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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)

American Psychiatric Association

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Since the DSM-IV& #174; was published in 1994, we& rsquo;ve seen many advances in our knowledge of psychiatric illness. This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research about mental disorders published since DSM-IV& #174; was completed in 1994. Updated information is included about the associated features, culture, age, and gender features, prevalence, course, and familial pattern of mental disorders.

The DSM-IV-TR& #174; brings this essential diagnostic tool up-to-date, to promote effective diagnosis, treatment, and quality of care. Now you can get all the essential diagnostic information you rely on from the DSM-IV& #174; along with important updates not found in the 1994 edition.

Stay current with important updates to the DSM-IV-TR& #174;:

• Benefit from new research into Schizophrenia, Asperger& rsquo;s Disorder, and other conditions • Utilize additional information about the epidemiology and other facets of DSM conditions • Update ICD-9-CM codes implemented since 1994 (including Conduct Disorder, Dementia, Somatoform Disorders)

Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults And Children Fifth Edition

Kathryn L. McCance, Sue E. Huether

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Well-known for its authoritative and comprehensive coverage, complete treatment of pediatric pathophysiology, and the most extensive illustration program in its field, the 5th edition of this classic book has been extensively revised and updated. Part One presents the general principles of pathophysiology and discusses the influence of the environment and the role of genetics in the development of disease. Part Two, organized by body system, examines normal anatomy and physiology, alterations of function in adults, and alterations of function in children.

• Comprehensive coverage provides unparalleled discussion of disease processes.
  
• Extensive full-color art program illustrates disease processes and clinical manifestations of diseases.
  
• Life span content includes ten separate chapters for the pediatric content and special headings for aging content within the structures and functions chapters.
  
• "What's New?" boxes highlight the most current research and findings.
  
• "Nutrition and Disease" boxes show evidenced-based links between concepts of health promotion and disease.
  
• Algorithms throughout the text illustrate the sequential progression of disease processes.
  
• Detailed chapter outlines with page numbers provide easy access to content and overview of topics.
  
• Chapter introductions provide a rationale for learning the content about to be presented.
  
• Consistent presentation of each disease includes epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and evaluation and treatment.
  
• Key terms are highlighted in each chapter and listed with page numbers for easy reference and chapter review.
  
• Chapter summaries provide concise synopses of key points and serve as a built-in content review.
  
• An "Introduction to Pathophysiology" provides an entrance to the study of disease and defines basic terms.

• More than 90 "What's New?" boxes present the most current research available.
  
• Includes approximately 310 new full-color illustrations.
  
• A new companion CD-ROM with over 750 review questions and answers and 20 animations.
  
• Now includes a comprehensive glossary of approximately 1,200 terms to help students with the often difficult terminology related to pathophysiology.
  
• Infection content is presented in a separate chapter to better organize content on mechanisms of self-defense.
  
• Extensive revisions and updates of every chapter, particularly: inflammation and immunity, stress, cancer, pain, the reproductive system, and urinary and renal systems alterations.

The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own

David Carr

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2008: In his fabulously entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans wrote: "There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth." David Carr's riveting debut memoir, The Night of the Gun, takes this theory to the extreme, as the New York Times reporter embarks on a three-year fact-finding mission to revisit his harrowing past as a drug addict and discovers that the search for answers can reveal many versions of the truth. Carr acknowledges that you can't write a my-life-as-an-addict story without the recent memoir scandals of James Frey and others weighing you down, but he regains the reader's trust by relying on his reporting skills to conduct dozens of often uncomfortable interviews with old party buddies, cops, and ex-girlfriends and follow an endless paper trail of legal and medical records, mug shots, and rejection letters. The kaleidoscopic narrative follows Carr through failed relationships and botched jobs, in and out of rehab and all manner of unsavory places in between, with cameos from the likes of Tom Arnold, Jayson Blair, and Barbara Bush. Admittedly, it's hard to love David Carr--sometimes you barely like the guy. How can you feel sympathy for a man who was smoking crack with his pregnant girlfriend when her water broke? But plenty of dark humor rushes through the book, and knowing that this troubled man will make it--will survive addiction, fight cancer, raise his twin girls--makes you want to stick around for the full 400-page journey. --Brad Thomas Parsons

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Seventh Edition

Vinay Kumar, Nelso Fausto, Abul Abbas

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First Prize (Basic and Clinical Sciences), 2005 BMA Awards
Through six editions, Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease has been the leading textbook in its field. No other resource has been able to match its outstanding coverage of pathophysiology and disease. Now renamed Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, the new, 7th Edition of this classic text delivers a host of improvements that make it an even clearer choice for students and practitioners!

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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II

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IGNORE NEGATIVE REVIEWERS - THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BOOK 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book has two themes: Food choices can create a healthier body, and there's a bunch of folks that have vested interest in keeping us from knowing this truth.

It is evident that man has survived by being a scavenger, but this study suggests that some diets are better at promoting a healthy body beyond mere survival. If you need more verification of the health benefits of a plant-based diet beyond this study, look at the world-class athletes that are vegetarian. How do you suppose they build muscle, bone, excellent health, and win at their sport?

While the study helped verify what many have proven by using their own bodies as laboratory, the inside information about the food/drug cartels and their government enablers is an important bonus. We are never going to have good health in this country as long as these folks reign supreme with their vested interest of promoting their view of health information, and healthcare is seen as a commodity.

