The most student-friendly clinical chemistry text available today, this fully updated 8th Edition keeps students at the forefront of what continues to be one of the most rapidly advancing areas of laboratory medicine. With clear explanations that balance analytic principles, techniques, and correlation of results with coverage of disease states, the book not only demonstrates the how of clinical testing, but also the what, why, and when of testing correlations to help students develop the knowledge and interpretive and analytic skills they’ll need in their future careers. Comprehensive and easy to understand, the 8th Edition now features an entirely new chapter, new and updated learning aids, and an unparalleled suite of teaching and learning resources.
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<li>New Case Studies , which include scenarios, lab results, and questions, stimulate critical thinking and encourage students to apply content to clinical practice.</li>
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Rewritten presentations condense large and difficult concepts into easier-to-understand presentations.</li>
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Enhanced photos and illustrations clarify key concepts.</li>
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Coverage of the latest equipment and technologies used in today’s modern lab prepares students for real-world practice.</li>
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The basic principles of analytic procedures discussed reflect the most recent or commonly performed techniques in the clinical chemistry laboratory, while material on non-essential topics such as Phlebotomy and Specimen Collection has been moved online on thePoint.</li>
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Insightful coverage of the impact of problem solving, quality assurance, and cost effectiveness on the laboratory professional prepares students for clinical practice.</li>
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Updated in-text learning aids include chapter outlines and chapter objectives, tables that condense and augment theory coverage, and end-of-chapter questions that give students an opportunity to assess their level of mastery.</li>
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Clinical Chemistry: Principles, Techniques, Correlations

Science & Math

Bishop MS MT (ASCP) CLS (NCA), Michael

Fody MD, Edward

Schoeff MT (ASCP), Larry

Biological Sciences

Brittle Innings

In 1943, at the height of World War II, the Highbridge Hellbenders of the the class-C Chattahoochee Valley League deep in Georgia acquire a 17-year-old shortstop from Oklahoma named Danny Boles. The Hellbenders snap him up because he's too young for the draft and preternaturally talented. In Highbridge, they make him the boarding-house roommate of an enormous first baseman with the awe-inspiring skill of blasting monster home runs out of the CVL's tumbledown ballparks. Known to his teammates as Jumbo Hank Clerval, this mysterious giant and the mute Danny Boles strike up an improbable friendship that culminates at the hot season's end in triumph and disappointment, not to mention a host of haunting discoveries in both the simmering South and the wind-swept Aleutian Islands. Hailed by critics as a contender for the Great American Novel laurel, Brittle Innings evokes a bygone era of worldwide conflict and homeland unity. It also convincingly links documented wartime history with the immemorial mythology of the superhero and the legendary status of baseball as the unchallenged American pastime. If you read it, you will not forget it.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Fairwood Press

Now back in print--a powerful science fiction masterwork from the Nebula Award-winning author of Count Geiger's Blues. Ancient of Days is among Michael Bishop's most appealing works--the story of a prehistoric man found wandering in a Georgia orchard, whose honesty and deep spirituality bring him into conflict with the modern world.

Ancient of Days

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Mary Stevenson Crye, a widowed young mother known as Stevie to family and friends, lives in a small Georgia town with her two children and a balky PDE Exceleriter. As a free-lance writer, she depends upon this device, once a state-of-the-art variety of typewriter, to generate income for her little clan. When the PDE Exceleriter goes noisily on the fritz, and a mess of things go wrong as a result-from her meeting with a weird young typewriter repairman named Seaton Benecke and Seaton's creepy pet, a monkey named 'Crets . . . to her "repaired" machine's tendency to type segments of her everyday life as she either lives or hallucinates it . . . to- -well, just know that the horror of Stevie's husband's death from cancer, along with her concern for the sexual angst of her son Teddy and her fight to solve her problems via her literary calling, leads her not only to the doorstep of the fortuneteller, Sister Celestial, but also into even scarier descents into Southern Gothic darkness. A novel of the American south, a tender and biting parody of 20th-century horror novels, and a gripping account of one woman's battle to save her sanity, Who Made Stevie Crye? will unleash a host of reactions from any reader-from laughter to disquiet to outrage to incredulity. In print again on the 30th anniversary of its original publication, this rare novel awaits new readers to frighten, bemuse, scandalize, and delight.

Who Made Stevie Crye?

Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish, and soap operas as the contemptible spew of script-writing committees. While skinny-dipping in a pool polluted with radioactive waste, Thaxton is afflicted with superpowers all his own and becomes that which he most scorns. A radiation-induced ailment, the Philistine Syndrome, forces him to assume the persona of comic-book hero Count Geiger to allay its career- and indeed life-threatening symptoms. Michael Bishop's Count Geiger Blues, a novel of intellectual heft and self-spoofing kitsch, is a take on superheroes like no other: a rollicking foray into high and low culture that mines the vicissitudes and tragedies of everyday life for serious belly laughs and bona fide heartbreak.

Count Geiger's Blues

Seth Latimer, a human member of a family of clones representing a far-future interstellar commercial combine, finds himself marooned on Gla Taus with no way home unless he joins a mission to a neighboring world to negotiate the transfer of a minority population from one planet to the other. The lure of trade expansion versus the grip of local custom and belief sets the story in motion. Secrets and treacherous intentions boil to the surface as diplomacy devolves into brutal expediency against a background of complex gender and religious polarization. The colorful details of alien settings and cultures are lovingly woven into this story of passionate individuals caught up in the sweep of history toward tragedy, change, and eventual renewal.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire

Science Fiction

In this heartfelt science-fiction homage, Philip K. Dick dies in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, during the fourth term of the repressive imperial presidency of Richard Milrose Nixon. Soon thereafter, stripped of his memory, Dick turns up in the office of Lia Bonner, a young psychotherapist in Warm Springs, Georgia. Ultimately, Dick manifests at Von Braunville, the American moon base, as a key figure in a gonzo conspiracy to trigger a "redemptive shift" of world-changing scope. Indeed, according to The New York Times, the ending of Michael Bishop's wittily inventive Dickian extravaganza "approaches sublimity."

Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas

This collection gathers together Michael Bishop's mainstream stories set in Georgia or featuring characters from Georgia.It represents the culmination of a career-long project that Bishop did not fully realize he had embarked upon, but that he did always have in the back of his mind. It opens with a hommage, both poignant and funny, to Flannery O'Connor, and closes with his daringly satirical Nebula Award-nominated novelette "Rattlesnakes and Men."

Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Transfigurations

In a clearing in a continental forest on the planet BoskVeld, a hominoid species of alien, the Asadi, daily act out their enigmatic rituals. These lithe, mane-bearing simian creatures trudge about obsessively, their rainbow eyes spinning like pinwheels. Egan Chaney in his anthropological study, "Death and Designation among the Asadi," has persuasively suggested that their lifestyle has devolved from a level of high technological sophistication to one of brute simplicity. Six years after his disappearance into the Wild, Chaney's daughter, Elegy Cather, arrives on BoskVeld to find him. With her she brings an intelligent ape, Kretzoi, genetically adapted to resemble the Asadi. Together with Thomas Benedict, once Chaney's assistant and later the compiler of his controversial "Death and Designation" monograph, Elegy strives to unravel the secret history of the Asadi. As Kretzoi infiltrates their rituals, we, too, begin to grasp the full incomprehensibility of a truly alien species and the complex horror of its devolution. Working in the modes of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and the anthropology-inspired fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Bishop dramatizes in Transfigurations both the innate difficulty and the scientific rapture of unriddling the unforthcoming Other.

Literary

La 8.ª edición de Química clínica llega por primera vez a los lectores en lengua española. Se trata de un título completo y amigable a la vez que presenta de forma exhaustiva y fácil de comprender los temas que estudiantes y profesionales requerirán a lo largo de su carrera. Su contenido mantiene el equilibrio idóneo entre principios analíticos, técnica y correlación de resultados con estados fisiológicos o patológicos. La obra no sólo desarrolla procesos individuales de las pruebas clínicas sino sus fundamentos y usos específicos con el fin de ayudar al desarrollo de las habilidades analíticas fundamentales en la interpretación de resultados. El texto se divide en cuatro partes: principios básicos de la química clínica, uso y aplicación de técnicas de laboratorio en especialidades o estados clínicos específicos, evaluación de funciones orgánicas y sistémicas y, por último, áreas de especialidad de la química clínica como control de efectos terapéuticos de los medicamentos, toxicología, marcadores tumorales en sangre, evaluación nutricia y química clínica en grupos especiales. Cada uno de sus 35 capítulos cuenta con diversos recursos, como listas de términos clave, objetivos de capítulo, tablas, esquemas, figuras y cuestionarios que favorecen la retención de la información. Características destacadas:
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<li> Resúmenes de capítulos , listas de objetivos, términos clave, preguntas de autoevaluación, tablas e ilustraciones , entre otros elementos encaminados a facilitar el aprendizaje</li>
<li> Esquemas detallados que permiten una mejor comprensión de los compuestos químicos y del funcionamiento de los equipos de laboratorio</li>
<li> Estudios de caso con descripciones detalladas, resultados de laboratorio y preguntas. Cada caso tiene como fin estimular el pensamiento crítico y aplicar el contenido en el ejercicio clínico cotidiano.</li>
<li> Presentaciones que condensan, de forma amigable, conceptos amplios y complejos</li>
<li>Incluye las técnicas, equipamiento y tecnología de diagnóstico más moderno utilizado en la actualidad</li>
<li>Abordaje profundo sobre el impacto que tienen la resolución de problemas, el aseguramiento de la calidad y el análisis financiero en el ejercicio del profesional del laboratorio clínico</li>
<li>Recursos en thePoint: banco de imágenes, apéndices, banco de preguntas interactivo, respuestas a las preguntas de autoevaluación, estudios de caso y más</li>
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Química clínica: Principios, técnicas y correlaciones (Spanish Edition)

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

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