Product Description: The massive earthen mounds of ancient Cahokia in southwestern Illinois form the largest and most complex archaeological site in the United States. Here, at the center of a vibrant Native American culture, a settlement of Mississippian Indians grew, prospered, and declined...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Written for clinical laboratory scientists by working clinical laboratory scientists, this book contains 63 chapters with technical information that only those who work daily in a haematology laboratory can convey. The text stresses the physiology of blood cells, the etiologies of haematologic diseases, and the theoretical basis of laboratory procedures. Each chapter on disease includes information on the tests most often used to diagnose that disease (rather than grouping procedures at the end of the book), and emphasizes sources of error in the chapter. Each case study is followed by questions with the answers located in the appendix. In addition, this text has an extensive array of 355 illustrations, including a comprehensive set of colour plates. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A reformulation of the author's original work "Laboratory Hematology", this book places greater emphasis on the laboratory aspects of haematology and excludes various anaemias, white cell reactions and basic haemostasis in an attempt to bridge the gap between the haematologist and the laboratory...read more