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The People's Hospital

Hope and Peril in American Medicine

by M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit.Stephen, a restaurant franchise manager, signed up for his company’s lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing insurmountable costs after a cancer diagnosis. Christian is a young college student and retail worker who can’t seem to get an accurate ... Read more

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Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit.Stephen, a restaurant franchise manager, signed up for his company’s lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing insurmountable costs after a cancer diagnosis. Christian is a young college student and retail worker who can’t seem to get an accurate
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A Framework for a Queer Community Library

by Ricardo M. ...

What if your local LGBTIA/Queer community started its own library?In the past few years, several volunteers at QueerIST have experienced how hard it is to find and access works written by and for queer people. We decided to take matters into our own hands and embraced the ambitious endeavor of starting our own community library. This is the sum of knowledge from what we, as volunteer amateur ... Read more

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What if your local LGBTIA/Queer community started its own library?In the past few years, several volunteers at QueerIST have experienced how hard it is to find and access works written by and for queer people. We decided to take matters into our own hands and embraced the ambitious endeavor of starting our own community library. This is the sum of knowledge from what we, as volunteer amateur
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The People's Hospital

Hope and Peril in American Medicine

by M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

Narrated by M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

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“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles TimesThis “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival ... Read more

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“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles TimesThis “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival
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Close Encounters of Empire

Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Catherine C. LeGrand ...

Series series American encounters/global interactions
New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of ... Read more

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New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of
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Latin American Cultural and Musical Contexts in Music Therapy

by Jeniris M. Garay, Talia Girton, Cynthia Koskela, Ricardo Maya, Eugenia Hernandez-Ruiz, Graciela Broqua, Gustavo Gattino ...

Culturally-conscious music therapy has the power to create meaningful therapeutic connections between practitioners and clients from different backgrounds, and to support healing by honoring clients' heritages and experiences.This essential handbook dives into the wide range of linguistic, historical, and cultural influences that shape different Latin American clients, and suggests ways to apply ... Read more

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Culturally-conscious music therapy has the power to create meaningful therapeutic connections between practitioners and clients from different backgrounds, and to support healing by honoring clients' heritages and experiences.This essential handbook dives into the wide range of linguistic, historical, and cultural influences that shape different Latin American clients, and suggests ways to apply
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Selected Topics in Food Process Engineering

Edited by Oscar A. Vega-Castro, Ricardo Simpson, María del Pilar Buera, Diana M. Granda-Restrepo, Cristian Camilo Villa Zabala, Magda I. Pinzón-Fandiño, Gustavo Fidel Gutiérrez-López, Gustavo Victor Barbosa-Cánovas ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is based on some of the invited presentations at the XIII Ibero American Congress on Food Engineering (CIBIA XIII) which was held in Medellín, Colombia, in March 2022 under the leadership of Professor Oscar A. Vega-Castro. Invited presentations were delivered by renowned food engineers worldwide and covered the latest on classic and novel topics driving food process engineering. The ... Read more

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This book is based on some of the invited presentations at the XIII Ibero American Congress on Food Engineering (CIBIA XIII) which was held in Medellín, Colombia, in March 2022 under the leadership of Professor Oscar A. Vega-Castro. Invited presentations were delivered by renowned food engineers worldwide and covered the latest on classic and novel topics driving food process engineering. The
... Read more
From Data to Models and Back

12th International Symposium, DataMod 2024, Aveiro, Portugal, November 4–5, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Ricardo M. Czekster, Paolo Milazzo ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 12th International Symposium on From Data Models and Back, DataMod 2024, held in Aveiro, Portugal, during November 4–5, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. These papers present research results in the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning, as well as ... Read more

$125.99 USD

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 12th International Symposium on From Data Models and Back, DataMod 2024, held in Aveiro, Portugal, during November 4–5, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. These papers present research results in the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning, as well as
... Read more
12 Strokes

A Case-based Guide to Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Edited by Ferdinand K. Hui, Alejandro M. Spiotta, Michael J. Alexander, Ricardo A. Hanel, Blaise William Baxter ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This comprehensive, case-based resource provides the state-of-the-art knowledge that can help readers improve access and optimize delivery of stroke thrombectomy. Improving access to stroke is of particular importance because patients often misinterpret their symptoms or cannot speak for themselves if they have aphasia. More importantly, access needs to be organized because stroke therapies are ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This comprehensive, case-based resource provides the state-of-the-art knowledge that can help readers improve access and optimize delivery of stroke thrombectomy. Improving access to stroke is of particular importance because patients often misinterpret their symptoms or cannot speak for themselves if they have aphasia. More importantly, access needs to be organized because stroke therapies are
... Read more
Brotherhood of the Revenants: 1066

by Ricardo M. de Paula R. ...

Series Book 1 - Brotherhood of the Revenants
For millennia, a war has been waged for the dominion of man by forces born from the very beginning of creation. Its corruption spreads throughout and influences mankind’s steps to its eventual extinction. For their power is limitless, and their hatred all consuming. All that stands against these forces is a shadowy organization comprised of reformed immortals who were rejected by the daemons ... Read more

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For millennia, a war has been waged for the dominion of man by forces born from the very beginning of creation. Its corruption spreads throughout and influences mankind’s steps to its eventual extinction. For their power is limitless, and their hatred all consuming. All that stands against these forces is a shadowy organization comprised of reformed immortals who were rejected by the daemons
... Read more
Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease

Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts

Edited by Ricardo A. Munoz, Victor O. Morell, Eduardo M. da Cruz, Carol G. Vetterly, Jose Pedro da Silva ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This extensively revised new edition comprehensively reviews the medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill child with congenital and acquired cardiac disease. It enables the reader to gain a thorough understanding of basic and practical concepts of anatomy, pathophysiology, surgical techniques and peri-operative management in this group of patients. Extensively revised chapters cover the ... Read more

$161.99 USD

This extensively revised new edition comprehensively reviews the medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill child with congenital and acquired cardiac disease. It enables the reader to gain a thorough understanding of basic and practical concepts of anatomy, pathophysiology, surgical techniques and peri-operative management in this group of patients. Extensively revised chapters cover the
... Read more
Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism

Asia and Beyond

Edited by Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Joseph M. Cheer, Xosé Manuel Santos ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both international and domestic tourism. In particular, Europe and Asia possess a high volume of world-renowned pilgrimage sites that are ... Read more

$152.99 USD

This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both international and domestic tourism. In particular, Europe and Asia possess a high volume of world-renowned pilgrimage sites that are
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Cuban Spanish Dialectology

Variation, Contact, and Change

by Alejandro Cuza, Brandon M. A. Rogers, Scott M. Alvord, Kristin Carlson, Ann M. Aly, Daniel Erker, Eduardo Ho-Fernández, Ricardo Otheguy, Naomi Lapidus Shin0, Gabriela G. Alfaraz1, Luis A. Ortiz-López2, Ashlee Dauphinais3, Héctor Aponte Alequín4, Joshua Frank5, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio6, Manuel Díaz-Campos7, Iraida Galarza8, Gibran Delgado-Díaz9, Andrew Lynch0, Pascual Cantos-Gómez1, Antoni Fernández Parera2, José Camacho3, Diego Pascual y Cabo4, Inmaculada Gómez-Soler5, Ana de Prada Perez6, Andrea Hernández7 ...

Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, ... Read more

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Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches,
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