This practical guide speaks to two audiences: those who read and those who conduct research. Clinicians are medical detectives by training. For each patient, they assemble clinical clues to establish causes of signs and symptoms. The task involves both clinical acumen and knowledge of medical research. This book helps guide clinicians through this detective work, by enabling them to make sense of research and to review medical literature critically. It will also be invaluable to researcher...

Terrorists constantly present new challenges to law enforcement, emergency response teams, security planners, and others involved in counterterrorism. Since the last edition of this volume was published, additional atrocities have occurred and new threats have surfaced. The fourth edition of The Counterterrorism Handbook: Tactics, Procedures, and Techniques provides the latest developments and offers new insights on the War on Terror.Updated to reflect an increased...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

Guidelines for Reporting Health Research is a practical guide to choosing and correctly applying the appropriate guidelines when reporting health research to ensure clear, transparent, and useful reports.This new title begins with an introduction to reporting guidelines and an overview of the importance of transparent reporting, the characteristics of good guidelines, and how to use reporting guidelines effectively in reporting health research. This hands-on manual also de...

Abseits unserer Zivilisation, die alles Übernatürliche mehr und mehr negiert, ist eine dunkle Kraft auf unsere Welt gedrungen und bereitet nun einen letzten, alles vernichtenden Krieg gegen die Menschen vor. Ausgerechnet der desillusionierte, ehemalige Detective Inspector Foster stellt sich dem Unbegreiflichen mit aller Macht entgegen, obwohl in ihm selbst bereits der Keim des Bösen gedeiht. Foster weiß nicht, wieviel Zeit ihm noch bleibt, bevor er selbst zu dem wird, was er verzweifelt be...