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This fifth edition of the classic textbook in plant pathology outlines how to recognize, treat, and prevent plant diseases. It provides extensice coverage of abiotic, fungal, viral, bacterial,nematode and other plant diseases and their associated epidemiology. It also covers the genetics of resistance and modern management on plant disease.

Plant Pathology, 5th Edition, is the most comprehensive resource and textbook that professionals, faculty and students can consult for well-organized, essential information. This thoroughly revised edition is 45% larger, covering new discoveries and developments in plant pathology and enhanced by hundreds of new color photographs and illustrations.

* The latest information on molecular techniques and biological control in plant diseases
* Comprehensive in coverage
* Numerous excellent diagrams and photographs
* A large variety of disease examples for instructors to choose for their course ... Read more

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Plant Path Book = SUCCESS!!
The quality of the book was great and the shipping was speedy! I couldn't ask for anything more!That is, unless the seller wants to take my plant pathology midterms for me??Takers???:-)

Great!
This is the book I was looking for, it has all the information I need. Its very complete and full of details. I recomend it, its a good choice.

perfect
the book came ontime, it is perfect and with lot of information about everything in plant pathology. very useful

Good resource
This book provides a good basic understanding of the various types of pathological organisms.It also presents examples of many of the disorders giving information from mode of infection to elements of control.

it is pretty good.
This book is pretty good, and I ordered a used one, but I got a totally new one with plasmic bag.
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Celebrating more than twenty years as the single best source in the field, this Fifth Edition has now expanded into two cornerstone volumes with 53 fully inclusive chapters and 73 renowned contributors that comprehensively address every topic and trend relevant to the identification, diagnosis, and management of endocrine and endocrine-related disorders in children. Substantially revised, the Fifth Edition covers the most up-to-date appraisal of obesity in the pediatric population, as well as examines the latest breakthroughs in the care of diabetes, hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, and hypoglycemic syndromes. This Fifth Edition also devotes chapters to the diseases of the endocrine glands, including disorders of growth, the adrenal cortex and medulla, as well as sexual differentiation, thyroid, and parathyroid conditions and fluid balance diseases. ... Read more

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Peditatric Endocrinology Set ( Volume I & Volume II)
Althought this title is found when searching "pediatric endocrinology", the search fails to provide the information regarding Volume II and the Set information.
ISBN:142004270X is Pediatric Endocrinology Volume II
ISBN:1420042718 is Pediatric Endocrinology Set ( Volume I & Volume II) ... Read more

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Contributed articles presented at the conference. ... Read more

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Celebrating more than twenty years as the single best source in the field, this Fifth Edition has now expanded into two cornerstone volumes with 53 fully inclusive chapters and 73 renowned contributors that comprehensively address every topic and trend relevant to the identification, diagnosis, and management of endocrine and endocrine-related disorders in children. Substantially revised, the Fifth Edition reflects the current state of the field and analyzes the frequent clinical ailments affecting children.The partner volume covers obesity, diabetes, and insulin resistance and hypoglycemia. This text is devoted to the diseases of the endocrine glands, including disorders of growth, the adrenal cortex and medulla, as well as sexual differentiation, thyroid, and parathyroid conditions and fluid balance alterations. ... Read more

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No other text clarifies the link between microbiology and human disease states like Sherris Medical Microbiology

For more than a quarter-of-a-century Sherris has been unmatched in its ability to help you understand the nature of microorganisms and their role in the maintenance of health or causation of disease. Through a dynamic, engaging approach, this classic text gives you a solid grasp of the significance of etiologic agents, the pathogenic processes, epidemiology, and the basis of therapy for infectious diseases.

The fifth edition has been completely revised to reflect this rapidly-moving field’s latest developments and includes a host of learning aids including clinical cases, USMLE-type questions, marginal notes, and extensive new full-color art.

Features

• 66 chapters that simply and clearly describe the strains of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites that can bring about infectious diseases
• Core sections on viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases open with new chapters detailing basic biology, pathogenesis, and antimicrobial agents and feature a consistent presentation covering Organism (structure, replication, genetics, etc.), Disease (epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunity), and Clinical Aspects (manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, prevention)
• Explanations of host-parasite relationship, dynamics of infection, and host response
• USMLE-style questions and a clinical case conclude each chapter on the major viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases
• All tables, photographs, and illustrations are now in full color
• Clinical Capsules cover the essence of the disease(s) caused by major pathogens
• Marginal Notes highlight key points within a paragraph to facilitate review

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Good book
As a first year medical student I've really enjoyed this book.I think it's tough to make an all inclusive book on microbiology but Sherris does a pretty good job.I think it's got the right balance of clinical and micro information for a med student.I love the little summary lines they put in the margins- it helps you pick out the most important stuff and skim through stuff you already know or don't need to know.Very readable- not too dense, not to superficial.I was a microbiology major in college and had a lot of books that went into much more depth on stuff like molecular biology and had very little clinical information and so, again, for medical students and board prep, I think this has the right combination of material.

