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Brodeur: Beyond the Crease

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

THIS PREFACE IS BEING WRITTEN en route to London for my yearly pilgrimage to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for The Championships, otherwise known as Wimbledon. This trip has become an annual opportunity to reflect upon the latest season of hockey, the sport that usually commands the bulk of my professional...

Membranes for Industrial Wastewater Recovery and Re-use

Elsevier Limited, 2003

In setting out to produce a book on any given subject, the primary questions to be answered are: "What should we write about?" and "Who's going to buy it?". These questions are obviously interlinked.

The subject area of this book is well defined in the title: membrane technology and its...

Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008

Leadership recruiting and succession rank as the most pivotal agendas for today’s growth-minded, change-oriented organizations. Given the risks and rewards inherent in senior-management recruiting, deciding who leads is the quintessential challenge faced by boards of directors, senior corporate officers, and division or...

Pharmacogenetics of Psychotropic Drugs

Cambridge University Press, 2002

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding and studying the pharmacogenetics of psychotropic drugs, reviews advances in the field, and describes the findings that have already emerged. Coverage extends to antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizing, cognitive-enhancing and anxiolytic drugs. The volume also examines...

Handbook of Copper Pharmacology and Toxicology

Humana Press, 2002

Copper (Cu), an essential trace element, is required for the survival of organisms ranging from bacteria to mammals. Because Cu ions can adopt distinct redox states (oxidized Cu[II] or reduced Cu[I]), they play a pivotal role in cell physiology as catalytic cofactors in the redox chemistry of enzymes involved in a broad spectrum of...

Cytokines and Chemokines in Infectious Diseases Handbook (Infectious Disease)

Humana Press, 2003

Cytokines and chemokines are an important class of effector molecules that play a fundamental role in orchestrating the innate and acquired immune responses needed to eliminate or wall off invading pathogens. In vitro and in vivo studies have been instrumental in revealing the complexity of the cytokine network and the many facets of...

The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer

Humana Press, 2007

With the growth of combined clinical neurophysiology fellowship training programs and their corresponding “pan-physiology” board examinations, there has been an increased need for educational materials that span the range of clinical neurophysiology topics. The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer aims to meet this need by...

Microelectronic Systems: Circuits, Systems and Applications

Springer, 2011

This book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser on the occasion of his retirement both from the position of Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and from the Endowed Chair of Information Technologies with a Focus on Communication Electronics (LIKE) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität...

Programmed Cell Death in Cancer Progression and Therapy (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Springer, 2008

Programmed cell death (PCD) plays pivotal roles in tumor progression, cancer therapeutics and resistance of tumor cells to therapy. With the discovery of key mechanisms that are involved in mediating PCD and in promoting resistance to therapy, design of therapeutic approaches for promoting tumor-selective cell death has risen dramatically....

Time and Petri Nets

Springer, 2013

At first glance the concepts of time and of Petri nets are quite contrary: while time determines the occurrences of events in a system, classic Petri nets consider their causal relationships and they represent events as concurrent systems. But if we take a closer look at how time and causality are intertwined we realize that there are many...

The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (Cambridge Classical Studies)

Cambridge University Press, 2014

After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the 3rd century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses...

Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of the therapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor in therapy.

Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make the therapeutic relationship the most effective...

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