Today's (3/10/2010) New Book Releases on Medicine

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Pharmacy Management, Leadership, Marketing and Finance by Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, Allison M. Vaillancourt, Marv Shepherd - 600 pages
Pharmacy Management, Leadership, Marketing & Finance provides pharmacy students and practicing pharmacists with valuable information on topics such as operations management, economic analysis, reimbursement and marketing. This book also features sections on communication, conflict management, professionalism, and human resource strategies vital competencies for pharmacy leaders and managers. Written in a reader-friendly style, this text effectively facilitates an in-depth level of understanding of essential leadership and management concepts for application in practice. The Chapters were written and reviewed by academic pharmacy faculty, practicing pharmacy managers and leaders, human resources professionals, and practicing attorneys to incorporate both theory and real-world experiences. The authors and reviewers represent more than 70 colleges/schools of pharmacy and national/international institutions. This is a highly practical text that addresses the kinds of issues pharmacy professionals will face in their day-to-day work regardless of whether they hold formal or informal leadership roles thus making this book an essential, attainable resource for pharmacy students and practitioners.
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Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: Theory To Action by Richard Hofrichter, Rajiv Bhatia - 600 pages
Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization.

Tackling Health Inequities raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the fundamental causes of health inequities. This reorientation involves restructuring the organization, culture and daily work of public health. Tackling Health Inequities is meant to inspire readers to imagine or envision public health practice and their role in ways that question contemporary thinking and assumptions, as emerging trends, social conditions, and policies generate increasing inequities in health.
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Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons - 650 pages

Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battleground for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the third  edition of this 'simple' book, emergency abdominal surgery is discussed in an informal and no nonsense fashion - as practiced in the 'trenches' of the ER and the OR. The preferred approach for a given situation is discussed in context; it has to fulfill certain prerequisites: save lives, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly.

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Nuclear Pharmacy by Blaine Smith - 292 pages
An introduction to nuclear medicine introduced simply and with focus on the application of basic information. The basic science of radioactive decay, beginning with physics of radioactive decay, the atom and the nature of radioactive decay will be covered along with mathematics involved in nuclear medicine and nuclear pharmacy calculations, and currently used radiopharmaceuticals and their indications and preparation.
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Living with Obesity (Teen's Guides) by Nicolas Stettler - 160 pages
More than 9 million young people between the ages of 6 and 19 are considered overweight or obese - comprising nearly 17 percent of the population, according to the National Institutes of Health. Obesity is a medical problem that can be treated with diet changes and increased activity in order to achieve an energy balance. Written in clear, straightforward language, "Living with Obesity" provides teens with the information they need to understand obesity and its treatments. This practical new guide discusses changing behaviors in order to achieve a healthy lifestyle, long-term approaches for achieving and maintaining weight, strategies for dealing with obesity in daily life, paying for care, and more. Loaded with helpful sidebars, a glossary, index, and appendixes, this resource is a must-have guide for teens struggling with their weight.
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Interfacial Electroviscoelasticity and Electrophoresis by Jyh-Ping Hsu, Aleksandar M. Spasic - 194 pages

Not only is this the first text devoted to electroviscoelasticity, but it also describes a new theory developed through the authors’ research. This theory is likely to impact other research and applications as the modeling of liquid-liquid interfaces is key to numerous chemical manufacturing processes including those for emulsions, suspensions, nanopowders, foams, biocoloids, and plasmas. As the authors cover phenomena at the micro, nano, and atto-scales, their techniques as well as their data will be of particular interest to nanoscientists. The authors provide substantial data to support their theory and consider its implications especially with regard to the breaking of emulsions.