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Pocket Manual of General Thoracic Surgery
This pocket manual is a quick-reference handbook for general thoracic surgery. It is organized into 9 chapters providing a concise, yet inclusive list of the most common pathologies seen in thoracic surgery: pre-operative evaluation, peri-operative care, lungs and airways (divided into 3 separate sections to cover the vast number of topics), pleural disorders, mediastinal disorders, chest wa…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17497-6
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- XII, 262
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- 611.94 MAD p
Inflammatory Arthritis in Clinical Practice
Understanding the key components of the diagnosis, assessment and management of inflammatory arthritis patients is essential to improving patient care. This book aims to cover these areas. It places inflammatory arthritis into a historical context; deals with the epidemiology, pathology, clinical assessment and investigation of inflammatory arthritis patients and provides a comprehensive overvi…
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- 978-1-4471-6647-4
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- XVIII, 214
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- 610 SCO i
Personal Agency and Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching ad…
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- 9789522228826
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- 948.5
Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo…
This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chomei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura periods, Pandey focuses on the terms kyogen kigo (wild words and fancy phrases), shoji soku nehan (samsara is nirvana), hoben (expedient means), and suki (single-minded devoti…
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- 9780472901890
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- 909.81 PAN w
Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, becaus…
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- 9780472902118
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- 909.81 URY t
Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China
This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars (1842 to 43), and a central feature of the Treaty Port system. The British-dominated service was headed by the famous Robert Hart who founded a far-reaching customs administration that also encompassed other responsibilitie…
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- 9780203315125
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- 951 BRU b
Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain
Neurosciences, Neurology, Psychiatry
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- 9783319288024
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A Difficult Neighbourhood Essays on Russia and East-CentralEurope since Worl…
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow’s relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes some backward glances at the violent suppression of national life in the ‘bloodlan…
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- 9781760460617
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Ukraine's Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited
Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the pres…
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- 9783839466643
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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and …
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- 9783031141096
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