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11. Desalination Technology

    Health and Environmental Impacts

    Edited by Joseph Cotruvo, Nikolay Voutchkov, John Fawell, Pierre Payment, David Cunliffe, Sabine Lattemann

    Desalination Technology: Health and Environmental Impacts covers the latest developments in desalination, examining the environmental and public health-related impacts of these technologies. Written by international experts, the text presents specifications for assessing water quality, technical...

    Published June 22nd 2010 by CRC Press
12. Tissue Engineering

    By John P. Fisher, Antonios G. Mikos, Joseph D. Bronzino

    Increasingly viewed as the future of medicine, the field of tissue engineering is still in its infancy. As evidenced in both the scientific and popular press, there exists considerable excitement surrounding the strategy of regenerative medicine. To achieve its highest potential, a series of...

    Published May 29th 2007 by CRC Press
13. Realism Discourse and Deconstruction

    Edited by Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts

    This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of contributions address such issues as the work of Derrida and deconstruction, discourse theory, Eurocentrism and poststructuralism. What unites all of...

    Published April 23rd 2007 by Routledge
14. Applying Emotional Intelligence

    A Practitioner's Guide

    Edited by Joseph Ciarrochi, John D. Mayer

    The explosion of research on emotional intelligence (EI) in the past decade has provided increasing evidence that EI can be measured reliably and can be useful in predicting important outcomes, such as managerial effectiveness and relationship quality. Naturally, people are now asking, "So, how...

    Published January 15th 2007 by Psychology Press
15. Cardiothoracic Surgery

    By Joseph E. Arrowsmith, John Simpson

    The first in the Problems in Anesthesia seris, Cardiothoracic Surgery examine and provide guidance for a number of problematic clinical scenarios in cardiothoracic surgery anesthesia. This is a field which is growing in complexity due to the increasingly diverse set of conditions that are now...

    Published March 20th 2002 by CRC Press
16. Toxicology

    A Case-Oriented Approach

    By John Joseph Fenton

    REAL-LIFE CASES, TUTORIAL QUESTIONS, NARRATIVE HISTORYIntriguing anecdotal pedagogy, like the alleged arsenical poisonings of Napoleon and President Taylor and the probable mercury overdose of Isaac Newton, is one of the things that set Toxicology: A Case-Oriented Approach apart from other...

    Published October 9th 2001 by CRC Press
17. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II

    The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century

    By John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J Taylor

    Series: History of Linguistic Thought

    Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the...

    Published May 30th 2001 by Routledge
18. Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease

    By Robert M Kaplan, John D Piette, Joseph R Ferrari

    Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death and illness in the United States, and though much progress has been made in reducing cardiac risk factors, obesity and diabetes mellitus are on the rise. Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease explores recent advances...

    Published November 14th 1996 by Routledge
19. Abdominal Surgery of Infancy and Childhood

    By Willliam L Donnellan, Ken Kimura, Joseph C Schäfer, John J White

    An entirely different spectrum of illnesses present themselves in the abdominal surgical diseases, both acquired and congenital, that occur in children as opposed to those which occur in adults The special psychological and nutritional requirements of growing children, as well as the different...

    Published January 31st 1996 by CRC Press
20. The Global Sports Arena

    Athletic Talent Migration in an Interpendent World

    Edited by John Bale, Joseph Maguire

    Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport...

    Published January 31st 1994 by Routledge