Discover the most important and groundbreaking milestones in the history of medicine, and the people behind them. From ancient herbal remedies to modern drugs, this accessible medical reference book explores the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine. Inside the pages of this illustrated medicine history book, you’ll discover: - Profiles of more than 90 of the biggest ideas, breakthroughs, and milestones in international medical history - Thought-provoking graphics and flow-charts that demystify the central concepts behind each medical idea - Insightful and inspiring quotes from famous physicians, scientists, politicians, and academics How are illnesses diagnosed? How do vaccinations work? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This informative book about medicine through time answers big questions like these and many more! Packed with pithy explanations, step-by-step diagrams and bright illustrations, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and offers a clear overview of the greatest medical breakthroughs. Learn about major diseases such as cancer and the global eradication of smallpox. Explore new developments in IVF and gene manipulation, as well as medical science’s response to global challenges, such as COVID-19. It’s perfect for medical professionals, students of medicine, or anyone interested in the fascinating medical history of the world.
1620 Руб.
Discover the most important and groundbreaking milestones in the history of medicine, and the people behind them. From ancient herbal remedies to modern drugs, this accessible medical reference book explores the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine. Inside the pages of this illustrated medicine history book, you’ll discover: - Profiles of more than 90 of the biggest ideas, breakthroughs, and milestones in international medical history - Thought-provoking graphics and flow-charts that demystify the central concepts behind each medical idea - Insightful and inspiring quotes from famous physicians, scientists, politicians, and academics How are illnesses diagnosed? How do vaccinations work? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This informative book about medicine through time answers big questions like these and many more! Packed with pithy explanations, step-by-step diagrams and bright illustrations, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and offers a clear overview of the greatest medical breakthroughs. Learn about major diseases such as cancer and the global eradication of smallpox. Explore new developments in IVF and gene manipulation, as well as medical science’s response to global challenges, such as COVID-19. It’s perfect for medical professionals, students of medicine, or anyone interested in the fascinating medical history of the world.
1620 Руб.
See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book. Discover medicine through time! Here's what you'll find in this illustrated history book about medicine: - Offers a broad and accessible visual history of medicine - from the first herbal remedies to the attempt to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic - Intriguing narratives are illustrated with photographs, paintings, and artefacts - Offers a vivid, compelling, and informative read written in an engaging and colourful style - Excerpts from documents, diaries, and notebooks offer fascinating eyewitness accounts This medicine history book charts fascinating developments in diagnosis, surgery, healing and drugs through the ages. Feature spreads explore key medical concepts in detail and enhance the reader's understanding of human anatomy, surgical instruments, and medical developments. Clear diagrams explain major diseases such as cancer, and trace the progression of medical treatment through time, from ancient healing arts to scurvy and smallpox to modern psychiatry. Double-page features tell the story of the men and women involved in the extraordinary evolution of this scientific field - from Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale. It's the perfect book for medical professionals, students of medicine, or anyone with a keen interest in medicine, science, or social history.
4158 Руб.
Discover the captivating art of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Our dystopian world lies on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found their salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune in the form of a digital Easter egg hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. Wade Watts, an unlikely young hero, decides to join the contest and embarks on a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical world of action, danger, and mystery. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on author Ernest Cline's internationally bestselling book, Ready Player One is a hugely imaginative sci-fi adventure set in a rich virtual world. The Art of Ready Player One explores the creation of the incredible design work for this much-anticipated film, showcasing a wealth of concept art, sketches, storyboards, and other stunning visuals. The book also features exclusive interviews and commentary from the creative team, forming the perfect companion to one of the most anticipated films of 2018.
4364 Руб.
Discover the captivating art of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Our dystopian world lies on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found their salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune in the form of a digital Easter egg hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. Wade Watts, an unlikely young hero, decides to join the contest and embarks on a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical world of action, danger, and mystery. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on author Ernest Cline's internationally bestselling book, Ready Player One is a hugely imaginative sci-fi adventure set in a rich virtual world. The Art of Ready Player One explores the creation of the incredible design work for this much-anticipated film, showcasing a wealth of concept art, sketches, storyboards, and other stunning visuals. The book also features exclusive interviews and commentary from the creative team, forming the perfect companion to one of the most anticipated films of 2018.
4364 Руб.
