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  • HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
    ALAN GILLIES
    Healthcare Management takes a look at international perspectives in healthcare management and the way regional priorities, national income, and social factors are crucial to effective healthcare services. Readers are provided the skills to address issues and solve problems as a healthcare manager by understanding and appreciating the complex interrelationships of global health ...

    $1,060.00

  • CONFERENCE INTERPRETING
    ANDREW GILLIES
    Conference Interpreting: A Student’s Practice Book brings together a comprehensive compilation of tried and tested practical exercises which hone the sub-skills that make up successful conference interpreting. Unique in its exclusively practical focus, this book serves as a reference for students and teachers seeking to solve specific interpreting-related difficulties. By break...

    $1,100.00

  • CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON COOPERATIVE LEARNING
    GILLIES, ROBYN M.
    This volume captures contemporary global developments in cooperative learning (CL) across varied educational contexts, levels, and disciplines. Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students, from kindergarten to tertiary education and across different subject domains. With chapters from contributors t...

    $1,120.00

  • SINGING SOVIET STAGNATION: VOCAL CYCLES FROM THE USSR, 1964–1985
    RICHARD LOUIS GILLIES
    Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical- literary works of what has become known as the ‘Stagnation’ era (1964–1985). Richard Louis Gillies traces the cultural impact of this shift through the intersect...

    $1,160.00

  • FERTILITY AND CHROMOSOME PAIRING
    CHRISTOPHER BOB GILLIES
    This book discusses the nature of meiotic chromosome pairing effects which may play a role in the determination of fertility. In particular, data and illustrations from the application of recently developed electron microscopic spreading techniques will allow researchers in related fields to come to grips with the recent advances in the cytogenetics of meiotic chromosome pairin...

    $10,500.00

  • INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE EDUCATION
    ROBYN M. GILLIES
    Students often think of science as disconnected pieces of information rather than a narrative that challenges their thinking, requires them to develop evidence-based explanations for the phenomena under investigation, and communicate their ideas in discipline-specific language as to why certain solutions to a problem work. The author provides teachers in primary and junior seco...

    $580.00

  • PROVIDING INFORMATION FOR HEALTH
    ALAN GILLIES
    This stimulating and challenging work explores how to place consumers in charge to facilitate good patient care. It provides a coherent account of how customer/supply and demand/supply relationships work and identifies and describes the principles of good medical care and the approaches that can be taken to offer a credible and realistic agenda for change. This book is essentia...

    $1,340.00

  • CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING
    ANDREW GILLIES
    Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol and practical tips for working interpreters. Each chapter provides examples of t...

    $1,100.00

  • THE CLINICIAN'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING IT
    ALAN GILLIES
    The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years. This book explains to ordinary clinicians why they should be bothered with IT, and what their responsibilities are in making it work. This book provides an enlightening and reassuring...

    $740.00

  • THE ART OF PRESENTING
    ALAN GILLIES
    This informal, fun guide is ideal for anyone involved in public speaking; addressing a group of people in a wide range of situations including lecturing as part of your day job, presenting research findings to your academic peers, and presenting to potential future colleagues as part of an interview process. These situations are all different, and as with many things, context i...

    $740.00

  • EXCEL FOR CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
    ALAN GILLIES
    Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of undoubted and proven effectiveness...GPs are thoroughly convinced of the public health arguments in favour of immunization and regard it as an integral part of their clinical practice. This book is designed to help them plan provide develop and monitor a comprehensive immunisation service not only for their NHS patient...

    $860.00

  • THE AIDS PANDEMIC
    JAMES CHIN / ALAN GILLIES
    This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President, Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This groundbreaking new book blows apart the myths about who is at risk of getting AIDS and shows how these myths are driven by moral and political pressures. It provides an objective, logical, ...

    $960.00

  • COMPETENCY IN HEALTHCARE
    LES STOREY / JOHN HOWARD / ALAN GILLIES
    This book offers a practical approach to guide nurses in the art and science of renal care. It is holistic as well as technical therapeutic and compassionate in its approach. Acute and chronic renal failure renal osteodystrophy and other selected diseases are comprehensively discussed. The nurse's role with regard to specific treatments such as peritoneal dialysis haemodialy...

    $1,100.00

  • CAUSALITY, PROBABILITY, AND MEDICINE
    DONALD GILLIES
    Why is understanding causation so important in philosophy and the sciences? Should causation be defined in terms of probability? Whilst causation plays a major role in theories and concepts of medicine, little attempt has been made to connect causation and probability with medicine itself. Causality, Probability, and Medicine is one of the first books to apply philosophical rea...

