Friday, April 29, 2011

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Foot and Ankle 4 (Orthopedic Knowledge Update)

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Developed by the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society and published by AAOS, this volume takes a new, focused look at proven and promising new treatments and approaches for complex structures of the foot and ankle. Ideal for general orthopaedists specializing in foot and ankle, sports medicine or lower extremity, as well as residents in training, this resource offers the most current knowledge on foot and ankle injuries and conditions from the past five years. This new edition discusses the most modern and controversial surgical techniques on total ankle replacement, and offers expanded coverage on ankle arthritis, fractures, and non-operative treatment options. This information is presented in a well-written, concise, and well-organized format that serves as a timesaving reference.


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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Therapeutic Measurement and Testing: The Basics of ROM, MMT, Posture and Gait Analysis

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This exiting new worktext is designed specifically to accompany kinesiology and assessment courses in the PTA and OTA curricula. Organized by joint, muscle, or body part, this worktext incorporates all the basic assessment techniques for range of motion (ROM), manual muscle testing (MMT), posture, and gait into one easy-to-use resource. Use this worktext in your coursework and as a reference in the lab in order to maximize your learning experience!


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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Future of the Capitalist State

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In this important new book, Bob Jessop offers a radical new interpretation of capitalist states and their likely future development. He focuses on the changing forms, functions, scales and effectiveness of economic and social policy that have emerged since the 1950s in advanced western capitalist states.


The postwar Keynesian welfare national state that developed in most advanced capitalist societies has long been regarded as being in crisis. Mounting tensions have been generated by technological change, globalization, and economic and political crises, and new social and political movements have also had a destabilizing impact. Jessop examines these factors in relation to the rise, consolidation and crisis of Atlantic Fordism and asks whether a new type of capitalist state that is currently emerging offers a solution. He notes that there are several difficulties still to be overcome before the new type of state is consolidated; in particular, he is critical of its neoliberal form and considers its main alternatives.


This book will have broad cross-disciplinary appeal. It will be read by sociologists, political scientists, institutional economists, geographers and students of social policy.


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Monday, April 25, 2011

Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory

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The advances made possible by the development of molecular techniques have in recent years revolutionized quantitative genetics and its relevance for population genetics. Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory takes a modern approach to population genetics, incorporating modern molecular biology, species-level evolutionary biology, and a thorough acknowledgment of quantitative genetics as the theoretical basis for population genetics.

  • Logically organized into three main sections on population structure and history, genotype-phenotype interactions, and selection/adaptation
  • Extensive use of real examples to illustrate concepts
  • Written in a clear and accessible manner and devoid of complex mathematical equations
  • Includes the author's introduction to background material as well as a conclusion for a handy overview of the field and its modern applications
  • Each chapter ends with a set of review questions and answers
  • Offers helpful general references and Internet links


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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies (Theory and History of Literature)

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Modernism and Hegemony was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

In Modernism and Hegemony, Neil Larsen exposes the underlying political narratives of modernist aesthetic theory and practice. Unlike earlier Marxist critics, Larsen insists that modernist ideology be approached as a "displaced politics" and not simply as an aesthetic phenomenon. In this view, modernism is broadly ideological project comprising not only the literary-artist canon but also a wide array of theoretical discourses from aesthetics to philosophy, culture, and politics. Larsen gives postmodernism some credit for the apparent breakup of modernism, and for exposing the philosophical and political nature of its aesthetic stance. But he parts company with its ideological and epistemological notions, proposing to change the terms, and thus the framework, of the debate.

For Larsen, modernism is intimately linked to a crisis of representation that affected all aspects of life in the late nineteenth century - a period when capitalism itself was undergoing transformation from its "classical" free market phase into a more abstract, monopolistic and imperialistic stage. Larsen finds the resultant loosening of ties between individuals and society - the breakdown of social and historical agency - behind the growth of modernism. He employs speculative cross-readings of key texts by Marx and Adorno, an examination of Manet's "The Execution of Maximilian," and an analysis of modernism in a Third World setting to explain why modernism made special claims upon the aesthetic, and how it ultimately ascribed historical agency to "works of art."


