The Real World is a collection of practical ideas to empower young adults as they enter and adjust to the real world. The ideas are simple, straightforward and easy to adapt; no major life changes are needed (though some could result). Most high schools and colleges still focus primarily on academics and ignore teaching practical skills needed to thrive in the real world.Role models for young adults are often entertainers, Olympic athletes and sports figures, all of whom devote muc...

A must-have guide for anesthesiologists new to the cardiac operating roomDVD with 90+ narrated TEE clips"Overall this book is a nice guide and the quickest way to review cardiac anesthesia. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review ServiceCardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography is a fast, efficient way for anesthesiology trainees to acquire the essential skills and knowledge necessary to successfully navig...

Why are you paying $500 for a cup of coffee?“Well, if you’re a baby-boomer like me, you’re not,” says author Steve Lome, “but if you’re 20-something, the future value of one week of gourmet coffee could easily exceed $500. When you invest, rather than ingest your coffee money, you can achieve financial independence one coffee cup at a time.”Lome, a residential real estate developer, and co-author, David Kramer, a mortgage broker, nearly lost their shirts when the housing mar...

While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture, "The Two Cultures."In A Cultural History of Physics, Hungarian scientist and educator Károly Simonyi succeeds in bridgi...