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Fetal Cardiovascular Imaging: A Disease-Based ApproachRychikJackTianZhiyun, eds.511 pages. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012. $152.95. ISBN: 978-1-4160-3172-7

Jack Rychik, Zhiyun Tian, eds. 511 pages. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012. $152.95. ISBN: 978-1-4160-3172-7 This is the most recent and updated textbook on fetal cardiology in a specialty field that has come into its own over the past decade or so. Fetal cardiology, like many other imaging-intense fields, is a focused combination of knowledge base and imaging expertise. Meticulous attention to imaging detail and compulsive description of segmental anatomy are integral to accurate fetal cardiac diagnosis. This textbook highlights the importance of the knowledge base, and the imaging component, as well. One of its most attractive features is that it uses a case discussion format in pictures to complete a clinical scenario in specific cardiac lesions. Each chapter is very conveniently divided into 3 parts: a didactic component, then a section to describe fetal echocardiographic findings, and then a conclusion with a case discussion tying it all together. Key echocardiographic features set up the framework for each lesion, and each chapter ends with imaging essentials that feed into supporting those key points. As such, this is an innovative format and an effective one that care providers can use for their first and subsequent fetal cardiac diagnosis. …

Analysis and Countermeasures of College English Majors’ Employment Difficulties---Under the Context of Global Financial Crisis

This paper sets English majors’ employment difficulties under the changing global and national context. It examines the impact of global financial crisis and current English majors’ employment difficulties. To adapt to the changes, efforts have been made to change the training models, revise the national curriculum and update textbooks.

Globalization and English in Chinese higher education

ABSTRACT: This paper sets China's education of English majors within the changing global and national context. It examines the impact of accelerating globalisation and the rise of global English, the adjustment of China's English language policy, the growth of the education of English majors and the challenges faced by this sector of education. To adapt to the changes, efforts have been made to change the training models, revise the national curriculum and update textbooks. The introduction of six new training models is significant: “English major plus courses in other specialisms”, “English major plus an orientation towards other disciplines”, “English major plus a minor”, “A major plus English language”, “English language plus another foreign language”, and “Dual degree: BA degree of English language and literature plus another BA degree”. Turning out ‘composite‐type’ graduates has become a training objective of the curriculum for English majors, with consequent implications for the future development of this sector of education in China.

Epilepsy In Children, 2nd Edition

Epilepsy In Children, 2nd Edition edited by Sheila J. Wallace, Kevin Farrell , 497 pp., Arnold Publishers, London, 2004, $168.75 This second edition, an updated and comprehensive textbook on childhood epilepsy, is a memorial to one of its editors, Sheila Wallace, who dedicated her life in the care of children with epilepsy. She died …

The Glaucomas

This text has a difficult role to follow, as a second edition of the "gold standard" text, first issued in 1989. The first edition had 2 volumes and included nearly every reference one could need. Other texts gave good summaries for a quick look, but this text was the one you pulled out when you wanted to really know about a glaucoma problem. The second edition superbly achieves its mission to be "a comprehensive and updated textbook reflecting the knowledge that exists today." (Preface to second edition.) Seventeen new chapters are added, and the book is reorganized into 3 sections; this expansion reflects the rapid growth of knowledge about this disease process. Many chapters are unparalleled for cogency, and this tone is established right away in the preface description of the glaucomas as separate disease processes sharing the common pathway of optic neuropathy. The authors present a new classification scheme

When economics harmonized mathematics in Japan: a history of stability analysis

This article discusses how economics was mathematized by Japanese theoretical economists with the cooperation of Japanese mathematicians before 1950. Mathematicians played the leading part in assimilating European scientific ideas and providing an internationally oriented attitude in Japan from the mid nineteenth century. They began to publish many updated textbooks in Japanese from around 1930 on. In the 1940s, Japanese mathematical economists were intensively studying the so-called stability problem, thereby mathematizing economics more rapidly than ever before. Their research activity will give us an interesting example of a process of organizing economic knowledge by introducing more mathematics into the economics literature.

Statistics and Society, Data Collection and Interpretation

Revised and updated (first edition, 1972) textbook for an introductory undergraduate course for non-mathematics majors illustrates how statistics and society interact, as well as statistics' relationship to mathematics and computer science. Includes end-of-chapter problems and an appendix with exami

Towards a New Industrial Democracy: Workers' Participation in Industry.

This updated textbook version of Workers' Participation in Industry takes account of the radically different political and economic conditions of the 1980s, and reflects the worldwide interest in industrial democracy.