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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Western Culture in Gospel Context: Towards the Conversion of the West: Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality

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Friday, April 22, 2011

The Earth's Magnetic Interior (IAGA Special Sopron Book Series)

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This volume combines review and solicited contributions, related to scientific studies of Division I of IAGA presented at its Scientific Assembly in Sopron in 2009. The book is aimed at intermediate to advanced readers dealing with the Earth’s magnetic field generation, its historical records in rocks and geological formations - including links to geodynamics and magnetic dating, with magnetic carriers in earth materials, electromagnetic induction and conductivity studies of the Earth interior with environmental applications of rock magnetism and electromagnetism. The aim of the book is to provide an overview of recent advances and future challenges in these particular fields of research.


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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Obstetrics for Anaesthetists

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Anesthetists are a crucial part of the multi-disciplinary team helping mothers have safe, successful pregnancies and deliveries. Obstetrics for Anaesthetists is a practical manual designed to give clinicians a clear knowledge of obstetrics and its implications for their anesthetic practice. Edited by an obstetric anesthetist and an expert obstetrician, this volume provides readers with relevant information on the procedures, terminology, and conditions unique to obstetrics. Algorithms for the management of obstetric emergencies are included, as well as text boxes highlighting the implications of conditions related to pregnancy and co-existing medical diseases. This book is an invaluable practical guide to all aspects of obstetrics relevant to anesthetic practice.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Practical Approach to Electromyography: An Illustrated Guide for Clinicians

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Practical Approach to Electromyography is a pictorial guide to performing and interpreting EMG studies. This step-by-step manual contains tips for working up clinical problems typically encountered in the EMG laboratory and highlights technical aspects and potential pitfalls of sensory and motor nerve conduction studies. Hundreds of photographs and drawings illustrate proper placements of recording and stimulation electrodes and insertion of needle electrodes into the various muscles. The authors also provide sets of normal values and instruction on how to write and interprete an EMG report. Practical Approach to Electromyography is a practical visual reference for both novices and experienced electromyographers.

Features of Practical Approach to Electromyography include:

  • Emphasizes a practical orientation
  • Integrates EMG studies into an overall comprehensive neurology examination
  • Provides specific information on needle and electrode placement
  • Over 350 photos and line drawings highlight the relevant landmarks
  • Provides sets of normal values
  • Teaches how to write an EMG Report


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tradeoffs and Optimization in Analog CMOS Design

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Analog CMOS integrated circuits are in widespread use for communications, entertainment, multimedia, biomedical, and many other applications that interface with the physical world. Although analog CMOS design is greatly complicated by the design choices of drain current, channel width, and channel length present for every MOS device in a circuit, these design choices afford significant opportunities for optimizing circuit performance.

This book addresses tradeoffs and optimization of device and circuit performance for selections of the drain current, inversion coefficient, and channel length, where channel width is implicitly considered. The inversion coefficient is used as a technology independent measure of MOS inversion that permits design freely in weak, moderate, and strong inversion. 

This book details the significant performance tradeoffs available in analog CMOS design and guides the designer towards optimum design by describing:

  • An interpretation of MOS modeling for the analog designer, motivated by the EKV MOS model, using tabulated hand expressions and figures that give performance and tradeoffs for the design choices of drain current, inversion coefficient, and channel length; performance includes effective gate-source bias and drain-source saturation voltages, transconductance efficiency, transconductance distortion, normalized drain-source conductance, capacitances, gain and bandwidth measures, thermal and flicker noise, mismatch, and gate and drain leakage current
  • Measured data that validates the inclusion of important small-geometry effects like velocity saturation, vertical-field mobility reduction, drain-induced barrier lowering, and inversion-level increases in gate-referred, flicker noise voltage
  • In-depth treatment of moderate inversion, which offers low bias compliance voltages, high transconductance efficiency, and good immunity to velocity saturation effects for circuits designed in modern, low-voltage processes
  • Fabricated design examples that include operational transconductance amplifiers optimized for various tradeoffs in DC and AC performance, and micropower, low-noise preamplifiers optimized for minimum thermal and flicker noise
  • A design spreadsheet, available at the book web site, that facilitates rapid, optimum design of MOS devices and circuits 

Tradeoffs and Optimization in Analog CMOS Design is the first book dedicated to this important topic. It will help practicing analog circuit designers and advanced students of electrical engineering build design intuition, rapidly optimize circuit performance during initial design, and minimize trial-and-error circuit simulations. 


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