Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: science, imperfect, notes, surgeon, complications
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312421702
ISBN-13: 9780312421700

Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande’s Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande’s tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for impro

Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Keywords: right, things, manifesto, checklist
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-12-22
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0805091742
ISBN-13: 9780805091748

The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklistWe live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggli

Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: performance, notes, surgeon
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427654
ISBN-13: 9780312427658

National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision. Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-w

Author: Atul Sharma
Publisher: Global Vision Publishing House
Keywords: behaviour, consumer
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8182201861
ISBN-13: 9788182201866

Author: Atul Uchil PhD
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Keywords: consultative, sales, art, fine, selling, relationship
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2007-09-20
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1432715003
ISBN-13: 9781432715007

Secrets To Success Unveiled Within!Everyone has heard the following: People like to buy - People hate being sold or being forced to buy - People buy from people that they like and trust.Therefore, it stands to reason that if you are the person your clients trust they will buy from you without you having to sell them anything. How then do you become the trusted advisor to your clients? How do you establish and maintain long-term relationships? This book reveals the best kept secrets of successful relationship selling and is a must-read for every consultant and sales professional.Although, if yo

Author: Atul Apte
Publisher: Sams
Keywords: enterprise, adaptors, building, architecture, connector, java
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-05-23
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0672323109
ISBN-13: 9780672323102

Java Connector Architecture (JCA) presents the JCA and identifies the scope in which a JCA-based adapter operates. The book quickly moves to the design methodologies employed in adapter using the JCA. The book then progresses to information about testing and deploying adapters in a production environment. Java Connector Architecture defines a development methodology and suggests analysis and design patterns, which are useful both for building connectors to legacy applications and for designing adapters for new applications.

Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: industrialization, global, periphery, power, political, directed, development, state
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 0521545250
ISBN-13: 9780521545259

The study undertakes a comparative analysis of the state as an economic actor in developing countries. Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and patterns of state intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century.The states in these countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (main