Authors:Carl Heneghan, Douglas Badenoch,
Publisher: BMJ Book
Keywords: medicine, based, evidence, toolkit
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0727918419
ISBN-13: 9780727918413

This bestselling pocket guide to the skills of evidence-based medicine succeeds in demystifying the terminology and processes in a handy and easy-to-follow format, all within the space of 100 pages. With an improved layout, this second edition of Evidence-based Medicine Toolkit offers more up-to-date guidance as well as new sections on important areas of research. New features of this second edition include:A box for each major database showing how to search the evidence, and highlighting the differences between them Flow charts for different study types New critical appraisal sections on qual

Authors:Rafael Perera, Carl Heneghan, Douglas Badenoch,
Publisher: BMJ Book
Keywords: toolkit, series, ebm, ebmt, statistics
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1405161426
ISBN-13: 9781405161428

This concise book will help you to interpret the statistical evidence provided by quantitative studies and to plan how to work with data in your own clinical research. Following the successful format of the Toolkit series, Statistics Toolkit guides the reader through statistical concepts using flowcharts, diagrams and real life examples to reflect concepts in a simple and practical manner.Sections include: Clear explanation of basic concepts in the context of clinical research Demonstration of how data are described, displayed and interpreted in different formats Practical glossary and key to

Author: Andrea Badenoch
Publisher: Pan Books
Keywords: blink
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-06-07
List price: $12.40
ISBN-10: 0330392832
ISBN-13: 9780330392839

It is 1962 and in a pit village of County Durham, Gloria, the local hair stylist, is found dead. Refusing to accept the suicide explanation embraced by the village, Gloria’s young niece keeps her eyes open and tries to work out what has happened.

Authors:David M. Wells, J. Douglas Faires,  J.Douglas
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: problem, books, maa, book, contest
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0883858266
ISBN-13: 9780883858264

This is the ninth book of problems and solutions from the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) contests. It chronicles 325 problems from the thirteen AMC 12 contests given in the years between 2001 and 2007. The authors were the joint directors of the AMC 12 and the AMC 10 competitions during that period. The problems have all been edited to ensure that they conform to the current style of the AMC 12 competitions. Graphs and figures have been redrawn to make them more consistent in form and style, and the solutions to the problems have been both edited and supplemented. A problem index at t

Authors:Douglas,  Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas, J
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: health, management, information, improvement, performance
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387984526
ISBN-13: 9780387984520

Performance Improvement through Information Management highlights performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, focusing on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the text describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current co

Authors:Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, M
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, world, reference, humankind, environment, encyclopedia, geography, companion
Number of Pages: 1056
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0415277507
ISBN-13: 9780415277501

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also looks towards the future. The forty-five self contained chapters are bound into a unifying whole by the editors’ general and section introductions and each chapter provides details of the most useful sources of further reading and research. Now available in paperback, this work is an invaluable res

Authors:Douglas L. Medin, Norbert O. Ross, Douglas G. Cox,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publicatio
Keywords: matter, meanings, conflict, resource, culture
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0871545705
ISBN-13: 9780871545701

In a multi-cultural society, differing worldviews among groups can lead to conflict over competing values and behaviors. Nowhere is this tension more concrete than in the wilderness, where people of different cultures hunt and fish for the same animals. White Americans tend to see nature as something external which they have some responsibility to care for. In contrast, Native Americans are more likely to see themselves as one with nature. In Culture and Resource Conflict, authors Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, and Douglas Cox investigate the discord between whites and Menominee American Indians