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Product Description: This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English...read more

Product Description: Refraktive Chirurgie – in allen Facetten Der Wunsch vieler Menschen nach einer guten Sicht ohne Hilfsmittel ist verständlich. Doch gibt es viele Dinge zu bedenken: Kommt dieser Patient grundsätzlich für einen refraktiven Eingriff in Frage? Könnte man den gewünschten refraktiven Effekt nicht auch bei einer anstehenden Kataraktoperation erzielen? Welches der mittlerweile etablierten Verfahren würde am besten passen? Welche Vor- und Nachteile haben die verschiedenen Verfahren? Wie werden Komplikationen vermieden? und viele weitere Fragen...read more

Product Description: The second volume of "Cataract and Refractive Surgery" in the Essentials in Ophthalmology series provides new information on cataract and refractive surgery. The chapters discuss new techniques and technology. The emphasis is on areas that are rapidly evolving and essential to sophisticated clinical practice...read more

Product Description: The Essentials in Ophthalmology series represents readership acceptance of the first two series, each of an unique updating publication on the progress in all eight volumes. This is a success that was made p- subspecialties of ophthalmology...read more

Product Description: The study describes the evolution of English participial and gerundial constructions in Middle English and early modern English, concentrating in the process on the function of text varieties in language change. Building on a detailed analysis of all the relevant constructions in six text varieties taken from a revised version of the Helsinki Corpus, the author demonstrates that the proliferation of the main construction types through text varieties takes place in an ordered sequence...read more

Product Description: New cataract removal techniques, anesthesia and viscoelastic substances, and the implantation of modern intraocular lenses are essential topics in the fast developing field of ophthalmic surgery. This publication provides a comprehensive update discussing these items thoroughly...read more