Molmenti presents students, instructors, and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive overview of kidney and pancreas transplantation. The text, written by a diverse group of authors, expert in their field, is organized in seventy-two chapters, organized in twenty two sections, and divided into three parts. The first part is focused on kidney transplantation and features sections devoted to recipient evaluation, pre- and post-transplant medical considerations, donor evaluation, and other related topics. The second part is focused on pancreas transplantations and features sections devoted to operative technique, complications, pathology, and radiology. The final section is devoted to islet cell transplantation. Ernesto Pompeo Molmenti is a practicing physician and surgeon, and a faculty member of the LIJ School of Medicine, New York. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Pubblicato nel 1923, 'Canguro' rimane ancora oggi il ritratto più veridico e inquietante dell'Australia offerto dalla letteratura. Lawrence dà corpo a una profonda intuizione: in quel mondo l'uomo è superfluo. Il volto dell'Australia, è quello che la Terra presentava prima dell'apparizione dell'uomo, ed è anche quello che la Terra tornerà ad assumere quando l'uomo sarà scomparso. Il protagonista del romanzo, Richard Somers, poeta e saggista in fuga dall'Europa in preda ai fascismi e all'intolleranza e in cerca di una nuova vita, incontra misteriosi personaggi che cercano di coinvolgerlo in una congiura politico-militare contro il governo. Studi recenti hanno rivelato che non si trattava di fantasie dell'autore ma di fatti realmente accaduti incompresi dall'opinione pubblica dell'epoca, e Kangaroo, il carismatico capo populista, era anch'egli realmente esistito. Come scrive Simon Leys - il critico recentemente scomparso che ha riscoperto 'Canguro' e lo ha imposto all'attenzione internazionale - 'Lawrence immagina la verità e per un lettore non australiano è chiaro che 'Canguro' è un inno lirico, una vibrante celebrazione degli australiani e della loro terra'.

Pubblicato nel 1923, 'Canguro' rimane ancora oggi il ritratto più veridico e inquietante dell'Australia offerto dalla letteratura. Lawrence dà corpo a una profonda intuizione: in quel mondo l'uomo è superfluo. Il volto dell'Australia, è quello che la Terra presentava prima dell'apparizione dell'uomo, ed è anche quello che la Terra tornerà ad assumere quando l'uomo sarà scomparso. Il protagonista del romanzo, Richard Somers, poeta e saggista in fuga dall'Europa in preda ai fascismi e all'intolleranza e in cerca di una nuova vita, incontra misteriosi personaggi che cercano di coinvolgerlo in una congiura politico-militare contro il governo. Studi recenti hanno rivelato che non si trattava di fantasie dell'autore ma di fatti realmente accaduti incompresi dall'opinione pubblica dell'epoca, e Kangaroo, il carismatico capo populista, era anch'egli realmente esistito. Come scrive Simon Leys - il critico recentemente scomparso che ha riscoperto 'Canguro' e lo ha imposto all'attenzione internazionale - 'Lawrence immagina la verità e per un lettore non australiano è chiaro che 'Canguro' è un inno lirico, una vibrante celebrazione degli australiani e della loro terra'.

Constance Chatterley is not content. Trapped in a humdrum marriage to an impotent man, she becomes drawn to the earthy gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. They embark on a sexually-charged affair that allows them a sense of enlightenment and physical fulfilment.

One of the most effective ways to improve health and quality of life lies not only in developing new medical approaches but in addressing the causes of harmful personal behaviors. These behaviors—which include tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, poor diet, and physical inactivity—are known risk factors that lead to disease, disability, and death worldwide.

Health Behavior Change in Populations is designed to teach intermediate and advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and practitioners the strategic principles and methods for creating positive behavioral change on a population level. With an emphasis on the application of theory and research to practice—and grounded in the ecological model of health behavior change—this core textbook presents current and future public health professionals with a variety of tools for helping people make healthful choices. It also teaches readers strategies for encouraging individuals to participate in community efforts that modify surroundings and circumstances to support actions conducive to health.

Written and edited by experts in the health professions, the book also addresses the magnitude of current public health challenges. In addition to identifying evidence-based interventions and best practices, the contributors offer guidance for reaching out to diverse communities, explain how social influences affect behavioral choice, and clarify support roles for key stakeholders, including insurers, employers, policymakers, community groups, clinicians, and health departments.

Real life clinical cases for the basic sciences and USMLE Step 1

You need exposure to clinical cases in order to pass course exams and ace the USMLE Step 1--and this book provides exactly that. It presents 53 real-life clinical cases that illustrate essential concepts in gross anatomy. Each case includes an easy-to-understand discussion correlated to key basic science concepts, definitions of key terms, anatomy pearls, and USMLE-style review questions. With this interactive system you'll learn instead of memorize.

