Sunday, September 1, 2013

Psychology and Work Today


Psychology and Work Today (10th Edition) [Hardcover]

Author: Sydney Ellen Schultz | Language: English | ISBN: 0205683584 | Format: PDF, EPUB

Psychology and Work Today
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an invaluable foundation for anyone entering today’s global business and industrial world.  This informative, sophisticated, and entertaining text teaches students about the nature of work in modern society by focusing on the practical and applied rather than the scientific ideal. Human resource development (employee selection, psychological testing, performance appraisal, and training); leadership, motivation, job satisfaction, and job involvement; working conditions, safety, violence, and health in the workplace. An excellent handbook for all human resource employees, as well as managers, executives, and others responsible for hiring personnel.

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  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson; 10 edition (March 26, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0205683584
  • ISBN-13: 978-0205683581
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I just received this text book and am using it for an I/O Psychology class this semester. I opened it up to skim through it and couldn't stop reading.
By RW_Perez
This book is very user friendly and easy to comprehend! The answer to all your questions are right there and you don't have to spend a lot of time searching for it. It's a great tool to use, especially when you are pressed for time.
By Mercydyes R Small

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Becoming a Helper


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Becoming a Helper
You can download Becoming a Helper for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Ideal for anyone embarking on or considering a career in the helping professions, BECOMING A HELPER, Sixth Edition provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while teaching students the skills and knowledge they need to become successful helping professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties students often encounter on the road to becoming effective helpers. In addition, the text emphasizes self-reflection on a number of professional issues and challenges readers to examine their motives for choosing a helping career. Finally, the authors help students decide if a career in the helping professions is right for them by asking them to take a candid look at the demands and strains they'll face in the helping professions.
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  • Publisher: Cengage Learning; 6 edition (September 24, 2013)
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Being in a BA program for Human Services for the last 3.5 years, I've read three or four Corey texts. In general, they write a good, comprehensive book, and this one is no different. This serves as an excellent entry point to many of the topics that should be addressed when entering the helping field, including ethical issues, internal conflict, boundaries with clients, and cultural understandings. That being said, I've been assigned it as a text in my 4th year and it is a bit late in my studies to use a text such as this. Regardless, it has good information to offer and I recommend it.
By Brian Hazard
The Coreys do just about everything that can be expected from an introduction to the field of counseling. They set the expectation of becoming a pretty good listener and responder, and present many helpful strategies to achieve that goal. In Chapter 4, they explore some of the difficulties a beginner will face, especially the section on "Understanding and Dealing with Difficult Clients." Their approach, however, is very mainstream, which leaves slim pickings for such fields as substance abuse counseling or working with troubled youth. It is a good first text, but requires supplemental readings for those interested in a survey of the various counseling fields in the profession.
By S. Reno

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Unaccountable


Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care [Kindle Edition]

Author: Martin Makary | Language: English | ISBN: B008RYD43G | Format: PDF, EPUB

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Free download Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care from with Mediafire Link Download Link Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why?

To patients, the healthcare system is a black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws unchecked. Patients need to know more of what healthcare workers know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system. Books with free ebook downloads available Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care [Kindle Edition]
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2012)
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Dr. Marty Makary, a cancer surgeon at the renowned John's Hopkins School of Medicine, has written a provocative, well-researched, and quite scary book that should be read by physicians, nurses, patients, and hospital administrators. Here are some shocking statistics he gives: One in four hospital patients is hurt by a medical mistake. Thirty to forty percent of our health care dollars pays for fraudulent or unnecessary care. Ten to fifteen percent of patients are not given all their options regarding their care. Possibly the most shocking statistic of all: surgeons operate on the wrong body part 40 times per week!

To a physician like myself, these statistics are unfortunately not all that surprising. Medicine is administered by humans, and thus subject to human error. Makary writes that the key to improving health care outcomes (and excess cost) is greater transparency. Basically, doctors and hospitals need to be more open with their complication rates, alternative treatments, and be more willing to prevent bad doctors from practicing medicine. Because doctors and hospitals won't make these changes, the key is patient empowerment.

In that way Makary's book pushes patients to act in their best interests and not accept the status quo. It hearkens back to his contributions with author and medical essayist Atul Gawande in The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. In my hospital, as many others around the country, many of his recommendations are, in fact, being instituted such as with the Keystone initiative. I believe Makary makes some great points which should be seriously considered by hospital administrators and physician leaders.

