This book is fully updated book. It all the material, and have added exciting new information on home health care, end-of-life care, disaster response and bioterrorism, stroke, and more.

The features of this book will help students understand, apply, and practice the challenging content required to function as practical/vocational nurses.

This book is organized in sixteen units and appendixes:

1. Understanding health care issues
2. Understanding health and illness
   
3. Understanding life span influences on health and illness
4. Understanding the immune system
5. Understanding the cardiovascular system
6. Understanding the hematopoietic and lymphatic systems
7. Understanding the respiratory system
8. Understanding the gastrointestinal, hepatic, and pancreatic systems
9. Understanding the urinary system
10. Understanding the endocrine system
11. Understanding the genitourinary and reproductive system
12. Understanding the musculoskeletal system
13. Understanding the neurological system
14. Understanding the sensory system
15. Understanding the integumentary system
16. Understanding mental health care

Appendix A: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Nursing Diagnosis
Appendix B: Normal Adult Reference Laboratory Values
Appendix C: Answer to Review Questions
Appendix D: Medical Abbreviations
Appendix E: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms
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This is a comprehensive textbook of pediatrics in which childhood disease is described within the context of social determinants of illness, such as genetic organs and social factors. It makes suitable for any problem-based learning style of curriculum.

This book is organized as followed here:

• Part 1 Current Paediatrics Child health and disease. Ethics.
• Part 2 Genetics and inborn errors of metabolism Birth defects. Modern basic genetics. Prenatal diagnosis. Genetic counselling . Inborn errors of metabolism.
• Part 3 Clinical assessment The clinical history and physical examination. Posture and common orthopaedic problems. Developmental screening and assessment.
• Part 4 Social and preventative paediatrics The child and the family. Nutrition. Immunisation. Child injury. The child with school problems. The child with a developmental disability. The family in difficulty. Failure to thrive. Child abuse. Essentials of adolescent health care.



• Part 5 Problems of behavior Common behaviour problems. The hyperactive infant and child. Major psychiatric disorders.
• Part 6 Pharmacology and therapeutics Fluid and electrolyte homeostasis.
• Part 7 Paediatric emergencies The collapsed child. Poisoning and envenomation.
• Part 8 Neonatal problems The normal newborn. Prematurity and low birthweight. The infant with a respiratory disorder. The jaundiced infant. Congenital and perinatal infections. Acute neonatal surgical conditions.
• Part 9 Infection in childhood Infectious diseases of childhood. Infections of bones and joints. Meningitis and encephalitis in infancy and childhood. Fever and fever of unknown origin.
• Part 10 Allergy, immunity and inflammation The atopic child. The child who is immunodeficient. Connective tissue disorders.
• Part 11 Respiratory disorders. Epidemiology and clinical patterns of acute respiratory infections. Wheezing and asthma in childhood. The child with a persistent cough.
• Part 12 Cardiac disorders Assessment of the infant and child with suspected heart disease. Common heart defects and diseases in infancy and childhood
• Part 13 Haematology and oncology Anaemias of childhood. Abnormal bleeding and thrombosis. Cancer in childhood
• Part 14 Disorders of the nervous system Seizures and epilepsies. cerebral palsy and neurodegenerative disorders. Neuromuscular disease Large heads, hydrocephalus and neural tube defects. The child with a headache.
• Part 15 Renal disorders and hypertension Urinary tract malformations and infection. Glomerulonephritis, related diseases and hypertension
• Part 16 Endocrinology and metabolism Growth and variations in growth. Thyroid disorders in children. The child of uncertain sex. Childhood diabetes and hypoglycaemia. Disorders of calcium metabolism and bone
• Part 17 Disorders of the GI tract and liver Abdominal pain and vomiting in children. The child with diarrhoea. Malabsorption. The problem of liver disease.
• Part 18 The skin the neonate and child with a rash
• Part 19 Special senses The eye. Ear, nose and throat problems. The teeth.
• Part 20 Common paediatric surgical problems Common surgical conditions.
• Part 21 Paediatrics in the future Towards 2010
• Index

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This book presents you anatomy and physiology in a clear, logical, and understandable way, guiding you to a complete understanding of human structure and function. It also provides information on patophysiology and clinical application in special boxes that enhance and enliven the text without disrupting the flow of each chapter.

It has three underlying themes: the relationship between physiology and anatomy, the interrelations among the organ systems, and the relationship of each organ system to homeostasis.


Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, in this fifth edition, provides you many features that make learning easier. With the color illustrations prepared specifically for this book and designed to work closely with the text will enhance you to understand the subject you read.

153 additional depictions of physiological concepts, new clinical pathophysiology application boxes discussing contemporary research, and more questions and critical thinking exercises are also added in this third edition.

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This is an anatomy and physiology book from Delmar. This book is full-color book and it is organized according to body functions, and focuses on the body working together to promote homeostasis. Essential laboratory exercises included at the end of chapters provide hands-on lab experience. Key terms with phonetic pronunciations help build vocabulary.

