With advances in medical care, technology, and rehabilitation, people with disabilities are now living longer. Many, in fact, have near-average life expectancies. Research has shown, however, that the changes and problems associated with aging often occur 10-20 years earlier in the lives of people w..
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up-An array of essays, personal accounts, case studies, statistical articles, and commentaries on this important topic. The introduction defines school violence in its historical context and includes current statistics and legislation. Separate sections are devoted..
The most popular introductory text in the field has been thoroughly revised to keep pace with advances made in the field of immunohematology. Totally new chapters focus on issues including laboratory safety, AIDS, transfusion-transmitted viruses and other adverse effects of transfusion. Every chapte..
This book provides a concise introduction to the anatomy of the skeleton and to osteology. It gives a sound and comprehensive grounding in skeletal anatomy. Highly illustrated, with line diagrams, x-rays and CT and MR images, the text describes the principal anatomical features of the bones and the ..
This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade, this volume provides a comprehensive represe..
This book provides research workers with the statistical background needed in order to collect and analyze data in an intelligent and critical manner. Key examples and case studies are used to illustrate commonly encountered research problems and to explain how they may be solved or even avoided alt..
In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular ..