The Pocket Guide to Spirometry 2e is an invaluable guide for medical practitioners and health professionals involved in the performance and interpretation of spirometry. Spirometry is the most commonly used method for assessing lung function. It is one of the primary tools used for the diagnosis, assessment and management of many respiratory diseases including asthma and COPD.

Pocket Guide to Spirometry

Medical Books

Johns, David

Pierce, Rob

Allied Health Professions

McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia

This is a concise, handy guide for GPs on the use of spirometry in the diagnosis and treatment of common respiratory conditions. It is essentially a guide on how to use a spirometer in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory conditions, in particular, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), two common, topical conditions. It outlines what a spirometer is and how it operates, and-in keeping with the series-explains how to interpret abnormal and normal test results. This is an essential aid for GPs and for all practitioners and nurses treating patients with respiratory conditions. Another excellent addition to the McGraw-Hill's Pocket Guide series. This book has been endorsed by The Australian Lung Foundation, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.

McGraw-Hill's Pocket Guide to Spirometry

Johns, David P.

McGraw-Hill Medical

Tommy Shakes is a career criminal, and not a very good one. He earned his name as a heroin addict. Now he’s just a drunk, drinking so much that he spends much of his time in bathrooms, exploding from one end or the other. He’s in a marriage he wants to salvage. He convinces himself that his wife will stay with him if he can bring home enough money. She tells him that won’t do it, but Tommy gets a crack at a big heist and decides to pull the job. The job is ripping off a popular restaurant that runs an illegal sports book in back. When it turns out that one of the security guys works for a local gangster, Joey Lee, Tommy figures there’s enough money that it’s worth the risk. They pull the robbery but one member of Tommy’s crew gets gun happy and it turns into a bloodbath, which includes killing Lee’s man. Now they’re wanted for murder, and the law is the least of their problems. Praise for TOMMY SHAKES: “With his pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, his knack for crisp pacing, and his unerring eye for what might be called the milieu of functional dissolution, Rob Pierce has revealed himself in story after story as a poet of the luckless, the bard of the misbegotten. In the hero of his latest and best, Tommy Shakes, he has found his Frankie Machine.” —David Corbett, award-winning author of The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday “Tight as a drum, vicious as a pitbull. I don’t remember the last time I read something that scratched the scuzzy itch of noir as well as Tommy Shakes. Just, maybe don’t read it with a full stomach.” —Rob Hart, author of the Ash McKenna series “When you pick up Tommy Shakes, make sure you have nothing to do, because you’re not going to want to put this one down. Rob Pierce at the tip-top of his game. Watch out, y’all.” —Eryk Pruitt, author of What We Reckon “When I was in rehab, a psyche ward in Boston, I read the book Crime Novels: American Noir of the ’50s. Willeford, Goodis, Thompson, Highsmith, and Himes. Had it all. Wretchedness, duplicity, alcoholism, and hopelessness. Tommy Shakes by Rob Pierce would’ve slotted in there perfectly. Nobody does grim and grave better.” —Joe Clifford, author of Junkie Love and the Jay Porter Thriller Series “Rob Pierce writes the downtrodden like Rodin casts bronze, and Tommy Shakes is his masterpiece.” —Benjamin Whitmer, author of Cry Father and Pike “If you like the kind of noir that makes you want to break out the hand sanitizer, Rob Pierce is the King—and the King does not disappoint with Tommy Shakes. Hard and mean and in your face like noir ought to be.” —Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce and Rough Trade “Pure noir prose. Dark, disturbing, devastating. A journey through Pierce’s Oakland is a hellish thrill-ride. Or thrilling hell-ride.” —Tom Pitts, author of 101 and American Static “Tommy can’t get a break, but it’s not like he’s out to give himself one. This book is as relentless as it is bleak, yet oddly inspiring. You won’t just root for an underdog, you’ll root for collapse!” —Nick Mamatas, author of I Am Sabbath and Providence