    $1,160.00

  • BUILDING AN ELECTRONIC DISEASE REGISTER
    ALAN GILLIES / BEV ELLIS / NICK LOWE
    Widespread recognition of the benefits of minimally invasive procedures in surgery and medicine is resulting in the rapid development of new advances and new techniques in every speciality. This series of books sets out to meet the needs of those responsible for applying the techniques. This volume deals with the field of minimal access surgery. It covers the philosophy of the ...

    $820.00

  • INFORMATION AND IT FOR PRIMARY CARE
    ALAN GILLIES
    Information is a key resource to primary health care and is increasingly required in individual practices. This book will demystify the subject, which is often presented in complex terms. It sets out in a simple and interesting way what information those working in primary care will need, the systems required to deliver them and how to set them up. Information and IT for Primar...

    $960.00

  • WHAT MAKES A GOOD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?
    ALAN GILLIES
    What Makes a Good Health Care System? Examines the various assumptions that underpin the different views of what makes a good health care system. The national systems in the UK, Australia and Canada are thoroughly examined. ...

    $1,540.00

  • MAKING FAMILIES
    JANE RIBBENS MCCARTHY / ROSALIND EDWARDS / VAL GILLIES
    This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological rese...

    $1,260.00

  • NOTE-TAKING FOR CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING
    ANDREW GILLIES
    Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course is the essential step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking. The system, made up of a range of tried and tested techniques, is simple to learn, consistent and efficient. Each chapter presents a technique, with examples, tasks and exercises. This second edition has been extensively revised throughout, including: an upd...

    $1,040.00

  • ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW
    LORNA E. GILLIES
    Electronic Commerce and International Private Law examines the maximization of consumer protection via the consumer's jurisdiction and law. It discusses the proposition that a new connecting factor be used to improve the efficiency of juridical protection for consumers who contract with foreign sellers by electronic means and offers recommendations as to how to amend existing j...

    $1,560.00

  • ENHANCING CLASSROOM-BASED TALK
    ROBYN M. GILLIES
    Enhancing Classroom-based Talk provides an overview of the major research and theoretical perspectives that underpin the development of classroom-based talk. It outlines specific dialogic strategies and elaborates on the key role that teachers play in promoting interactions, challenging thinking and scaffolding the learning of students. While it is important to know how differe...

    $1,340.00

  • A GUIDE TO EC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
    DOROTHY GILLIES
    EC law is now a pervasive part of the legislation affecting business, government agencies, the voluntary sector and the individual citizen across the whole of the European Union. This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide provides a simple and practical explanation of the most important aspects of EC environmental law. In straightforward terms it introduces the EC and its...

    $1,260.00

  • EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MICHEL FOUCAULT
    DONALD GILLIES
    Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today‘s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault‘s understanding of critique is as apermanent ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits imposed upon them, and probe opportunities for increasi ...

    $1,540.00

  • THE GROWTH OF GLOBAL BUSINESS (RLE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
    COX, HOWARD / CLEGG, JEREMY L / IETTO-GILLIES, GRAZIA
    In this book leading contributors look at the development of the evolutionary approach to international business, the internationalization of service industries and the implications of the changing face of Europe for international business in the 1990s. Providing an excellent blend of theory, analysis and case-study material, this volume is a vital resource for students of inte...

    $1,320.00

  • FREGE, DEDEKIND, AND PEANO ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARITHMETIC (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DONALD GILLIES
    First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in whi...

    $1,560.00

  • PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF PROBABILITY
    DONALD GILLIES
    The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research. This has stimulated many new philosophical ideas on probability. Philosophical Theories of Probability is the first book to present a clear, comprehensive and systematic account of these various theories and to explain how they relate to one another. Gillies...

    $1,240.00

  • AN OBJECTIVE THEORY OF PROBABILITY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DONALD GILLIES
    This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or electrodynamics, and probability as an objective, measurable concept like force, mass or cha...

    $1,560.00

  • MARGINALISED MOTHERS
    VAL GILLIES
    Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children. Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insigh...

    $860.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
    GRAZIA IETTO-GILLIES
    Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in international production worldwide, accompanied by considerable changes in its geographical structure. This volume examines the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the geography of international production, covering both theoretical and empirical aspects, and drawing conclusions for future policy-making.This work will be es...

    $1,320.00

  • NMR IN PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
    GILLIES, ROBERT J.
    This book provides a comprehensive review of modern nuclear magnetic resonance approaches to biomedical problems in vivo using state-of-the-art techniques. It devotes equal attention to the methods and applications of NMR and addresses the potential of each of the techniques discussed. The volume includes late-breaking areas such as functional imaging, flow imaging, bioreactor ...

    $928.00


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