Product Description: This book, which is written by leading world authorities in stroke medicine, provides valuable up-to-date information on key areas of interest and debate in clinical practice. While still claiming the lives of many people in the Western world, stroke is no longer a uniformly fateful disorder...read more

The development of general equilibrium theory represents one of the greatest advances in economic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book, intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, provides a broad introduction to competitive equilibrium analysis with an emphasis on concrete applications. The coverage is exceptionally broad, including existence of equilibrium, models with a continuum of players, economies with individual commodities, computation of equilibrium, and infinite dimensional space. Well-designed and interesting applications help to make potentially abstract material more accessible.

Product Description: ...combines a textbook and an atlas with illustrated cases demonstrating the application of vascular ultrasonography in different regions of the human body...addresses structural (B-mode) and functional (Doppler-mode) studies.

Product Description: According to the results of large-scale studies, based on material from stroke data banks, more than two-thirds of all cerebral ischemic events are due to embolism rather than local thrombosis. This information has led not only to an increased interest in cerebral embolism, but also to a new direction by scientists in their study of its formation and development...read more