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  Infection Control for the Dental...

  Michael V. Martin, Martin R....

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  Infection control is central to the clinical practice of dentistry. This book deals with infection control risk, medical histories and personal protection, surgery design and equipment, instrument decontamination, disinfection and ethical and legal responsibilities in infection control. It explains the reasons why we perform infection control and practical ways to do it and will be of interest and practical help to all the dental team.

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  Wait Five Minutes - Weatherlore...

  Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins

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  The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena.Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore.As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world.

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  The Dark Age of Tanks -...

  David Lister

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  A British tank historian sheds new light on the UK’s Cold War era research and development of cutting-edge military vehicles and anti-tank weaponry. 
   
  In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Yet, due to the lack of surviving documentation, comparatively little is known about this period. What does survive, however, reveals the British Army’s struggle to use cutting edge technology to create weapons that could crush the Soviet Union's armed forces, all the while fighting against the demands of Her Majesty's Treasury. 
   
  On this journey, the Army entertained ideas such as massive 183mm anti-tank guns, devastating rocket artillery, colossal anti-tank guided missiles, and micro-tanks operable by crews of only two. At one point, they were on the cusp of building hover tanks. This book explores a time period of increasing importance in military engineering history and brings much-needed light to the dark age of British tanks.

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  Emergency Care For Beginners -...

  Branda Nurt

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  We’ve all seen someone with an orthopedic cast, and some of us have had the misfortune of living the experience of having a fractured bone. We all have a idea of what’s a fracture is, but only a small percentage of the population is able to understand and treat a fracture correctly.  
  If you’re aware of the dangers of a fractured bone, and you’re worried about how an accident could change the health of your family, and you want to do something about it, then this book is the right book for you. Everything that you need to know regarding the approach to a fracture is right here in this book.  
  This book will teach you about identifying and treating fractures. You’ll learn basic knowledge about anatomy, source of fractures, and how to get an injured person to a hospital. You’ll understand the different types of fractures, how to treat them if the person is an adult or a child, and how to limit the damage to this person during the whole process.  
  Those who don’t have the required skills and knowledge are doomed to cause more harm than good in the management of fractures. It’s very easy to engage a fracture in the right way; however, the slightest mistake could be very dangerous and have awful consequences for the injured person. The management of a fractured bone can easily go wrong, which is why it’s so important to be sure of what you’re doing.  
  You can’t put a price on your safety, and the safety of those around you. You have the power to turn a dangerous injury that could become a disability into a healed and normal limb. You can make a huge difference in the life of those around you, and all you need to learn in order to do what is written inside this book.  
  Don’t overlook the possibility of saving a limb. Take your family’s health and safety seriously, and learn how to act and engage the situation of a possible fracture the best way you can.

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  Speechless - Understanding...

  Rosemary Sage

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  As the world has rapidly changed, how do we best prepare young people for the future? How do we adapt to the fact that children may now spend more time looking at a screen than engaging in actual conversation? 
  Speechless unpicks the political, economic and social issues surrounding education that pose challenges in schools, colleges and universities, as well as workplaces. These suggest that a different approach to learning, assessing, teaching and training is needed to develop relevant experiences that allow all students to achieve their potential. 
  Learners show a huge range of abilities and interests that they must share, with only a broad, varied, flexible curriculum satisfying their needs. 
  Heeding student voices and expecting them to pay attention to their teachers and each other is important in building respect for everyone, whatever their background. Sharing knowledge brings awareness of what you know and need to acquire. Speechless, with both facts and humour, makes a passionate case as to why teachers must talk with their students and not just to them.

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  Bitter Pills - The Global War on...

  Muhammad H. Zaman

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  The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use, has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the U.S. drug supply. Today, an estimated 80% of our drugs are manufactured overseas, mostly in India and China. Every link along this supply chain offers an opportunity for counterfeiters, and increasingly, they are breaking in. In 2008, fake doses of the blood thinner Heparin killed 81 people worldwide. In 2012, a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin, containing no active chemotherapy ingredient, was widely distributed in the United States. In early 2013, a drug trafficker was sentenced to prison for distributing an assortment of counterfeit, Chinese-made pharmaceuticals across America. By the time he was arrested, he had already sold over 140,000 fake pills to customers. 
  Even when the U.S. system works, consumers are increasingly circumventing the safeguards. Skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S. have forced more Americans to become "medical tourists" seeking drugs, life-saving treatments, and transplants abroad, sometimes in countries with rampant counterfeit drug problems and no FDA. Bitter Pills will heighten the public's awareness about counterfeit drugs, critically examine possible solutions, and help people protect themselves.

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