A must-have resource for any emergency or urgent care setting, Fleisher & Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult, 3rd Edition, provides clear, succinct guidance on hundreds of diseases and common pediatric conditions. Editors-in-Chief Drs. Robert J. Hoffman and Vincent J. Wang lead an editorial and author team who put evidence-based answers at your fingertips—essential information on clinical orientation, differential diagnosis, medications, management, discharge criteria, ...

How to collect data about cognitive processes and events, how to analyze CTA findings, and how to communicate them effectively: a handbook for managers, trainers, systems analysts, market researchers, health professionals, and others.Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information people need—employers faced with personnel iss...

Hamilton lived a troubled but remarkable youth in what was then the Danish West Indies. His mother Rachel, who died when he was in his early teens, was a brilliant and beautiful woman with a controversial past. At about 17, the boy was sent to the American Colonies for his education. The rest is, literally, history.

The standard-setting reference in medical toxicology—trusted as the leading evidencebased resource for poison emergenciesA Doody's Core Title for 2017!For decades, one name has been synonymous with the most respected, rigorous perspectives on medical toxicology and the treatment of poisoned and overdosed patients: Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies. Presented in full color, Goldfrank’s delivers essential, patientcenteredcoverage of every aspect ...

A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.This book argues that the human cognition system is the least understood, yet probably most important, component of forecasting accuracy. Minding the Weather investigates how people acquire massive and highly organized knowledge and develop the reasoning skills and strategies that enable them to ach...

Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training could be established that could accelerate the achievement of high levels of proficiency. This book discusses the construct of ‘accelerated learning.’ It includes a review of the research li...

This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study of cognitive work. Through this detailed historical analysis, it is made apparent how task analysis has always been cognitive.Chapters cover the histori

Join author Robert Hoffman on a trip around the tropical United States island of St. Croix as he talks about its culture, history, peccadilloes and the pride of "da people dem." This 153-page book is a frank, funny and revealing look into one of the loveliest and most fascinating islands in the Caribbean Sea.

Goldfrank’s is the premier toxicology textbook that should be in every emergency department or poison center library. Whether you are a student, resident, or faculty, there is something here for you. If you are a toxicology fellow or poison specialist studying for your boards, this is your go-to book. I highly recommend this work…—The Journal of Emergency MedicineThe best edition yet of the landmark text in medical toxicology

Reports of people rejecting political authority, assaulting it with words and often violent acts, are actions that are part of modern life. Anarchism has been considered a dead movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but it assumed a renewed and substantial relevance in the late twentieth century. Robert Hoffman points out in his incisive Introduction that anarchists have always been viewed either as foolish idealists or, at the other extreme, as serious threats to justice ...

The Most Twisted Stories from Pulphouse Fiction MagazineWhat gives the "twist" to these stories? They wouldn't fit in any other magazine, for one thing. They leave readers shaking their heads in amazement that they read that story, let alone anyone wrote it.Twisted stories often make you laugh, or make you tear up because they always surprise the reader. And that makes them very memorable.This volume, the second collection from Pulphouse, filled bumper to bumper wit...

When facing threats of violence and terrorism, law enforcement officers are often critical first responders. The ability of these officers to be alert, physically ready, and mentally prepared to handle the hazardous situations that are a regular part of the profession is essential to their agencies and the communities they protect. Fit for Duty, Third Edition With Online Video, provides practical information on creating and implementing physical fitness and wellness programs to he...