Textbook of Critical Care, 6th Edition

Textbook of Critical Care

Handbook of Critical Care, Revised Edition

Written primarily for medical trainees or nurses to use during their first exposure to critical care medicine, this 278-page spiral bound book is a pocket-sized basic intensive care manual. The handbook is divided into 15 chapters, eight substantial ones covering the major organ systems, as well as infection, nutrition, physical injury and toxicology, and brief chapters on scoring systems and o...

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 6th Edition

Kolb and Whishaw's Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology is an excellent textbook for use in upper division behavioral neuroscience or neuropsychology courses. It begins by providing an excellent history of neuropsychology and continues to explain the neural mechanisms that underlie simple and complex behaviors. The book is divided into five parts that each address a different aspect of brain f...

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th Edition

Knowlton talks about the phenomenal biodiversity found in coral communities and why this diversity is important to reef health. She explains how difficult it is to classify corals and the many organisms with which they co-exist. Meyerowitz and his lab use live imaging techniques to study the positioning and growth of leaves and flowers. Remarkably, cells have the ability to sense mechanical for...

A SHORT TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY (4th Edition)

IT is welcome to see a fourth edition of this useful textbook for students. The authors are to be congratulated on bringing out a further edition without notably increasing the length of this book, although their efforts to condense their material do lead to some difficulty. For example, on page 92, the 13 lines devoted to the natural history of breast cancer would almost certainly lead the stu...