This book comes with free CD-ROM in which each text provides additional practice through several types of activities and games for learning anatomy and physiology. Instant feedback helps the reader learn more quickly by explaining why the answer is correct or incorrect.


It is good reference book that will help medical or nurse student to study anatomy and physiology easily.

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Widely praised for its clear and consistent organization, abundant illustrations, and emphasis on practical clinical applications of anatomy, Dr. Snell's Clinical Anatomy is in its revised Eighth Edition. It offers medical, dental, allied health, and nursing students a thorough introduction to anatomy and also covers embryology.

The book is organized by body region, from surface to deep structures. Each chapter includes an Outline, Objectives, Basic Anatomy, Radiographic Anatomy, Surface Anatomy, Clinical Notes, Clinical Problem-Solving, and National Board-Type Questions.


This edition includes Embryologic Notes and up-to-date new Clinical Notes, Clinical Problems, and review questions. All illustrations have been re-colored, and all Surface Anatomy illustrations are now in color. Upgraded clinical imaging includes radiographs, CT scans, MRIs, and sonograms

This book organizes contains as followed here:

• Introduction
• The Thorax: Part I. The Thoracic Wall
• The Thorax: Part II. The Thoracic Cavity
• The Abdomen: Part I. The Abdominal Wall
• The Abdomen: Part II. The Abdominal Cavity
• The Pelvis: Part I. The Pelvic Walls
• The Pelvis: Part II. The Pelvic Cavity
• The Perineum
• The Upper Limb
• The Lower Limb
• The Head and Neck
• The Back
• Appendix

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Essential Clinical Anatomy, on Third Edition book, it presents the core anatomical concepts found in Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fifth Edition in a concise, easy-to-read, and student-friendly format.

With new full-color surface anatomy, bone photographs, and new diagnostic images with corresponding line illustrations, this book is an excellent review book for the larger text and an ideal primary text for health professions courses with brief coverage of anatomy.


A new design makes the book visually appealing and easier to navigate. Accompanying the book is an Online Student Resource Center, which includes interactive clinical cases, USMLE-style review questions, and interactive images with labels on/off, zoom, and hotspot label functionality.

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This Gray's Anatomy book is specifically designed to meet the student’s needs of today's anatomy.

With a user-friendly format, a regional organization, and outstanding artwork, this book made mastering anatomy remarkably easy. Unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies demonstrate practical applications of anatomical concepts.

With the STUDENT CONSULT, it offers you convenient and versatile online access to the book's content plus interactive exercises and more. Plus, an international advisory board, comprised of more than 100 anatomy instructors, ensures that the material is accurate, up to date, and easy to use.

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A guide for students of nursing, child care and health, 2nd edition.

This book is fully updated. It provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialize in working with children. It is great book that you should have it.

This book will be an essential reading for all those working with children and families in the health and social care sector, enabling them to ensure children enjoy a safe and healthy childhood in line with Every Child Matters and new national service framework directives.


The author is an experienced nurse teacher, guides you through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through childhood and adolescence. This book has two major contain:

• Chapter 1 sets the scene for physical needs in child development, such as the need to be warm and safe.
• Chapters 2 to 9 cover the body systems: skeletal; nervous; cardiovascular; respiratory; renal; digestive; reproductive; and immune.

The embryology and physiological function at birth is explored in each chapter before the text moves on through the many changes over the next decade to puberty and the arrival at adult functioning.

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This is the most current and comprehensive source of clinically focused information on pediatrics.

It contains more than 1000 diseases:

• Answer to day-t0day questions
• Ambulatory and inpatient management
• Birth through adolescence
• Tables of findings, the work-up, drugs, and more
• Updated every two years

On this Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment, sixteenth edition you will find out the guidelines you needs:

• Managing feeding and sleep disorders in infants and young children
• Managing colic
• Dealing with temper tantrums and breath-holding
• Diagnosing and treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
• Diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Evaluating and treating autistic spectrum disorders
• Monitoring adolescent psychosocial development, including: risk assessment for depression and suicide, substance abuse, eating disorders, school avoidance and failure, birth control for the sexually active adolescent, adolescent rebellion and turmoil and much, much more
• Understanding the effects of caregiver dysfunction
• Working out the most effective system for telephone triaging and advice
• Responding to bioterrorism
• Choosing the correct therapy for poisoning cases
• Managing severely asthmatic patients
• Placing catheters correctly
• Diagnosing and managing skin disorders, including diaper dermatitis, acne, impetigo, ringworm, candida albicans infections, warts, scabies, pediculoses, eczema, psoriasis, alopecia, and more
• Diagnosing and treating disorders of the eyes and eyelids
• Recognizing symptoms of shaken baby syndrome
• Vision screening
• Managing learning disabilities and dyslexia
• Detecting and managing hearing deficits
• Diagnosing and treating congenital anomalies
• Treating glomerular diseases encountered in childhood
• Obtaining spinal fluid through lumbar puncture
• Managing the young epileptic patient
• Conducting an orthopedic examination expeditiously
• Minimizing blood transfusion risks
• Treating children with allergies
• Selecting appropriate antimicrobial agents for newborns and infants
• Effectively treating Lyme Disease and other spirochetal infections

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It is a simplest book that will guide you how to build your Home Theater PC. Do not thing that it is difficult to build home theater PC. Read this book and you will feel easy to build your home entertainment.

