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  • Más allá del ojo

    Beyond the eye

    by Sergio D. Ozán ...
    Este libro sintetiza A lo largo de mi vasta carrera como protesista y ocularista me he nutrido de experiencias de profesionales, de pacientes y de investigación. Este libro reúne todos estos conocimientos e investigaciones para contribuir aún más a la excelencia de la profesión de ocularista. En este trabajo hago referencia a todos los puntos necesarios a considerar en la adaptación de prótesis ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • RiRa Ruckus

    by Mike Bozart ...
    The author (Agent 33) goes to the official Liverpool FC bar in uptown Charlotte for the Europa League match with Villarreal (at Anfield). After the game, he heads downstairs and finds an open seat at the bar, as a Cinco de Mayo party commences. The man to his right helps supply a nice 'replacement' conversation.Another tale in the psecret psociety pshort pstory pseries.Approx. 2,000 words. ... Read more

    Free

  • New Heart, New Life

    by Jason Gregg ...
    Imagine a world where heart disease is no longer the grim reaper it once was. Scientists, doctors, and engineers have been on a relentless quest to conquer this mighty adversary for decades. They've come a long way, from early mechanical pumps to today's sophisticated bionic hearts. Yet, the perfect artificial heart still seems just beyond our reach. But what if the solution isn't about making ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Spinal Reconstruction

    Clinical Examples of Applied Basic Science, Biomechanics and Engineering

    Edited by Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, Michael J. Yaszemski, Iain Kalfas, Paul Park, Robert F. McLain, Debra J. Trantolo ...
    With an ever-expanding array of biomaterials and implant devices appearing in the field, Spinal Reconstruction: Clinical Examples of Applied Basic Science, Biomechanics and Engineering helps surgeons assess and utilize the latest technologies to improve the reconstruction of the spine and enhance the reconstitution of diseased spinal segments. With ... Read more

    84,26 €

  • Oscar: The Bionic Cat

    A Heart-Warming Tale of Feline Bravery

    by Kate Allan ...
    When Kate Allan’s beloved black cat, Oscar, is found lying severely injured in a field near their Jersey home, she is sure the accident-prone boy has met his end. With both hind legs severed by a combine-harvester, his life hangs in the balance; luckily for Oscar, his vet knows Noel Fitzpatrick, star of Channel 4’s The Supervet, who agrees to try pioneering surgery to replace his legs with ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Devices for Mobility and Manipulation for People with Reduced Abilities

    by Teodiano Bastos-Filho, Dinesh Kumar, Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan ...
    Series series Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series
    The development and application of assistive technology can help those with reduced abilities improve their quality of life and reduce their dependence on others. Written in layman's terms, Devices for Mobility and Manipulation for People with Reduced Abilities provides research and information on assistive technologies for non-technical people. Wh ... Read more

    111,13 €

  • La protesi implantare

    by Andrea Fabianelli, Ezio Bruna ...
    Il volume si rivolge agli odontoiatri. La protesi su impianti è trattata in questo volume con indicazioni pratiche, frutto dell’esperienza decennale degli autori e che potranno essere utili sia ai clinici esperti in implantoprotesi che ai neofiti. Ottenere restauri protesici clinicamente e tecnicamente sostenibili è un obiettivo non raggiungibile senza la consapevolezza dei problemi che possono ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • All-in-One Mediterranean cookbook

    The complete meal plan nutritional guidance and delicious 150 recipes to kick start your weight loss journey

    by Chris Moore ...
    DESCRIPTION:This is more than just a Mediterranean cookbook!!!!The long-awaited debut cookbook All-in-One Mediterranean Cookbook for Beginners Providing freshly prepared meals for people with a Mediterranean diet.The Mediterranean diet doesn't have to be complicated. You don't have to worry about coming up with sophisticated recipes or spending extra time in the kitchen every day. The solution is ... Read more

    9,92 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology

    Edited by Andrea Natale, Oussama M. Wazni, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Francis E. Marchlinski ...
    The second edition of this bestseller provides a practical, user-friendly manual guiding the theory and practice of cardiac electrophysiology. The handbook provides the specialist in training with a thorough grounding procedures, and clinical findings for clinicians. It provides a review of the main kinds of arrhythmia with illustrations of typical ECG findings supported where appropriate by ... Read more

    51,28 €

  • Prosthetics and Patient Management

    A Comprehensive Clinical Approach

    by Joan Edelstein, Kevin Carroll ...
    Prosthetics and Patient Management: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach is an innovative text covering both upper and lower extremity prosthetics. All the information clinicians need to manage a range of patients with amputations and their disorders is available in this practical and all-inclusive text.Kevin Carroll and Joan E. Edelstein, together with internationally recognized leaders, present a ... Read more

    90,37 €

  • A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Prosthetic Arms

    by David Foord ...
    This book presents a narrative and social science history of the powered upper-limb prosthesis. It examines how research, innovation and design changed in the prosthetics industry from 1945 to the present.A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Prosthetic Arms opens with a history of artificial upper-limb making from ancient Egypt to 1945. It surveys the transition from early modern iron ... Read more

    123,34 €

  • Complete Mediterranean Cookbook

    The Complete ATK Cookbook Simplified with Essential kitchen-tested and approved recipes for healthy living and delicious meals every day.

