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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 12.4 MB
    Pages | 626
    Language | English
    Category | Clinical
    Description:  Modern medicine is highly complex and investigations are a key part of the diagnostic process. With major advances in technology there are thousands of clinical and laboratory tests available. This book provides a patient-oriented approach to investigation (first part of book) where key symptoms and signs are described along with tests that may be of value in reaching a diagnosis.

    The remainder of the book is specialty-centred and provides a comprehensive review of all available tests within a given subject. The book emphasises which tests are of value, when tests are not likely to be helpful, along with pitfalls in the interpretation of results.

    The aim is of the book is to provide a more rational method of investigation and prevent over-investigation which is expensive for the hospital and unpleasant for the patient. The contributors are all active clinicians who are engaged in medical practice, so appreciate the problems faced by junior doctors.
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    File Size | 2.71 MB
    Pages | 271
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  Great for course review and the USMLE Step 1, PreTest asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. You’ll find 500 clinical-vignette style questions and answers along with complete explanations of correct and incorrect answers.

    The content has been reviewed by students who recently passed their exams, so you know you are studying the most relevant and up-to-date material possible. No other study guide targets what you really need to know in order to pass like PreTest!
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    File Size | 11.4 MB
    Pages | 317
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria to ebola, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, etc. Excellent Board review. Extensive updates, including new chapter on hospital-acquired gram-negative bacteria.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 22.6 MB
    Pages | 330
    Language | English
    Category | Atheism
    Description:  Darwin’s Black Box helped to launch the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, with the movement stronger than ever, Michael J. Behe updates the book with an important new Afterword on the state of the debate.

    Naming Darwin’s Black Box to the National Review’s list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the twentieth century, George Gilder wrote that it “overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning.”

    Discussing the book in The New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, “he is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known.”

    From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin’s Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement—the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.
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    File Size | 13.8 MB
    Pages | 857
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  This book covers the potato world market as it expands further into the new millennium. Authors stress the overriding need for stable yields to eliminate human hunger and poverty, while considering solutions to enhance global production and distribution. It comprehensively describes genetics and genetic resources, plant growth and development, response to the environment, tuber quality, pests and diseases, biotechnology and crop management. Potato Biology is the most valuable reference available for all professionals involved in the potato industry, plant biologists and agronomists.

    · Offers an understanding of the social, economic and market factors that influence production and distribution
    · Discusses developments and useful traits in transgenic biology and genetic engineering
    · The first reference entirely devoted to understanding new advances in potato biology and biotechnology.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 5.48 MB
    Pages | 173
    Language | English
    Category | Genetics
    Description:  How are genetically modified plants produced? Which breeding goals are worthwhile, and which are not? Can the escape of transferred genes be controlled? Why have the first transgenic plants been released without full appreciation of the consequences? How dangerous are bacterial proteins produced in plant foods? Is anyone monitoring the unexpected effects of gene transfer? Will genetically modified plants ever be acceptable to organic growers? These are some of the important questions canvassed in this book, written with the insight of an experienced Australian plant scientist and conservationist.
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    File Size | 1.0 MB
    Pages | 44
    Language | English
    Category | Genetics
    Description:  The Primer on Molecular Genetics is an introduction to the science behind the human genome project and was prepared for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Human Genome Program Report for 1991-92 . This document contains information on the Biology of DNA, techniques for Sequencing and Mapping Genes, and Genome Informatics. Figures are included. It is currently under revision.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 19.3 MB
    Pages | 609
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  The Penguin Dictionary of Biology defines some 6,000 terms relating to this rich, complex, and constantly expanding subject?from amino acids, bacteria, and the cell cycle to X-ray diffraction, Ychromosomes, and zygotes. Long established as the definitive single-volume source, the dictionary has now been extensively updated for its eleventh edition.

