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The Last Don-Mario Puzo
KSh 895.00Discover Mario Puzo’s gripping novel The Last Don, a tale of power, betrayal, and family in America’s underworld. A mafia masterpiece from the creator of The Godfather.
Don Domenico has a suprise in store for his family. He wants them to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. Nothing unusual about that. Except that the Clericuzio are the last of the great Mafia families. And there are seeds of evil among the Clericuzio. seeds sown by the Don himself. And killing is still what they do best.
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MANAGING HUMANITARIAN INNOVATION: THE CUTTING EDGE OF AID
KSh 6,000.00Managing Humanitarian Innovation presents a new approach that is beginning to transform the way humanitarian logistics are conducted. Innovation in logistics includes disrupting and improving supply chains through the use of technology, especially 3D printers, and engaging people to manage this approach. The book discusses what innovation is, and strategies for supporting it; it describes practical innovations and how they have been applied; and it outlines how innovation labs can be run. Finally it covers how to fund innovation and it suggests how humanitarian innovation might develop in the future.
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The retail revolution
KSh 1,695.00Wal-Mart is the world’s largest company and it sets the standard–both social and commercial–for a huge swath of the global economy. In this probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein shows how the company’s success has spread evangelical Protestantism into the workplace, made South China an American workshop, and pushed American politics to the right. At the same time, he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful and original, The Retail Revolution gives a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has reshaped international commerce.
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Pocket Tutor Orthopaedics
KSh 5,500.00Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with “on the go”, at a highly affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.
- Common investigations (ECG, imaging, etc)
- Clinical skills (patient examination, etc.)
- Clinical specialties that students perceive as too small to merit a textbook (psychiatry, renal medicine)
Key points
- Practical, accessible introduction to a subject that students find daunting, but which juniors will encounter as part of orthopaedic and emergency rotations
- Logical, sequential content: relevant basic science; then chapters devoted to the clinical essentials of orthopaedics and the disorders and injuries seen most commonly in practice
- Descriptions of common disorders are enhanced by Clinical Scenarios (Patient presents with…), which help students and trainees to recognise and manage common presenting problems
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Lenny the Lamb
KSh 395.00Lenny the Lamb is a delightful children’s storybook that follows the gentle adventures of a lovable lamb. Perfect for early readers, this heartwarming tale promotes kindness, friendship, and fun on the farm
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Library Classification
KSh 6,290.00Library classification forms part of the field of library and information science. It is a form of bibliographic classification. It goes hand in hand with library cataloging under the rubric of cataloging and classification, sometimes grouped to gather as technical services. Classification systems in libraries generally play two roles.
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Churchill-by Ashley Jackson
KSh 700.00In a much-acclaimed account, Jackson describes the contours and contradictions of a remarkable life and a career he describes as ‘Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny’.
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Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management, 5th Edition
KSh 19,700.00In the newly revised Fifth Edition of Health Care Information Systems, veteran healthcare information management experts and educators Karen A. Wager and Frances Wickham Lee, along with nationally-recognized leader in health information technology, John P. Glaser, deliver a one-stop resource for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to gain the knowledge and develop the skills they need to manage information and information systems technology in the new healthcare environment.
The latest edition sees its focus shift from the adoption of health care information systems and electronic health records to making effective use of health care data, information, and systems and optimizing their impact. New additions to this celebrated text include:
Explorations of how health care information systems and information technology can be used to support national quality initiatives, value-based payment, population health management, and precision health and quality reporting
Discussions of how issues like interoperability, electronic health record usability, and health IT safety are being (or not being) addressed
Treatments of the roles played by data governance and analytics in clinical decision making and healthcare operations.
Filled with case studies, supplemental resources, and engaging examinations of critical areas in health care information system use, management, implementation, and support, Health Care Information Systems is an ideal reference for students taking courses in business administration, public health, health administration, medicine, health informatics and health care management.
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Forensic Pathology Principles and Practice
KSh 60,000.00Forensic 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.