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This book is a study on the so-called dirty-work occupations, the
garbage worker. It presents the work of garbagemen as real and
significant, examining their daily work activities and work
problems as well as exploring how one's status and self-respect in
such work might be protected and enhanced.
Roosevelt and Howe is a joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and one of his principal advisors. Louis Howe was not only FDR's
first political aide, but the only one who also became an intimate
personal friend. Other than Harry Hopkins in the late 1930s, he was
the only advisor whom Roosevelt trusted completely to serve his
interests without distracting personal ambition or a shadowy
private agenda. This book is the story of their separate early
lives, of the rare chances which brought them together and of their
totally intertwined careers after 1912.
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Cardiovascular Imaging (Paperback)
Yi-Hwa Liu, F. J. T. Wackers; Contributions by James Arrighi, Richard George, Farid Jadbabaie, …
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R1,812
Discovery Miles 18 120
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A host of imaging techniques are available to clinical
cardiologists, including nuclear imaging, echocardiography,
computerized tomography, and magnetic-resonance imaging. Chamber
size, ventricular function, valvular function, coronary anatomy,
and myocardial perfusion are among a wide array of cardiac
characteristics that can all be assessed noninvasively.
Cardiovascular Imaging systematically reviews each of these major
techniques and provides clinical data from well-designed research
studies. Following a brief overview of non-invasive cardiac imaging
and the stress modalities used to detect coronary disease,
case-based chapters are devoted to each of the various imaging
techniques. The final chapter provides a glimpse of future
possibilities, particularly with respect to molecular imaging. The
text is illustrated throughout with amply-sized images.
Demonstrating the values and limitations of the imaging techniques,
the book enables practitioners to determine which test, in which
patient population, and for which purpose would be the most
appropriate to use.
A great love story and chronicle of women's empowerment over the
first half of the twentieth century, with the pace and excitement
of a modern day thriller. Looking back from London's Swinging
Sixties, a retired couple raise their granddaughters in blissful
ignorance of reality. Their secretive and dangerous existence,
positions them against the Italian Mafia in Paris and Franco's
Fascists in Barcelona, whose Catholic nuns are stealing babies from
impoverished mothers. Cruelly influenced and trained by two world
wars with unfinished battles still haunting their lives, how do Sam
and Phaedra finally tell the truth to their naive loved ones, even
when their young lives depend on it. They are after all,
professional assassins. A roller coaster ride covering a period of
sixty years around Europe; fused with Edwardian sophistication and
historically based atrocities; Raymond Russells Deadly Endings
keeps the pages turning until the shocking finale.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
We think of the kibbutz as a place for communal living and working.
Members work, reside, and eat together, and share income “from
each according to ability, to each according to need.” But in the
late 1980s the kibbutzim decided that they needed to change.
Reforms—moderate at first—were put in place. Members could work
outside of the organization, but wages went to the collective.
Apartments could be expanded, but housing remained kibbutz-owned.
In 1995, change accelerated. Kibbutzim began to pay salaries based
on the market value of a member’s work. As a result of such
changes, the “renewed” kibbutz emerged. By 2010, 75 percent of
Israel’s 248 nonreligious kibbutzim fit into this new category.
The Renewal of the Kibbutz explores the waves of reforms since
1990. Looking through the lens of organizational theories that
predict how open or closed a group will be to change, the authors
find that less successful kibbutzim were most receptive to reform,
and reforms then spread through imitation from the economically
weaker kibbutzim to the strong.
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