Written as a concise introduction to general practice, this book combines a scientific approach, based on the author's own research, with numerous case histories. The author tackles the problems of teaching and learning in general practice, discusses the the organization and characteristics of primary care, and describes with numerous examples the special skills required for history taking, physical examination, problem solving and making a prognosis. He also addresses prevention, continuing care, terminal care, and the role of the primary care team.

The Art of General Practice

Medical Books

MORRELL, DAVID

Medicine

Oxford University Press

This book has been written as a concise introduction to general practice. It is designed to help medical students and residents to adapt the knowledge they have gained in a hospital setting to work in the primary care team. It combines a scientific approach, based on the author's own research, with plentiful case histories. The author tackles the problems of teaching and learning in general practice, discusses the organization and characteristics of primary care, and describes with numerous examples the special skills required for history taking, physical examination, problem solving, and making a prognosis in general practice. He also addresses prevention, continuing care, terminal care, and the role of the primary care team.

From New York Times bestselling author David Morrell comes the novel upon which the box office superhit Rambo was based. First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang up from the pages of First Blood to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small town cop who doesn't know whom he's dealing with -- or how far Rambo will take him into a life-and-death struggle through the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky.

First Blood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Barrie and Jenkins

The six published volumes of fiction by John Barth are examined interpretively and historically through a comparison of published texts and unpublished manuscripts, in the light of interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as examination of several of Barth's unpublished essays and letters. The result is what Dr. Morrell calls 'the story of the stories, a kind of biography of fiction.' All of Barth's work, it is argued here, is based on the same general situation: his characters cannot reconcile themselves to the way things are, so they imagine alternatives by treating life as a kind of impromptu play in which they can assume any personality they wish. But recently, in Chimera, Barth shows signs of taking a much more optimistic attitude toward things: the characters no longer put on masks to face intolerable situations; instead they mask the situations. The book is illustrated with a photograph of the old showboat that inspired The Floating Opera, Barth's diagram called 'Adventures of the Hero' prepared while he was writing Giles Goat-Boy, the corrected first page of typescript for The End of the Road, Barth's map of Eben Cooke's adventures in Maryland for The Sot-Weed Factor, and the corrected first page of typescript for a story in Lost in the Funhouse. There also is a complete bibliography of writings by and about Barth.

John Barth: An Introduction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Peter Houston's journey to France to visit the grave of his father, killed in 1944, becomes a nightmare of murder, revenge, deception, and betrayal

Blood Oath

United States

St Martins Pr

Raised as brothers, two orphans--Saul, a Jew, and Chris, an Irish Catholic--match wits, in a duel to the death, with their foster father, Eliot, a professional assassin

Brotherhood of the Rose: A Novel

A former agent is caught in a web of conspiracy so monstrous, it threatens the existance of institutions as powerful as the Catholic Church

The Fraternity of the Stone

He wanted to make peace with the past... Peter Houston just wanted to find the grave of the war-hero father he never knew--a yearning that would draw him thousands of miles from home to the military cemetary in France. Instead, he stumbled into a shadowy underworld... He enver dreamed his private pilgrimage would unearth a decades-long secret that would plunge him into a deadly labyrinth of intrigue and murder. Now, he's fighting for survival... As ruthless assassins hunt him through the cities of Europe, he'll struggle to stay alive. But when they murder the woman he loves, he'll turn from hunted to hunter. And swearing a blood oath of vengeance... Tracking down his ruthless tormentors, he'll discover a truth he could not imagine..and could possibly destroy him.

St. Martin's Paperbacks

A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas and Emily De Quincey, 1)

Literary

Mulholland Books

Mystery

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The Art of General Practice

The Art of General Practice

First Blood

John Barth: An Introduction

Blood Oath

Brotherhood of the Rose: A Novel

The Fraternity of the Stone

Blood Oath

Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas and Emily De Quincey, 1)

Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas and Emily De Quincey, 1)