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Charles Abrahams is a world-class lawyer who sued multinationals
for colluding with the apartheid government, but at twelve he was
determined to become a world-famous heartsurgeon. Then a school
inspector shattered his dream: coloured children from the Cape
Flats 'should not aim too high'. Class Action is the story of how
Charles aimed high anyway, despite a childhood that included forced
removal, dire poverty and the deep sense of shame of being neither
white nor a 'white coloured'. As one of eleven children in a poor
family, he experienced constant hardship and family strife.
Violence was ubiquitous: his street was notorious for its gang
fights, his father abused his mother at home, and schoolteachers
beat darker-skinned children like him. Charles wanted a larger
life, and he found it through student politics, anti-apartheid
activism and reading. He studied relentlessly, finding not only
formidable political weapons, but a means to delve into the damage
apartheid had done to his personal identity, selfesteem, sexuality
and morality. He went on to qualify as a lawyer and, after
defending local gangsters, he sought to do good through
human-rights and class-action law. He has since spearheaded some of
South Africa’s most historic, groundbreaking lawsuits, pursuing
justice for ordinary citizens whose lives were ruined by powers too
profit-driven to ever think about them.
Class Action depicts a
remarkable journey of resistance and healing in reaction to
institutionalised greed and racism and the harm it has done to our
identities, our relationships and the people of our country.
The identification of the factors predicting health behaviour has
become a major focus of research in the field of health psychology
and related disciplines. This awareness not only increases our
understanding but also provides important targets for interventions
to change health behaviour. Understanding and Changing Health
Behaviour focuses on a range of key social cognitive factors in
this process, using examples from an impressive breadth of applied
settings that include smoking cessation, condom use and breast
examination. The book features contributions from some of the best
known researchers in the field.
The identification of the factors predicting health behaviour has
become a major focus of research in the field of health psychology
and related disciplines. This awareness not only increases our
understanding but also provides important targets for interventions
to change health behaviour. "Understanding and Changing Health
Behaviour" focuses on a range of key social cognitive factors in
this process, using examples from an impressive breadth of applied
settings that include smoking cessation, condom use and breast
examination. The book features contributions from some of the best
known researchers in the field.
An exceptional treatise on strategic planning for single-business
companies that is at once academically rigorous and uncommonly
practical, this book embodies the Association for Strategic
Planning's "Think-Plan-Act" rubric. It emphasises the pervasive
role of strategic thinking in strategic planning, including
searching for better strategies, business models, and
opportunities. This includes monitoring changes in the external
environment: the firm's industry and competitors, markets, and
general environment. The book also provides original and proven
techniques to develop viable strategic alternatives, as well as
many other useful analytical tools. Unique software enables a full
analysis of a firm's financial performance and condition as well as
a full strategic analysis, thus integrating everything presented in
the book and providing an opportunity to practice doing a strategic
analysis. Includes examples of real companies.
Surgical options for the treatment of degenerative, ischemic,
inflammatory, and functional mitral valve diseases have expanded
greatly in recent decades. Still, a dilemma exists with employing
prosthetic mitral valves - in that mechanical valves exhibit good
durability but require anticoagulation versus the unpredictable
durability of biological valve prostheses. Over the past few years,
it has become clear that reconstruction of the mitral valve with
autologous tissues effectively addresses this dilemma, with no need
for anticoagulation and excellent durability, combining the best
qualities of both prosthetic options without the disadvantages.
Moreover, newer repair strategies, such as autologous pericardial
leaflet augmentation and artificial choral replacement have
expanded reparative approaches into virtually all pathologies, with
excellent long-term results as compared to prosthetic valve
replacement. At present, mitral repair is becoming the dominant
procedure for treatment of virtually all patients with mitral valve
disease. This book is designed to illustrate contemporary and
sometimes diverse surgical techniques for various types of mitral
valve repair with contributions from many of the leaders in the
field. Mitral Valve Repair and the recently published Aortic Root
Surgery are book publications arising from the Berlin Heart Valve
Symposium 2008 entitled " The Biological Solution". The Mitral
Valve Repair session was postponed to June 2009 and was featured as
the Berlin Mitral Valve Symposium at the joint meeting of the
Society for Heart Valve Diseases and the Heart Valve Society of
America in Berlin. The book contains a collection of proceedings on
current techniques and outcomes of mitral valve repair by many of
the experts in this field which provide an authoritative reference
source for cardiac surgeons, family practitioners and clinicians.
The new edition of Health Psychology is the perfect introduction to
this rapidly developing field. Throughout the book, the
psychological processes that shape health-related behaviors, and
affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular
systems, are clearly explained. These relationships provide the
foundation for psychological interventions which can change
cognition, perception and behavior, thereby improving health. The
book is split into five sections, and builds to provide a
comprehensive overview of the field: the biological basis of health
and illness stress and health coping resources: social support and
individual differences motivation and behavior relating to patients
Extensively revised to include new material on behavioral change,
the role of stress, resilience and social support, recovery from
work, and the care of people with chronic disease, the book also
includes a range of features which highlight key issues, and engage
readers in applying what we have learned from research. This is
essential reading for any undergraduates studying this exciting
field for the first time, and the perfect primer for those
embarking on postgraduate study.
The new edition of Health Psychology is the perfect introduction to
this rapidly developing field. Throughout the book, the
psychological processes that shape health-related behaviours, and
affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular
systems, are clearly explained. These relationships provide the
foundation for psychological interventions which can change
cognition, perception and behaviour, thereby improving health. The
book is split into five sections, and builds to provide a
comprehensive overview of the field: the biological basis of health
and illness stress and health coping resources: social support and
individual differences motivation and behaviour relating to
patients Extensively revised to include new material on behavioural
change, the role of stress, resilience and social support, recovery
from work, and the care of people with chronic disease, the book
also includes a range of features which highlight key issues, and
engage readers in applying what we have learned from research. This
is essential reading for any undergraduates studying this exciting
field for the first time, and the perfect primer for those
embarking on postgraduate study.
