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McGraw-Hill
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[2024]
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English
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"A comprehensive approach to patient care, focusing on the diagnostic tools relevant to daily practice. Coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders. Hundreds of drug treatment tables for quick access to indexed trade names. Annual updates to topics in all chapters in a consistent format, drugs, tables, and images. Year in Review highlighting the many topics with significant clinical changes over the last year. Essentials of Diagnosis for most...
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En un mundo hiperactivo, invertir en la calma es la mejor estrategia de productividad que existe. De este modo, conseguimos estar más comprometidos, centrados y reflexivos, a la vez que hace que seamos más productivos y que estemos más satisfechos con nuestras vidas.
Los consejos sobre productividad son útiles, pero también es vital que desarrollemos nuestra capacidad de alcanzar la calma.
Cuando el experto en productividad Chris Bailey descubrió...
3) Nothing but the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth
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Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives.
Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to...
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Français
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Depuis plusieurs décennies, dans presque tous les domaines du droit, le Canada et le Québec témoigne d'un passage d'une culture du litige vers une culture de l'entente. Une introduction à la théorie et à la pratique de la résolution des différends offre aux lecteurs et aux lectrices – particulièrement aux conseillers juridiques d'expression française – des compétences essentielles en vue de pouvoir choisir la meilleure façon d'aider...
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Deutsch
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Rudolf Steiner hatte eine Mission – davon war er selbst überzeugt und bis heute denken das auch viele seiner Anhänger. Unabhängig davon aber, was man von seiner besonderen Aufgabe hält, hat Steiner zweifellos auch eine kulturelle Wirkung – und zwar in vielfältigster Art.
Der Erziehungswissenschaftler Christian Rittelmeyer setzt sich in diesem Buch umfassend mit dem Phänomen Steiner auseinander – von Waldorfpädagogik bis Eurythmie, von...
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The National Academies Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot...
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The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith...
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A perfect book for professional designers and students to understand the science of trend forecasting. Becoming a proficient trend forecaster involves mastering the art of deciphering evolving consumer behaviors, cultural shifts, and industry trends. With a blend of skills such as data analysis, pattern recognition, and interdisciplinary knowledge, you can navigate the dynamic realm of trend forecasting. Education in relevant fields like marketing,...
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The food that Jewish people eat is part of our connection to our faith, culture, and history. Not only is Jewish food comforting and delicious, it's also a link to every facet of Judaism. By learning about and cooking traditional Jewish dishes, we can understand fundamentals such as kashrut, community, and diversity. And Jewish history is so connected to food that one comedian said that the story of Judaism can be condensed into nine words: They tried...
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Probate court proceedings after a death can drag out and cost tens of thousands of dollars in attorney and court fees-money that would otherwise have gone directly to your loved ones. This topselling guide shows you the most effective ways to skip the probate process. Completely updated, this edition includes the latest state laws on probate avoidance methods, and covers all the estate-related impacts of the recent changes to federal rules on retirement...
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Singing the Goddess into Place examines Chamundi of the Hill, a collection of songs that tells the stories of the gods and goddesses of the region around the city of Mysore in southern Karnataka. The ballad actively transforms the region into a land where gods and goddesses live, embedding these deities within the social worlds of their devotees and remapping southern Karnataka into sacred geography connected through networks of devotion and pilgrimage....
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¿Cómo lograr una tienda armoniosa y un layout que responda a las exigencias de la marca? Una tienda departamental es el resultado de la interacción de las condiciones existentes del local (forma, tamaño, pilares estructurales, altura) que serán revestidas o integradas con las nuevas consideraciones de diseño. Además, incluye los requerimientos estéticos y técnicos que propone el diseñador. Solo conociendo todos los elementos que participan...
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Shi'ism in America provides the first general overview of the Shi'i community in America, tracing its history, its current composition, and how Shi'a have negotiated their identity in the American context.
There are over two million Shi'is, who differ from Sunni Muslims in their understandings of the early line of succession after Muhammad, in the United States. With community roots going back sometimes close to one hundred years, Shi'is can be found...
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El psicoanálisis tiene por objetivo la cura. Para su inventor es, sin embargo, una práctica inseparable de una hipótesis científica: el inconsciente. El psicoanálisis no puede prescindir de la comprensión y la comprobación de los procesos psíquicos inconscientes. Si pierde su estatus de ciencia, se convierte en una creencia o una religión. Lo cierto es que el inconsciente no es un objeto de experiencia directa: solo se manifiesta oblicuamente...
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What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question?
In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most respected and indispensable reference books on Jewish life, culture, tradition, and religion, Jewish Literacy covers every essential aspect of the...
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Divided into nine regions-Africa; Asia; Australia and New Zealand; the Caribbean, Europe; the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe; Latin America; the Middle East and North Africa; and North America-this book tells the story of each girl's unique journey and introduction into womanhood. Gorgeously illustrated with more than 100 black and white family photographs, Today I Am a Woman also captures each area's unique customs and...
18) Why Be Jewish?
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In this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those considering a return to the faith of their forebears, for those drawn to conversion, Why Be Jewish? is a learned, graceful, and welcoming introduction beckoning readers into the heart of this venerable and enduring religion.
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An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans practice their faith.
Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn...
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Donald K. Swearer is the Charles & Harriet Cox McDowell Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Swarthmore College. His recent books include The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia and The Legend of Queen Cama.
Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible...
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