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McKee's Pathology of the Skin


McKee's Pathology of the Skin: Expert Consult - Online and Print 2 Vol Set, 4e [Hardcover]

Author: J. Eduardo Calonje MD DipRCPath Thomas Brenn MD PhD FRCPath Alexander J Lazar MD PhD Phillip H. McKee MD FRCPath | Language: English | ISBN: 1416056491 | Format: PDF, EPUB

McKee's Pathology of the Skin: Expert Consult - Online and Print 2 Vol Set, 4e
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McKee's Pathology of the Skin is the most complete, in-depth resource on dermatopathology, covering etiology, pathogenesis, disease mechanisms, and recent genetic, molecular, and basic science data. Drs. J. Eduardo Calonje, Thomas Brenn, Alexander Lazar, and Phillip McKee present new illustrations, updated chapters, and coverage of new entities such as lymphomas, cutaneous tissue tumors, diseases of the nail, and more in this extensively revised fourth edition. This new edition is an absolute must for practicing dermatopathologists and general pathologists who sign out skin biopsies.  It has over 5,000 images and new chapters on the pathology of HIV/AIDS, conjunctival tumors, sentinel lymph node biopsies, laboratory techniques in dermatopathology and a section on the pathology of salivary gland tumors. Also, the chapters on disorders of keratinization and diseases of the nails have been completely updated. With access to the full text, image and video bank online at www.expertconsult.com, you'll have convenient access to the guidance you need to formulate the most accurate reports.

  • Recognize all the histological variations of any skin condition through coverage that integrates dermatopathology, clinical correlations, and clinical photographs.

  • Easily reference key points thanks to bulleted lists of clinical features and differential diagnosis tables.

  • Diagnose accurately using over 5,000 histopathologic and clinical illustrations that demonstrate the range of histologic manifestations.
  • Stay current with updated and expanded coverage of diseases of the nail, cutaneous connective tissue tumors, tumors of the lymphoreticular system, and conjunctiva specimens.

  • Minimize errors and formulate accurate reports by applying up-to-date molecular research tools, classification guidelines, immunohistochemical practices, and more.

  • Effectively correlate your findings with clinical features through all-new, high-quality illustrations-none repeated from the previous editions-for each diagnostic entity.

  • Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with a downloadable image bank and a link to PathConsult.

McKee brings you the latest developments in the rapidly changing field of skin pathology which includes ALL new images

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  • Hardcover: 1906 pages
  • Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (September 29, 2011)
  • Language: English
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Elsevier, in collaboration with Inkling, has crippled online access to this reference. Until February, 2014, Elsevier's ExpertConsultBook online reference books have been fantastic - easy to navigate, intuitive to search across your titles, and efficient to use. Elsevier has shut that down and replaced it with Inkling's clumsy e-book reader. Easy to read. Not easy to use as online reference to find answers to particular diagnostic problems.

With ExpertConsult/Inkling you can no longer search across your purchased books at one go. You have to open and search within each book individually. Open your online book and you get three columns: a navigation column with list of chapters, a reading column, and a notes column (wasting valuable screen space). You have to click the search icon to get a text entry box. Search results then replace the index in the navigation column, 10 at a time, 4-5 visible on a typical computer screen. To review your search results you have to scroll down through the first 10, then click next, then scroll down through the next 10, then click next, ten at a time. The contexts of individual search results are obscure. It shows a little text where your search term appears, but not which chapter or section it is in. Figures (often lots of them) are included in your results list. Individual search results are headed with figure number (not caption, not chapter or section heading) or sub-section titles. Even in the reading pane you can't see chapter and section titles, so you don't know what part of the book you're in. You are limited to linear access through the book - with links to previous and next sections at the top and bottom of the reading pane. To get to the next sub-section you have to scroll down to the bottom of the current sub-section. In order to navigate the index to different chapters or sections you have to exit your search results to get back the index pane.
By Forrest Ritland
The book is very helpful in assessing skin specimens and I would recommend it for your library. The illustrations are very good.
By David W. Ohrt

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Vision for Life


Vision for Life: Ten Steps to Natural Eyesight Improvement Paperback – October 2, 2012

Author: Visit Amazon's Meir Schneider Page | Language: English | ISBN: 158394494X | Format: PDF, EPUB

Vision for Life: Ten Steps to Natural Eyesight Improvement – October 2, 2012
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"I have been impressed with the work of Meir Schneider for many years, having personally seen the improvements in vision of those who have worked with him."
—August Reader III, MD, FACS, Clinical Professor of Opthalmology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco and Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles

"Meir Schneider's mastery empowers the reader to move beyond the 'incurable diagnosis' toward the profound process of self-healing."
—Dr. Jacob Liberman, author of Light: Medicine of the Future

"What a book! Meir Schneider has created a magnificent, inspiring, and empowering work. This book is an essential and joyful treasure for all those looking for a teacher to help them heal and create health. I highly recommend it."
—Raymond Francis, author of Never Be Sick Again

"In this generous book, Meir Schneider shares the secrets, won through his own movingly documented triumph over near-blindness, of strengthening, rejuvenating, and healing the eyes by activating the body's own intelligence.  A man of vision in every sense, he offers a program of exercises that is both inspiring and eminently practicable."
—Timothy Crouse, author of The Boys on the Bus 

