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  • PULMONARY VASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
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    PULMONARY VASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
    E. KENNETH WEIR
    Considering various aspects of pulmonary vascular control and the pulmonary vasculature's response to injury and disease, this monograph applies recent advances in molecular biology to increasing our understanding of cell proliferation, interactions between the endothelium and smooth muscle, and the etiologies of various forms of pulmonary hypertension. In addition, this book p...

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  • PERFORMANCE, MASCULINITY, AND SELF-INJURY
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    PERFORMANCE, MASCULINITY, AND SELF-INJURY
    LUCY WEIR
    This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology t...

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  • THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM AND METAPHYSICS
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    THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM AND METAPHYSICS
    RALPH STEFAN WEIR
    This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. In the first half of the book, the author clarifies w...

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  • POLICING DOMESTIC ABUSE
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    POLICING DOMESTIC ABUSE
    KATY BARROW-GRINT / JACQUELINE SEBIRE / JACKIE TURTON / RUTH WEIR
    This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse. Its objective is to help inform those working in policing about the dynamics of how domestic abuse occurs, how best to respond to and investigate it, and in the longer term how to prevent it. Divided into thematic areas, the book uses recent research findings to update some of the theoretical an...

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  • LAW AND ETHICS IN COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
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    LAW AND ETHICS IN COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
    MICHAEL WEIR
    Comprehensive, practical and reflective of the current Australian and New Zealand legislative framework and regulations, this unique textbook addresses legal and ethical issues across a broad range of traditional and complementary practices. The sixth edition of Michael Weir’s classic textbook: • explores legal and ethical issues in clinical relationships, and the role of codes...

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  • THE BHOPAL SYNDROME
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    THE BHOPAL SYNDROME
    DAVID WEIR
    First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world’s worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government, prioritizing of commercial benefits over human lives, inadequate post-disaster rehabilitation and compensation, and frightening l...

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  • RISK MANAGEMENT
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    RISK MANAGEMENT
    GERALD MARS / DAVID T. H. WEIR
    First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field ...

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  • KEEPING THE CENTRAL BANK CENTRAL
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    KEEPING THE CENTRAL BANK CENTRAL
    WEIR B BROWN
    In the period just before and after the founding of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, bankers, economists, and legislators were intensely absorbed in discussing how to assure a proper functional relationship between the future central bank and the commercial banking system. During the sixty-odd years that followed, many changes have occurred to affect one side or the other of...

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  • RISK MANAGEMENT
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    RISK MANAGEMENT
    GERALD MARS / DAVID T. H. WEIR
    First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field ...

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  • INTERPRETING VISUAL ART
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    INTERPRETING VISUAL ART
    CATHERINE WEIR / EVANS MANDES
    Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors in order for people to "see" the art. Cognitive processes have a major role in ho...

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  • PHYSICAL FITNESS LABORATORIES ON A BUDGET
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    PHYSICAL FITNESS LABORATORIES ON A BUDGET
    TERRY J. HOUSH / JOEL T. CRAMER / JOSEPH P. WEIR / TRAVIS W. BECK / GLEN O. JOHNSON
    This lab manual is designed to benefit those colleges and universities that offer courses with lab components in physical fitness, exercise physiology, and healthy lifestyles but do not have the facilities and/or budget to allow students to train in high-tech laboratory settings. This long-overdue book-essential for sports and exercise science departments on a budget-provides m...

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  • LABORATORY MANUAL FOR EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, EXERCISE TESTING, AND PHYSICAL FITNESS
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    LABORATORY MANUAL FOR EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, EXERCISE TESTING, AND PHYSICAL FITNESS
    TERRY HOUSH / JOEL T. CRAMER / JOSEPH P. WEIR / GLEN O. JOHNSON
    Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology, Exercise Testing, and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences--whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment, or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials. It will be a useful resource as they prepare for a caree...

    $1,900.00

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  • FROM JICAMA TO JACKFRUIT
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    FROM JICAMA TO JACKFRUIT
    KIMBERLY A. WEIR
    What did you have for breakfast? Did you ever stop to think about the people and steps involved with how your banana or cereal got on your plate? Nearly everyone is a part of the global food system, yet few people are aware of how it operates. Kimberly A. Weir starts by evaluating how we are connected with spice farmers, cocoa bean growers, soybean producers, tomato pickers, an...

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  • SACRIFICIAL LOGICS
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    SACRIFICIAL LOGICS
    ALLISON WEIR
    Allison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy Chodorow, who equate self-identity with the repression of connection to others, ...

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  • READING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
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    READING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
    A.H. URQUHART / CYRIL J. WEIR
    Reading in a Second Language sets the testing and teaching of reading against a theoretical background, discussing research from both applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. Where possible, it focuses on research into second language readers and distinguishes different kinds of reading, particularly expeditious as opposed to careful reading, and emphasizes the validity of...

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  • IMAGES OF ART THERAPY
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    IMAGES OF ART THERAPY
    TESSA DALLEY / CAROLINE CASE / JOY SCHAVERIEN / FELICITY WEIR / DIANA HALLIDAY / PATSY NOWELL HALL / DIANE
    Working through the process of image-making in a therapeutic relationship, the art therapist is able to explore feelings, fantasies, and myths in different setting with diverse client groups. Originally published in 1987 Images of Art Therapy is a collection of essays by experienced art therapists which discuss and develop both theoretical and practical issues central to art th...

