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Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance |
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Amazon.com
Medical case studies can be fascinating to read, full of drama, heroism, and sometimes tragedy. Most doctors' tales take place in clinics or hospitals, but those pedestrian settings are not for Kenneth Kamler, who practices medicine outside, patching people up with surprising success under harrowing conditions. Surviving the Extremes starts with open-air surgery in the steamy jungles of the Amazon River, moves to disturbingly detailed descriptions of the many... >> |
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Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair |
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From Book News, Inc.
This revised edition of Volume 3 of Practical machinery management for process plants (first edition, 1985) is a guide for process engineers concerned with machinery and component installation, maintenance, and repair. New information is provided on pump baseplate installation and grouting, repair and maintenance of mechanical seals, metal stitching, and managing rotor repairs at outside shops. Additional illustrations and photos aid the engineer in visua... >> |
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria |
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From Publishers Weekly
Bacteria preceded human life by millions of years but will they also outlive us? Shnayerson, a staff writer at Vanity Fair magazine, and Plotkin, an ethnobotanist, paint an alarming picture of the crisis posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They focus on the three most common types: enterococci, streptococci and staphylococci. They tell of the deadly S. aureus a particularly virulent strain of staph that has shown up in deadly resistant strains and the infa... >> |
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Infectious Disease
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