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The specialty of medical retina remains one of the most challenging fields in ophthalmology. Written by world-renowned experts, this authoritative work on medical retina is both comprehensive and practical and will serve the need of all ophthalmologists as well as optometrists and ophthalmic nurses to keep up-to-date with new developments in the important field of medical retina. It encompasses the application of confocal scanning laser ophtha...

This book highlights one small area of homeopathic medicine and gives detailed insight on the use of polycrest remedies in high potency as constitutional homeopathy.

Popular culture stories--found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies--gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties. Aden offers a well-constructed argument that creating a sense of place (and with it a sense of personal identity and community) serves as an important enticement for many popular cultures works. . . . Aden handles contemporary theory deftly [and] does an excellent job of identifying many of the tension...

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Decision modeling is a key area in the developing field of AI, and this timely work connects researchers and professionals with the very latest research. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in August 2007. The 42 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures are devoted to theory and tools, as well as applicati...

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. A leading professor of media and education offers a level headed analysis of the impact of new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.

Written while the author was earning a living as a reporter, columnist, editor, and teacher, this work features poems that explore the great learning experiences of his life, his attraction to New Mexico and Chaco Canyon, and his struggle to make sense of the modern world. It also mirrors the poets self-education.

In this short book Dr Aitchison gives an introduction to quantum electrodynamics, a knowledge of which is essential in understanding modern particle physics.

For generations of Georgia Baptists, Howard P. Giddens is a beloved and respected pastor, teacher, and denominational leader. With sermons that inspire, teach, and convict, Why Be a Christian? will serve as a valuable resource to students and practitioners of preaching.

An annual juried publication, this work takes its name from the ancient story of the Peacemaker, who brought the message of peace to the warring tribes of the Finger Lakes and founded the Haudenosaunee Confederacy on the shores of Syracuse's Onondaga Lake.

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Integrating new technologies into existing library services is the key to meeting user needs. This guide provides advice, detailed examples, implementation ideas, and helpful forecasts for the future roles of four major interactive technologies.

A variety of biological and social science data come in the form of cross-classified tables of counts, commonly referred to as contingency tables. Until recent years the statistical and computational techniques available for the analysis of cross-classified data were quite limited. This book presents some of the recent work on the statistical analysis of cross-classified data using longlinear models, especially in the multidimensional situation.

This book presents Bayes' theorem, the estimation of unknown parameters, the determination of confidence regions and the derivation of tests of hypotheses for the unknown parameters. It does so in a simple manner that is easy to comprehend. The book compares traditional and Bayesian methods with the rules of probability presented in a logical way allowing an intuitive understanding of random variables and their probability distributions to be ...

This book is a volume in the series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry.Itc- ers the key methods used for designing synthetic approaches to heterocycles from carbohydrates and the value and scope of these methods. Carbohydrates are widely distributed in nature and constitute the largest part of renewable biomasses. Moreover, many carbohydrates and their derivatives are comm- cially available at relatively cheap prices. Consequently their utilizat...

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From the deepest seafloor to the highest mountain, from the hottest region to the cold Antarctic plateau, environments labeled as extreme are numerous on Earth and they present a wide variety of features and characteristics. The life processes occurring within these environments are equally diverse, not only depending on stress factors (e.g. temperature, pressure, pH and chemicals) but also on the type of life forms, ranging from microbes to h...

In this comprehensive study of the Dominican Republics Balaguer era, the author draws upon declassified U.S. State Department and military documents and his own experiences as an army attach in the U.S. Embassy, Santo Domingo, during the early 1970s. The result is a unique, inside look at Balaguers presidency, his skillful manipulation of rival officers and cliques, and American involvement in the political history of the Dominican Republic.

The Inheritance is a thriller set largely in Spain during the 1960's. It tells the story of a young New Zealander, David Meiklejohn, who unexpectedly finds himself the heir to an enormous fortune.