A study of American musical theater traces its origins, influences, and trends, and focuses on the major productions, composers, and writers (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Promoting reflectiveness and the use of creative teaching methods, this text helps readers explore the roles and responsibilities they face as classroom teachers. The book opens with an operational definition and model of reflective teaching, exemplifying the theme that educational decision-making should be guided by basic values and principles, and based on mutual teacher-pupil respect...read more

An introduction to using IBM and IBM-compatible PCs covers start up, the desktop, the mouse, menus, command keys, windows, icons, folders, applications programs, printing, fonts, and peripheral equipment

Product Description: Physicians wishing to test their skills and residents preparing for the internal medicine boards will find this self-assessment and review invaluable. Linked to the thirteenth edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, this text contains over 800 questions that reflect the form and content of the medical board exam...read more

Product Description: Prepared under the guidance of the American College of Emergency Physicians, this book is a reference for the students, residents, house officers and practitioners in emergency medicine and paediatrics. Providing comprehensive coverage of paediatric emergencies, it serves as the direct paediatric counterpart of Tintinalli's "Emergency Medical Study Guide"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text covers the structure and physiology, evolution and taxonomy, zoogeography, and ecology and conservation of fish. Broad in perspective and flexibly arranged, it integrates the basics with recent developments in other areas. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Colloquial Swedish is easy to use and completely up to date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Swedish. No prior knowledge of the language is required...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essentials of word choice and spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization. Also teaches students the basic structures of the paragraph and the essay. Functions equally well in the classroom and at home as a self-tutoring text.

Product Description: Evidence-based practice is an idea whose time has come. Few concepts can have achieved the status of unchallengeable common sense in such a short space of time, and across such a broad range of professional activity. As yet there have been few opportunities to take stock and reflect on the evidence for evidence-based practice, or the implications of its adoption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a guide to the evidence based management of major medical problems, and is intended for use by junior doctors or residents. This book covers each topic, which is the result of a rigorous process of analysis of the available journal articles on the subject, conducted according to the accepted EBM methodology.

Physicians wishing to test their skills and residents preparing for the internal medicine boards will find this self-assessment and review invaluable. Linked to the thirteenth edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, this text contains over 800 questions that reflect the form and content of the medical board exam. Answers and detailed explanations are provided, plus thorough references and 30 illustrations.

Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized best practices open up a world of efficient health care delivery. The Gold Standard takes up this debate to investigate the real meaning of standardization and how it affects patients, doctors, and the institution of medicine.Showing that standards are not about less or more skills, or more or less uniformity, but rather about a redefinition of autonomy, patients, and relationships, Timmermans and Berg show instead that they are about creating new worlds of medical treatment. Cutting through the hype and fears, the authors show where the true powers of standardization lie. The Gold Standard will become a classic for students of medicine and health care policy, and will be a welcome book for anyone concerned with the future of our system of care.

Product Description: A brief how-to guide to evidence-based practice for nurses What to do, how to do it, and why This guide explains everything you need to know to successfully implement evidence-based practice (EBP). Carefully progressing from the fundamental facts to full application, the book tells you exactly what EBP is, and describes how to: - Create a culture of EBP - Use journal clubs - Answer questions with nursing research - Relate EBP and nursing research to your journey to designation Build your confidence as you increase your knowledge Making the transition to EBP requires learning new skills and using a different process for clinical decision making...read more

Product Description: This text informs readers about the procedures involved in the practice of evidence-based chiropractic, background information that is needed to obtain and interpret chiropractic evidence, as well as practical examples to assist with implementation.

This volume offers every clinical ophthalmologist valuable guidance in implementing the results of the latest multicenter clinical trials in practice. Chapters on all major disease entities review all pertinent trials, bring these trials into a real-world setting, and show how the results should influence day-to-day patient management. Coverage includes diseases in all ophthalmologic subspecialties—cornea/external disease, glaucoma, retina, pediatric ophthalmology, ocular oncology, neuro-ophthalmology, and oculoplastics. More than 170 illustrations, 92 in full color, complement the text. General ophthalmologists will have at their fingertips, in an easily digestible format, the current standard of patient care across the spectrum of ophthalmology.