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Clinical Nephrotoxins: Renal Injury from Drugs and Chemicals

Springer, 2003

This is a comprehensive handbook on all aspects of adverse effects by drugs, chemical substances and radiation on the kidneys. The book consists of a general part dealing with themes such as clinical relevance, renal handling and cellular mechanisms of nephrotoxicity, as well as animal and cell culture models. The second part includes the...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Crown, 2012

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great...

Healthcare Hazard Control and Safety Management, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2005

Surpassing the standard set by the first edition, Healthcare Hazard Control and Safety Management, Second Edition presents expansive coverage for healthcare professionals serving in safety, occupational health, hazard materials management, quality improvement, and risk management positions. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers all major...

Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing: Molecules, Neurons, and Systems

Springer, 2006

Having been available for 70 years, it seems reasonable to ask what transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can add to the investigation of the nervous system in the new millennium. Today, the basic synaptic organization of most brain regions is known, as is the morphological detail of most neurons and support cells. Chapters in...

Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

MIT Press, 2011

An MIT "hack" is an ingenious, benign, andanonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientificexpertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness -- instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withApril Fool's Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not beconfused with the sometimes...

Transforming Emotions With Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

University of New York, 2007

Explores how Chinese medicine deals with emotional disorders.

This book has benefited from the generous assistance and support of many individuals and institutions. The study leading to this book began at the University of Hawaii at Manoa when I was a graduate student. I have had wonderful teachers: Roger Ames, Jack Bilmes, Fred...

California and the Fictions of Capital (Commonwealth Center Studies in the History of American Culture)

Oxford University Press, 1998

Between the frequently recounted events of the Gold Rush and the Great Depression stretches a period of California history that is equally crucial but less often acknowledged. In his fresh, synthetic consideration of these in-between years, George L. Henderson points specifically to the take-off of California's rural juggernaut between...

History of Jewish Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies)

Routledge, 1997

This volume is planned as a companion to the Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy, and both take their place in the Routledge History of World Philosophies, a series designed to supplement and amplify the Routledge History of Philosophy. The idea of placing histories of Islamic and Jewish philosophy in such close proximity to a...

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking

New Press, 2012

With over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft’s PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous tool for nearly all forms of public presentation?in schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course, offices everywhere. In this revealing and powerfully argued book, author Franck Frommer shows us that PowerPoint’s...

Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know (Premier Reference Source)

IGI Global, 2010

Unlike many of the management movements of the last half century knowledge management has no single origin or unambiguous instantiation. Business Process Reengineering, the Balanced Score Card and the Learning Organisation (to mention but a few) all originate with a single book which then defines the field. In Knowledge Management...

Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, Second Edition

Pfeiffer, 2010

"With this extensively upgraded second edition, Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson solidify their status as the leading authorities on change leadership and organizational transformation. This is without question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious about making change a strategic discipline."

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The CERT Guide to Insider Threats: How to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Information Technology Crimes

Addison Wesley, 2012

Since 2001, the CERT® Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has collected and analyzed information about more than seven hundred insider cyber crimes, ranging from national security espionage to theft of trade secrets. The CERT® Guide to Insider...

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