This book is the best home for media in my opinion and it continues to deliver the most responsive user experience. While the idea of a PC (or PC-like device) in every room of your house isn't quite as fleshed out as I'd like it to be, a Home Theater PC (HTPC) is easily a reality today.

The simplest contains of this book are:

• Introduction
• Choosing a Case
• The First Try: AMD 780G
• A Solid State Boot Drive
• A Huge Heatsink
• The Second Try: NVIDIA GeForce 8200
• The Setup
• Final Words

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The best enjoying in the world right now is entertainment. You love tinkering with technology. The digital lifestyle is your lifestyle. So building your own Home Theater PC just might be as entertaining as using it.

In these pages, a couple of fellow tinkerers will guide you by explaining the components and subsystems of a Home Theater PC and help you choose and pure-chase parts, assemble and test the PC, install Windows Media Center Edition, and get the whole thing up and running. Then enjoy your music or video by turning your Home Theater PC you’ve built by yourself.

This book is organized as followed here:

Part I: Meet the Modern Multimedia PC
Chapter 1: Basic PC Components and Elements
Chapter 2: Bringing Media to the PC


Part II: PC Pieces and Parts
Chapter 3: The HTPC Case and Power Supply
Chapter 4: The PC Motherboard
Chapter 5: The Central Processing Unit
Chapter 6: HTPC Memory
Chapter 7: Hard Disk Drives
Chapter 8: Optical Storage and HTPCs
Chapter 9: HTPC Graphics and Video
Chapter 10: Sound Cards and HTPC Audio
Chapter 11: HTPC Audio Setups
Chapter 12: Monitors and Displays
Chapter 13: Networking Your HTPC
Chapter 14: The HTPC Remote and Controlling Your Set-Top Box

Part III: Planning and Building Your Media Center PC
Chapter 15: Planning Your HTPC
Chapter 16: Assembling an HTPC
Chapter 17: Installing Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

Part IV: Media Center PC Projects
Chapter 18: Building a P4 HTPC
Chapter 19: Building a Pentium M HTPC
Chapter 20: Building an Athlon 64 HTPC

Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A: More about Media Center PCs and MCE
Appendix B: (HT)PC Hardware Information and Resources
Appendix C: DVD and Movie Information and Resources
Appendix D: Digital Music Information and Resources
Appendix E:Windows Radio: Finding Stations and Recording
Appendix F: PC TV and Related Hardware Info
Appendix G: Home Video Hardware and Media Info
Appendix H: PC Audio Hardware and Playback Info
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Why do they load up a PC with stuff you don't need and leave off the things you really want? Don't take it anymore! Grab a screwdriver and let these two experts show you how to build the PC of your dreams, even if you've never cracked a case before.

With this book you'll learn to choose the right components, install them safely, test your system, find the best prices on parts, and even trick out your new machine with some cool tweaks and mods. Plenty of illustrations and step-by-step directions make it easy, and you just might make your wallet happy, too.

This book is organized as followed here:

1. Safety first
2. Choose your tools
3. Powering this puppy
4. Motherboard knows best
5. RAM it into drive(s)
6. Video and sound are in the cards
7. Bringing your PC to life
8. Testing! Testing!
9. Operate on Windows XP
10. Warranties--in English

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With off-the-shelf computer systems to fit any budget or requirement, some people might wonder why you'd want to build your own. They don't understand that for many computer users, a ready-made system is about as satisfying as popping a frozen dinner in the microwave when you you'd rather have real food instead. Sure, it works, but it's not exactly what you need or want.

There's a lot to be said for a computer that has exactly the quality components you choose, by the manufacturers you choose, rather than the conveniently bundled assortment made for your price point. But perhaps you've stopped short of building your own because you're inexperienced or you're concerned it won't come out right. After all, you want your computer to be perfect. Hesitate no longer: Building the Perfect PC delivers end-to-end instructions (that even inexperienced PC-builders can follow) for creating your ideal machine.


Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all, beginning with the various reasons why you'd want to build your own PC, planning and picking out the components, and putting it all together. The book outlines a variety of complete systems and all of their components, including a small form factor PC; a middle-of-the-road "sweet spot" system with top-notch components; and a top-end gaming PC with high-end video, a fast processor, and enough RAM to make your palms sweat just thinking about it.

Straight-forward language, clear directions, and extensive illustrations make this guide a breeze for computer builders of any level to follow, even those with little or no experience. If you've yearned for a quality machine with high-end components that suit your needs, then Building the Perfect PC will put you where you want to be: in control of your computer system.

