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Product Description: Intended for researchers in computer algebra and differential equations, applied mathematics, and theoretical computer sciences, this book teaches computer algebra users about up-to-date research developments in differential equations...read more

'Are things ugly or are they just not beautiful? The answer to this and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedia, the first large-scale comprehensive English-language reference on aesthetics and destined to be a classic in the field. Drawing from experts in the areas of philosophy, art, history, psychology, feminist theory, legal theory, and many more, the encyclopedia presents 600 signed essays alphabetically arranged. Most entries include a headnote clarifying the topic. Entries rangefrom the philosophical essay on ugliness, to the more reality-based article on the impact of AIDS on the arts. Comprehensive coverage includes key figures, concepts, periods, theories, and movements in the history of aesthetics.'--'Outstanding ReferenceSources: the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Product Description: An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency...read more

Product Description: An introduction to the finite element method and its relation to applied mathematics. This introductory text examines problems in one dimension to provide a solid background in using the finite element method before tackling the more common partial differential equations in two dimensions (including time-dependent equations)...read more

Product Description: Your time is short. Make sure they get the point. Recent regulatory guidance increased focus on the hospital board of directors' role in ensuring compliance. Hospital compliance officers must make board members aware of compliance concerns to keep the facility, and the board members themselves, free from legal trouble...read more

Product Description: Recent healthcare reform and its provisions have pushed health information technology (HIT) into the forefront. Higher life expectancies, fewer medical errors, lower costs, and improved transparency are all possible through HIT.Taking an integrated approach, Impact of Healthcare Informatics on Quality of Patient Care and Health Services examines the various types of organizations, including nonprofit hospitals, for-profit hospitals, community health centers, and government hospitals...read more

Product Description: Ninety-eight thousand people die every year from medical errors, making it a leading cause of death in the United States, but the subject has long been taboo. All that changed with Josie. Sorrel King’s eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s new home, but was taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she made a remarkable recovery...read more

Product Description: The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office. Living in James Larkin Flats, with Redsers' legacy - seven little Brownes - to support on the income from her Moore Street stall, she can't afford to miss a day's pension...read more

Quality/Patient Safety

'Are things ugly or are they just not beautiful? The answer to this and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedia, the first large-scale comprehensive English-language reference on aesthetics and destined to be a classic in the field. Drawing from experts in the areas of philosophy, art, history, psychology, feminist theory, legal theory, and many more, the encyclopedia presents 600 signed essays alphabetically arranged. Most entries include a headnote clarifying the topic. Entries rangefrom the philosophical essay on ugliness, to the more reality-based article on the impact of AIDS on the arts. Comprehensive coverage includes key figures, concepts, periods, theories, and movements in the history of aesthetics.'--'Outstanding ReferenceSources: the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Product Description: As a contribution to the emerging healthcare quality movement, Patient Advocacy for Healthcare Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care is distinct from any others of its kind in its focus on the consumer’s perspective and in its emphasis on how advocacy can influence change at multiple social levels...read more