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The Bourne Objective
This is a brand new Jason Bourne novel – latest in the bestselling series. Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne’s nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin and fearless international mercenary, in The Bourne Sanction. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In The Bourne Deception, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge and kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin’s skills mirror Jason’s because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training. Now, in The Bourne Objective, Jason will turn the tables and target Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne’s downfall?
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Medical Microbiology, International Edition, 19th Edition
Medical microbiology concerns the nature, distribution and activities of microbes and their impact on health and wellbeing. In spite of the introduction of many antimicrobial agents and immunisations, we continue to face major challenges in combatting infection, not least the gathering crisis in antimicrobial resistance.
Now in a fully revised and updated 19th edition, Medical Microbiology provides comprehensive coverage of infection from the microbial perspective, combining a clear introduction to key principles with a focus explicitly geared to modern clinical practice. It provides ideal coverage for medical and biomedical students – with ‘Key Points’ boxes throughout to highlight the essentials – and sufficient detail to also inform specialists in training.
Building on the success of previous editions, updates in Medical Microbiology 19e include:
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- New and expanded coverage of hot topics and emerging areas important to clinical practice, including:
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- Genomics
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- The Human Microbiome
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- Direct acting antiviral agents for the treatment of HCV infection
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- Molecular methods in diagnostic microbiology
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- Antibiotic Stewardship
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- BONUS electronic materials to enhance your learning, including:
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- Clinical cases – to introduce how patients with infections present and help relate key principles to practice
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- MCQs for each chapter – to check understanding and aid exam preparation
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The Unchallengeable Miracles of the Quran-Hardcover
The Qur’an is a book of guidance for all of humanity, and Allah has promised that He will preserve it in its original pristine form until the Day of Judgment. The inimitable style of the Qur’aan and the superior wisdom in it are definitive evidences that it is the Word of God. Besides, the Qur’an has many miraculous verses proving that it is undoubtedly a revelation from God and not the work of a human.
Although the Qur’an is not just a book of science, it clearly states a number of scientific truths that were uncovered only with the help of modern technology in the 20th century. How can we explain the numerous scientific facts mentioned in its verses over 1400 years ago?
Time after time, respected scientists and renowned experts from all over the world, upon studying the verses of the Qur’an (Quraan) have had no other choice but to acknowledge that there were no means of knowing these scientific facts 1400 years ago. The only way they could have reached us is through revelation: proving that the Qur’an is the word of God.
Just as scientists and researchers are fascinated by the wealth of knowledge and depth of meaning carried in the verses of the Qur’an (Koran/Coran), modern readers too will find a great deal of benefit in the amazing information and insight offered by this book.
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Jerome Bruner-The Process of Education
In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses.
Bruner’s foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.
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Resource mobilization Third Edition
A compounding model resolution with available relevant data can often provide insight towards a solution methodology; which Resource mobilization models, tools and techniques are necessary? What would be the goal or target for a Resource mobilization’s improvement team? Are we making progress? and are we making progress as Resource mobilization leaders? In what ways are Resource mobilization vendors and us interacting to ensure safe and effective use? Is the Resource mobilization scope manageable?
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, ‘What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?’
This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Resource mobilization investments work better.
This Resource mobilization All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
All the tools you need to an in-depth Resource mobilization Self-Assessment. Featuring 683 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Resource mobilization improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
– diagnose Resource mobilization projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
– implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
– integrate recent advances in Resource mobilization and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Resource mobilization Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Resource mobilization areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access details to the Resource mobilization self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
– The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
– The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…
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– Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing.
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Boyz Rule : Test Cricket
Hit the pitch with the Boyz Rule gang in Test Cricket—a thrilling tale of teamwork, big hits, and chasing victory in the ultimate cricket challenge!
Tom and Joey meet head-on at the test match being held in their local park. And the man of the match (or should that be canine!) fields like no other, with a name to match!
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Boy-Roald Dahl
Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood!From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl’s tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Or that he was once a chocolate candy tester for Cadbury’s? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don’t yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed!
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Integrative Human Biochemistry: A Textbook for Medical Biochemistry
This book covers in detail the mechanisms for how energy is managed in the human body. The basic principles that elucidate the reactivity and physical interactions of matter are addressed and quantified with simple approaches. Three-dimensional representations of molecules are presented throughout the book so molecules can be viewed as unique entities in their shape and function.
The book is focused on the molecular mechanisms of cellular processes in the context of human physiological situations such as fasting, feeding and physical exercise, in which metabolic regulation is highlighted. Furthermore the book uses key historical experiments that opened up new concepts in Biochemistry to further illustrate how the human body functions at molecular level, helping students to appreciate how scientific knowledge emerges.
This book also:
- Elucidates the foundations of the molecular events of life
Uses key historical experiments that opened up new concepts in Biochemistry to further illustrate how the human body functions at molecular level, helping students to appreciate how scientific knowledge emerges
- Provides realistic representations of molecules throughout the book
Advance Praise for Integrative Human Biochemistry
“This textbook provides a modern and integrative perspective of human biochemistry and will be a faithful companion to health science students following curricula in which this discipline is addressed. This textbook will be a most useful tool for the teaching community.”
- Elucidates the foundations of the molecular events of life
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Human Embryology, 2E (Bd Chaurasia’s Dream)-by Khurana Arushi (Author), Indu Khurana (Author)
Explore Human Embryology, 2nd Edition (Bd Chaurasia’s Dream Series) — a comprehensive guide to human development from conception to birth. This updated edition offers clear explanations, detailed illustrations, and clinically relevant insights, making it an essential textbook for medical and nursing students.
The book presents a comprehensive coverage of the prenatal development of human body. The text is organized into three sections covering general embryology systemic embryology and applied embryology. The salient feature of this book are : Provides an exhaustive and thorough exposition of human embryology. Includes more than 600 diagrams to provide an in-depth understanding of the subject.Highlights the clinical correlates of normal human development and various congenital anomalies.Chapter organization style makes it possible to conceptualize and reproduce the complex matter in a simple and easy way.Attractive color format enhances the lucidity. Written with full dedication and missionary zeal to pay homage to Dr BO Chaurasia and to fullfill his unrealized dream.Edited with a passion by an experienced and renowned teacher and author/editor of several books in anatomy. All these features make this an indispensable textbook for medical and dental students.
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Forensic Pathology Principles and Practice
Forensic Pathology is a comprehensive reference that uses a case-oriented format to address, explain and guide the reader through the varied topics encountered by forensic pathologists. Developed in response to a severe void in the literature, the book addresses topics ranging from medicolegal investigation of death to death scene investigation, forensic autopsy, and artifacts of resuscitation as well as complications of medical therapy, forensic osteology, forensic odontology, forensic photography, and death certification. The book includes various types of cases, including sudden natural death, asphyxia, motor vehicle collisions, death in custody, child abuse and elder abuse, acute psychiatric and emotional deaths, and pregnancy. It contains sample descriptions of pathological lesions which serve to aid pathologists in reporting their findings to law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and others involved in investigations of sudden death. The concepts outlined in the text are beautifully illustrated by large, colorful photographs. There are also “Do and Don’t” sections at the end of each chapter that provide guidance for handling the types of cases examined. This work will benefit not only experienced forensic pathologists, but also hospital pathologists who occasionally performs medicolegal autopsies; doctors in training; medical examiners; law enforcement personnel; crime scene investigators; attorneys; and fellows and students of the medical sciences.