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This book is designed specifically for candidates preparing for the MRCS Viva examination. The format of the exam has been used in the book's structure, with over 1000 questions to illustrate the key points of over 200 topics. The book has been divided into 6 main chapters corresponding to a viva 'station' in the exam. Each chapter begins with a check-list of the main topics and themes covered by the exam, and information is then subdivided logically within the chapter itself. Key 'pass-or-fail' concepts are covered, and in some cases, topics are covered in more detail than will be asked in the exam, so the candidate can be confident that they will be fully prepared. ... Read more

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Learn how to improve measurement, management, and accountability of your entity. This research report includes:

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Today's communities—whether they are currently strong, or struggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they want to be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge for leaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solve specific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learning from their experience so they can keep improving their communities tomorrow.

Results That Matter will provide a new governance framework for using valuable tools of community improvement—especially performance measurement and citizen engagement—to empower communities to achieve the outcomes their citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers will learn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieve one-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but to foster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefits and practicality of the framework and related practices will be reinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country. The book will offer "how to" guidance to public and nonprofit managers, including promising practices for effective communities, and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers. ... Read more

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I am using this book as part of my background literature which will be cited in my master's thesis work for my Executive Master of Public Administration ~ my work is focusing on analysis of whether dialogue methodologies presently used by local governments in California significantly and measurably influence decision-making processes.This book is an excellent resource for any serious researcher doing work in the fields of civic engagement / dialogue. ... Read more

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Title: Physician to an ailing planet: Paul Epstein explains to Claudia Dreifus why global warming is hazardous to your health.(Q+A)(Interview)
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28Issue: 1Page: 8(2)

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Chapters: Hannelore Kohl, Felix Hausdorff, Albert Ballin, Marek Hłasko, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Epstein. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marek Hasko (14 January 1934 in Warsaw 14 June 1969 in Wiesbaden, Germany) a writer and a famous figure of Polish post-war literature. Haskos biography is highly mythologized, and many of the legends about his life he spread himself. Marek was born in Warsaw, as the only son of Maciej Hasko and Maria ucja, née Rosiak . At first he was living with his parents in Zotokos, later they moved to Warsaw. In Haskos family children were baptised relatively late, hence the writer-to-be was baptized on 26 December 1935 in the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Warsaw . It is said that during the baptism ceremony when asked if he renounces the evil spirits Marek answered no. Later these words were reported as the evidence of Mareks strong character. Hasko was three years old when his parents divorced in 1937. Maciej remarried a year later. He died on 13 September 1939, when his only son was five. The war left its stamp on Mareks psyche, later he wrote "it is obvious to me that I am a product of war times, starvation and terror; it is the reason for the intellectual poverty of my short stories. Simply, I can not think up a story which does not end in death, catastrophe, suicide or imprisonment. Some people accuse me of pretending to be a strong man. They are wrong." With the outbreak of World War II, Haskos mother was working in the management secretariat of the City Power Station in Warsaw. During the occupation she was fired and ran a food stall till the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising. In consequence, the financial situation of the family worsened. At this time Marek started his education; however, all documents providing i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2000243 ... Read more

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The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.

Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity. Based on a two-day conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, the book opens a dialogue among experts from the fields of public health, biology, epidemiology, botany, ecology, demography, and pharmacology on this vital but often neglected concern.

Contributors discuss the uses and significance of biodiversity to the practice of medicine today, and develop strategies for conservation of these critical resources. Topics examined include:

• the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss
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• indigenous and local peoples and their health care systems
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This digital document is an article from Energy, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 4294 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The life cycle of oil: a new report analyzes health and environmental impacts. (Petroleum).(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Paul R. Epstein
Publication: Energy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 27Issue: 2Page: 4(6)

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Title: Climate change: healthy solutions.(Guest Editorial)
Author: Paul R. Epstein
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
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Title: Interaction of the onset of spring and elevated atmospheric C[O.sub.2] on ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) pollen production.(Research)
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Date: June 1, 2006
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