Tommy Shakes

Literature & Fiction

All Due Respect

Two women and a child are murdered. Dust, who unknowingly set them up, returns to Berkeley to find the killer. With his old buddy Karma in tow, Dust discovers that one of the culprits was Vollmer, a ruthless hired gun working for Dust's former boss, Rico. When Vollmer finds out Dust is in town the hunt becomes mutual. In this, the third book of the Uncle Dust series, old debts are paid and new ones incurred. Brutish, dangerous men lurk in every corner and slaughter runs rampant. Abductions and Confrontations. Blood. By. Choice. Praise for BLOOD BY CHOICE: "There are writers who take the language of the gutter and elevate it to a tarnished gospel. Rob Pierce is one of those rare authors who does that effortlessly." -S.A. Cosby, author of Blacktop Wasteland "Rob Pierce is not afraid to write noir. His dialogue crackles and hooks you, while never veering into clich s, and his characters, the bad ones and the badder ones, all are imbued with a level of humanity which pulls you into Blood By Choice from the opening character. You might not fully like Dust, but I guarantee you'll follow him as he cuts a path of vengeance through the Oakland landscape." -Hector Acosta, author of Hardway and Edgar nominee "Rob Pierce gets the world I see; it's a world that owes you nothing and gives you even less. For all the losers, troublemakers, and assholes who will never fit in, thank God (or the other guy) for Rob Pierce." -Joe Clifford, author of The Lakehouse "Rob Pierce gives you no time to get reacquainted with Uncle Dust with his latest, Blood By Choice, because he lights the fuse right away. The result is the beat-down, junked-up, sideways shit-uation you've come to expect from the master of hardboiled, low-life noir author of Uncle Dust, Tommy Shakes, and With the Right Enemies. Go ahead and re-shelve your Parker novels in the kiddie lit section; it's time to make room for Dust." -Eryk Pruitt, author of Dirtbags and What We Reckon "Anyone who believes revenge is a dish best served cold has never read Rob Pierce. He serves it up hot. And nasty. It's also said a man heading off on a journey of vengeance should begin by digging two graves. Having just finished Blood by Choice, I'd call that number a bit low." -David Corbett, award-winning author of The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday "With Blood By Choice Rob Pierce reasserts himself as one of Noir's underground heroes. Tough, taut, and will get your attention like brass knuckles to the face. Good thing we're all used to washing our hands a lot, because you'll need to after this gritty dive into a world of dirty dealings and vicious revenge." -Eric Beetner, author of All The Way Down "Pierce returns with his favorite felon, Uncle Dust and builds the East Bay body count one terrible twist at a time." -Tom Pitts, author of Coldwater "Rob Pierce-The Grand Poobah of Nasty Noir-closes out his Dust To Dust Trilogy (or whatever the $@&% he's calling it) with Blood By Choice-an absolute shotgun blast to the gut of a crime novel." -Todd Robinson, author of Rough Trade

Blood by Choice (Uncle Dust)

Contract killers have long been a point of interest for readers of crime fiction and action film fans. Dead-End Jobs: A Hitman Anthology offers up eighteen works of short fiction from some of the hottest writers in the business. While the stories all depict professional killers, they are wildly different in their tone and the styles in which they are written, as well as the way they are depicted and the point-of-view from which they're told. Some of these killers are seasoned professionals and others are new to the killing game. Some stories find their settings in urban locales such as New York City or Los Angeles and others in backwater rural locations. There are also contract killers of every stripe. Some stories depict the traditional organized crime gunmen while others feature corner boys doing the bidding of neighborhood drug dealers and the like. The stories in this collection are fast-paced and action-packed. Just as there are contract killers of varying pedigrees here, Dead-End Jobs features the writing of veteran wordsmiths such as Joe R. Lansdale, Max Allan Collins, and Stephen Spignesi, as well as new but equally exciting writers. Each author in this collection is as skilled as the hitters depicted in the stories. But their weapons are words instead of rifles and pistols, and every one absolutely kills here. Praise for DEAD-END JOBS: "An incredible collection of powerful and haunting stories that exist in that shadowy realm between tragedy, nihilism and noir." -S.A. Cosby, author of Blacktop Wasteland

Dead-End Jobs: A Hitman Anthology

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Miller, Chris

Pitts, Tom

Rausch, Andy

Brazill, Paul D.

Collins,Max Allan

Mystery

Unforgiven Victims

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