The book exposes the dumbing down of our people with the misinformation of the powerful that undermines the quality of our health and lives.

Editorial Review:

Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that are widely popular in the West. The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed.

First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2008 (First Aid for the Usmle Step 1)

Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, Deepak A. Rao

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I will keep it simple 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

To review FA in FA style:

All you need to PASS:
Memorize and Understand every page

All you need to be AVERAGE:
Above + Kaplan Qbank / USMLEWorld / NBME exams

All you need to ACE:
Above + Robbins Review of Pathology (big robbins) + 6 mos + 150IQ

First Aid USMLE Step 1 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Use this book early, do a lot of q bank questions, get a good night sleep, and you'll rock the exam. Good luck doc.

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The #1 selling medical review book in the world—updated with the very latest must know facts and test-taking advice for the USMLE Step 1

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Fifth Edition)

American Psychological Association

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Manually stultifying a discipline 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The Manual of the American Psychological Association has been around in successive editions for many years and continues to set the standard for the ways in which psychologists write and communicate their discipline. Publication manuals can be necessary and there is no doubt that when the APA first established the Manual there was a need, in the era of print technology with type setting and proof editing, for precise rules on tabular settings, figure descriptions etc. The problem for today is that the continued need for such rules to guide the printer has become enshrined with a style of writing and reporting that dates from the same era. As has been pointed out several times elsewhere, the Manual was first written at the time when American psychology was dominated by the Behaviorist paradigm and by methodological operationalism. Behaviorism eschewed certain kinds of psychological states and operationalism specified only particular ways in which processes and methods could be described. Both of these paradigms have been long overturned and psychology is no longer confined by such restraints. But still the style is used to restrict the ways that young, incoming members of the profession and science are taught to write and therefore, oftentimes, to think about their subject matter and the people that they are studying. In America such restraints may only be imposed at the level of graduate study and the student will have reserves of thought and style that resist such intrusions. In other parts of the world, such restrictions are imposed from the very beginning of the undergraduate degree. Students therefore learn to think about people and operations in a way that narrows the descriptions and the thought processes that are applied to the issues and problems. If the APA was the only outlet with such restrictions, these effects would be a cause for regret but not despair. The APA style, however, has been adopted by virtually all of psychological publishing houses, so there are few escape routes. It is not a matter simply of putting the references in the correct form; it is about thinking about subject matter in severely restricted ways.
It is probably too late to hope for any change in the ways in which the APA Manual is used and further procreated. But it is a case study, worthy of serious study, of how the past, lived and recorded with good intentions, can continue to stifle the present and the future. The APA Manual has become functionally autonomous, affecting thinking but with little or no continuity with the past. To a degree it is pathological in form and, worse than that, it is a pathogen that is severely infectious.

Editorial Review:

In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of w riting, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive covera ge of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathemati cal data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presenta tions.

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition

Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Mervelous 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

A real masterpiece! Astonishingly comprehensive, most excellently and lucidly written,interesting, profound, convincing, frank and open-minded, and contains, in my opinion, the best of group thinking and pracice.

happy customer 4 out of 5 stars.
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i was very pleased with the product i ordered arriving on time and in the condition promised

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy 5 out of 5 stars.
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Yalom did a superb job in taking his readers through the process- the world of group psychotherapy. I especially appreciate reading about the cases to see how the theories actually came together. I have learned so much from a pro!

Masters Student 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This was a very helpful manual for Group Therapy. It was a little lengthy in spots, but I would recommend it for anyone interested in improving their skills as a group counselor.

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In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of group psychotherapy’s standard text, Dr. Yalom and his collaborator present the most recent developments in the field, drawing on nearly a decade of new research as well as their broad clinical wisdom and expertise. Among the significant new topics: Online therapy Specialized groups Ethnocultural diversity Trauma Managed care Plus hundreds of new references and clinical vignettes

Rapid Review Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Rapid Review)

Edward F. Goljan

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Fantastic review of path 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

Dense book but Goljan includes pretty much all the salient path you need to learn for the boards. A great adjunct to First Aid if you can handle it.

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Strength Training Anatomy

Frederic Delavier

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Total reviews: 249 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

unreal help even for the experienced readers 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

this book is phenominal and i strongly suggest buying this book if you are at all serious about the gym... actually even if your not serious, this book might make you serious

Had to buy TWO of these 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I just had to leave feedback on this book because I just ordered my SECOND copy of it. I ordered it after a coworker showed me his old copy. I was amazed at how it showed you which specific muscles are used during each exercise (that it details how to do). I've been looking for a book like this for a while. After getting this and the female edition (for lower body. Has many more exercises than this book.) and showing it to my husband, he just about grabbed it and ran off with it. He is a firefighter and has the luxury of working out at work and "STOLE" our home copy to keep at work (he's there for 24 hour shifts). So here I am back buying another. THIS one stays at home. lol That should tell you how awesome this book is.

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Discover for yourself the magic of Strength Training Anatomy, one of the best-selling strength training books ever published! Training Anatomy, with nearly half a million copies already sold, brings anatomy to life with more than 400 full-color illustrations. This detailed artwork showcases the muscles used during each exercise and delineates how these muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the information gives you a multilateral view of strength training not seen in any other resource.