Features:

• 53 clinical cases, each with USMLE-style questions
• Clinical pearls highlight key concepts
• Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like a doctor
• Proven learning system improves your shelf exam scores

'[The authors] have brought together a core group of national leaders to produce what I think is a paradigm-busting book that will help to transform education at the graduate level in medicine, nursing, and all related fields. The book speaks expertly about the high fidelity of simulation training, the need for synthetic models, the adult learning theory behind the debrief it is a manifesto about where we must go as an interprofessional team, caring for the patient of the future.'

From the Foreword, by David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dean, Jefferson School of Population Health
Philadelphia, PA

This groundbreaking book reflects the accomplishments of an internationally recognized leader of innovation regarding interprofessional clinical learning through simulation. Based on the North Shore-LIJ Health System corporate university experience, the book describes how this organization used simulation to successfully tackle the major interprofessional health issue of our time: patient safety. This health system created a transformative simulation center that involves nurses, doctors, and related health professionals whose work in clinical teams has resulted in measurable improvements in all aspects of clinical decision-making, critical thinking, teamwork, and communication skills-toward the ultimate goal of improved patient safety.

Key Features:

• Describes in detail a groundbreaking system of achieving patient safety that uses interprofessional clinical learning through simulation
• Detailed case studies using concrete methods and examples illustrate the application of theory to practice
• Presents simulations scalable to any size organization and for use by health care professionals in all specialties
• Includes theoretical foundations and practical applications for teaching and learning
• Focuses on interprofessional cooperation and learning

Over 40? Getting forgetful? Having trouble learning new things, or remembering that actress’s name without reaching for your smartphone? Neurobics are simple, unique brain exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime. Now, the Neurobics bestseller How to Keep Your Brain Alive is repackaged in a trim, tote-able format that makes it an ideal gift.

Based on leading neurobiological research, Keep Your Brain Alive introduces a regimen of mental cross-training—a series of deceptively simple exercises that help stimulate the production of natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn grow brain cells and keep the brain younger and stronger. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you’re right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get in the car and insert the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it’s like doing a round of mental sit-ups.

Introduces issues of pollution due to the dumping of garbage, chemicals, and other things into the seas.

In versione integrale, i più grandi classici della letteratura angloamericana in lingua originale. Le opere sono accuratamente commentate e riportano la biografia dei singoli autori.

Il 18 agosto del 1914 compare su 'The Guardian' un articolo a firma di Lawrence, un testo dedicato alla Grande guerra: 'una guerra di macchine e di artiglieria, in cui gli uomini non sono altro che carne per quelle macchine.' Da quel testo Lawrence prende spunto per la stesura del lungo racconto 'Inghilterra, mia Inghilterra'. Questa short story si apre con una descrizione di un'Inghilterra bucolica, per poi arrivare, attraverso un lento disfacimento, fino agli orrori della Prima guerra mondiale. La fine di un mondo e la tragedia di un uomo: distruzione e autodistruzione attraverso la cieca remissione del proprio destino nelle mani di un superiore.

L'amore adultero tra una nobildonna e il proprio guardia-caccia narrato in questo romanzo, il più celebre di D. H. Lawrence, scandalizzò a tal punto l'Inghilterra da essere immediatamente proibito in tutti i Paesi di lingua inglese. In realtà quest'opera difende appassionatamente le ragioni dell'amore, della passione più autentica e travolgente, della ricerca spregiudicata di un sentimento libero, genuino, intenso, di fronte a tutte le regole, i pregiudizi e le convenzioni che finiscono con l'incatenare ogni vero sentire. Giustamente i due personaggi di questo romanzo, diventato quasi mitico, Connie Chatterley e il guardiacaccia Mellors, si sono imposti, nell'immaginario contemporaneo, come modelli di una vitalità trasgessiva, intesa come ritorno alle energie pure della natura. Introduzione di Vanni De Simone.

C'e chi sostiene che basterebbero i suoi racconti, a rendere D.H. Lawrence uno dei maggiori scrittori del Novecento. Questi tre, originariamente pubblicati su rivista, descrivono le sfumature dell'amore associandolo ai fiori, che accompagnano simbolicamente il dispiegarsi delle vicende. Nel primo, che dà il titolo alla raccolta, i protagonisti sembrano quasi un primo abbozzo di Lady Chatterley e del guardacaccia suo amante; L'ombra nel giardino delle rose descrive il rimpianto per un amore passato che non tornerà; mentre Odore di crisantemi abbozza in una manciata di immagini tutta la tragedia della vita in miniera.