The texts of this book are organized as followed here:

• Fundamentals
• Choosing and Buying Components
• Building a Mainstream PC
• Building a SOHO Server
• Building a Kick-ass LAN Party PC
• Building a Home Theater PC
• Building a Small Form Factor PC

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Ian Sinclair's Build Your Own books have established themselves as authoritative and highly practical guides for home and small business PC users and IT technicians alike. All aspects of building and upgrading a PC are covered, making this the book computer retailers don't want you to read!

Build and Upgrade Your Own PC, 4th edition is based around building and upgrading to the latest systems, such as Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP motherboards running Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. As well as guiding you round the inside of your PC base unit Ian Sinclair also covers setup and security issues and peripherals, including:

• Monitors, printers and scanners
• Video capture
• DVD drives
• Small-scale networking solutions (wired and wireless)
• Security technologies, including Firewall
• Troubleshooting installation CD-ROMs

With this book you can:

• Save money by making your current PC last longer
• Discover the practical techniques of upgrading a PC and avoid the pitfalls
• Create the PC you really want, not just the off-the-shelf package from manufacturers

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Getting your hands dirty and building your own system is what separates PC gamers from their console brethren, and it just so happens to be one of the most exciting parts of our hobby. Unfortunately, it’s also a pretty daunting process for anyone who hasn’t assembled his own rig from scratch. Thankfully, this guide not only gives you all you need to know about every component that goes in your gaming PC, but also thoroughly walks you through the entire building process with detailed instructions and helpful photographs.

We’ve always written the PC Builder’s Bible not only as a guide for new system builders who want more versatility from their computer, but also for hardcore enthusiasts who have to be on the cutting edge of technological innovation. And guess what, that includes us as well.


Every piece of hardware you’ll find recommended in this book is something we would buy for ourselves. The specs of our custom rigs are actually the same as the machines we’ve built for ourselves at home. That’s because we’re just like you; we want the most bang for our proverbial buck. And with more money saved from building a lean super-rig, you’ll have more money to spend on the awesome new games to play on it!

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By buying components and assembling them yourself, you can save a little money and gain a lifetime of free technical support. Building a PC for Dummies removes the intimidation factor from building your own Intel-based personal computer, explains what you need, and shows you how to put everything together. It's a fine place to start if you've never assembled your own machine before and want to give the process a try.

Shows tech hobbyists how to build the perfect PC, whether they want to create the ultimate gaming machine or combine new and recycled parts to construct an inexpensive computer for a child.


The do-it-yourself craze is sweeping through the tech community, and this guide is now significantly revised and updated to cover the wide array of new hardware and accessories available.

Step-by-step instructions and dozens of photos walk first-time computer builders through the entire process, from building the foundation, and adding a processor and RAM, to installing a video card, configuring a hard drive, hooking up CD and DVD drives, adding a modem, and troubleshooting problems.

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Although the fifth edition of this textbook underwent a major revision, the development of the sixth edition has been quite a challenge due to the recent proliferation of research knowledge and the advancements made in the treatment of psychiatric mental illness. Since its inception, the goal has been to produce a textbook that addresses the current concepts used in psychiatric mental health nursing to foster competency in practicing nurses and other mental health professionals.

Conversations with various nurse educators and comments by reviewers of the fifth edition helped this author to identify specific content that should be included in this sixth edition of Basic Concepts of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Consideration was given to the limited amount of time in which nurse educators are able to present psychiatric mental health nursing content.


Student nurses are also challenged as they enter a phase of nursing education in which they are expected to understand the neuropathology or pathophysiology of a psychiatric mental health disorder. They must develop a working knowledge of the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of psychoactive drugs and the potential for drug-drug interactions, because clinical psychopharmacology is an integral part of psychiatric mental health nursing care. Furthermore, students must be given the opportunity to feel competent using crisis intervention techniques because violence has become a common topic affecting the mental health of all age groups.

This book has seven units as followed here:

• Unit 1, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Unit 2, Special Issues Related to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Unit 3, Components of the Nurse-Client Relationship
• Unit 4, Interactive Therapies
• Unit 5, Special Treatment Modalities
• Unit 6, Clients with Psychiatric Disorders

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This a pocket-sized resource for helping psychiatric nurses develop practical, individualized care plans for their patients. Each chapter covers a different DSM-IV disorder, giving an overview and then a nursing diagnosis includes new information on anxiety agents, antidepressants, and other psychotropic medications.

This book has four units and 30 chapters as followed here:

Unit 1: The Foundation for Planning Psychiatric Nursing Care

• Nursing process: one step to professionlism

Unit 2: Alterations in Psychosocial Adaptation

• Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence
• Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorder
• Substance-related disorders
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder
• Mood Disorder
• Anxiety disorders
• Somatoform and sleep disorders
• Dissociative disorders
• Sexual and gender identity disorders
• Eating disorders
• Adjustment disorders
• Impulse control disorders
• Psychological factors affecting medical condition
• Personality disorders

Unit 3: Special Topics In Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

• Special topics in psychiatric/mental health nursing
• Problems related to abuse or neglect
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorders
• HIV disease
• Homelessness
• Psychiatric home nursing care
• Forensic nursing
• Complementary therapies
• Loss and bereavement

Unit 4: Psychotropic Medications

• Antianxiety agents
• Antidepressants
• Mood-stabilizing drugs
• Antipsychotic agents
• Antiparkinsonian agents
• Sedative-hypnotics
• Agents used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.

Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.

With this book you can:

• Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.
• Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective.
• Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.
• Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement.
• Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light.
• View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.

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Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system family which uses the Linux kernel. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; typically all the underlying source code can be freely modified, used, and redistributed by anyone. It is installed on a wide variety of computer hardware right now, ranging from embedded devices and mobile phones to supercomputers or notebook.

The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The system's utilities and libraries usually come from the GNU operating system, announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The GNU contribution is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.

This book explains about Linux Networking, the important thing when you are using popular linux operating system.

The contain of this book are:

• Informative background material for newcomers
• A generic discussion of networking issues
• Technology-specific information grouped in three main sections: Ethernet and IP-related information, technologies pertaining to widespread PC hardware, and seldom-used technologies.

This book is an outgrowth of the original NET-FAQ, written by Matt Welsh and Terry Dawson. It covered the very early development versions of the Linux Networking Kernel. Linux Networking HOWTO is an updated resource, and relates to version 4 of the Linux Networking Kernel, or more specifically kernel releases 2.x and 2.2.x.

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Sure…. You have a PC at home or notebook that always you bring it to your office. Do not ever thing how your notebook or PC working? The answers are on this book.

Computers are the most complex machines that have ever been created. This is the first book to make it possible for ordinary people to understand precisely how the processor, the main and most complex part of a computer, works. In fact, it completely explains the operation of a complete, though simple, computer.


The book is as simple as possible and aimed at a non-technical audience with absolutely no knowledge of computers or electronics, but it is an electrical engineering text. A typical page consists of a circuit diagram (or program) and a paragraph or two of explanation.

The book begins with a VERY simple circuit and continues to a very complex circuit (a computer) while explaining everything. Everything has been made as simple as possible while leaving nothing out. Eighty-four circuit diagrams and some timing diagrams and short programs make every point clear.

Relays, which are explained, are used in the circuitry instead of transistors for simplicity, though transistors are mentioned.

Did you ever wonder what a bit, a latch, a word (of memory), a data bus, an address bus, a memory, a register, a processor, a timing diagram, a clock (of a processor), an instruction, or machine code is? Though most explanations of how computers work are a lot of analogies or require a background in electrical engineering, this book will tell you precisely what each of them is and how each of them works without requiring any previous knowledge of computers or electronics.

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Do not thing that learning HTML is difficult. This book is a simple reference book that will guide you to understand HTML. This easy-to-use book explains the fundamentals of HTML and Web development. It is a basic to build your site or blog. It is an essential skill for first-time programmers!

The modular approach of this series--including drills, sample projects, and mastery checks--makes it easy to learn to use this powerful programming language at your own pace.

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What can you get from this book? Even this is an old book but you can get benefit from this book. Here are the summary.

This introductory book of idioms is designed to be used in advanced-beginning and intermediate classes of ESUEFL and is appropriate for adult, college-level, or secondary school students.

An idiom is a group of two or more words that has a special meaning different from the meanings of its component parts. The idioms in this book have been selected with regard to frequency of use and degree of difficulty. The lesson design is based on the following here:

• Advanced beginners and intermediate students have encountered idioms and are curious about them.
• These students can and should learn to understand and use idioms.
• To attain fluency learners must come away from the lesson with a clear understanding
• of the idioms in both situational and grammatical contexts.
• A feeling of accomplishment will result when students have had intensive practice in the use of a few idioms at a time. Memorization of long lists of idioms that they cannot use confidently will result in discouragement and apathy.

The text consists of twenty self-contained lessons. There is a review section after every four lessons, and a crossword puzzle follows lessons 10 and 20. The book will reinforce students' grammar, writing, and conversation skills. Manipulation of statements, questions, and negatives in the simple present, present continuous, simple past, and future tenses is required throughout. As a rule, items requiring familiarity with the present perfect are located in the second half of the book.

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This book will guide you how to sound like a native English speaker in six easy lessons. This is an audio-book.

Even though you know the vocabulary and the endless grammar rules, you still find it difficult to pronounce English words correctly. This struggle with your new language can make communicating with native English speakers a frustrating experience for both you and them. Now you can gain confidence in your English skills and speak like an American with this focused, non-intimidating program.


Improve Your American English Accent is an easy and enjoyable way to learn and master the most challenging American English speech characteristics, such as:

• The most troublesome of sixteen American English vowel sounds.
• The duration of vowel sounds.
• Differences in stressed and unstressed syllables and words.
• How a sound is changed by the sounds that come before and after it.
• Stress in words and phrases and how it influences timing.

