The book you’re about to read is the result of more than a year of work but is also the product of years of labor in the vineyards of public education. During our time working together, we—a current school superintendent in her first top job, a former principal and superintendentturned-academic, and a former board president […]
The seventh edition of Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment is designed for two groups—those who need a practical clinical reference and those acquiring beginning assessment skills. First, the Pocket Companion is intended as an adjunct to Jarvis’ Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 7th edition. The Pocket Companion is a memory prompt for […]
Thinking about architecture, I have rarely felt the need to detach myself from the circumstances around me – and certainly not by recourse to any system of abstraction. For this reason, most of the work discussed in this book is influenced by the episodic nature of events, by the coincidental, the referential, and is unashamedly […]
It is a real pleasure to see this comprehensive, encyclopedic treatise on the ever-fascinating subject of Brain Tumors reach its Third Edition. The recognition of the problems posed by the diagnosis, treatment and pathogenesis of brain tumors has steadily increased among scientists, physicians and surgeons, and the public in general. As health care access and […]
There is an old story, perhaps apocryphal, in which the Fed Chair greets a newly appointed member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System with an apologetic explanation of the new governor’s status. The chair predicted that when the man introduced himself back home to his friends and family as a […]