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Spanish-speaking patients are no rarity in United States hospitals and clinics, as many English-speaking health care providers have discovered To help these providers better communicate with the patients they serve, Ana Malinow Rajkovic has prepared the Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish, a lively and innovative self-teaching guide to the grammar, pronunciation, and medical vocabulary of Spanish.

Presented in a systematic and highly entertaining fashion, twelve lessons cover some of the most commonly encountered situations. These include the family clinic, the emergency room, appendicitis, the social chat, pregnancy, family planning, pelvic inflammatory disease and urinary tract infection, depression, children with asthma, patients with angina, explaining a venipuncture and a spinal tap, and patients with shortness of breath. Each lesson closes with a bilingual interview that includes vocabulary and grammar introduced in that lesson. A guide to the medical history and physical examination appears in English and Spanish in the appendix.

Excellent in the classroom or for independent learning, the Manual will enable health care providers better to understand and supply the needs of Spanish-speaking patients.

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Concisely covers all the important concepts in an easy-to-understand way

Gaining a strong sense of signals and systems fundamentals is key for general proficiency in any electronic engineering discipline, and critical for specialists in signal processing, communication, and control. At the same time, there is a pressing need to gain mastery of these concepts quickly, and in a manner that will be immediately applicable in the real word.

Simultaneous study of both continuous and discrete signals and systems presents a much easy path to understanding signals and systems analysis. In A Practical Approach to Signals and Systems, Sundararajan details the discrete version first followed by the corresponding continuous version for each topic, as discrete signals and systems are more often used in practice and their concepts are relatively easier to understand. In addition to examples of typical applications of analysis methods, the author gives comprehensive coverage of transform methods, emphasizing practical methods of analysis and physical interpretations of concepts.

• Gives equal emphasis to theory and practice
• Presents methods that can be immediately applied
• Complete treatment of transform methods
• Expanded coverage of Fourier analysis
• Self-contained: starts from the basics and discusses applications
• Visual aids and examples makes the subject easier to understand
• End-of-chapter exercises, with a extensive solutions manual for instructors
• MATLAB software for readers to download and practice on their own
• Presentation slides with book figures and slides with lecture notes

A Practical Approach to Signals and Systems is an excellent resource for the electrical engineering student or professional to quickly gain an understanding of signal analysis concepts - concepts which all electrical engineers will eventually encounter no matter what their specialization. For aspiring engineers in signal processing, communication, and control, the topics presented will form a sound foundation to their future study, while allowing them to quickly move on to more advanced topics in the area.

Scientists in chemical, mechanical, and biomedical areas will also benefit from this book, as increasing overlap with electrical engineering solutions and applications will require a working understanding of signals. Compact and self contained, A Practical Approach to Signals and Systems be used for courses or self-study, or as a reference book..
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The first in-depth look at Arab stock and bond markets, The Emerging Arab Capital Markets assesses the role of the Middle East in the changing world of global finance and considers investment opportunities in this largely untapped region of the world. Henry T. Azzam provides nine close explorations of the most significant national stock markets in the Middle East, discussing structure, listing and trading procedures, recent performance, indicators, sectoral analysis, and underlying strengths and weaknesses for each. He also looks at five smaller, emerging stock markets, and at how the region can begin to lay a foundation for bond markets.

The book covers broad issues of Arab stocks and bonds, such as the trend toward privatization in the region and the management of capital flows to the Middle East, and provides a vision for the challenge and promise ahead at the end of the 1990s. For anyone seeking to do business in the Gulf region, Azzam's work will be indispensable in approaching these burgeoning markets.

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"Students and others looking for fascinating and painless introductions to this particular, well-traveled, but still-startling corner of the sciences will be happy with Parker as their guide."
-Publishers Weekly

In 2000, Time magazine named Albert Einstein "Person of the Century." Given the ongoing interest in Einstein's enduring contributions to science, physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker has dedicated this accessible book to explaining in the clearest possible terms the meaning and beauty of Einstein's theories.

While tracing the story of Einstein's life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way. Through Parker's eloquence, eye for detail, and clever use of Einsteinian cartoons and vivid illustrations, he enables the reader to see and appreciate for perhaps the first time the full meaning and scope of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity. Parker then guides the reader to the next step in Einstein's revelations: the possibility of time travel. In exploring the fascinating implications of Einstein's thought, Parker treats us to the experience of discovering a black hole, traversing curved spacetime, and greeting our much younger twin who has just returned from a long and arduous spaceflight.

Parker's incomparable gift for language captures Einstein's uniqueness, singular brilliance, and stunning theories, while helping lay readers to understand why so many consider Einstein to be the greatest scientist who ever lived..
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In ten succinct lessons, this logically organized guide effectively explains the essentials of interpreting virtually every ECG practitioners are likely to encounter. Features crystal-clear vector images and practice ECG strips to build confidence and clinical skills. Expertly written by an author with nearly two decades of experience in teaching ECG interpretation, readers are masterfully guided around the pitfalls to achieve proficiency in this important clinical skill. For medical students, residents, or any medical professional who needs a "crash course" in ECG interpretation, this innovative resource is must-reading..
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Dan Piraro, creator of the Klibanesque comic "Bizarro", takes an uncomfortable journey into the homes of his deranged and well-mannered fans. Because Piraro's publishing company refused to pay for a book tour for his most recent collection of cartoons, he came up with the potentially dangerous idea of contacting his fan base and asking them to send him plane tickets, drive him around, and let him stay in their homes. Before chronicling his adventures on the road, Piraro presents a painfully funny narration of his Catholic upbringing, describing nuns as women who "talk several times each day to invisible beings," and whose job it is to "teach heathen children the value of mindless complicity to authority." The second section of the book, where Piraro relates his travels among the comics fans, is less cruelly funny but nonetheless good reading. The stories of those who were kind enough to cart around a strange cartoonist are surprisingly touching. As an added bonus, the spirit of Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak serves as Piraro's guardian angel throughout his travels..
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