Authors:Stephen B Hulley, Steven R Cummings, Warren S Brow
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: approach, epidemiologic, research, clinical, designing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0781782104
ISBN-13: 9780781782104

Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, qu

Author: Annie Hulley
Publisher: How to Book
Keywords: successful, retirement, manage, need, kids, inheritance, spend
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845281101
ISBN-13: 9781845281106

The great thing about retirement options today is there are many new and exciting opportunities to choose from. Did you know, for example, that nearly as many ’oldies’ are taking gap years as students? And, retirement villages and retirement apartments are now becoming the way of the future. They offer independence, security and 24 hour help, along with many other facilities for older people to enjoy. These developments embrace the concept that growing older doesn’t mean compromising on your lifestyle. As with any important decision, retirement choices have to be all about re

Authors:W. Shepherd, L. N. Hulley, D. T. W. Liang,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: control, motor, electronics, power
Number of Pages: 564
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521478138
ISBN-13: 9780521478137

In recent years, great changes have taken place in the types of semiconductor devices used as power switches. This clear and concise advanced textbook is a comprehensive introduction to power electronics. It considers analog electronics, electric motor control and adjustable speed electrical drives, both a.c. and d.c. In this second edition, the authors have added a completely new chapter dealing with the application of PWM techniques in induction motor speed control. They have also entirely rewritten the chapters dealing with electronic switching devices and adjustable speed drives to ensure

Authors:Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: present, worlds, second, mongol, empire, vol, beginnings, together, apart, history, world, humankind
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-03-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393925498
ISBN-13: 9780393925494

True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book’s non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From the history of the world’s first cities built on the great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, to the rise of nat

Authors:Stephen Graham Jones, Forrest Ackerman, Stephen Jone
Publisher: Billboard Books
Keywords: features, film, video, creature, century, monster, movie, guide, essential
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0823079368
ISBN-13: 9780823079360

More than 3,500 reviews of the best and the worst creature features of all time fill this largest, most comprehensive volume ever published on the subject-a record of dark fantasy on film to thrill horror and science-fiction fans of all ages. Classics range from Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolfman films of the 1930s and 1940s to later cheesy horror movies exported from Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines, plus selected episodes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, and The X-Files. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, each review includes cast and background information and remake

Authors:Milton Babbitt, Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andre
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: babbitt, milton, essays, collected
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691089663
ISBN-13: 9780691089669

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt’s writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music. These writings range from personal memoirs and critical reviews to closely reasoned metatheoretical speculations and technical exegesis. In the history of music theory, there has been only a small handful of figures who have produced work of comparable stature. Taken as a whole, Babbitt’s

Authors:Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coats
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studie
Keywords: american, center, rockefeller, series, david, latin, studies, revised, story, fruit, coup, guatemala, bitter, expanded
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 067401930X
ISBN-13: 9780674019300

Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.