Great book, but they left out a lot
Don't throw away your Fourth Edition! The Fifth Edition has a lot to recommend it: much better artwork, more sensible organization of basic theory and microbe-specific detail, up-to-date pathophysiology and therapies, etc. In the Preface the editors state that much material has been "trimmed" to keep this edition the same size as the previous one. They should have opted for a bigger book. First, they left out all the references; not a single one is to be found. This was a valuable feature of the Fourth Edition, and pointed to much relevant material for further study. A cryptic excuse for this is that the emphasis is on the "text narrative", not reference material. That's nonsense; all good medical textbooks have references.

There has been a turnaround of authors in this multi-authored book. The new guys seem to have ignored several changes in the taxonomy of bacteria and viruses, such as the designation of Flavivirus as a Family and the split of Papovavirus into Papillomavirus and Polyomavirus. The new tables still contain the old errors, such as asserting that Hepatitis B is a Family when in fact it belongs to the Hepadnaviridae Family. There are numerous little errors like this that have been carried over from the Fourth Edition; apparently, the new authors cut-and-pasted what looked good without examining it for accuracy.

The stuff that was "trimmed" was not "older and less important information", as stated in the Preface. The editors apparently have figured out that USMLE-obsessed students are more interested in answering test questions than understanding anything, so a lot of viral and bacterial anatomy has been cut. We can now view these entities as more of a black box than something with important innards.

Some of the ambiguous or unclear explanations of the Fourth Edition have been carried over to the Fifth, such as the description of the One Step Growth Experiment, which would be unintelligible were it not for Wikipedia.

I cannot find an errata page for any Lange textbook. This is a Good Thing, since we can now rest assured that there are never any errors in their books. Too bad there isn't a contact form for sending suggestions for improvement for the next edition; this is a really good book, but apparently they don't need the likes of you and me to make it even better. Don't bother sending suggestions to Customer Service; it will be filed away by someone unfamiliar with the word "enzyme".

The Preface references a web site which purportedly contains an "online learning center" with lots of extra stuff, like "additional cases, questions, and study aids". As of this writing, it is vaporware, and I've complained to the publisher. In fact, Lange doesn't even have a reference to this (Fifth) edition up yet. Maybe all this will be in place by the time you read this.

If you don't have the Fourth Edition, you can probably get it very cheap, and I suggest you do so (in addition to buying the Fifth Edition) for the references and the enhanced technical detail.
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Poetry. A simply and beautifully produced book from Provincetown Arts Press.Frank Bidart lauds the fact that Matias' "struggle to survive and the search to find manifestation on the page here are one: new, tender, quick." Fifth Season chronicles a literal struggle to survive, the struggle of a poet living with AIDS to keep life meaningful. Sunsets, gay bars, Myambutal, histories both personal and communal, sex and last wills and testaments coexist in poems that are refuse to look away from the beautiful, even while the painful insists on being seen as well. "Matias' poems have been anthologized in Things Shaped in Passing:More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic, and he was the recipient of a poetry fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1994-95. "In his short time, David measured up to his promise remarkably;this is a rich, deeply intellligent book, a triumph of art and feeling."-Robert Pinsky. Matias died in 1996. ... Read more

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Breath on a pane of glass
was how the russian poet Mandelstam described poetry - the sudden
visible display of warm human breath on the cold glass - and that is
what these poems are like - human, warm, startlingly real.This is
one of my favorite volumes of poetry and I urge anyone interested
to buy a copy.Mandelstam's widow once said "great art is born of
great pain" and that seems to be the truth here as well. ... Read more

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Pain. Everyone experiences it, yet we have trouble talking about it and science has only recently begun to understand how it works. Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a groundbreaking inquiry into the nature, treatment, and definition of modern pain.

In the United States, there has been a recent campaign to treat pain as the fifth vital sign. Just as temperature, respiration, pulse, and blood pressure, the four traditional vital signs, must be charted, hospitals are now obliged to assess pain in their patients, too. If this indeed happens, it will be nothing less than groundbreaking—making pain far more visible.