The CDs present six 35-minute lessons, each one covering key obstacles faced by nonnative English speakers. Author Charlsie Childs is your own personal tutor, talking you through her proven methods for overcoming the tricks of English pronunciation. Accompanying the CDs is a booklet containing written pronunciation guidelines and transcriptions of the sounds, words, and sentences you encounter on the recording.

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This is about Idioms. This book explains idioms that most we uses them every day.
Hoping you enjoy it and success with this book.

Features of this book:

• 30 realistic and lively passages dealing with everyday situations
• Each passage containing expressions frequently found in everyday conversation
• Clear explanations of useful expressions, lots of example sentences and Language Help notes
• Exercises for self-testing with answer key

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In the sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. Such spatial uses of signs are an obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing. There is no parallel for this in vocally produced languages.

his book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs and demonstrates a remarkable integration of grammar and gesture in the service of constructing meaning.

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This book is a new edition that is designed to prepare students for the TOEFL® iBT test, administered online. The complete package for self-study includes the student book with hundreds of skill-building exercises, the full audio program on audio CDs for use with the exercises and practice tests in the book, and the CD-ROM with seven practice tests.
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This book is a course book and a reference grammar for students and their teachers. Although it is based on the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE), the Student Grammar is much more than just an abbreviated LGSWE. Rather, we have simplified and reorganized the content of the LGSWE, avoiding much technical detail while retaining the strengths of the larger book. For example, like the LGSWE, the Student Grammar contains over 3,000 authentic English examples, and contrasts the major patterns of use in spoken and written registers. However, we have simplified the presentation when possible; for example, we have tried hard to find new and simpler extracts from our corpus data, often replacing more complex examples in LGSWE.


Of the five authors of LGSWE, we three owe a debt of gratitude to our two other co-authors: Stig Johansson and Ed Finegan. We benefited from the work that Stig and Ed did on the LGSWE during our writing of the Student Grammar. We would also like to thank the students in English 528 at Northern Arizona University, who used a draft of the Student Grammar as their grammar textbook and provided numerous helpful comments and suggestions for revision.

To support the educational use of the Student Grammar, we have also written a Workbook, which can be used as a classroom textbook or for self-study by students. The Workbook provides exercises based on authentic English texts and sentences, linked directly to the Grammar Bites in the present book.

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ESL students taking intermediate-level courses will find this book a helpful supplement to their classroom textbook. Just as important, they'll see it as a reliable guide to the intricacies of idiomatic American English. Why, after all, should a newcomer to the English language be expected to make sense out of such phrases as get on the ball...make a beeline...have a bone to pick? These and dozens more phrases are explained, "translated" into more formal English, and repeated in various contexts.

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The curriculum vitae, commonly referred to as a CV, Vita, or Vitae, is a detailed biographical description of one’s educational and work background. It differs from a resume, a one-page description of one’s work experience and educational background not only in length but also in detail.

The origin of the term curriculum vitae is Latin and means the course of one’s life or career. A CV includes detailed information regarding one’s academic coursework, professional experiences, publications, and so on.


The curriculum vitae, long in use among professionals in higher education, has gained currency among undergraduates applying for admission to graduate and professional schools, as well as among applicants for selected areas of employment such as those in research, teaching, and management.

Moreover, because of the growing tendency to use brief application forms, often only two pages long, some graduate and professional programs actually encourage applicants to enclose a CV with their applications. For these reasons, the curriculum vitae are often referred to as an academic resume.

The sample of curricula vitae are in Chapters 5, 6, and 7.

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Writing about Mother Teresa can be both a frustrating and challenging exercise. On the surface, she appears almost one-dimensional, living a simple life devoted to her calling and her faith. Closer inspection, however, reveals a personality so rife with contradictions that it is difficult to explain her motives and purposes.

What is the reality? What finally can a biographer conclude about the life of Mother Teresa? In many ways, Mother Teresa defies the biographer’s art. Her life is not interesting. There are, or seem to be, no great adventures, no great crises, no great sorrows, no great turning points. Most biographies of her are so reverential and so one-dimensional, that it is easy to forget that she was a human being and did not from birth belong to the ages. Even a list of her numerous accomplishments and awards does little to capture her inner life. She did not appear to suffer from the terrible internal conflicts, hardships, or adversities that often mark a great and memorable life. Rather, her life was mundane and ordinary, and she never pretended it to be otherwise. Perhaps, though, her very ordinariness provides a starting point for the biographer.


How did this unexceptional woman captivate and console so many that she has come to take her place among the monumental personalities of the age? Mother Teresa, however, was something of an artful dodger. When asked about most any topic, but especially herself, she uttered platitudes and pieties that sounded almost meaningless. She concealed herself behind them. Yet, coming from her, these expressions had a ring of truth. That may be because the story of Mother Teresa is not the story of a great life in the modern sense. Mother Teresa was not a celebrity. On the con-trary, hers was a life lived on a different principle. She devoted herself to an old-fashioned sense of calling. She worked among the poor of Calcutta because she believed it is what God required of her. She would have done the same work in anonymity if she herself had lived and died in obcurity.It is that devotion that makes the life of Mother Teresa so interesting.

