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During their education, medical students must learn and develop the
fundamental history-taking and physical examination skills to
prepare them for their medical careers. In an effort to standardize
the clinical evaluations of these skills, North American medical
schools use Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).
Medical students and residents perform clinical tasks with a
simulated patient and the student is evaluated on the questions
that are asked of the "patient” and how the physical examination is
conducted. These are generally evaluated in a checklist manner,
with appropriate actions receiving a checkmark. Most medical
schools use this form of evaluation as early as the first year of
medicine. The OSCE and Clinical Skills Handbook was designed as a
study aid for medical students preparing for these examinations. It
summarizes important history and physical examination skills but
also presents the information in a Q & A format, designed to
facilitate both individual and group study. It is a practical
review for medical students of all levels. The various disorders
are described in such a way as to guide the less experienced while
also including a more sophisticated multi-system perspective. The
OSCE and Clinical Skills Handbook will be a valuable comprehensive
reference to which any level of student can return often. Emphasis
on basic clinical skills facilitates learning by junior medical
students. Question and answer format suitable to a variety of
learning levels facilitates the learning of basic skills for junior
medical students and helps senior medical students develop an
approach to clinical symptomatology. Important points are presented
in an easy-to-read bulleted list format. Sample OSCE Scenarios and
Sample Checklists provide accurate and realistic simulations of the
OSCE exam format for students. The OSCE Checklist Template enables
students to construct their own sample checklists using cases from
the book and helps them develop an approach to a variety of
clinical scenarios. A sample in-depth OSCE case provides an
opportunity for practice. The body systems approach and tabbing
system provide fast and easy access to the content.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift
and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter
Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter
summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal
translation for both general readers and students to experience The
Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery
and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to
enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and
vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral
tradition.
For the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Market Garden in
September 1944 was a disaster. The Division was eliminated as a
fighting force with around a half of its men were captured. The
Germans were faced with dealing with 6,000 prisoners in a
fortnight; many of them seriously wounded. Somehow the men were
processed and despatched to camps around Germany and German
occupied eastern Europe. Here the men experienced the reality of
the collapsing regime - little food and shrinking frontiers. Once
liberated in 1945 returning former prisoners were required to
complete liberation questionnaires. Some refused. Others returned
before 'Operation Endor' to handle released men and their
repatriation to Britain was in place. Around a third did. However
the questionnaires that do exist give an picture of every day
experience for the 2,357 of these elite troops' time in captivity
from capture to release. They show that German procedures still
operating, but that men were often treated inhumanely, when moved
to camps by closed box cars and when camps were evacuated. Although
their interrogators were interested in Allied aircraft and
airfields, their interrogators were also concerned the effect of
the new miracle weapons and with politics, how Germany would be
treated after an Allied victory? Nevertheless the airborne men's
morale remained high; carrying out sabotage at artificial oil
plants, railway repairs, factories and mines. Some overcame their
guards when being evacuated at the end of the War, in some cases
joining the Resistance. They record help received from Dutch,
French and German civilians.
A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a
leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers
alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless
epics are now available for the first time in this striking and
sleekly designed collector-worthy set. With the verve and pathos of
the original oral tradition, Green captures the beauty and
complexity, the surging thunder and quiet lyricism, of the Iliad
and the Odyssey for a new generation of readers. The translations
are vivid and careful, accurate without being out of reach, while
the detailed synopses and notes include perceptive observations
about Homer's characters and themes. This widely acclaimed,
must-have collection will be a treasured addition to every reader's
bookshelf.
This Volume contains the Keynote, Invited and Full Contributed
papers presented at COMPSTAT'98. A companion volume (Payne &
Lane, 1998) contains papers describing the Short Communications and
Posters. COMPSTAT is a one-week conference held every two years
under the auspices of the International Association of Statistical
Computing, a section of the International Statistical Institute.
COMPSTAT'98 is organised by IACR-Rothamsted, IACR-Long Ashton, the
University of Bristol Department of Mathematics and the University
of Bath Department of Mathematical Sciences. It is taking place
from 24-28 August 1998 at University of Bristol. Previous COMPSTATs
(from 1974-1996) were in Vienna, Berlin, Leiden, Edinburgh,
Toulouse, Prague, Rome, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Neuchatel, Vienna
and Barcelona. The conference is the main European forum for
developments at the interface between statistics and computing.
This was encapsulated as follows in the COMPSTAT'98 Call for
Papers. Statistical computing provides the link between statistical
theory and applied statistics. The scientific programme of COMPSTAT
ranges over all aspects of this link, from the development and
implementation of new computer-based statistical methodology
through to innovative applications and software evaluation. The
programme should appeal to anyone working in statistics and using
computers, whether in universities, industrial companies, research
institutes or as software developers.
This book addresses issues concerning the engineering of system
prod ucts that make use of computing technology. These systems may
be prod ucts in their own right, for example a computer, or they
may be the computerised control systems inside larger products,
such as factory automation systems, transportation systems and
vehicles, and personal appliances such as portable telephones. In
using the term engineering the authors have in mind a development
process that operates in an integrated sequence of steps, employing
defined techniques that have some scientific basis. Furthermore we
expect the operation of the stages to be subject to controls and
standards that result in a product fit for its intended purpose,
both in the hands of its users and as a business venture. Thus the
process must take account of a wide range of requirements relating
to function, cost, size, reliabili ty and so on. It is more
difficult to define the meaning of computing technology. These days
this involves much more than computers and software. For example,
many tasks that might be performed by software running in a general
purpose computer can also be performed directly by the basic
technology used to construct a computer, namely digital hardware.
However, hardware need not always be digital; we live in an
analogue world, hence analogue signals appear on the boundaries of
our systems and it can sometimes be advantageous to allow them to
penetrate further."
