hypotheses. If a neural model is then tied to empirical data, it can be used to predict results and hence again to become subject to experimental tests whose resulting data in tum will lead to further improvements of the model. By means of our present models of visuomotor coordination and its modulation by state-dependent inputs, we are just beginning to simulate and analyze how external information is represented within different brain structures and how these structures use these operations to control adaptive behavior.
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Impurity Scattering in Metallic Alloys

Impurity Scattering in Metallic Alloys

Joginder Singh Galsin

Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
2001
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Theoretical understanding of electronic properties of metallic alloys is of great importance from both fundamental and technological points of view. This text gives a brief account of the crystal structure of both the pure metals and metals with impurities. Physical effects produced by impurities in metals are described, as is the electronic structure of pure simple and transition metals with special reference to rare-earth metals.
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Jorge Amado

VINTAGE
2006
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It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for never winning--dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband's amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Jorge Amado

VINTAGE
2006
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Ilh us in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendon a discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular caf and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her? Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life.
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Doña Flor Y Sus DOS Maridos / Doña Flor and Two Husbands

Doña Flor Y Sus DOS Maridos / Doña Flor and Two Husbands

Jorge Amado

Vintage Espanol
2008
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Es posible que una mujer ame a dos hombres al mismo tiempo? A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador p caro Vadinho dos Guimares--empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible--muere durante el carnaval. Su desconsolada esposa se dedica a la cocina y a sus amigas, hasta que conoce al joven doctor Teodoro y decide asentarse. Pero despu s de la boda, pasionalmente insatisfecha, Do a Flor empieza a so ar con las atenciones amorosas de su primer marido. Pronto el propio Vadinho reaparecer , dispuesto a reclamar sus derechos conyugales. Jorge Amado, uno de los escritores m s importantes en Latinoam rica, ha dado vida a tres personajes literarios de fama mundial. Do a Flor y sus maridos es un aut ntico cl sico que ratifica que toda gran historia de amor y sensualidad posee un ingrediente sobrenatural.
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Poesía Completa / Complete Poetry Borges

Poesía Completa / Complete Poetry Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Vintage Espanol
2012
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La obra po tica completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen Adem s de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poes a es el alma de su obra. Indisociable de sus cuentos y ensayos, estos poemas son parte indispensable del universo borgiano y constituyen una indagaci n paralela a los asuntos que siempre le apasionaron: los libros, la memoria, los laberintos, los espejos, el amor o la eternidad. De los poemas que integran esta fant stica colecci n cabe destacar "El mar", "Arte po tica", "El laberinto", "L mites" y su primer libro de poes a Fervor de Buenos Aires, entre otros muchos. Due o de un fino o do y una impresionante capacidad para crear im genes memorables, Borges revive en sus grandes poemas la intensidad que recorre la gran tradici n occidental desde Homero hasta Eliot. En palabras del propio Borges: "Ajedrez misterioso la poes a, cuyo tablero y cuyas piezas cambian como en un sue o y sobre el cual me inclinar despu s de haber muerto". "La deuda que tenemos contra da con l quienes escribimos en espa ol es enorme". --Mario Vargas Llosa ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe complete poetic work of the Argentine master gathered in one single volume. Besides being an extraordinary storyteller and essayist, Jorge Luis Borges was an excellent poet. In fact, it can be said that poetry is the soul of his work. Together with his stories and essays, these poems are an crucial part of the Borgesian universe and make up a parallel inquiry to the issues that always fascinated him: books, memory, labyrinths, mirrors, love, or eternity. Among the poems that make up this fantastic collection include "The Sea", "The Art of Poetry", "The Labyrinth", "Limits" and his first book of poetry Fervor of Buenos Aires, among many others. Having had a fine ear and an impressive capacity to create memorable images, Borges relives in his great poems the intensity that runs through the great Western traditions, from Homer to Eliot. In Borges' own words: "Poetry is a mysterious chess game, whose board and whose pieces change as if in a dream and on which I will lean after I die."
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Ficciones / Fictions

Ficciones / Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Vintage Espanol
2012
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"Probablemente el mayor escritor que haya nacido en Latinoam rica."--Roberto Bola o "Pens en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de alg n modo los astros". --Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones es quiz el libro m s reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jard n de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aqu se re nen hay algunos de corte policial como "La muerte y la br jula", la historia de un detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como "Tl n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", una extraordinaria reflexi n sobre la literatura y su influencia en el mundo f sico; y muchos pertenecientes al g nero fant stico como "El Sur", acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor. Fascinante y sorprendente, Ficciones le brinda al lector un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.
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El Aleph / The Aleph