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This book is an up-to-date reference book to over 11,000 specialist nursing terms.
This fully updated edition offers over 11,000 entries, each providing clear, up-to-date coverage of specialist nursing terms including diseases, symptoms, anatomy, instruments, common drugs and biological terms. It covers both everyday vocabulary relating to patient care and terms from medical specializations such as psychiatry.

It provides the user with a complete guide to the vocabulary likely to be encountered by nurses (and other health care professionals) in their day-to-day work.

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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects 7!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe After Effects, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an After Effects artist. You'll get thorough training in digital video effects and production as well as learn about After Effects 7.0's new features, including motion tracking, powerful animation and keyframing controls, HDR color support, network rendering, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

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This is a book that will guide you how to tune and accelerate your PC.

From choosing overclocking tools and setting the optimal mode to allowing the fulfillment of the potential of a PC's components, this reference discusses solutions to the problem of computers that do not performing well enough to accommodate your requested tasks. Examined are the particular features of using processors, memory, video adapters, and hard drives both in moderate and extreme modes while trying to obtain a substantial rise in performance for both old computers and computers that contain more modern components.

The results of testing computers with various configurations that have overclocked components are also demonstrated. A list of helpful web sites pertaining to acceleration is provided, as well as a guide to choosing components. Also covered are several advanced overclocking topics such as ways of making the CPU and motherboard compatible and the problems with overclocking IDE devices.

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By: Brenda Holloway, Cheryl Moredich, Kathie Aduddell

Publisher: F. A. Davis Company

A Davis's Notes book. OB Peds Women's Health Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide provides students and clinicians quick access to detailed information in OB/Women's Health and pediatric clinical practice. It will help not only with situations for which there has been no preparation but also as a quick review for newly learned patient care information. The focus will be on key issues with brief inclusion of supporting theories such as those related to growth and development and patient teaching.

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Every day, millions of users log on to their favorite online forums and interact with others to get advice and discuss everything from the latest news and trends to their hobbies to their professions to whatever else strikes their fancy. Administrators have to lead these communities, deal with difficult users, and choose moderators. Legal constraints, spammers, and technical issues can turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be a pleasure.


Patrick O’Keefe has spent years developing and managing online communities. Now, he shows readers how to make the right decisions about every aspect of their forums, including:

• choosing a name and domain name
• picking the right software
• deciding on user options like avatars and private messaging
• setting guidelines and dealing with violators
• ensuring that posts stay on topic
• settling online disputes among users

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This ebook ia an important book for who wants to make the most of Windows Server 2008 as production environments with a deep understanding of its technical details. However, accurate and reliable information is scarce, and even most skilled Windows professionals don’t know Windows Server 2008 as well as they should. The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008brings together more than 1,500 pages of practical Windows Server 2008 insight and in-depth knowledge that you can’t find anywhere else, all based on final code.


John Savill—one of the world’s most visible and trusted experts on Windows Server technology—specializes in helping real companies use Windows Server 2008 to run their businesses. His access to Microsoft’s product team as a Microsoft MVP and one of 50 elite “Windows Server 2008 Delta Force Rangers” benefited this book’s accuracy and value.

This book contain the topics following here:

• Deployment planning, implementing, and managing new features, including Windows Server Core and Hyper-V virtualization
• Choosing the right installation and upgrade options for your environment
• Securing Windows Server 2008: authentication, authorization, BitLocker, certification services, and more
• Implementing TCP/IP, advanced network services, remote access, and thin-client Terminal Services
• Active Directory in depth, including Federated Services, Lightweight Directory Services, and Rights Management
• Providing high availability through Network Load Balancing and failover clustering
• Using Windows Deployment Services to quickly deploy multiple servers
• Supporting complex distributed environments with the Distributed File System
• Automating server management with PowerShell and the command prompt
• Integrating Windows Server 2008 with UNIX, Linux, and legacy NetWare servers
• Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 and Vista environments, including an intuitive “how to” index to quickly locate answers to commonly asked questions

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Over 300 pages of detailed information

Recently updated in 2007

In depth analysis of the practical aspects of industrial control technology. From the fundamental aspects of electrical distribution and safety you will discover a comprehensive approach to designing automation architectures.

It Provides a framework to guide you through the design process of your application which we call the PICCS method. It is written by Schneider Electric's automation and industrial control experts.

This book is organized as:

1. Selection guide
2. Electrical power supply
3. Motors and loads
4. Motor starting and protection
5. Motor starters
6. Data acquisition, detection
7. Safety of equipment and personnel
8. Human-machine interface

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A Revision and Applied Anatomy for Clinical Students
Harold Ellis, 2006, Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

It is an Applied Anatomy Book that will very helpful for students and junior doctors.