    With expanded encyclopedic entries to explain the most crucial concepts, it explores the very latest discoveries and developments, containing more than 400 new entries to take account of the latest thinking on genetics, human physiology, disease, and cell biology. All key botanical and zoological concepts as well as the core vocabulary of biochemistry, immunology, evolutionary theory, and ecology are defined in depth, making this the ideal reference for students, teachers, professionals, and amateur biologists.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.47 MB
    Pages | 343
    Language | English
    Category | Biochemistry
    Description:  This second edition continues to innovatively review the toughest concepts in biochemistry for maximum comprehension in a short period of time. Unlike conventional texts or review books that stress memorizing facts, BASIC CONCEPTS stresses the mastering of fundamental concepts, so that the reader truly comprehends the material and feels comfortable applying it. Dr. Gilbert uses simple, jargon-free language and award-winning teaching techniques including algorithms, mnemonics and clinical examples.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 12.6 MB
    Pages | 701
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  The entries are in alphabetical order with many cross references. Though there are no bibliographies with the entries, there are 13 pages of book and journal-article citations and 10 pages of Web addresses in the "Sources Consulted" section. This is followed by an 18-page "Historical Chronology" of milestones in human scientific achievement, showing how ancient (circa 10,000 B.C.E.) ideas eventually led to germ theory and the burgeoning of microbiology and immunology through 2002.

    The extensive, detailed general index indicates the main entries' volume and page numbers in boldface type. Sometimes the same page information is repeated in regular type, an unnecessary redundancy. Using the index one can find that the Irish potato famine is mentioned in the entry on Fungal genetics along with other similarly embedded bits of information. One important, but missing, finding aid is an index to the biographies, as browsing biographies is often a way to interest students in a discipline.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 2.26 MB
    Pages | 209
    Language | English
    Category | Biology
    Description:  What does the future of science hold? Who is making the discoveries that will help shape this future? What areas of research show the greatest promise? Find definitive and insightful answers to such questions as these in the three volumes of Visions of the Future: Astronomy and Earth Science, Chemistry and Life Science, and Physics and Electronics. Representing a careful selection of authoritative articles published in a special issue of Philosophical Transactions--the world's longest-running scientific journal—

    the chapters explore such themes as:
    The Big Bang
    Humankind's exploration of the solar system
    The deep interior of the Earth
    Global warming and climate change
    Atoms and molecules in motion
    New materials and processes
    Nature's secrets of biological growth and form
    Understanding the human body and mind
    Quantum physics and its relationship to relativity theory and human consciousness
    Exotic quantum computing and data storage
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 5.62 MB
    Pages | 323
    Language | English
    Category | Genetics
    Description:  Univ. of California, San Diego. Starts with the most fundamental of premises in developmental biology: All cells contain the same genetic information. The author then progresses to ask, if this is so, why are all cells in the body not the same? The rest of the book answers this question. Illustrated in a variety of formats. Hardcover, softcover also available.
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    File Size | 2.90 MB
    Pages | 409
    Language | English
    Category | Clinical
    Description:  A comprehensive volume on clinical trials that covers all important disease and therapeutic areas together with methodologies, phase I/II/III studies and other issues.
    The volume catalogues the impact of clinical trials on the practice of medicine and discusses the developments and practice of medical statistics. Cancer, cardiovascular disease, dermatological, dental, mental, ophthalmic health, gynaecology and respiratory diseases are all discussed in separate chapters, with discussions on outcome measures, competing risks and statistical models given for each therapy area.

    It also presents:
    * A history of clinical trials
    * A summary of pertinent statistical issues
    * How to choose a clinical trial design
    * Ethical constraints and considerations
    * Clinical trial issues in paediatrics and those involving older patients
    * Clinical trials in complementary medicine
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 14.2 MB
    Pages | 486
    Language | English
    Category | Immunology
    Description:  Volume 79 of Advances in Virus Research focuses on developments surrounding rabies, an ancient disease that remains a prominent public health problem for humans. This volume highlights important research advances extending from our understanding of how the rabies virus replicates and assembles to how the disease can be prevented and treated in humans and how rabies can be controlled in wildlife hosts. Experts in the field provide insightful and up-to-date chapters that summarize our current state of knowledge in diverse aspects of this very interesting and important viral disease.

    * Contributions from leading authorities * Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 4.44 MB
    Pages | 278
    Language | English
    Category | Immunology
    Description:  Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

    In 2004, the Institute for Scientific Information released figures showing that the series has an Impact Factor of 2.576, with a half-life of 7.1 years, placing it 11th in the highly competitive category of Virology.
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