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Bianca Bujan, Lara Dunning, Megan Hill, Michael Kohn, Jennifer Moore

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Travel Guide

See Pacific Northwest in a new light with this Lonely Planet Experience guide, featuring insider tips from our team of travel experts so you can create your dream itinerary.Pacific Northwest is a playground for adventurers and beyond must-see sights like Olympic National Park and Pike Place Market there are unique corners, epic views and unexpected spaces waiting to dazzle you. Our on-the-ground experts have learnt about C...

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Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Elysa R. Koppelman, Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, Scott D. Halpern, Frank C. Chaten, Winston Chiong, David Magnus, Ben S. Wilfond, Karol Wojtyła, D. Alan Shewmon, James L. Bernat, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Kristin Zeiler, Elisabeth Furberg, Gunnar Tufveson, Staffen Welin, Alexander M. Capron, Richard M. Zaner, Canadian Paediatric Society, Daniel P. Reid, Ahad J. Ghods, Shokoufeh Savaj, Amelie Raz, Rachel Kohn, Michael Rey, David A. Asch, Peter Reese, Sheila M. Rothman, David J. Rothman, Leigh Turner, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Alan B. Leichtman, David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Robert Fitzgerald, Kyle Powys Whyte, Evan Selinger, Jathan Sadowski, Ian Kennedy, Robert A. Sells, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttmann, Raymond Hoffenberg, Michael Lock, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Nicholas L. Tilney, Sahin Aksoy, Jennifer A. Chandler, Jacquelyn A. Burkell, Sam D. Shemie, Barbara L. Neades, David Serur, Michael R. Charlton, Charles Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin Elliot Roth, Michael A. Rees, Kristina Fiore, Francis L. Delmonico, Rosamond Rhodes, Thomas D. Schiano, Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani, Janis M. Orlowski, Jennifer deSante

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; ...

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Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Adam Skolnick, Thomas O'Malley

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Travel Guide

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Mongolia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit monasteries for a slice of Buddhist history and whispered mantras; hike through the rugged mountains, serene river valleys and fields of wildflowers in the Mongolian backcountry; and travel by camel across the Gobi Desert in the footsteps of ...

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Michael A. Kahn, Alan C. Kohn

The Art of Conflict pairs each of five previously published articles on practical lawyering advice by an esteemed trial attorney with a fictional short story by an award-winning author-attorney on the same theme as that article. The essays, on topics such as cross-examination, provide keen insight into the practical side of the law. The short stories add genuine drama and some humor to the difficult practical lawyering issues all attorneys must fact. What exactly are the magical powers of ...

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Michael Kohn, Katharine Steinbeck

This clinical handbook is a valuable resource for any health professional who works with adolescents and young adults, whether in paediatric or adult acute care facilities or in the community. As a handbook it provides ready access to practical, clinically relevant and youth specific information.This clinical handbook fills a clear gap, as most adolescent texts are primarily directed at paediatricians. This handbook extends its scope beyond paediatrics for three important reasons. First, m...

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Thomas B. Newman, Michael A. Kohn

Medicine is becoming increasingly reliant on diagnostic, prognostic and screening tests for the successful treatment of patients. With new tests being developed all the time, a more informed understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of these tests is crucial. Providing readers with the tools needed to evaluate and interpret these tests, numerous real-world examples demonstrate the practical application and relevance of the material. The mathematics involved are rigorously explained using...

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Thomas B. Newman, Michael A. Kohn

Evidence-Based Diagnosis explains diagnostic, screening, and prognostic tests in clinical medicine. The authors' approach is based on many years of experience teaching physicians in a clinical research training program. Although needing only a minimum of mathematics, the quantitative discussions in this book are deeper and more rigorous than in most introductory texts. The book includes numerous worked examples and 60 problems (with answers) based on real clinical situations and journal ar...

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Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from ...

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Pelin Kohn, Michael J. Urick

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Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture

The popular film series, Pirates of the Caribbean, provides salient themes of leadership. Leaders of the Caribbean: Lead by the Code analyses leadership styles and behaviours of Captain Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner, and Davy Jones among other characters as they lead crews of pirates on treacherous adventures, battle zombies, interact with mermaids, and celebrate over bottles of rum. These stories can provide much in the way of illustrating a...

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John Heskett

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Very Short Introductions

John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration. This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how differe...

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Aleks Krotoski

The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real effects is it having on our social world?What does it mean to be a modern family when dinner table conversations take place over smartphones? What happens to privacy when we readily share our personal lives with friends and corporations? Are our Facebook updates and Twitterings inspiring revolution or are they just a symptom of our global narc...

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Michael Bhaskar

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Anthem Publishing Studies

Publishing is in crisis. Publishing has always been in crisis, but today’s version, fuelled by the digital boom, has some frightening symptoms. Trade publishers see their mid-lists hollowed, academic customers face budgetary pressures from higher education spending cuts, and educational publishers encounter increased competition across their markets. But over the centuries, forced change has been the norm for publishers. Somehow, they continue to adapt.This ground-breaking study, t...