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  • Beethoven's Orchestral Music

    An Owner's Manual

    by David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.Beethoven’s orchestral works include some of the most iconic and popular pieces of classical music ever written. This book offers chapters on ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Listening to Mendelssohn

    An Owner's Manual

    by David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe’s most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in his posthumous reputation, and as a result Mendelssohn’s music was obscured by a host of extra-musical factors ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Dvorak

    Romantic Music's Most Versatile Genius

    by Antonin Dvorak, David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    The music of Antonin Dvorák defies fashion. He is one of the very few composers whose works entered the international mainstream during his own lifetime, and some of them have remained there ever since. The pieces that historically define his international reputation, however, represent only a small fraction of what he actually composed. They comprise just one facet of his complex and remarkably ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Richard Strauss

    An Owner's Manual

    by Richard Strauss, David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    The life and music of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) span what was arguably the most turbulent period in human history, encompassing the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, and two world wars. He was one of the very last composers to have started his career in service to the old European aristocracy, but near the end of his life, the continent lay in shambles, and he faced financial ruin ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Mahler Symphonies

    An Owner's Manual

    by Gustav Mahler, David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    Since Gustav Mahler was rediscovered in the early 1960s, his symphonies have become arguably the most popular works in the modern orchestral repertoire. Mahler's Symphonies: An Owner's Manual is the first discussion of the ten completed symphonies (No. 1-9 plus “The Song of the Earth”) to offer music lovers and record collectors a comprehensive overview of the music itself, what it sounds like, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Emerging Values in Health Care

    The Challenge for Professionals

    by Moira Dumma, Paquita de Zulueta, Kieran Sweeney, Brian Hurwitz, Bronwen Davies, David Badcott, Paul Ballard, Andrew Edgar, Lynn Knight, Srikant Sarangi, Julia McKeown, Derek Sellman, Heather Skirton, Chris Swift, Chrissie Hockley, Alan Nathan ...
    Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Jean Morrissey, Patrick Callaghan ...
    This practical book provides a crucial guide to the core communication skills and interventions which are at the heart of mental health nursing. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Obstetric and Newborn Care Volume 2 of 2 (Nursing

    Includes Complications of Pregnancy, Stages of Labor, Nursing Care, First, Second (Delivery), Third (Placental), Fourth (Recovery) Stage of Labour, Emergency Delivery, Discomfort, Newborn, Premature Infant, Nutrition, and the Sick Neonate

    Edited by IML Training ...
    Series Book 2 - Nursing
    Obstetric and Newborn Care Volume 2 of 2Obstetric and Newborn Care Volume 2 of 2, is a continuation from course Obstetric and Newborn Care Volume 1 of 2. This course will further explain the many physiological and psychological changes that a woman may experience throughout her pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and the period after delivery. The practical nurse, along with other members of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care

    by Rick Iedema, Donella Piper, Marie Manidis ...
    In response to the growing emphasis on clinicians' capacity to practise effective communication, Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care provides real-time communication scenarios and interprofessional case studies. The book engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Ethics for Nursing and Healthcare Practice

    by Kath Melia ...
    Everyday clinical practice is steeped in ethical considerations, but discussion of ethics is often removed from these real-life situations. Kath M Melia′s new book works in the gap between theory and practice. The chapters tackle the main theories which form the discussion on ethics, and include practical case examples, which bring these theories into the clinical context. These classic and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Foundations of Healthcare Ethics

    Theory to Practice

    by Joanne Grainger, Jãnis T. Ozoliņš ...
    In order to provide the highest level of care to patients and clients, health professionals need a sound knowledge and understanding of healthcare ethics. Foundations of Healthcare Ethics: Theory to Practice focuses on the philosophical concepts underpinning contemporary ethical discourse for health professionals, and arms both students and professionals with the knowledge to tackle situations of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Terminal Sedation: Euthanasia in Disguise?

    Edited by Torbjörn Tännsjö ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    TERMINAL SEDATION DURING THE 1990s During the 1990s a discussion took place in scholarly journals concerning a measure within palliative care that had earlier attracted little attention, to wit, the sedation of dying patients. There seem to have been two main reasons why the practice came under debate. On the one hand, some people felt that, when palliative medicine had advanced and methods to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD