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  • Audiobook

    City Birds (Unabridged)

    by Dean Norman ...
    Narrated by Eric Mann ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Stars and Stripes, two young falcons, are introduced to the life of a bird of prey in a big city. With their parents' guidance, the young birds learn to catch pigeons (and not the "fowl" balls that come from the nearby baseball stadium); how to interact with humans (who are kind enough to feed the local pigeon "livestock"); and finally, how to fly, the final skill that will allow them to leave ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Infectious Diseases in Geriatric Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    Series Book Volume 32-3 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Thomas T. Yoshikawa and Dean C. Norman, is devoted to Infectious Diseases in Geriatric Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Host Resistance and Immunology of Aging; Clinical Features of Infection; Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy; Bacterial Pneumonia; Tuberculosis; Intraabdominal Infections; Infectious Diarrhea: Clostridium ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Guide to Reprocessing of Hemodialyzers

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to provide information for the nephrologist to gain a perspective on the medical, scientific, and technical aspects of reprocess ing of hemodialyzers. The book is also designed to serve the needs of the associated medical, nursing, and technical staffs of dialysis facilities for data on reuse of hemodialyzers. As an information source, the book will prove to be useful ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Infectious Disease in the Aging

    A Clinical Handbook

    Edited by Thomas Yoshikawa, Dean Norman ...
    Series series Infectious Disease
    Because aging is accompanied by a steady decline in resistance to infectious diseases, the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases in the elderly is not only much more complex, but also often quite different from that for younger patients.In the second edition of Infectious Disease in the Aging: A Clinical Handbook, a panel of well known and highly experienced geriatric physicians and infectious ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Infectious Disease in the Aging

    A Clinical Handbook

    Edited by Thomas Yoshikawa, Dean Norman ...
    Series series Infectious Disease
    Because aging is accompanied by a steady decline in resistance to infectious diseases, the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases in the elderly is not only much more complex, but also often quite different from that for younger patients.In the second edition of Infectious Disease in the Aging: A Clinical Handbook, a panel of well known and highly experienced geriatric physicians and infectious ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    In the Dark Cave (Unabridged)

    Narrated by David Rothauser ...

    Unabridged

    3 min

    A cricket, a rat, and a bat live happily in a dark cave. Each one has a unique way of navigating without light, but one day, an explorer enters the cave and brings a new kind of light. ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Unbound

    A True Story of War, Love, and Survival

    by Dean King ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 11 min

    In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland swamps, climbed Tibetan peaks, scrambled over chain ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient

    This incisive reference systematically reviews the diagnosis and treatment of common surgical and medical emergencies in elderly patients-thoroughly examining surgical interventions, drug therapies and drug prescribing protocols, life-threatening drug reactions, ethical issues, and methods of profiling patients for nursing care. Evaluates disea ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

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    Thinking In Numbers

    On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math

    by Daniel Tammet ...
    Narrated by Daniel Tammet ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers" (Oliver Sacks, MD).Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Dementia

    A Global Approach

    Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are, nevertheless, neglected in the published literature. Dementia: A Global Approach, ... Read more

    $132.09 USD

  • Living with Germs

    In health and disease

    by John Playfair ...
    The word germ is defined as 'a microbe that causes disease'. The vast majority of microbes do not infect us at all: it is pathogens that make us ill. These include bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, worms, and prions. Living with Germs not only looks at all of these in detail, but also at the defence mechanisms by which we come to terms with them, whether by eliminating them, stopping them from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging

    With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide range ... Read more

    $287.09 USD