Selected Current Data Sources

This identifies the major sources for current economic data. Most of the publications are free; many others are inexpensive. Instructors can use them to update textbooks, and students will find them useful for databases for simulation models, papers, and reports.

A Critical Survey of Elementary and Intermediate Italian Textbooks, 1966–1975

ITALIAN IS ONE of the major languages taught in North America.' In spite of this fact, Italian lacks the pedagogical materials and updated textbooks found in other languages. Di Pietro observes that: It is sad to report that advanced courses are not given in many schools because there are no texts or adequately trained teachers.2 Prior to 1966, there existed very few Italian pedagogical grammars published in North America, and the more widely used textbooks were usually based on the grammar-translation method.3 Since 1966, seven major textbooks have appeared on this continent.4 The more commonly used elementary texts are: Frederick J. Bosco and Franca Lolli, Incontro con l'italiano (Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell, 1967); Charles Speroni and Carlo L. Golino, Basic Italian, 3rd. edition (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972);5 Vincenzo Traversa, Parola e pensiero: Introduzione alla lingua italiana moderna, 2nd edition (New York: Harper and Row, 1975).6 The intermediate texts are: Ilene T. Olken and Mark Musa, Stradafacendo: Speaking and Reading Italian (New York: St. Martins Press, 1966); Charles Speroni and Carlo L. Golino, Leggendo e ripassando (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968); Vincenzo Traversa, Idioma in prospettiva: Secondo corso d' italiano (New York: Harper and Row, 1969); Louis Kibler and Mariquita Noris, Giorno per giorno: Italian in Review (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971). Three of the texts use the grammar-translation method (Basic Italian, Leggendo e ripassando, and Stradafacendo), while two employ an audiolingual technique (Incontro con litaliano and Parola e pensiero). The two remaining books (Idioma in prospettiva and Giorno per giorno) treat literary excerpts from the standpoint of language. The intermediate texts prepared by Speroni and Golino (Leggendo e ripassando) and Traversa (Idioma in prospettiva) are continuations of their elementary material (Basic Italian and Parola e pensiero).

Metabolic, Endocrine, and Genetic Disorders of Children

It is an altogether appropriate time for a new, updated textbook on pediatric endocrinology. The last major publications to cover this subject matter were Wilkins' The Diagnosis and Treatment ofEndocrine Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, (ed 3, 1965) and Gardner's Endocrine and Genetic Diseases of Childhood (1969). The present contribution is a multi\x=req- authored, three-volume work whose scope is exceptionally broad, crossing a number of clinical disciplines. The difficulties in reviewing such a long, wide-ranging, multi-authored text

Metabolic, Endocrine, and Genetic Disorders of Children

It is an altogether appropriate time for a new, updated textbook on pediatric endocrinology. The last major publications to cover this subject matter were Wilkins'<i>The Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence</i>, (ed 3, 1965) and Gardner's<i>Endocrine and Genetic Diseases of Childhood</i>(1969). The present contribution is a multi-authored, three-volume work whose scope is exceptionally broad, crossing a number of clinical disciplines. The difficulties in reviewing such a long, wide-ranging, multi-authored text are great. The specific educational objectives are not clearly defined, as the focus of the individual authors varies considerably in scientific sophistication, emphasis on basic pathophysiology, clinical management, and the like. As is true of most large textbooks, the material suffers by prolonged delay prior to publication. In many of the contributions, the most recent references are five years old, leaving one feeling uncomfortably out of date in an area growing as rapidly

Gastrointestinal Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management

The striking advances in gastroenterology since 1963 have required an updated textbook. The 57 authors in this new work have been preeminent investigators largely responsible for these advances and fortunately, under the dual editorship, have been able to incorporate this newer knowledge into a very readable standard textbook of gastroenterology. The book itself is divided into two parts. The first, entitled "Pathophysiology," describes basic physiology of the gastrointestinal tract and alterations thereof. By itself, it would make an admirable presentation of gastrointestinal physiology. Particularly well expounded is the section on diarrhea that incorporates newer understandings of pathophysiology into a logical approach to the patient who suffers from this often vexing diagnostic and therapeutic problem. Similarly, a discussion of the pathophysiology of peptic ulcer disease is as comprehensive as any available. Other sections deal with basic physiological principles such as immune mechanisms in gastrointestinal disease and motility studies and, to a

Statistics and Society. Data Collection and Interpretation.

Revised and updated (first edition, 1972) textbook for an introductory undergraduate course for non-mathematics majors illustrates how statistics and society interact, as well as statistics' relationship to mathematics and computer science. Includes end-of-chapter problems and an appendix with exami