Discover the most important and groundbreaking milestones in the history of medicine, and the people behind them. From ancient herbal remedies to modern drugs, this accessible medical reference book explores the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine. Inside the pages of this illustrated medicine history book, you'll discover: - Profiles of more than 90 of the biggest ideas, breakthroughs, and milestones in international medical history - Thought-provoking graphics and flow-charts that demystify the central concepts behind each medical idea - Insightful and inspiring quotes from famous physicians, scientists, politicians, and academics How are illnesses diagnosed? How do vaccinations work? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This informative book about medicine through time answers big questions like these and many more! Packed with pithy explanations, step-by-step diagrams and bright illustrations, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and offers a clear overview of the greatest medical breakthroughs. Learn about major diseases such as cancer and the global eradication of smallpox. Explore new developments in IVF and gene manipulation, as well as medical science's response to global challenges, such as COVID-19. It's perfect for medical professionals, students of medicine, or anyone interested in the fascinating medical history of the world.
6186 Руб.
A new approach to understanding hereditary and multifactorial/common diseases, based on the integration of the results of a comprehensive study of their pathogenomics with the use of mathematical and bioinformatical analyzes, made it possible to revise the initial provisions of predictive medicine in accordance with the rules of modern "exact medicine". The publication consists of two parts. The first part presents the history of predictive medicine, its evolution, progress in the study of the human genome and multifactorial diseases, the phenomenon of "disappearing heritability", and predictive genetic testing, in the second - the contribution of predictive medicine to pathogenomics of multifactorial diseases. The book is intended for molecular geneticists, obstetricians-gynecologists, preventive medicine and reproductive specialists, students of medical institutes and biological faculties of universities, and will also be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in the secrets of the genome and its significance for maintaining health and active longevity.
2550 Руб.
Hygiene and preventive medicine .The branch of medical science concerned with the prevention of disease and with promotion of physical and mental health, through study of the etiology and epidemiology of disease processes. .The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases. .Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, is concerned with the interaction between mankind and the environment, is overlapping with environmental pathology. .I am sure that this book needed to our students from Asia, Africa and Latin America to better understand the basic tasks that stand in front of Preventive Medicine and the ways of solving the ecological and hygienic problems, to improve the health of the populations in their countries. Professor A1 Sabounchi A.A.
2829 Руб.
Hygiene and preventive medicine .The branch of medical science concerned with the prevention of disease and with promotion of physical and mental health, through study of the etiology and epidemiology of disease processes. .The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases. .Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, is concerned with the interaction between mankind and the environment, is overlapping with environmental pathology. .I am sure that this book needed to our students from Asia, Africa and Latin America to better understand the basic tasks that stand in front of Preventive Medicine and the ways of solving the ecological and hygienic problems, to improve the health of the populations in their countries. Professor A1 Sabounchi A.A.
2829 Руб.
Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria? These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and supports English across the curriculum, making the series perfect for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Stunning colour photos, maps, diagrams and charts support understanding, while activities and projects develop language and critical thinking skills. Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's website
1323 Руб.
Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich's most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws - two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love. We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw, who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey, June's abandoned son, who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.
2060 Руб.
Course book highlights nine principle topics of the module «First Aid» as a part of the subject «Health and Safety, Disaster Medicine» and contains key questions for each part as well as provisional tests for the students’ self-check. This course book can be helpful for the students taught by means of e-educational systems (including distant learning). The course book is designed for the tertiary medical students taught in English as well as for the foreign students attending classes as a part of the Russian-speaking groups. Besides it can be used as complementary reading by the University students, secondary medical schools students and medical-college students learning English.
825 Руб.
Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic Awards Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia! It is an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales and adventures of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment and True Love. This book contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love? Critics are saying it is probably the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe even since bread knives.
6425 Руб.
Course book highlights nine principle topics of the module "First Aid" as a part of the subject "Health and Safety, Disaster Medicine" and contains key questions for each part as well as provisional tests for the students' self-check. This course book can be helpful for the students taught by means of e-educational systems (including distant learning). .The course book is designed for the tertiary medical students taught in English as well as for the foreign students attending classes as a part of the Russian-speaking groups. Besides it can be used as complementary reading by the University students, secondary medical schools students and medical-college students learning English.
1099 Руб.
Course book highlights nine principle topics of the module "First Aid" as a part of the subject "Health and Safety, Disaster Medicine" and contains key questions for each part as well as provisional tests for the students' self-check. This course book can be helpful for the students taught by means of e-educational systems (including distant learning). .The course book is designed for the tertiary medical students taught in English as well as for the foreign students attending classes as a part of the Russian-speaking groups. Besides it can be used as complementary reading by the University students, secondary medical schools students and medical-college students learning English.
1099 Руб.
A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning.
1774 Руб.