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CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

Packt Publishing, 2012

CoffeeScript is a young but popular language that makes web programming fun and more productive. It compiles to JavaScript and unleashes its powerful features while not straying too far from the language. It's become one of the most popular languages on Github and is being used for both browser and server side programming.

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Fractures of the Upper Extremity

CRC Press, 2003

The region between the shoulder and wrist is an important part of the body, as without the upper extremity there is severe functional impairment. In many ways, such impairment is greater than the counterpart in the lower extremity; this is readily apparent by looking at the homunculus of the somato-motor regions of the brain. Realizing the...

Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't

Portfolio Hardcover, 2010

Is clutch performance innate-or can it be learned?

Sooner or later everyone encounters a situation in which the stakes are high and the outcome is crucial. And even top performers can crumble when faced with such extreme pressure. Consider the CEO who panics in a desperate attempt to shore up his...

The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

It Books, 2007

On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed nonstop race from New York to L.A. that was nothing at all like the one portrayed in the Burt Reynolds movie.

Inspired by his father's dying words, and against the advice of his loyal,...

Head and Neck Manifestations of Systemic Disease

CRC Press, 2007

In thinking about a contribution we could make to the modern practice of medicine that had not yet been achieved by others, we remembered what constituted the complete physician at the time of Sir William Osler: A working knowledge of multiple disciplines and of disease processes that affect many organ systems. This was perhaps...

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Springer, 2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...

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...

Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging)

Springer, 2007

The use of computed tomography (CT) has seen enormous growth over the past decade. In the US, approximately 63 million examinations were performed in 2005 (Niagara Health Quality Coalition 2004) compared to 35 million in 2000. The increased number of clinical applications (e.g., in emergency and trauma, paediatric, cardiac, and...

Essential Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Musculoskeletal Medicine)

Humana Press, 2006

When I was a medical student interested in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), I found several excellent detailed texts for PM&R and I also encountered a few good, quick reference materials. What I felt was lacking was a comprehensive but high-yield, focused review of the most important points that I could read...

Cured of Cancer: From childhood to adulthood quality of Survival (Uva Proefschriften)

Amsterdam University Press, 2003

Over the past decades, paediatric oncologists, paediatric oncology nurses and other health-care professionals caring for children with cancer have witnessed profound changes in the nature of their practice. Whereas care of the child with cancer was 30 or 35 years ago a matter of controlling pain and keeping the child as...

Visual Indexing and Retrieval (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Visual Indexing and Retrieval is a wide-scope research domain which unites researchers from image analysis and computer vision, to information management.

For nearly twenty years, this research has been extremely active world-wide. With the advent of social networks conveying huge amount of visual information to the...

No Quarter: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)

McBooks Press, 2007

This first book in the series introduces Matty Graves, midshipman in the early years of the United States Navy. In 1799, the young US Navy faces France in an undeclared Quasi-War for the Caribbean. Matty Graves is caught up in escalating violence as he serves aboard the Rattle-Snake under his drunken cousin, Billy. Matty already knows how to...

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