Authors:Wendy Adams, Jonathan Bull, Jonathan Epstein, Anant K
Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media
Keywords: training, surgeons, tutorials, viva
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-10-11
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 1841102156
ISBN-13: 9781841102153

This book is designed specifically for candidates preparing for the MRCS Viva examination. The format of the exam has been used in the book’s structure, with over 1000 questions to illustrate the key points of over 200 topics. The book has been divided into 6 main chapters corresponding to a viva ’station’ in the exam. Each chapter begins with a check-list of the main topics and themes covered by the exam, and information is then subdivided logically within the chapter itself. Key ’pass-or-fail’ concepts are covered, and in some cases, topics are covered in more d

Authors:Jonathan Cross, Jonathan Harvey, Helmut Lachenman,
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Keywords: collected, writings, orpheus, institute, time, language, difference, essays, music, identity
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 9058674134
ISBN-13: 9789058674135

This volume is a collection of essays based on lectures given at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent at various occasions over the last 4 years. Two of the five authors are British, two are Germans; two are prominent composers, both keen and provocative writers about music; one is a musicologist and daring critic who specializes in contemporary music; two are philosophers and Adorno specialists dealing with such fundamental and highly complex matters as music and language, and music and time. Contents include: Writing About Living Composers: Questions, Problems, Contexts; The Genesis of Quartet

Authors:Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Jonathan Brost
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Keywords: food, identification, treatment, guide, complete, allergies, intolerance
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0892818751
ISBN-13: 9780892818754

* A leading international authority on food allergy and intolerance provides invaluable advice for achieving dramatic and long-lasting improvements in your health. * Explains how sensitivity to foods is responsible for many chronic and misdiagnosed ailments such as migraines, sinus problems, and persistent fatigue. * Includes a step-by-step process for identifying food allergies and intolerances and reshaping your diet for better health. Many people suffer from chronic, unexplained health problems--migraine headaches, poor digestion, recurring sinus symptoms, aching muscles and joints, pe

Authors:Jonathan Brown, John Elliott, Professor Jonathan Bro
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: spain, britain, relations, artistic, century, sale
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300097611
ISBN-13: 9780300097610

In 1649, following his defeat in the civil war, Charles I was executed, and his personal effects, including his great collection of works of art, were put up for sale. Over the next four years, masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Mantegna, Veronese, and other famous artists were covertly acquired by the Spanish ambassador in London. He shipped them to Madrid, where they were divided between the collections of Philip IV and his principal minister, Luis de Haro. In this book distinguished historians and art historians trace the political and artistic relationship of Britain and Spain in the first h

Authors:Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Jonathan Brost
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Keywords: therapies, integrative, guide, complete, asthma
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2000-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0892819324
ISBN-13: 9780892819324

A comprehensive program to help asthma sufferers identify their triggers, make changes in their environment, diet, and lifestyle, and reduce their dependence on drugs. * Evaluates the full range of therapies, including acupuncture, herbalism, massage, yoga, and breathing exercises, as well as standard pharmaceuticals. * By the authors of the bestselling Food Allergies and Food Intolerance. * Provides special advice for parents with asthmatic children. Almost everyone with asthma could be feeling better and using fewer drugs; this book shows you how. Internationally recognized authoritie

Authors:J. Allan Hobson, Jonathan Leonard, Jonathan A. Leona
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: reform, crisis, psychiatry, mind
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738206857
ISBN-13: 9780738206851

A terrifying picture of the collapse of American psychiatry and the toll it has taken on the mentally ill."- BusinessWeek. While millions of patients with severe mental illnesses are neglected, those charged with caring for them are engaged in a troubling debate: Who should treat these patients-and how? On one side are psychoanalysts, on the other are pill-pushing psychiatrists. And on the fringe are neuroscientists, who are learning volumes about the brain but whose discoveries have largely been ignored. Truly, psychiatry is in crisis. In this important book, Harvard psychiatrist J. All

Authors:Anna B. Romanowska, Jonathan D. H. Smith, Jonathan
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: modes
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 981024942X
ISBN-13: 9789810249427

An introduction to the theory and application of modes-structures that capture the common underlying algebra of convex sets, affine spaces and certain ordered sets. For researchers and graduate students in algebra, discrete mathematics and information theory.