Imaging of the aortic root.- Perioperative imaging for assessing
aortic and mitral valve diseases and surgical procedures.-
Innovations in aortic valve surgery.- The aortic root.-
Percutaneous transluminal aortic valve replacement: The CoreValve
prosthesis.- Transapical aortic valve implantation - A truly
minimally invasive option for high-risk patients.- From minimally
invasive to percutaneous aortic valve replacement.- Sutureless
equine aortic valve replacement.- The Ross operation: Aortic valve
and root replacement with pulmonary autograft.- Pulmonary autograft
or aortic allograft for surgical treatment of active infective
aortic valve endocarditis: a review of the literature.- The Ross
operation: two decades of clinical experience.- Aortic valve repair
and valve sparing root procedures.- The bicuspid aortic valve.-
From dynamic anatomy to conservative aortic valve surgery: the tale
of the ring.- Yacoub/David techniques for aortic root operation:
success and failures.- Aortic annuloplasty.- Correction of aortic
valve incompetence combined with ascending aortic aneurysm by
relocation of the aortic valve plane through a short-length aortic
graft replacement.- Using BioGlue to achieve hemostasis in aortic
root surgery.- Endocarditis.- Challenges in the surgical management
of infective endocarditis.- Clinical results of the Shelhigh(R)
stentless bioprosthesis in patients with active infective
endocarditis: .- Double valve endocarditis and evolving paraannular
abscess formation.- Aortic root abscess: reconstruction of the left
ventricular outflow tract and allograft aortic valve and root
replacement.- Implantation techniques of freehand subcoronary
aortic valve and root replacement with a cryopreserved allograft
for aortic root abscess.- Surgery for atrial fibrillation.-
Cryoablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients
undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.- Minimally
invasive endoscopic ablation on the beating heart in patients with
lone atrial fibrillation.- Hemodynamic evaluation of the
bioprosthetic aortic valves.- Evaluation of bioprosthetic valve
performance as a function of geometric orifice area and space
efficiency- A reliable alternative to effective orifice area.-
Long-term results of biological valves.- Stented and stentless
aortic bioprostheses: competitive or complimentary?.- Edwards Prima
Plus Stentless Bioprosthesis: Long-term clinical and hemodynamic
results.- The Cryo-Life O'Brien stentless valve: 1991-2008.-
Medtronic stentless Freestyle(R) porcine aortic valve replacement.-
The ATS 3f Aortic Bioprosthesis.- The Vascutek Elan stentless
porcine prosthesis - The Glasgow experience.- Sorin pericardial
valves.- The changing role of pericardial tissue in biological
valve surgery: 22 years' experience with the Sorin Mitroflow
stented pericardial valve.- 20 years' durability of
Carpentier-Edwards Perimount stented pericardial aortic valve.-
Twenty-year experience with the St. Jude Medical Biocor
bioprosthesis in the aortic position.- 20-Year durability of
bioprostheses in the aortic position.- Clinical results including
hemodynamic performance of the Medtronic Mosaic porcine
bioprosthesis up to ten years.- Aortic root replacement with the
BioValsalva prosthesis.- Valve replacement in renal dialysis
patients: bioprostheses versus mechanical prostheses.- Replacement
of bioprostheses after structural valve deterioration.- Predictors
of patient's outcome.- Predicted outcomes after aortic valve
replacement in octogenarians with aortic stenosis.- Predicted
patient outcome after bioprosthetic AVR and the Ross operation.-
Anticoagulation.- Anticoagulation and self-management of INR:
mid-term results.- Tissue engineering.- Biomatrix-polymer hybrid
material for heart valve tissue engineering.- Standards for the in
vitro fabrication of heart valves using human umbilical cord
cells.- Tissue engineering with a decellularized valve matrix.-
Regularatory issues on tissue valves.- Human tissues for car
Research has shown that information given to patients and materials
designed to influence health behaviour often fail to achieve their
aims. As a result, health professionals need proven strategies to
ensure that information is selected, designed and presented
appropriately for the target audience. In response, Writing for
Health Communication provides a practical guide to designing health
information, using evidence-based strategies to engage, inform and
persuade different audiences.
The book outlines the steps a writer needs to go through in
creating successful materials. Starting with an understanding of
how people read and process information and how behaviour is
influenced, the book then covers the practicalities of
"Choosing an approach
"Message framing
"Text design and layout
"Using graphics
"Computer tailoring
Each chapter is illustrated with examples - including both good
and bad practice and covering a range of health topics. For
students and professionals in healthcare, health promotion, health
education and public health, Writing for Health Communication is an
invaluable guide to best practice.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch 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
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this
valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various
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edition identification: ++++ An Appeal To Scripture And Tradition,
In Defence Of The Unitarian Faith Sir Charles Abraham Elton Printed
for R. Hunter, 1818 Religion; Christianity; Denominations; Religion
/ Christianity / Denominations; Religion / Unitarian Universalism;
Unitarianism
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.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Specimens Of The Greek And Roman Classic Poets: In A
Chronological Series From Homer To Tryphiodorus, Translated Into
English Verse, And Illustrated With Biographical And Critical
Notices, Volume 3; Specimens Of The Greek And Roman Classic Poets:
In A Chronological Series From Homer To Tryphiodorus, Translated
Into English Verse, And Illustrated With Biographical And Critical
Notices; Sir Charles Abraham Elton Sir Charles Abraham Elton F.
Bell, 1854 Literary Criticism; Ancient & Classical; Greek
poetry; Latin poetry; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical;
Poetry / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
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