"This remarkable true story is a tonic for everyone who believes in the creative power of the human will."
—Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy

“Based on the Bates Method, Meir Schneider’s self-healing system has complemented my practice in those cases where our traditional medicine has its limitations.”
—Leonardo Verri Paulino, MD, ophthalmologist and anterior segment surgeon at ABC Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
 
“Working with my patients has verified that many sight problems get better and heal by taking up the right habits. Meir Schneider presents us with a complete guide to doing so.”
—Amelia Salvador, MD, ophthalmologist, Alicante, Spain

"Meir Schneider's courage to rise to life's challenges with determination and deep personal confidence is an inspiration for us all. His personal story demonstrates that deep commitment to hard work can pay dividends that may seem impossible and that almost anything is possible if you believe in yourself."
—Len Saputo, MD, founder and director of Health Medicine Institute

“[Vision For Life] comes from an author born legally blind, who taught himself to see and in the process developed an innovative program of healing that has helped thousands of others. Exercises are designed to create healthier eyes, reserve developing issues before they cause damage, and help remedy common problems from near- and far-sightedness and lazy eye to glaucoma or macular degeneration.”
—Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Named one of the ten most inspirational people of Israel by a top national Israeli news program, Meir Schneider is the founder and head teacher of the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco, which offers programs that satisfy the continuing education requirements of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) and the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). The School for Self-Healing has helped hundreds of thousands of people seeking solutions to chronic health conditions, including many people with vision problems. Born blind, Schneider taught himself to see and over 40 years developed a pioneering program of healing and recovery for the sighted and the blind, sharing his remarkable results not only at the School for Self-Healing, but also in popular books, CDs, and DVDs.

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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 Pap/Chrt edition (October 2, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 158394494X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1583944943
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There are many books and programs available to assist people in improving their vision naturally. As a person who has worn minus lenses for nearsightedness for almost fifty years, I definitely have a strong desire to at least improve my vision, and in an ideal world to reach the point where I could be able to take my glasses off permanently. While the latter goal might not be realistic at my age, based on reading this book I have no doubt whatsoever that Meir Schneider has provided all the tools necessary for me to at least reduce my prescription by more than just a nominal amount.

The reality is, who better to teach natural vision improvement than Meir Schneider, a man who actually was legally blind at one point, and who now has an unrestricted driver's license in California? Meir's personal story is very inspirational to say the least, and it clearly demonstrates that traditional ophthalmologists and optometrists, those who unquestionably believe that eyesight cannot improve without corrective lenses or laser surgery, are just flat out misinformed.

In addition to his own personal experience, throughout this book Schneider cites examples of people who have applied his prescribed exercises and experienced significant improvements in their visual skills. Is it easy, no, it's not; just like training one's legs for a marathon, training the eyes to see better requires a commitment to regularly completing the eye exercises recommended in the book, and to opening one's mind to understand that vision is more than just eyes capturing light and sending images to the brain. There is an emotional component to vision quality as well, and the impact of that component on a person's daily view of the world should not be understated.

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Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual


Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual (Mayo Clinic Scientific Press) [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]

Author: Samuel J. Asirvatham | Language: English | ISBN: B00HNSNV3U | Format: PDF, EPUB

Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual
Download for free books Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual is the first comprehensive guide to the electrical activity of biological cells and tissues and the techniques of electrophysiology. Through a case-based discussion of patients with arrhythmias, the book illustrates the various contemporary techniques for diagnosis, imaging, and physiology-based therapeutic ablation.
Section One addresses the basics of electrophysiology, including device placement, recording, measurement, diagnosis, imaging, amperometry, and physiology-based therapeutic ablation, helping the reader appreciate and more fully understand the complexity and lessons of the emergent specialty. The second section is a case-based discussion of adult and pediatric arrhythmias broken down into twenty patient case studies intended to help the student and clinician apply their understanding of electrophysiology to real presentations, and think about how to plan and execute invasive study and ablation. Each of the twenty case chapters features a question and answer section in order to aid study and retention of material.
Replete with full-page color images of intracardiac electrograms, fluoroscopic images, ultrasound images, advanced mapping, and correlated anatomic dissection, Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual is the first focused exploration of the topic and is specifically designed to help both students and practitioners understand and integrate techniques into their daily practice. At present, clinicians have to piece together information on electrophysiology from a variety of sources, often leaving gaps in knowledge. Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual provides the clinician with a single authoritative guide and quick reference. Through in-depth analysis of electrophysiological techniques and an understanding of the anatomic and physiological basis for present day mapping, image integration, and ablation, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, practicing physicians, researchers, and experts in electrophysiology.
Includes 12 months of free online access with purchase. Books with free ebook downloads available Mayo Clinic Electrophysiology Manual (Mayo Clinic Scientific Press) [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 Pck Pap/ edition (August 14, 2013)
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excellent
By Hany Abed
Goes through aspects of clinical EP directly relevant to daily procedures in the EP lab, including details and pitfalls in electrogram interpretation, fluoroscopic views, electroanatomic mapping, imaging, diagnostic maneuvers and ablation.
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The Cancer Chronicles


The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery (Vintage) [Kindle Edition]

Author: George Johnson | Language: English | ISBN: B00BO4GR6W | Format: PDF, EPUB

The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease.

