This unique guide to the diagnosis and management of this difficult group of disorders is organized by age group from the neonate to late childhood. The book's eminently readable style explains distinctions between hereditary metabolic diseases and other diseases of the child's nervous system. Also included is state-of-the-art coverage of symptomatic treatment, enzyme replacement therapy, and guidelines for the prevention of disease.

Neurology of Hereditary Metabolic Diseases of Children

Science & Math

Gilles Lyon

Raymond D. Adams

Evolution

McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

This is the first book in a two-volume set. 
 Eminently readable, completely current, and dramatically revised, the new fifteenth edition of Harrison's PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE raises the bar for internal medicine references. Featuring over 90 completely new chapters, HARRISON'S continues to provide the most authoritative record of internal medicine as practiced by the leading experts in the field. And it gives you the one comprehensive database that covers the full spectrum of issues you need to know NOW - basic science, pathophysiology, presenting clinical signs, diagnosis, and the latest treatment guidelines. 
 More than 90 New Chapters * Expanded treatment with more algorithms and diagnostic decision trees * A new feature, Genetic Considerations, describes how new advances affect patient care * Clinical Guidelines now added throughout, provide evidence-based treatment strategies * Alternative Medicine...a detailed chapter covers this emerging field * New Chapter on Late Problems in Patients with Cancer * New guidelines on Adolescent Health Care * The latest in Gene Therapy with a new chapter on Screening, Prevention, and Counseling for Genetic Disorders * New chapter on Infertility and Fertility Control * Neurobiology of Disease highlights numerous advances made during "The disease of the Brain" * Late-breaking treatment information on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and more * A new color atlas of malaria-infected red blood cells

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Volume 1 ONLY of 2-Volume Set)

Medical Books

Stephen Hauser

eugene-braunwald

Anthony Fauci

Dennis Kasper

Dan Longo

J. Jameson

Medicine

1,005 architectural graphics on CD-ROM! Now you can create stunning, persuasive architectural presentations that bring your designs to life--faster and easier than ever before, in Ernest Burden's Entourage on CD: A Clip Art Resource For Architects and Designers you get 1,005 images of human figures and groups. . .trees, plants and environmental elements. . .and all kinds of vehicles to infuse a sense of life, movement, depth and distance into all your renderings. No matter what type of space you're designing--urban or rural, interior or exterior, commercial or residential--this sure-fire design tool enables you to: Add more power and impact to your presentations; Present your ideas with lifelike realism; Retrieve clip art images and visual elements in seconds; Find the right size, scale, posture, dress, and style at once; and difficult or complicated settings with ease and much more.

Entourage: A Tracing File for Architects and Interior Design

Arts & Photography

Ernest Burden

Architecture

Meet the next classic reference in cardiac surgery. This readable, scholarly, comprehensive book focuses on the practice of cardiac surgery in the adult patient featuring over 1000 superb illustration depicting winning surgical technique. In addition, indications, pathophysiology, surgical decision making, complications, and results of surgical treatment are examined in depth. Master surgeon, L. Henry Edmunds, Jr. leads an all-star cast of contributors in this treatise that forms the perfect surgical complement to a textbook of cardiology.

Cardiac Surgery in the Adult

Edmunds, Louis Henry

Applying Microprocessors

Coherently brings together the latest trends in nursing and health care and the most important issues affecting professional nurses including nursing history, ethics and patient rights, nursing and the law, health care delivery system, career management, workplace issues, the role of government, leadership and change, and much more. Important additions to this edition include extended chapter summaries and objectives, expanded coverage of students' rights, a review of recent legislation as it impacts the nursing profession, and two new chapters: Skills in Contemporary Practice and Credentialing in Nursing and Health Care.

Dimensions of Professional Nursing

Joel, Lucille A.

Kelly, Lucie Young

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Look here for comprehensive coverage of both the biological foundations and clinical management of all movement disorders. Reviews diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to Parkinson's disease and related disorders, tremor disorders, dystonic disorders. Huntington's disease, tic disorders, and more. A detailed section on neuroscientific foundations explores the molecular biology of movement disorders, along with anatomy of major brain regions and pathophysiologic process, along with anatomy of major brain regions and pathophsiologic processes. Examines nerobehavioral abnormalities too, as part of a remarkably thorough scientific and clinical overview of movement disorders.

Movement Disorders: Neurologic Principles and Practice

Reference

Ray L. Watts

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

This book from an expert on metal building systems--the first an author unaffiliated with an industry trade group--offers important, valuable, and unbiased information that can save you money and time--and that may even save your building! Full of essential features, tips and advice, this guide goes beyond manufacturer-supplied information to warn you of potential design pitfalls and to point out specific recurring problems and failures of MBS drawn from actual experience. It provides specific help--unavailable elsewhere--with specifying and selecting secondary framing, walls, roofs, and much, much more. This is the one book that is a must-have for any professional involved with pre-engineered buildings.

Metal Building Systems: Design and Specifications

Newman, Alexander

As the telecommunications industry continues to expand its reach around the globe, satellite system design is increasingly key. This book provides an in-depth look at the basics of designing the elements and components that comprise a satellite communication system, including the geosynchronous satellites prevalent in mobile communications. Aimed at a broad spectrum of readers-from engineering professionals to graduate students-the book focuses on design fundamentals rather than specific systems, and eschews long mathematical derivations in favor of practical design concepts, guidelines, and models.

Satellite Communications Systems: Design Principles

Richharia, M.

An essential reference for all professional engineers, writers, and students, this comprehensive dictionary covers the terms and concepts used in the major engineering disciplines, such as chemical, civil, design, industrial, mechanical, mining, acoustics, petroleum, and systems engineering. The book includes 15,000 terms-each definition identified by the field in which it is primarily used. Readers will aslo find handy cross references, as well as an appendix with conversion tables and SI units.

Dictionary of Engineering

SYBIL P. PARKER

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

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