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Product Description: “International Practices in Pancreatic Surgery“ describes in great detail  general and specific technical aspects of the standard resection procedures of the pancreas. Each surgical step during the pancreatic operation is precisely outlined and accompanied by drawings and photographs...read more

Product Description: This illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to colorectal surgical therapy. It provides pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various colorectal disorders.

Until recent times Islam’s holy book has not been widely accessible to the Christian world, and consequently teachings about Jesus have received little attention. In Jesus in the Qur’an, written for both Christians and Muslims, for specialists as well as general readers, Parrinder offers a study of Qur’anic teachings about the birth, life, work, death and resurrection of Jesus. Parrinder explores all ninety-three verses in the Qur’an in which Jesus is mentioned, setting them in the context of the work as a whole and drawing parallels with the Christian gospels, wherever possible.

Product Description: This illustrative and comprehensive review showcases the basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy. It summarizes the relevant anatomy, physiology, history and approaches, and reviews appropriate systemic, morbid and technical complications.

Product Description: As with the other nine publications in this series on general surgery, this volume covers a primary branch of the science. It summarizes its principles and equips surgery residents and practitioners with a well designed, comprehensive reference companion.

Product Description: This reference work provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy of endocrine organs. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs.

Product Description: This comprehensive review of the relevant surgical techniques provides pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with a range of liver and biliary disorders. It covers both benign and malignant problems in addition to minimally invasive procedures.

Product Description: This concise, handbook-sized reference covers the basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy in trauma patients. Starting with initial evaluation, it reviews all relevant procedures, and also surveys the organ systems that may need intervention.

Product Description: Illustrated throughout with anatomical and technical figures, this concise yet comprehensive review covers all the basic operative principles essential to oncological surgical therapy, including benign and malignant problems in breast and skin soft tissues.

Product Description: This well illustrated, instructive and comprehensive review covers the basic operative principles essential to surgery of the esophagus and stomach. The text outlines the differing stages of operative approaches, along with relevant technical considerations.

This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers. The Putting Your Skills to Work and new chapter-end feature, Math in the Media, present readers with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data, and problem solve using applied situations encountered in daily life. Chapter 7, Geometry, has been extensively revised and re-organized to include a new section 7.1 on angles and new section 7.4 devoted to triangles. Increased coverage of estimating with fractions and decimals with new “To Think About” exercises in Sections 2.5, 2.8, and 3.3 and a new lesson in Section 3.7. Coverage of fractions in Chapter 2 has been expanded as follows: Section 2.6 now begins with a discussion of least common multiples so that the subsequent coverage of least common denominators is more complete; a new lesson on order of operations in Section 2.8 offers readers additional review of these rules and practice applying them to fractions; and a new mid-chapter test on fractions appears after Section 2.5. Percent applications are now covered in two sections (Sections 5.4 and 5.5) to allow for a more patient presentation of this important topic.

Product Description: This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers...read more

Product Description: Atlas of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery covers in detail the technical aspects of all important procedures of the upper abdomen (esophagus, duodenum, stomach, liver, biliary system, pancreas, portal hypertension and spleen) including general, oncologic and transplantation surgery...read more