El Aleph / The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Vintage Espanol
2012
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"Uno de los artistas contempor neos m s memorables... La deuda que tenemos contra da con l quienes escribimos en espa ol es enorme". --Mario Vargas Llosa Considerado uno de los escritores m s influyentes del siglo XX en cualquier idioma, la obra de Jorge Luis Borges contin a inspirando a nuevas generaciones de lectores gracias al deslumbrante poder de sus im genes y la inmensa profundidad de sus temas. Originalmente publicada en 1949, esta colecci n re ne dieciocho relatos entre los que se encuentra algunos de los m s admirados cuentos de la literatura: "El Aleph", la cl sica historia de una resplandeciente esfera en la que confluyen de un modo asombroso todos los tiempos y todos los espacios en el universo; "El Zahir", una fascinante reflexi n sobre la obsesi n, Borges narra la historia de un objeto que inspira la fascinaci n inmediata de todos aquellos que lo ven hasta consumir su atenci n y realidad completa; y "El Inmortal", un inquietante viaje a trav s de la Ciudad de los Inmortales, un laber ntico mundo en el que todo, incluso los edificios y las escaleras, aparece ca ticamente irregular o invertido. Juntos, estos dieciocho relatos, cada uno singularmente original y complejo a su manera, representan una pieza clave en el museo de la obra del maestro argentino, as como en los anales de la literatura universal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer," and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. The Aleph, describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy, mentioning themes such as identity and immortality. Borges added four new stories to the collection in the 1952 edition, for which he provided a brief postscript to the afterword.
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Historia Universal de la Infamia / A Universal History of Infamy

Historia Universal de la Infamia / A Universal History of Infamy

Jorge Luis Borges

Vintage Espanol
2012
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"A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun m s tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores". --Jorge Luis Borges En su primer libro de ficci n, Borges trabaja con biograf as de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces tambi n heroicos. Aqu est n, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos; el impostor Tom Castro, hijo perdido y encontrado; y la viuda y pirata Ching, h bil en el saqueo de altamar. A estos le siguen "Hombre de la esquina rosada", uno de sus relatos m s celebrados; y "Etc tera", un testimonio de sus incontables lecturas. Relatos que juegan a falsear y alterar historias ajenas, infundidos con el puro placer de contar cuentos, Historia universal de la infamia anunci la llegada de una voz literaria totalmente original. "No hay nadie como Borges". --The New York Times ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Universal History of Infamy, the first of Borges' four volumes of short stories, was originally published in an Argentine newspaper of the 1930s. As well as chronicling the lives of famous or little-known villains, Borges perpetrates a literary hoax or two, a technique for which he later won acclaim. The collection also includes the popular 'Streetcorner Man', Borges' earliest short story. The volume was conceived by Borges to be no more than light entertainment. Yet after it appeared in 1935 its influences on the fiction of Latin America was so profound that its publication date bcame a landmark in the history of Latin American literature. "I love his work because every one of his pieces contains a model of the universe or an attribute of the universe . . . because his stories often take the outer form of some genre from popular literature, a form proved by long usage, which creates almost mythical structures." -Italo Calvino
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El Hacedor / Dreamtigers

El Hacedor / Dreamtigers

Jorge Luis Borges

Vintage Espanol
2013
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"Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica". --De "Borges y yo" Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro m s personal, El hacedor explora la relaci n entre el mundo interior y exterior del artista, el misterioso espacio entre sus sue os y la vida real. Un maravilloso cruce de g neros y tem ticas, los relatos, ensayos y poemas de esta colecci n reflejan muchas de las preocupaciones centrales que recorren toda la obra borgiana. En fascinantes escritos como "Di logo sobre un di logo", "La trama", "Dreamtigers", y "Borges y yo", entre otros muchos, Borges examina la serenidad de la mente creativa, el espect culo de su figura p blica, y mira hacia el m s all el mundo eterno en el que sus libros continuar n dialogando con la literatura universal mucho despu s de que l mismo haya desaparecido. Valorado por la cr tica como una de las obras m s importantes del siglo xx, El hacedor es un extraordinario ejemplo del poder del maestro argentino, el alcance de su visi n creativa y su inagotable contribuci n a la literatura.
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Bride in Overdrive: A Journey Into Wedding Insanity and Back

