Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! Up to date, easy to use, and well-illustrated, Clinical Manual of Contact Lenses, 5th Edition, helps both students and practitioners fit, evaluate, and troubleshoot contact lens issues in everyday practice. Written by renowned experts in the field, this practical guide is designed for quick access to key information, and includes sample cases, nomograms, and proficiency checklists that summarize and emphasize important points. Thoroughly rev...

The book 'Live with Passion!', written by integral coach and management consultant Humphrey Isselt, is dedicated to providing insight with regard to what is actually meant by passion. Not from an academic principle or scientific framework, nor a 'dictionary definition', but based on the essence of passion: the balance between feeling and reason.

Passion is a powerful drive, it motivates and inspires. Passion is an expression of feeling and therefore a reactive process. It is in fact a reacti...

With his book "What Do You Need?" Humphrey Isselt offers a guide to answer the essential life question: What do I need? Can the question "What do I need?" be answered in such a way that you know what is expected of you or what you expect from the other person? The question is often asked with the aim of 'being happy'. "What do I need to be happy?" However, people generally do not know what makes them happy. One then strives for short moments in which one strives for desires and wishes (impuls...

Extensively revised to incorporate recent research and current clinical practice, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 11th Edition, covers all aspects of normal and abnormal embryonic and fetal development. In a clear, concise manner and lavishly illustrated throughout, this textbook is designed to successfully meet the needs of medical and health sciences profession students, as well as those in graduate programs. It provides an easy-to-digest, comprehensive review of what ...

For one-semester courses in human anatomy. A functional approach to human anatomy Human Anatomy, the #1 best-selling textbook for the human anatomy course, is widely regarded as the most readable and visually accessible book on the market. Using a functional anatomy theme, the text presents human anatomy as a well-illustrated "story" with the right amount of detail that learners can understand at an introductory level.

Analogies and comparative descriptions make anatomical structures more mem...

The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings. Grounded in scholarly review and illustrated with a diversity of case studies, this book covers familiar ground with comprehensive detail, including the description of personality disorders, diagnosis, epidemiology, aetiology, and treatment strategies. Furthermore, this new edition reflects changes in the new ICD-11 and...

Artsen in opleiding leren gezondheidsproblemen te diagnosticeren en behandelen om mensen te helpen die een beroep doen op de gezondheidszorg. Daarvoor is veel méér nodig dan klachten en symptomen combineren tot diagnoses en daar de bijpassende behandeling bij zoeken. Een arts moet goed klinisch kunnen redeneren. Dit boek helpt studenten geneeskunde en huisartsen en specialisten in opleiding om dit onder de knie te krijgen. Klinisch redeneren wil zeggen diagnoses en diagnostische tests ...

Dit boek verkent de facetten van het hart. Gevoelens, emoties en verlangens. De diepere laag van onvoorwaardelijke liefde en verbondenheid. En de laag van het pure, heldere bewustzijn.

De indeling volgt de ontwikkelingsweg van je levensreis: van het begin van je leven, en de basisveiligheid die je nodig hebt, naar het verruimde bewustzijn aan het einde van je reis.

De tekst wordt steeds afgewisseld door oefeningen en meditaties. Ook is er aandacht voor delen van ons wezen die niet willen of...

A fresh, student-accessible, global perspective to health psychology

Health Psychology provides an accessible and empirically-based approach to understanding health psychology. It goes beyond other mainstream textbooks by introducing students to global and cross-cultural health issues, covering cutting-edge scientific and medical topics in ways that students can understand. The author integrates core theory, research, and practice in an engaging and practical way.

The author integrates the bi...

In Met het einde in zicht staan levensechte verhalen over hoe zorgverleners met ongeneeslijk zieke mensen en hun naasten communiceren. Zorgverleners, patiënten, naasten en nabestaanden vertellen over hun wensen, emoties en dilemma's.Dit boek gaat over communicatie met mensen met kanker, maar ook over communicatie bij hartfalen, nierfalen, dementie of COPD. De verhalen laten zien hoe waardevol en ontroerend goede gesprekken in de laatste levensfase kunnen zijn, maar laten ook zien hoe schrijn...