The content of this Clinical Anatomy book is divided into 6 major parts.
Part 1: Thorax
Part 2: The Abdomen and Pelvis
Part 3: The Upper Limb
Part 4: The Lower Limb
Part 5: The Head and Neck
Part 6: The Central Nervous System

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This book was first published in German as Diabetes und Niere @ 1999, by Christoph Hasslacher and Sonja Bohm, and translated into English by Dr. Joan Marsh @ 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. England

This book contains the information of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and advice for people with diabetes, their families and careers that divided into 9 section.

1. Your fate is in your hands
2. Diabetic Kidney Disease – What is it?
3. Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Nephropathy
4. Management of Diabetic Kidney Disease
5. Diabetics With Kidney Failure Are Threatened in Other Ways
6. What else to consider
7. Prospects Yesterday and Today
8. Special Situations
9. When Kidney Function Fails…

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This Cardiac Nursing 5th edition book now thoroughly updated with current, evidence-based material.

It is recognized as "The Red Reference Book" for nurses caring for patients who have, or are at risk for developing of cardiac diseases. Organized within the framework of the nursing process, this comprehensive clinical reference provides complete information on the assessment, pathophysiology, management, and prevention of heart diseases and details the rationale and evidence for interventions.

This edition has seven brand-new chapters on inflammation, atherosclerosis, genetics, heart rate variability, complementary and alternative medicine, disease management models, and nuclear and other scans. Boxes of evidence-based content have been added within chapters where appropriate.

This book organized as followed here:


Anatomy and Physiology

• Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology
• Systemic Circulation
• Pulmonary Circulation and Gas Transport
• Regulation of Cardiac Output and Blood Pressure

Physiologic and Pathologic Responses

• Genetics
• Inflammation
• Atherosclerosis
• Hematopoiesis, Coagulation, and Bleeding
• Fluid and Electrolyte Balance and Imbalance
• Acid-Base Balance and Imbalances
• Sleep
• Physiologic Adaptations with Aging

Assessment of Heart Disease

• History Taking and Physical Examination
• Laboratory Tests Using Blood
• Radiology Examination of the Chest
• Echocardiography
• Nuclear and Other Imaging Studies
• Electrocardiography
• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances
• Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures
• Exercise Testing
• Cardiac Catheterization
• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Heart Rate Variability

Pathophysiology and Management of Heart Disease

• Pathophysiology of Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Interventional Cardiology Techniques
• Heart Failure
• Cardiac Surgery
• Acute Heart Failure and Shock
• Sudden Cardiac Death and Cardiac Arrest
• Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators
• Acquired Valvular Heart Disease
• Pericardial, Myocardial, and Endocardial Disease
• Congenital Heart Disease

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

• Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors
• Psychosocial Risk Factors: Assessment and Management Interventions
• Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Approach to Managing Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
• Hypertension
• Lipid Management and Coronary Heart Disease
• Exercise and Activity
• Obesity: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Adherence ot Cardiovascular Treatment Regimens
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cardiac and Vascular Disease
• Disease Management Models for Cardiovascular Care

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by Peter J. Watkins (Editor)

The ABC of Diabetes comprises a comprehensive view of the practical issues relating to diagnosis and treatment of diabetes together with very practical advice on the management of its complications. The entire emphasis relates to clinical practice.


This title is now available for the PDA, powered by Skyscape - to buy your copy go to here.

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This fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and revised with new photographs and illustrations. This ABC addresses some of the current most controversial issues such as the role of the midwife and GP, need for decentralisation of management, home births and screening and will be invaluable to GPs, medical students, midwives, nurses and trainee obstetricians.

The contain of ABC Antenatal Care - fourth Edition are:

1. Introduction
2. Organization of antenatal care
3. The changing body in pregnancy
4. Normal antenatal management
5. Checking for fetal wellbeing
6. Detection and management of congenital abnormalities
7. Work in pregnancy
8. Vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy
9. Antenatal medical and surgical problems in pregnancy
10. Raised blood pressure in pregnancy
11. Ante-partum haemorrgage
12. Small gestational age
13. Preterm labor
14. Multiple pregnancy
15. The audit of birth

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This book is Eighth Edition book with full-color classic reference that is the one source every nurse needs for essential patient assessment and treatment guidelines. In an easy-to-read outline format, this clinically focused guide covers all disorders and patient problems in Medical-Surgical, Maternal-Neonatal, Pediatric, and Psychiatric nursing, and includes over 150 step-by-step procedures.

Each chapter incorporates and identifies official guidelines that shape nursing clinical practice. New and expanded material includes several new orthopedic, connective tissue, infectious, and dermatologic conditions, patient safety, personal safety, culturally sensitive care, HIPAA, palliative care, advocacy for the disabled, chest physical therapy, interventional cardiology, hyperbaric therapy, neurologic findings, intracranial monitoring systems, vertebral compression fracture, immunization information, emerging infections, biological weapons preparedness, pediatric asthma guidelines, substance-related disorders, and adolescent problems.

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