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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 8E simplifies the process of memorizing complex medical terminology by focusing on the important word parts--common prefixes, suffixes and root words--that provide a foundation for learning hundreds of medical terms. Organized by body systems, chapters follow a logical flow of information: an overview of the body system's structure and functions, a summary of applicable medical specialties, and ultimately...
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In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity, the men survived more than six years of unimaginable hardship—including polar bear attacks—until
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Creating and sustaining powerful and lasting emotional connections with your customers in the new age of social marketing is the subject of this book. It takes you on a journey with stories that illuminate the secrets of human motivation and examples that show you how to break through the noise and clutter of a saturated marketplace to build a brand for the ages.
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Brewer's Britain and Ireland is a Brewer's-style reference book about place-names and the historical associations of the places they designate. Lying part-way between the traditional gazetteer and a traveller's 'armchair companion', it takes the reader on an informative and fascinating 'heritage tour' of thousands of places and place-names in every part of the islands of Britain and Ireland.
Brewer's Britain and Ireland is a 'phrase and fable gazetteer',...
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An eponym is the name of a person after whom something is named, for example Lord Sandwich gave his name to the sandwich. This book tells the stories of nearly one thousand men and women whose names have become part of the English language. It introduces readers to the people behind the Bunsen burner, the Catherine wheel and the Belisha beacon, and explains who John Hancock, Gordon Bennett and Granny Smith were. It also includes characters from literature...
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If you've been having incessant feelings of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty recently; or your relationship has been causing these feelings in one way or another, and you want to turn things around, to make your relationship something you cherish and look forward to being in, keep reading...
You are about to discover how exactly you can effectively neutralize all manner of relationship stress, anxiety, and uncertainty; and instead institute positivity,...