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Presents a sensitive report that describes the experience of caregiving from the perspective of adult daughters. The author places their stories in the context of an analysis of existing policies and services for the elderly and traces the history of family caregiving in the US since 1800.

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Presents a comprehensive account of the extraction and process metallurgy fields of molybdenum. This book discusses topics including molybdenum properties and applications, pyrometallurgy of molybdenum, hydrometallurgy of molybdenum, electrometallurgy of molybdenum, and a survey of molybdenum resources and processing.

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Focuses on poor people in rural settings within the USA, describing the declining opportunities available in such areas - including the social, educational and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Im dritten Band der Buchreihe Angewandte Onkologie wird als spezifische Tumorentität das Mammakarzinom behandelt. Aufgabe dieser Buchreihe ist primär die Präsentation von gesichertem Wissen über Epidemiologie, Diagnostik, Therapie, Verlaufsuntersuchungen und Prognoseerstellung bei einzelnen Tumorentitäten, um den onkologisch Tätigen und Interessierten einen Überblick zu geben und eine Entscheidungshilfe für ein optimiertes, ärztliches Vorgehen...

Haupts{chlich wegen des wachsenden Sicherheitsbewu~tseins und der Tierversuchsproblematik erwacht in letzter Zeit das Interesse der Mediziner an Simulationsmethoden. In der An{sthesie dienen sie zur ]bung im Umgang mit Situationen und Instrumenten unter realistischen Bedingungen, und helfen damit gef{hrlichen Zwischenf{llen vorzubeugen, die zum gr|~ten Teil durch menschliches Versagen verursacht werden. Wegen der erh|hten Sensibilit{t ...

Performance engineering is a fast-moving field where advances in technology mean that new issues constantly need to be addressed. In response to this, the UK Computer and Telecommunications Performance Engineering workshops were set up in 1985 to provide a valuable opportunity for the discussion and exchange of ideas. They have subsequently become well established as the focus for academic and industrial practitioners from the UK and Europe wi...

This book focuses on the social dimension of the European Community's 1992 initiative and the impact on the daily lives of ordinary Europeans. It deals with both the substance and the politics of the proposed social policy.

The Ornish Diet has been named the "#1 best diet for heart disease" by U.S. News & World Report for seven consecutive years!Dr. Dean Ornish is the first clinician to offer documented proof that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your lifestyle. Based on his internationally acclaimed scientific study, which has now been ongoing for years, Dr. Ornish's program has yielded amazing results. Participants reduced or di...

This book evaluates the importance of Dostoyevsky's life and imaginative fiction as a stimulus to Kafka's own writing. Dostoyevskian material is situated within detailed readings of particular works. The principle sources discussed are The Double, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and Dostoyevsky's (auto) biography. It is argued that Kafka's use of Dostoyevsky is driven by antagonism as much as by admiration.

Working at the interface of historical and fictional writing, Ralph Crane considers the history of India from the Revolt of 1857 to the Emergency of 1975 as it is presented in the works of twentieth-century novelists, both Indian and British, who have written about particular periods of Indian history from within various periods of literary history. A constant thread in the book is the exploration of the use of paintings as iconography and all...