    by Thelma Jackson ...
    The long-awaited debut cookbook from the creators of The Mediterranean Diet Principles. Over 120 recipes for colorful, flavorful dishes inspired by the Mediterranean diet.Bestselling Modern Classic - America’s Kitchen’s Essential Guide to the Life-Changing Mediterranean Diet. `I want to cook everything in this book! It's not just beautiful. The recipes are fresh and exciting.” – Thelma Jackson,The ... Read more

    5,26 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

    Edited by Claire L. Jones ...
    This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities.Through case studies that focus on hearing aids, artificial tympanums, amplified telephones, ... Read more

    85,21 €

  • Scoliosi - Risolvere senza tutori e senza medicine

    by Gustavo Guglielmotti ...
    Se una cosa è certa, è che le ossa non hanno la capacità di spostarsi da soli. La scoliosi è una conseguenza della tensione muscolare che si verifica nell'addome e nella schiena. Queste contrazioni non si generano a caso o per eredità genetica ma per un modo sbagliato di stare in piedi e di appoggiare i piedi quando camminiamo. Il libro spiega dettagliatamente come si deve camminare per eliminare ... Read more

    16,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magnesium Alloys for Biomedical Applications

    Advances and Challenges

    Edited by Deepak Kumar, Nooruddin Ansari ...
    Magnesium alloys have enormous potential for use in biomedical implants. Magnesium Alloys for Biomedical Applications delves into recent advances and prospects for implementation and provides scientific insights into current issues posed by Mg alloy materials. It provides an overview of research on their mechanical and tribological characteristics, corrosion tendencies, and biological ... Read more

    74,49 €

  • Hip Replacement

    Current Trends and Controversies

    by Raj K. Sinha ...
    Hip Replacement offers useful strategies tochoose the appropriate biomaterials and implant structureavoid complications in hip replacement surgeryanalyze the bone-biomaterial interfaceperform difficult hip reconstructionstrack in vivo performance of hip prostheticsinhibi ... Read more

    84,26 €

  • Orthotics

    A Comprehensive Clinical Approach

    by Jan Bruckner, Joan Edelstein ...
    Orthotics: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach is an innovative and comprehensive new text that provides essential information about contemporary orthoses to guide the student and clinician in prescribing and utilizing these appliances in neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and integumentary rehabilitation.Written by recognized authorities in the field, Joan Edelstein, MA, PT, FISPO and Jan Bruckner, ... Read more

    106,24 €

  • Minds and Machines

    A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis

    by Howard Burton ...
    Series series Ideas Roadshow Conversations
    This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University.This thought-provoking conversation examines Miguel Nicolelis’ extensive and important research for over 20 ... Read more

    2,64 €

  • Attachments to War

    Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

    by Jennifer Terry ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Moreau’s Other Island

    by Brian Aldiss ...
    Series series The Monster Trilogy
    Welcome to Dr Moreau’s other island. Place of untold horros. Home of the Beast Men…Available for the first time in eBook.He stands very tall, long prosthetic limbs glistening in the harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip clasped in artificial hands. Man-beasts cower on the sand as he brandishes his gun in the air.He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the fabulous, grotesque island, where humans ... Read more

    12,50 €

  • Sex is a Gift

    Relief yourself of Sexual Infirmity and Stiffness. Natural cure to Erectile Dysfunction, Female Sexual Arousal Disorder and Premature Ejaculation.

    by Joyce Leiter ...
    Sex is the most lovely thing given by God to individuals. It is significant sustenance for our body and psyche, for all to appreciate.Sex is devout, not a wrongdoing. We get life through sex. Sex is sacrosanct. The virility of a man is an uprightness whenever utilized in the correct way, and turns into a bad habit whenever abused.Sex has recuperating powers. One could even say that a decent sex a ... Read more

    9,98 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shine On

    The Remarkable True Story of a Quadruple Amputee

    by Cyndi Desjardins Wilkens ...
    “Honey, you’ve been very ill and they’ve had to amputate…” His voice cracked. I searched his face, looking for some kind of clue to tell me why I sensed so much pain from him and in me. “…Your hands and feet.”Cyndi tried to grasp the new reality that flesh-eating disease had changed her life forever. Her recent memories of being a successful business manager and new mom seemed oceans away.It just ... Read more

    5,93 €

  • Biomedical Implant Corrosion Mitigation Through Surface Engineering

    Edited by Ashish Kumar, Abhinay Thakur ...
    Modern biomedical implants have made a positive contribution to patient quality of life, but their eventual corrosion limits their longevity and efficacy. New developments in surface engineering techniques show promise in extending corrosion resistance in implants, and the development of biocompatible and biodegradable materials offers new opportunities in the development of implants.Beginning ... Read more

    262,34 €

  • Para Brillar

    Una asombrosa historia real de una amputada cuádruple

    by Desjardins Wilkens, Cyndi ...
    “Amor, has estado muy enferma y tuvieron que amputarte… tus manos y pies” Su voz se quebró. Busqué alguna explicación en su cara, quería identificar alguna señal para entender por qué sentía tanto dolor por él y por mí. “….”Cyndi intentó absorber la nueva realidad de que una enfermedad infecciosa en la piel había cambiado su vida para siempre. Su más reciente recuerdo era el haber sido una gerente ... Read more

    7,52 €