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Exhaustion, headaches, inability to concentrate. Depression, nagging joint pain, weight loss, low grade fever. General malaise. For those who are healthy, these common symptoms hardly sound serious. Yet, for the many sufferers burdened with the pain and debilitation of chronic fatigue syndrome, these devastating effects can seem interminable, lasting for months or even years. In this intimate and enlightening guide, Gregg Charles Fisher-himself a daily survivor of CFS-reaches through the shadow of this mysterious and misunderstood disease to reveal how life is lived on the frontlines of the battle against this disease and how it can be made more liveable for CFS victims everywhere. Drawn from the challenges and triumphs posed by Gregg Fisher's own 7 year struggle with CFS, and culled from findings of the most respected medical authorities in the field, this timely and compassionate guide empowers CFS sufferers and those who love them. ... Read more

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Discusses the legal regulations pertaining to securities in the United States and the organizations which administer such laws. ... Read more

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Duke University, Durham, NC. Fourth edition of practical, clinical text on the management of patients with glaucoma, for students, residents, and clinicians. Halftone and color illustrations. 37 contributors, 34 U.S. DNLM: Glaucoma. ... Read more

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In the past twenty years almost three quarters of a million Russian Jews have emigrated to the West. Their presence in Israel, Europe and North America and their absence from Russia have left an indelible imprint on these societies. The emigrants themselves as well as those who stayed behind, are in a struggle to establish their own identities and to achieve social and economic security

In this volume an international assembly of expertshistorians, sociologists, demographers and politiciansjoin forces in order to assess the nature and magnitude of the impact created by this emigration and to examine the fate of those Jews who left and those who remained. Their wide-ranging perspectives contribute to creating a variegated and complex picture of the recent Russian Jewish Emigration. ... Read more

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Based on the authors' own tutorials and dissection sessions during basic surgical training, this invaluable guide to surgical anatomy, fully illustrated throughout with clear line diagrams drawn exclusively for this book, will provide the surgical trainee with an invaluable guide to this important part of surgical training.Each chapter begins with a topic list designed to help the reader plan and coordinate a programme of study.Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have been included throughout, and are designed to illustrate the main points of each topic. Each question is accompanied by full model answers to help students acquire and consolidate their anatomical knowledge.This book will prove invaluable for both medical and dental students, and also for surgical trainees taking the MCQ component of postgraduate surgical examinations. ... Read more

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Superb preparation for exams
This is a gem of a book.It has been endorsed with a forward by Professor Harold Ellis who is regarded by many as the greatest teacher of clinical anatomy on the Western World.All authors have been tutored in the dissection room by Professor Ellis.The book covers all the major areas of the body and questions are based on tutorials given by the authors in the dissection room while they were demonstrators at Guy's Hospital School of Medicine in London.This book helped me pass my surgical exams at first sitting and I recommend it to you. ... Read more

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Based on the authors' own tutorials and dissection sessions during basic surgical training, this invaluable guide to surgical anatomy, fully illustrated throughout with clear line diagrams drawn exclusively for this book, will provide the surgical trainee with an invaluable guide to this important part of surgical training. Each chapter begins with a topic list designed to help the reader plan and coordinate a programme of study. Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have been included throughout, and are designed to illustrate the main points of each topic. Each question is accompanied by full model answers to help students acquire and consolidate their anatomical knowledge. This book will prove invaluable for both medical and dental students, and also for surgical trainees taking the MCQ component of postgraduate surgical examinations. ... Read more

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Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginner's guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood - such as how tides work - along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the "Bernoulli sub" and the "artificial aurora" created by hydrogen bombs. Broken into many short sections and peppered with Epstein's own playful hand-drawn illustrations, the book does not simply give the right answer: It also goes into the answers that seem right but are wrong and shows why they are wrong - a rarity in science books. Thinking Physics is a rigorously correct, lighthearted, and cleverly designed Q and A book for physicists of all ages. ... Read more

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Great book for everyone!
I first got hooked on the problems in this book during my undergraduate study.The author does an excellent job of slowly building your analytical skills as you progress through the book.The material is presented in such a way that you can relate what you're learning to the everyday world around you.Truly a top notch resource.I have bought multiple copies as gifts for friends and family.

Physics review
Very helpful book for visual learners.Provides a fundamental understanding of physics that relates to real life situations.

Should be forced on every high school student
Every so often I pick up a book that I wish I read 10 years ago. Feynman's Lectures on Physics and Van Hess's Thermodynamics are among these, as well as Polya's How To Solve It for those more mathematically inclined. These would have certainly saved me from much confusion during my college engineering curriculum, for they focus on teaching the material to the reader, as opposed to masking it in the equations of a textbook. Some lucky folks have the ability to glance at equations and immediately grasp their meaning; for the other 99.99% of us, an intuitive explanation replete with real-world analogies helps to bring the meaning to life.

With a presentation both unique and entertaining, Lewis Carroll Epstein's Thinking Physics has certainly claimed a rightful seat at the roundtable of wonderful didactic books. Every page poses a question that challenges the reader on his view of the physical world, and nearly every answer tears down the fallacies of his intuition. Socrates would have been proud of the format, with each new question expanding on concepts developed in earlier answers. One of the 1-star reviews mentioned a lack of organization.This criticism completely misses the point.It is NOT a textbook, so "obviously" it will lack some of the rigorous development of concepts and precise organization that you would expect in a physics text.It IS a popular physics book with lots of cartoony pictures that a kid in elementary school could both enjoy and understand.At the same time, the insights will help build anyone's physics intuition, regardless of age.I read this book when I was 30.I have since started going through problems in Kleppner and Kolenkow and some other more advanced texts, and I really think this book helped.

Intriquing bite sized practical introduction to Physics
What a great way to introduce Physics to curious minds that may recoil at the sight of a ponderous text book or quiver at the thought of standardized tests!This book poses thoughtful practical questions, gives you several possible answers and then, on the following page, provides the correct answer and the physics reasoning behind it. Not infrequently, the answers provoke an "Aha!" reaction. Physics in bite sized chunks that can also be digested together at a family meal.Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality (English Edition)

Very inspiring and amusing
I read this book when I was in middle school and found it both inspiring and amusing.
I highly recommend this book for both kids and grown up non-physicists. You even find some of your daily life questions in there. Epstein presents a scientific approach to think about them.


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