But how has it come about that we spend $24 billion a year in North America on Tylenol, Advil, and the rest, and yet chronic pain is on the rise? Why is it that medicine can master intrauterine surgery but it can’t help people with bad backs or migraines? Pain is the number one reason why people go to the doctor’s office, and the number one reason they come away disappointed.

For a long time, pain has been a dark continent, both in the body and in our culture.

However, medicine is finally learning to evaluate pain as something more than a symptom—a main focus rather than a frustrating side issue for doctors. In the questing and narrative manner of an Oliver Sacks “neurological novel” or Sherwin Nuland’s inquiry into dying, Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign maps this largely unexplored territory through the stories of people who live with pain—from fibromyalgia to phantom limb pain—as well as the words of pioneers of pain research, and the professional experiences of doctors, scientists, and nurses.

Above all, Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign makes an elusive subject vivid and readable. We all know what pain is. Now it has a voice. ... Read more

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An encouraging, comforting sort of book
I read this book and felt so encouraged.I have suffered with debilitating chronic pain for more than 4 years.Marni Jackson knows what those of us who suffer are going through.This book is a real page-turner for those interested in this ambiguous subject.Pain is such a vague, subjective experience and the author points this out through stories and anecdotes.Her witticisms and practical insights are true gems.I felt less alone in the world of chronic pain after reading this book.If you need a little encouragement, or know someone who does, please read this book.It is well worth the investment! ... Read more

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Incorporating a strong application to real clinical problems, this edition of Mayo Clinic Medical Neurosciences provides one of the most contemporary and succinct teaching approaches to the current status of basic neuroscience knowledge.

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This easy-to-use manual is the only review tool of its kind! Distilled from the parent text on consultation-liaison psychiatry, it presents hundreds of questions-with rationales-that challenge the reader's knowledge in all aspects of psychosomatic medicine. Written by a practicing clinician-from one of the premier psychiatric departments in the world-for those working at the interface of medicine and psychiatry, it covers the entire burgeoning field of psychosomatic medicine. Readers will also find how to best prepare for the first-time ever board examination in the field coming in June 2005.

• Features 800 clinically relevant questions that test the reader's understanding of the full range of common topics on the diagnosis and treatment of the in-hospital, medically ill patient.
• Includes correct answers accompanied by detailed rationales.
• Presents questions that focus on simple recall, as well as those that challenge the reader's interpretive and problem-solving skills.
• Uses a standard testing format with multiple-choice, true/false, and matching sets.

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A fine manual!
With 800 questions, this manual covers many areas from psychopharmacology to forensic topics relevant to practicing medical psychiatrist. Some questions can be very challenging. I'm slightly disappointed that some answers have little or no detailed explanations. Otherwise, this is a fine review manual. ... Read more

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Factual Info on Rheumatoid Arthritis
This is an excellent book about RA.It gives usefull info onRA Drugs and other treatments including the required labs tests forusing DMARDS.Edition FIVE is much more up to date and has the LATEST info on new drug treatments. ... Read more

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Written by two certified diabetes educators, The Diabetes Sourcebook is a complete, all-in-one resource for the millions suffering from Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Fully updated with the latest treatments and developments in diabetes, this fifth edition offers an overview of the disease as well as a complete educational program incorporating nutrition, exercise, and hygiene. ... Read more

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Presents an overview of current research into the molecular mechanisms underlying tumour growth and differentiation as revealed by corresponding human and animal molecular data. The text highlights the similarities and differences between species, particularly in tumour suppressor genes. ... Read more

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Loma Linda Univ. CA. Textbook provides current information available on endodontics. Discusses the topics of the diagnosis of pain, normal and pathologic pulp and periapical tissues, oral and perioral pain, mechanical aided root canals, and bacteria. Presents all aspects of endodontic therapy. Previous edition: c1994. Includes abundant halftone illustrations. ... Read more

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Celebrating more than twenty years as the single best source in the field, this Fifth Edition has now expanded into two cornerstone volumes with 53 fully inclusive chapters and 73 renowned contributors that comprehensively address every topic and trend relevant to the identification, diagnosis, and management of endocrine and endocrine-related disorders in children. Substantially revised, the Fifth Edition covers the most up-to-date appraisal of obesity in the pediatric population, as well as examines the latest breakthroughs in the care of diabetes, hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, and hypoglycemic syndromes. This Fifth Edition also devotes chapters to the diseases of the endocrine glands, including disorders of growth, the adrenal cortex and medulla, as well as sexual differentiation, thyroid, and parathyroid conditions and fluid balance diseases. ... Read more