Deftly excavating and illuminating decades of investigation and analysis, he reveals what we know and don’t know about cancer, showing why a cure remains such a slippery concept. We follow him as he combs through the realms of epidemiology, clinical trials, laboratory experiments, and scientific hypotheses—rooted in every discipline from evolutionary biology to game theory and physics. Cogently extracting fact from a towering canon of myth and hype, he describes tumors that evolve like alien creatures inside the body, paleo-oncologists who uncover petrified tumors clinging to the skeletons of dinosaurs and ancient human ancestors, and the surprising reversals in science’s comprehension of the causes of cancer, with the foods we eat and environmental toxins playing a lesser role. Perhaps most fascinating of all is how cancer borrows natural processes involved in the healing of a wound or the unfolding of a human embryo and turns them, jujitsu-like, against the body.

Throughout his pursuit, Johnson clarifies the human experience of cancer with elegiac grace, bearing witness to the punishing gauntlet of consultations, surgeries, targeted therapies, and other treatments. He finds compassion, solace, and community among a vast network of patients and professionals committed to the fight and wrestles to comprehend the cruel randomness cancer metes out in his own family. For anyone whose life has been affected by cancer and has found themselves asking why?, this book provides a new understanding. In good company with the works of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese, The Cancer Chronicles is endlessly surprising and as radiant in its prose as it is authoritative in its eye-opening science. 

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  • Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (August 27, 2013)
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Science-writer George Johnson and his wife heard three words that changed their lives - "you've got cancer" - when she was diagnosed with a metastatic uterine form of the disease. As a result, Johnson embarked on a quest to learn everything he could about cancer and has written an interesting overview of what is known, which turns out to be less than you might hope. Cancer is not one disease but many and has been around a long time, and evidence of different cancers have even been found in dinosaur fossils. In fact, it has been with mankind as long as we've been around, but if it seems to be increasing it's only because we're living longer. With some cruel exceptions, cancer is mostly a disease of older people but, beyond age, the only other reliable factors that can be said to cause cancer are smoking and obesity.

If you're looking for a positive, upbeat, "let's beat Cancer!" kind of book, this probably isn't it. Johnson says that while we've made significant strides, our understanding of why it happens and how to treat it still has a long way to go. He points out that studies are frequently flawed and inconclusive, and recommendations that eating fruits and vegetables or any particular food will help prevent cancer do not hold up under more rigorous testing. There is some correlation that exercise and maintaining a healthy body and diet helps, but the benefits are often small and disputed. And as he discusses the effects of drinking water tainted with chemical pollutants he illustrates very well why it is so difficult to *prove* causation. Even if a specific chemical or activity can be linked to a 30% increase in cancer (which sounds very dramatic), if your odds were only 1.2% in the beginning it only translates to new odds of 1.
I was eager to read this book because, as a surgeon, I am always searching for new information,fresh ideas and innovative techniques in the management of cancer.

I read the 280+ pages of The Cancer Chronicles hoping maybe to discover a new treatment, or a novel approach or cutting edge therapy to combat this vicious disease that has plagued all living creatures since life began on earth. Tumors have been found in fossils of dinosaurs.
Sadly I found nothing new; the promised "explosive new ideas" touted by the publicity hype were neither new nor explosive, but just fizzled. Most of it was common routine knowledge in the medical field. On page 17, I learned that "mammals appear to get more cancer than reptiles or fish. Domesticated animals seem to get more cancer than their cousins in the wild. And people get the most cancer of all." It is a great piece of information with which to stomp your friends at trivia.
Even some information was inaccurate; the author confuses the function of free radicals with antioxidants.

The book touches on the genesis of cancer, mostly unknown except for a few causative relationships such as smoking and environmental hazards (Eg. asbestos) associated with mainly with lung cancers. It correctly challenges the myths of unproven causal links between cancer, the environment or diet. Many studies are inconclusive, flawed or biased.
Screening tests like mammograms, PSA and CA 125 are not specific or sensitive enough for an absolute diagnosis and often result in a false positive, leading to unnecessary, often radical, treatment. Ideally, early diagnosis and treatment lead to cure; best examples of screening are Pap smears and colonoscopy that can detect pre-cancerous lesions and allow early therapy.

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