A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker
who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films
in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film,
his theory of time in cinematography and an attempt to comprehend
his vision.
A new publication from the Botanical Magazine Monograph series,
Hardy Heathers is a fully illustrated monograph that describes all
Calluna, Daboecia and those Erica species that grow naturally in
the northern hemisphere. Distribution, history, conservation,
classification and cultivation are covered in detail, making this
an indispensable book for the heather enthusiast, professional
nurseryman, landscape architect, gardener, botanist, ecologist and
conservationist with interests in heaths and heath lands. The close
collaboration between the author and the renowned botanical artist
Christabel King make this book an outstanding contribution to the
art of botanical illustration.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift
and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter
Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter
summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal
translation for both general readers and students to experience The
Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery
and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to
enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and
vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral
tradition.
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is
a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own
heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and
the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green
captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation
of readers. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a
detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and
explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also
includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more
about Homer and the Greek epic. This landmark translation -
specifically designed, like the oral original, to be read aloud -
will soon be required reading for every student of Greek antiquity,
and the great traditions of history and literature to which it gave
birth.
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed
Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure
pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times
characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man,
sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a
Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays
Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded
general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or
the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not
only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history,
but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative
excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later
generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court,
a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities." This biography
begins not with one of the universally known incidents of
Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of
Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the
continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government
and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander
made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an
important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his
origins and training do not fully explain the man. After he was
named hegemon of the Hellenic League, many philosophers came to
congratulate Alexander, but one was conspicuous by his absence:
Diogenes the Cynic, an ascetic who lived in a clay tub. Piqued and
curious, Alexander himself visited the philosopher, who, when asked
if there was anything Alexander could do for him, made the famous
reply, "Don't stand between me and the sun." Alexander's courtiers
jeered, but Alexander silenced them: "If I were not Alexander, I
would be Diogenes." This remark was as unexpected in Alexander as
it would be in a modern leader. For the general reader, the book,
redolent with gritty details and fully aware of Alexander's darker
side, offers a gripping tale of Alexander's career. Full backnotes,
fourteen maps, and chronological and genealogical tables serve
readers with more specialized interests.
A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's
conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome. The book begins with
the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and
continues with the military and political violence of the
successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritance. This era saw
many important developments: a shift from the oral to the written;
a move from the public to the private and a new individualist
ethos; a huge growth in slavery, and therefore a glut of
slave-labour which destroyed the incentive to innovate; a growing
gap between rich and poor; a growing taste for luxury.
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant,
brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile -
permanently, as it turned out - at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the
Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's
action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent
efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a
transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia
later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly
malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they
were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages. The
two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the
Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's
impressions of Tomis - its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and
sporadic raids by barbarous nomads - as well as his aching memories
and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to
intercede on his behalf. While pretending to have lost his old
literary skills and even to be forgetting his Latin, in the Poems
of Exile Ovid in fact displays all his virtuoso poetic talent, now
concentrated on one objective: ending the exile. But his rhetorical
message falls on obdurately deaf ears, and his appeals slowly lose
hope. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an
authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured
at Tomis.
In the dramatic monologues that make up "The Fourth
Dimension"--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae
and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis
Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of
Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of
modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized,
"Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the "The Fourth
Dimension" as his finest achievement. It is now presented to
English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety.
From "Philoctetes"
All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about
heroes.
Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep,
slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall
where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil
of an unseen dancer rippled silently
like a diaphanous, whirling wall
between life and death. This throbbing
our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields
etched on white walls by slow moonlight.
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is
a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own
heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and
the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green
captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation
of readers. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a
detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and
explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also
includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more
about Homer and the Greek epic. This landmark translation
specifically designed, like the oral original, to be read aloud
will soon be required reading for every student of Greek antiquity,
and the great traditions of history and literature to which it gave
birth.
"The Argonautika, " the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era,
is a retelling of the tale of "Jason and the Golden Fleece,
"probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively,
readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of
Apollonios's epic Greek. This expanded paperback edition contains
Green's incisive commentary, introduction, and glossary.
Alternate spelling: Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius
Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and
tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but
intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing
shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including
Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald,
lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always
intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends,
enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny,
and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty.
Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia,
often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his
senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat.
Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband. This new bilingual
translation of Catullus's surviving poems by Peter Green is fresh,
bawdy, and utterly engaging. Unlike its predecessors, it adheres to
the principle that the rhythm of a poem, whether familiar or not,
is among the most crucial elements for its full appreciation. Green
provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, a
historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in
which Catullus lived, copious notes on the poems, a wide-ranging
bibliography for further reading, and a full glossary.
The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began
more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army
into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Frank L.
Holt vividly recounts Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria,
situating in a broader historical perspective America's war in
Afghanistan.
2007 — A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Sicilian
historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving
source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes'
invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of
Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been
consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced
the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was
writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds
a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a
fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume
history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary
and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers
a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian.
The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period
480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of
the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the
Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of
unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy,
historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and
commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical
inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new
interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory
essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues
for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian,
who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins
with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius
Caesar's Gallic campaigns.
These works by the foremost erotic poet of the Augustan period--The Art of Love, the Amores, Cures for Love, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies--give testament to the whole spectrum of sexual behavior.
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the
bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The
Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The
long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the
fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the
extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing
sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and
occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment,
evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian
offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the
Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution
of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and
democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for
centuries to come. Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek
strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his
everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and
ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea
he describes, as well as full command of original sources and
modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is
a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with
pleasure.
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