Students starting on the wards are often bewildered at their role and unable to make the most of the learning opportunities presented to them. The hardest thing is to adapt to a new way of learning, where books and lectures take a back seat and the subjects for study are the patients whose beds line the wards. Rather than being asked to go to the library and write an essay on the physiology of the kidneys, you are told to go and clerk the patient in bed 3 with acute renal failure. The problem lies in knowing where on earth to begin. Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is written for inexperienced clinical students, and helps them to use their patients to learn medicine. It aims to transform students who know a bit about the medical sciences into young doctors who can draw knowledge and experience together to diagnose and treat real patients. At heart, it is a workbook that provides students with a framework for approaching patients with a range of common conditions. It is a 'friend over the shoulder' - guiding students through interviewing and examining a patient, and then evaluating the patient's current condition and their future management. A list of questions then helps students explore the topic in more detail - sending them back to their textbooks to read about what they have seen and understand the science underlying it. It is also a self-directed learning portfolio, helping students to assess their progress by seeing where they are lacking clinical exposure, and by recording key cases they have seen to function as a revision aid. Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion falls into three main sections. The introduction explains briefly how to use the book to make the most of time spent on the wards - how to interview and examine patients, how to use the book in recording findings, and then how to present patients to doctors. It emphasises the importance of anonymising patient information and ensuring patient consent before interviewing and examining them. The section on presentations covers over 30 undiagnosed presenting complaints such as 'chest pain' or 'acute confusion', suitable for use in A+E or in outpatient. Proformas for each presentation take students through the dynamic process of diagnosis and initial management. The largest section, conditions, covers around 100 common medical and surgical problems, grouped according to speciality. Each chapter (for instance 'cardiology') begins with an introductory section offering basic approaches to the symptoms, signs and investigations encountered in that specialty - for instance, how to recognise common murmurs or a simple guide to reading an ECG. The subsequent clerking proformas are similar to those for the clinical 'presentations', allowing students to interview and examine ward patients who already have an established diagnosis, reviewing their investigation results, and then evaluating the severity, aetiology and management of the condition. The book aims to: DT Transform patients into useful learning resources: helping students to use patients to develop skills and build knowledge. DT Be a 'near patient resource': something to be carried onto the ward and used when seeing patients. DT Enable students to be pro-active: Lots of time can be wasted as a medical student waiting for doctors to be free to teach you. This allows even very junior students to get on with clerking and evaluating patients. DT Build student confidence: Presenting patients you have clerked to senior doctors can be daunting. With this book students can do so more confidently knowing that they have at least covered all the more important points. DT Train students to think clinically: So much of medical education involves teaching a mindset - actively resuscitating a patient whilst also trying to diagnose them, or weighing the relative importance of various pieces of information. Other books present information - this book teaches students to use it. A completely new concept, with a unique focus on the learning needs of inexperienced students, Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is the one friend you won't want to be without as you begin your journey onto the wards. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion features: DT Dynamic, annotated figures - enlarged, fully annotated copies of key images from the book, including ECGs and X-rays. DT PDFs of the proformas in the book, avalible to download

Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion

Medical Books

Randall, David

Feather FRCP, Adam

Medicine

Oxford University Press

Create high-quality models in no time at all with these comprehensive, full-color, techniques and tutorials from Antony Ward and David Randall. These step-by-step tutorials walk readers through the creation of a high-quality female model while teaching you the basics and principles behind 3D modeling in Silo - including modeling the face and clothes, creating textures, and posing the character. The companion website includes all of the tutorial and project files. This book is officially endorsed and co-written by the creators of Silo, Nevercenter. Features include: 
<ul>* See how to create three main models - A base mesh, a detailed female base mesh and the final cover character, Jade Raven. * Covers both organic and hard surface modeling techniques. * Introduces the reader to more advanced Silo tools like Paint Displacement and UV Mapping. * Full of bonus material and information to make you a more efficient 3D artist. * The techniques featured can also be applied to other 3D applications, making the skills you will learn easily transferable. * Get money off Silo with the discount code included.</ul>

Modeling in Silo: The Official Guide

Computers & Technology

Ward, Antony

Nevercenter

Games & Strategy Guides

Routledge

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through providing more accurate and flexible understanding of the role technology plays. It places the reported research in context by contrasting it with those approaches more commonly associated with change, including business process engineering, participative design and soft systems methodologies. The book explains what are the benefits of ethnography, as well as the potential it has in helping achieve more desirable change in any and all organizations, financial services included. The book will be of interest to all international researchers concerned with organizational and technological change, as well as managers of organisational development. It will also interest advanced students in sociology, anthropology, management science and organizational studies The authors have published widely in the various disciplines associated with organizational life and technology design, and have built a considerable reputation for bringing new sociological insights into the organizational change literature

Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)

Business & Money

Harper, Richard

Rouncefield, Mark

Economics

Having unveiled a family secret and discovering the truth behind her special powers, twelve-year-old Clovermead and her father find themselves in the middle of a vicious war between the nuns of Lady Moon and the evil bearpriests of Lord Ursus, causing Clovermead to come to terms with who she is in order to succeed in her very important mission.