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  • CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
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    CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
    DICKON WEIR-HUGHES
    The definitive guide to clinical leadership, by Dickon Weir-Hughes, the Chief Executive of the NMC. Dickon takes a unique slant on the teaching of Leadership and Management through an A-Z format, making this subject very accessible. The book provides a helpful and practical summary of the key leadership principles within healthcare. Dickon has drawn on his personal experience o...

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  • REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE
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    REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE
    DAVID KOTZ / FRED WEIR
    Controversially this book argues that the ruling party-state elite in the USSR itself moved to dismantle the old system. Topics discussed include:* the beginnings of economic decline in 1975* Gorbachev's efforts to democratize and decentralize* the complex political battle through which the coalition favouring capitalism took power* the flaws in economic policies intended to ra...

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  • IMAGES OF LUST
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    IMAGES OF LUST
    JAMES JERMAN / ANTHONY WEIR
    Sexually explicit sculptures may be found on a number of medieval churches in France and Spain. This fascinating study examines the origins and purposes of these sculptures, viewing them not as magical fertility symbols, nor even as idols of ancient pre-Christian religions, but as serious works that dealt with the sexual customs and salvation of medieval folk, and thus gave sup...

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  • MANAGING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
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    MANAGING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
    RYAN O. WEIR
    Electronic resource management encompasses much more than turning on and off resources and tracking usage. This guide provides advice on the tools and best practices to help you tackle heavy workloads while saving time, effort, and money. Chapters include:Coping with Economic IssuesAcquiring Electronic ResourcesNegotiating Resource LicensingReconciling with Payment SystemsMakin...

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  • GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH VIGILANCE
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    GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH VIGILANCE
    LORNA WEIR / ERIC MYKHALOVSKIY
    Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of international disease control, was displaced by "international ...

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  • THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII
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    THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII
    ALISON WEIR
    A "brilliantly written and meticulously researched" biography of royal family life during England's second Tudor monarch ( San Francisco Chronicle).   Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England from 1509 to 1547. But in this "exquisite tr...

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  • RUSSIA'S PATH FROM GORBACHEV TO PUTIN
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    RUSSIA'S PATH FROM GORBACHEV TO PUTIN
    DAVID KOTZ / FRED WEIR
    Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point. Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and democracy. The pursuit of Western-endorsed poli...

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  • PREGNANCY, RISK AND BIOPOLITICS
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    PREGNANCY, RISK AND BIOPOLITICS
    LORNA WEIR
    Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with ...

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  • THE THREE PILLARS OF LIBERTY
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    THE THREE PILLARS OF LIBERTY
    FRANCESCA KLUG / KEIR STARMER / STUART WEIR
    In this landmark study, a thorough audit of British compliance with international human rights standards is carried out. The book identifies 42 violations and 22 near-violationsor causes for concern. It provides an up-to-date description of law and practice withrespect to freedom of information; freedom of expression; freedom of assembly and publicprotest; freedom of associatio...

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  • POLITICAL POWER AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL IN BRITAIN
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    POLITICAL POWER AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL IN BRITAIN
    DAVID BEETHAM / STUART WEIR
    Democratic Institutions and Practices is the second study carried out under the Democratic Audit of the UK. This volume explores the formal institutions and processes of the liberal democratic state: including the executive, elections, parliament and the civil service. ...

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  • THE GOOD WORK OF NON-CHRISTIANS, EMPOWERMENT, AND THE NEW CREATION
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    THE GOOD WORK OF NON-CHRISTIANS, EMPOWERMENT, AND THE NEW CREATION
    STUART C. WEIR
    Have you ever considered the ultimate purposes and consequences of good work performed by non-Christians? Have you ever theologically considered the work of non-Christians at all? Is it possible that God would ever give credence to, let alone honor the work of, non-Christians in an ultimate sense? Are you frustrated by theologies of work that are entirely protological in orient...

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  • PHYSIOLOGY
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    PHYSIOLOGY
    ZUCKERMAN, SOLOMON / WEIR, BARBARA J.
    Physiology ...

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  • PRIMER ON CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
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    PRIMER ON CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
    CAPLAN, LOUIS R. / REIS, DONALD J. / SIESJO, BO K. / WEIR, BRUCE / WELCH, K. MICHAEL
    Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases is a handy reference source for scientists, students, and physicians needing reliable, up-to-date information on basic mechanisms, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical issues related to brain vasculature. The book consists of short, specific chapters written by international experts on cerebral vasculature, and presents the information in ...

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  • CEREBRAL VASOSPASM
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    CEREBRAL VASOSPASM
    MACDONALD, R. LOCH / WEIR, BRUCE
    Bryce Weir is a high-profile, respected neurologist. Dr. Macdonald is a colleague of Dr. Weir's and is a "rising star" in the field of neurology.This book is the first to cover all aspects of cerebral vasospasm in depth. It takes the reader from the first descriptions of this puzzling and deadly phenomenon to the latest laboratory evidence explaining its pathophysiology. Packed...

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