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141. Infection and Immunity

     By D H Davies, M A Halablab, T W K Young, F. E. G. Cox, J. Clarke

     Series: Lifelines Series

     This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and the immune system. Taking a disease-based approach, it explains how micro-organisms adapted to growth in human hosts can evade the immune system and cause disease.The opening chapter overviews the innate and adaptive immune responses...

     Published October 25th 1998 by CRC Press
142. Changing Vocational Education and Training

     An International Comparative Perspective

     Edited by Ian Finlay, Stuart Niven, Stephanie Young

     Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the...

     Published October 21st 1998 by Routledge
143. The Curriculum of the Future

     From the 'New Sociology of Education' to a Critical Theory of Learning

     By Michael F. D. Young

     In this important book the author looks back on the 'knowledge question'. What knowledge gets selected to be validated as school knowledge or as part of the school curriculum, and why is it selected? Looking forward, Young discusses how most developed countries have high levels of participation in...

     Published August 27th 1998 by Routledge
144. Designing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents

     A Shrewd Investment

     By J. Gerald Young, Pierre Ferrari

     Series: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions Leadership Ser.

     An exceptional opportunity is being missed. A chance to alleviate suffering and to achieve health care cost reductions for society is available, but is being ignored. There is an explosion of new knowledge about the emotional and intellectual development of children, and the causes and treatment of...

     Published July 31st 1998 by Taylor & Francis
145. Music in the Early Years

     By Joanna Glover, Susan Young

     Music in the Early Years is for teachers working across the 3 to 8 age phase who want to make music integral to the life of the nursery and early years classroom.Music has often been taught as if it were different, something outside the mainstream curriculum, with teaching approaches quite at odds...

     Published March 25th 1998 by Routledge
146. Interventional MR

     Techniques, methods and clinical experiences

     By Forenc A Jolesz, Ian R Young

     This book focuses on the specialized MR techniques which are used in interventional procedures. It contains information on new imaging machines, MR compatible devices and instruments, and there is discussion of the applications for this new and exciting technique in areas such as cancer, where it...

     Published December 4th 1997 by CRC Press
147. Borderlands of Economics

     Essays in Honour of Daniel R. Fusfeld

     Edited by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Young B. Choi

     Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

     In recent years there has been increasing discontent with the abstract nature of mainstream economics. Not only does this make the subject less relevant to real issues, it drives a wedge between economics and other disciplines ostensibly addressing the same issues. Borderlands of Economics explores...

     Published October 22nd 1997 by Routledge
148. Ship Construction Sketches and Notes

     2nd Edition

     By John F Kemp, Peter Young

     Edited by D J Eyres

     This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "Ship Construction," and will prove indispensable to the student reader. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, shipyard...

     Published October 5th 1997 by Routledge
149. Bipolar Disorder

     Biological Models and Their Clinical Application

     By L. Trevor Young, Russell T. Joffe

     Series: Medical Psychiatry Series

     This practical volume furnishes a critical overview of the biological basis of bipolar affective disorder-relating theoretical biological models to clinical practice, summarizing current research as well as future directions for investigations, and providing a solid foundation for clinical...

     Published July 30th 1997 by CRC Press
150. World Hunger

     By Liz Young

     Series: Routledge Introductions to Development

     World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the...

     Published April 30th 1997 by Routledge