Bride in Overdrive: A Journey Into Wedding Insanity and Back

Jorie Green Mark

St. Martin's Griffin
2004
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"A very funny, candid, and heartwarming look at bridal mania. Bride in Overdrive is a must-read for brides and the people who love them."- Cara Lockwood, author of I Do (But I Don't) Jorie Green was a practical, levelheaded, modern woman before she got engaged. But the moment boyfriend Barry slid that sparkly ring onto her finger, she went a little insane. Adventures in the life of a bride-to-be: - Waiting for the proposal . . . and waiting . . . and waiting - Sometimes love means compromising on your china pattern - The "slightly less painful than sawing off a limb" wedding-dress diet - Merging families---and living to tell the tale Bride in Overdrive is a hysterical memoir of one bride's march toward marital bliss and a tender look at the fears and joys that come to the surface as the big day approaches. A must-read for any bride who's given serious thought to what kind of underpants she should wear on her big day.
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Portal Hypertension, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

Portal Hypertension, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

Jorge Herrera

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2014
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Dr. Herrera has created an issue that will serve as a complete update on the topic of Portal Hpertension. Content is provided from medical therapies to surgery on the patient with portal hypertension. The following important issues are addressed: Invasive and Noninvasive Methods of Measuring Portal Pressure; Primary Prophylaxis of Varceal Bleeding; Gastric and Ectopic Varices; Hepatic Hydrothorax; and Hepatopulmonary Syndrome. Readers will come away with state-of-the-art information on the topic of portal hypertension.
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Mechanics of Solid Polymers

Mechanics of Solid Polymers

Jorgen S Bergstrom

William Andrew Publishing
2015
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Very few polymer mechanics problems are solved with only pen and paper today, and virtually all academic research and industrial work relies heavily on finite element simulations and specialized computer software. Introducing and demonstrating the utility of computational tools and simulations, Mechanics of Solid Polymers provides a modern view of how solid polymers behave, how they can be experimentally characterized, and how to predict their behavior in different load environments. Reflecting the significant progress made in the understanding of polymer behaviour over the last two decades, this book will discuss recent developments and compare them to classical theories. The book shows how best to make use of commercially available finite element software to solve polymer mechanics problems, introducing readers to the current state of the art in predicting failure using a combination of experiment and computational techniques. Case studies and example Matlab code are also included. As industry and academia are increasingly reliant on advanced computational mechanics software to implement sophisticated constitutive models – and authoritative information is hard to find in one place - this book provides engineers with what they need to know to make best use of the technology available.
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Nutrition, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice

Nutrition, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice

Jörg Mayer

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2014
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Dr. Jörg Mayer has assembled an expert panel of authors on the topic of nutrition in exotic animals. Articles include: Prescription diets for exotic pets, Supplements for exotic pets, Nutrition for reptiles, Nutrition for avians, Nutrition for amphibians, Nutrition for fish, Nutrition for marsupials, Nutrition for rodents, and Nutrition for Rabbits.
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Emergency Radiology: The Requisites

Emergency Radiology: The Requisites

Jorge A Soto; Brian C Lucey

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2016
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Get the essential tools you need to make an accurate diagnosis in the emergency department! Part of the popular Requisites series, Emergency Radiology: The Requisites delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in emergency radiology, as well certification and recertification review. Master core knowledge the easy and affordable way with clear, concise text enhanced by at-a-glance illustrations, boxes, and tables - all revised and enhanced with digital content to bring you up to date with today's state of the art knowledge. Presents emergent findings and differential diagnosis tables so that important content is identified clearly within the text. Divides the contents of the book into two sections - trauma and non-trauma - to mirror the way you practice. Organizes the material in structured, consistent chapter layouts for efficient and effective review. Provides clinical material on radiology procedures that define your role in managing a patient with an emergent condition. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Prepare for written exams or clinical practice with critical information on CTA in the ED on coronary, aorta, brain, and visceral arteries, plus new protocols for trauma and non-traumatic injuries. Stay up to date on what's new in the field with thoroughly revised content and new, high-quality images obtained with today's best technology. Get optimal results from today's most often-used approaches, including the increase in routine use of "panscan" for trauma patients. Gain a practical, visual understanding of emergency radiology thanks to more than 900 multi-modality images and easy access to the eBook version. Study and review in the most efficient way, with structured, consistent chapter layouts for time-saving and effective exam preparation.
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