Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of...
Develop applications and experiences for Microsoft’s HoloLens and other Windows mixed reality devices. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery behind creating amazing augmented reality experiences. Mixed reality development tools and resources are provided.
The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, current thinking cannot solve world problems because current thinking is itself the problem. And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers...
The year 2006 is the centenary of Alois Alzheimer’s presentation to a meeting of German
psychiatrists held in Tübingen, Germany. In 1906, Alzheimer described the results of his
studies on a female patient known as Auguste D., who had suffered from a progressive presenile
dementia. In 1907, Alzheimer published this study in...
A comprehensive and authoritative survey of recent findings, ideas, and hypotheses about the causes and treatment of diabetic nephropathy. The authors cover both the basic pathogenic mechanisms of the disease, as well as many of its clinical aspects of identification, management, and new therapeutic approaches. Highlights include an entire...
The aim of the two-volume set of Placenta and Trophoblast: Methods and Protocols is to offer contemporary approaches for studying the biology of the placenta. The chapters contained herein also address critical features of the female organ within which the embryo is housed, the uterus, and some aspects of the embryo–fetus itself,...
The scope of neuropathology continues to expand, as
evidenced by increasing numbers of multivolume and
specialty texts, which have been published in recent years.
For those in the neuroscience disciplines, the ever increasing
amount of information one needs to assimilate and master
can be challenging and even at times...
A panel of leading researchers and clinician-scientists distill from years of practical experience and recent scientific and clinical advances the essence of cardiology principles and techniques today. In this second edition, all of the original chapters have been extensively rewritten and two new chapters on acute coronary syndromes...
The Basal ganglia, to adopt a phrase of Churchill's, are "a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." And although there is a wealth of information available on them, this research field remains controversial due in part to the diverse number of disciplines involved. A Theory of the Basal Ganglia and Their Disorders...
Gift-wrap a couple of these issues for your Team Physicians - they will carry a copy in the first aid box! Jeff G. Konin, PhD, ATC, PT
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery/College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, dedicated his summer of 2006 to make sure this issue is stuffed with the best of...
Although fashion fixtures and A-list celebrities pack the front rows at the biggest, most glamorous shows at fashion week, the most creative attire is often found not on the catwalks or inside the auditoriums but on the streets. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, where a vintage Vivienne Westwood frock...