Il romanzo racconta le vicende di Connie, una giovane donna romantica e anticonformista, sposata con il ricco Clifford, un uomo freddo e molto diverso da lei. Quando il marito ritorna paralizzato dalla guerra, la distanza tra i due coniugi diventa incolmabile e Connie viene attratta dalla virilità e dalla sensualità del guardiacaccia Mellors. Tra i due nasce così una grande passione, che destò scandalo all'epoca della pubblicazione del volume, tanto che il libro venne messo al bando in tutta Europa per i suoi riferimenti espliciti e le descrizioni dettagliate. Ma L'amante di Lady Chatterley non è semplicemente un romanzo erotico: è molto di più. Lawrence presenta infatti ai lettori un nuovo possibile equilibrio nelle relazioni amorose tra uomo e donna e affronta temi importanti e delicati, quali il tramonto della nobiltà inglese e la presa di coscienza della cosiddetta working class, il femminismo, il divorzio, la sterilità, la malattia. E Connie è un personaggio rivoluzionario che, riconosciuti lo squallore e l'aridità della propria esistenza, si ribella alle convenzioni sociali e al potere maschile, rivendica la sua libertà e la sua emancipazione, alla ricerca di una vita migliore, maturando come donna e riuscendo a cambiare per sempre il suo destino.

The universal force known as Kundalini has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, yet it influences our every breath, thought, and emotion. With Awakening Kundalini, one of the West’s most respected teachers and researchers in the field explores this spiritual principle in unprecedented depth, with detailed guidance for discovering and working with it directly.

In India’s spiritual teachings, Kundalini is known as the principle within that compels us to evolve and grow. Traditions across the globe have described it as a force that lies dormant within us and, when awakened, connects us to the energy of creation and profoundly elevates consciousness.

With his unique expertise in modern psychology, neuroscience, meditation training, and spiritual traditions, Lawrence Edwards clarifies for readers the many dimensions of Kundalini awakening, including practices and meditations for recognizing its manifestations and preparing the body and mind to enter its expansive, empowering flow.

When experienced skillfully, Kundalini can be the most profoundly transformative experience of our lives. Awakening Kundalini makes available a complete and practical resource for tapping into this transformative force, and realizing our ability to live “radically free.”

Case Studies in Sexual Deviance is a comprehensive text that covers 14 different forms of sexual deviance, each contained within one chapter that functions as an exemplar to assist other clinicians with treating that problem. Each chapter covers topics such as assessment, case formulation, relevant research, denial and treatment engagement, adjunctive treatment/case management, forensic issues, relapse prevention, and priorities for future research. Written by international authorities, this book is useful both as a text and as a professional handbook.

“The most helpful book on childhood anxiety I have ever read.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Whether it’s the monster in the closet or the fear that arises from new social situations, school, or sports, anxiety can be especially challenging and maddening for children. And since anxiety has a mind of its own, logic and reassurance often fail, leaving parents increasingly frustrated about how to help. Now Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., the author of Playful Parenting, provides a special set of tools to handle childhood anxiety. Offering simple, effective strategies that build connection through fun, play, and empathy, Dr. Cohen helps parents

• start from a place of warmth, compassion, and understanding
• teach children the basics of the body’s “security system”: alert, alarm, assessment, and all clear.
• promote tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort by finding the balance between outright avoidance and “white-knuckling” through a fear
• find lighthearted ways to release tension in the moment, labeling stressful emotions on a child-friendly scale
• tackle their own anxieties so they can stay calm when a child is distressed
• bring children out of their anxious thoughts and into their bodies by using relaxation, breathing, writing, drawing, and playful roughhousing

With this insightful resource of easy-to-implement solutions and strategies, you and your child can experience the opposite of worry, anxiety, and fear and embrace connection, trust, and joy.

Advance praise for The Opposite of Worry

“If you want to understand your child’s anxiety—and your own parental worries—you must read Larry Cohen’s brilliant book, The Opposite of Worry. Dr. Cohen is one of the most imaginative and thoughtful psychologists you will ever encounter. He explains how and why children become anxious and then shows how we can use empathy and play to help them escape from the terrifying dark corners of childhood.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

“Here’s the help parents of anxious children have been looking for! Dr. Cohen’s genius is in the warm and generous spirit of the strategies he outlines for parents. He grounds his playful approach in a sound explanation of how anxiety affects children, and how they heal.”—Patty Wipfler, founder and program director, Hand in Hand Parenting

“This book will help you calm the storm of worrying that floods so many children and teens. Take these hard-earned lessons and make them your own. Peace and clarity in your family are just pages away!”—Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., co-author of The Whole-Brain Child

“The Opposite of Worry offers a treasure trove of ideas to help children feel confident and secure. Lawrence Cohen has written a book that will help every parent of an anxious child.”—Aletha Solter, Ph.D., founder, Aware Parenting, and author of Attachment Play

Burke (sports dietician), Desbrow (sports dietician, Griffith U., Australia), and Spriet (human health & nutritional science, U. Guelph, Canada) cover the history and usage of caffeine, one of the only confirmed performance-enhancing substances permitted for use in competitive athletics. Introductory chapters cover its history, physiology, dietary presence, and casual use. Its specific domains of effectiveness are then assessed, followed by warnings about adverse effects. The final section of the book focuses on practical technicalities, including the fraught history of caffeine regulation in competition, influence on recovery, and individual considerations including combination with special diets or other supplements. This light, accessible book would be attractive not only to sports players but to any caffeine user curious about the origin of its effects and potential for systematic beneficial use. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)