Product Description: Compiled by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, the World Food Programme, the World Bank and the African Union's New Economic Partnership for African Development, this is the first sourcebook of government school feeding programmes in low and middle income countries...read more

Providing a comprehensive and evidence-based reference guide for those who have a strong and scholarly interest in medical education, the Oxford Textbook of Medical Education contains everything the medical educator needs to know in order to deliver the knowledge, skills, and behaviour that doctors need. The book explicitly states what constitutes best practice and gives an account of the evidence base that corroborates this. Describing the theoretical educational principles that lay the foundations of best practice in medical education, the book gives readers a through grounding in all aspects of this discipline. Contributors to this book come from a variety of different backgrounds, disciplines and locations, producing a book that is truly original and international.

Product Description: The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory...read more

Product Description: Fully up-to-date and packed with useful tips and helpful insights, this publication provides a comprehensive overview of the admission process for the national and international veterinary schools that are members of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)...read more

Product Description: This book provides a step-by-step guide for graduates from any discipline on how to succeed in gaining a place at Medical School. It covers the major considerations applicants have along the way, including routes into Medicine for graduates, including four, five and six-year courses...read more

Product Description: As the competition for places at medical schools intensifies, it is more important than ever for those wishing to study medicine to maximise their performance in every part of the application process. One of the most challenging elements of this for many applicants is the medical school interview...read more

Product Description: This book is a "How to" book that can help medical doctors in career navigation into specialist training in Singapore.With the introduction of the Residency program comes a different set of application process, selection criteria and interview format...read more

This is a practical textbook. It takes the reader who wishes to compose electronic music step by step through the skills and technical knowledge required, starting with the mechanism of an ordinary tape recorder and ending with advice on assembling an electronic studio. No special previous experience is called for, in either music or electronics. In the author's words, his aim is to help people make not electronic music, but electronic music. 'I believe that we are about to embark upon the golden age of electronic music and I warmly invite the reader to examine the potentials of the medium and to make music if he finds these potentials appealing.' David Keane (born 1943), Professor of Theory and Composition at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and Director of the University Electroacoustic Music Studios which he founded in 1970, is himself an active and successful composer of electronic music.

Product Description: The minimally invasive surgical removal of the gallbladder, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, is one of the most commonly performed operations today. Yet, patients do not have a full understanding of the procedure and often, search the internet for answers...read more