Clovermead: In the Shadow of the Bear

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Margaret K. McElderry

When a mysterious stranger enters her world and discovers that her mother's life is now in danger, Clovermead must put aside the rules of being Demoiselle and return to her shape-shifting ways in order to save her sovereign land of Chandlefort and her mother from pending destruction.

Chandlefort: In the Shadow of the Bear

Clovermead, a shape-shifting fifteen-year-old girl, must not only convince others to join the fight against evil but also rescue the people of her best friend from enslavement.

Sorrel: In the Shadow of the Bear

Margaret K. McElderry Books

The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.
 Giving readers an overview of key atmospheric processes, David Randall looks at how our climate system receives energy from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back into space. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy flows and transports energy through weather systems such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. Randall explains how these processes work, and also how precipitation, cloud formation, and other phase changes of water strongly influence weather and climate. He discusses how atmospheric feedbacks affect climate change, how the large-scale atmospheric circulation works, how predicting the weather and the climate are fundamentally different challenges, and much more. This is the ideal introduction for students and nonspecialists. No prior experience in atmospheric science is needed, only basic college physics.
 Authoritative and concise, Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and easy-to-follow explanations of a few key equations. This accessible primer is the essential introduction to atmospheric processes and the vital role they play in our climate system.

Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate (Princeton Primers in Climate)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Princeton University Press

The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.
 Giving readers an overview of key atmospheric processes, David Randall looks at how our climate system receives energy from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back into space. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy flows and transports energy through weather systems such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. Randall explains how these processes work, and also how precipitation, cloud formation, and other phase changes of water strongly influence weather and climate. He discusses how atmospheric feedbacks affect climate change, how the large-scale atmospheric circulation works, how predicting the weather and the climate are fundamentally different challenges, and much more. This is the ideal introduction for students and nonspecialists. No prior experience in atmospheric science is needed, only basic college physics.
 Authoritative and concise, Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and easy-to-follow explanations of a few key equations. This accessible primer is the essential introduction to atmospheric processes and the vital role they play in our climate system.

The most comprehensive advanced graduate-level textbook on the subject
This is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere―the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is the most comprehensive textbook on the topic. Intended for Earth science students who have completed some graduate-level coursework in atmospheric dynamics, the book will help students build on that foundation, preparing them for research in the field.
The book describes the many phenomena of the circulation and explains them in terms of current ideas from fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, with frequent use of isentropic coordinates and using the methods of vector calculus. It emphasizes the key roles of water vapor and clouds, includes detailed coverage of energy flows and transformations, and pays close attention to scale interactions. The book also describes the major historical contributions of key scientists, giving a human dimension to the narrative, and it closes with a discussion of how the global circulation is evolving as the Earth’s climate changes.
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<li>The most comprehensive graduate-level textbook on the subject</li>
<li>Written by one of the world’s leading experts</li>
<li>Connects global circulation and climate phenomena</li>
<li>Addresses energy, moisture, and angular-momentum balance; the hydrologic cycle; and atmospheric turbulence and convection</li>
<li>Emphasizes the energy cycle of the atmosphere; the role of moist processes; and circulation as an unpredictable, chaotic process</li>
<li>Helps prepare students for research</li>
<li>An online illustration package is available to professors</li>
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An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

Animal Physiology: MECHANISMS AND ADAPTATIONS

Book by 'ROGER ECKERT, D.J. RANDALL, GEORGE AUGUSTINE'

Animal Physiology: Mechanisms And Adaptations

ECKERT, ROGER

Augustine, George

Biological Sciences

W.H.Freeman & Company

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Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion

Modeling in Silo: The Official Guide

Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)

Clovermead: In the Shadow of the Bear

Chandlefort: In the Shadow of the Bear

Sorrel: In the Shadow of the Bear

Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate (Princeton Primers in Climate)

Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate (Princeton Primers in Climate)

An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

Animal Physiology: Mechanisms And Adaptations