Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice: Companion and Aviary Birds, Second Edition

Bob Doneley, “Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice: Companion and Aviary Birds, Second Edition”
2016 | ISBN-10: 1482260204 | 495 pages | PDF | 83 MB

Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice is an invaluable quick reference resource for clinicians and a useful study guide for veterinary students.

In this practical and beautifully illustrated book, early chapters cover physical examination, advice on interpreting diagnostic tests, and avian anatomy and physiology. Disorders affecting the different body regions and systems make up the majority of the book from the external―skin, feathers, eyes, legs and feet―to the internal including the gastrointestinal tract and the cardiovascular system. Further aspects of avian medicine discussed in the book include behavioural problems, incubation of eggs, paediatrics and surgery.

Written by an expert with more than 30 years of clinical experience in avian medicine, the new edition is thoroughly revised with updated diseases, new and expanded clinical techniques, and over 100 new color illustrations. It also adds four important new chapters: Husbandry, Grooming and Nutrition, Diagnostic Imaging, Endoscopy, and Oncology as well as new sections on cardiovascular anatomy and neuroanatomy.

Russell Jackson - The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film [Repost]

Russell Jackson – The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
2007 | ISBN: 052168501X | English | 364 pages | PDF | 1.4 MB

Film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare’s plays. Chapters have been revised and updated from the first edition to include the most recent films and scholarship. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare’s women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.

The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine Question and Answer Companion (Repost)

The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine Question and Answer Companion By Ajay K. Singh, Joseph Loscalzo
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0199358494 | PDF | 22 MB

This question-and-answer companion to The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine, which is based upon the popular review course from Harvard Medical School, is a study guide for the American Board of Internal Medicine certification or maintenance of certification examination, as well as for general practice review by physicians and residents. Editors Ajay K. Singh and Joseph Loscalzo recruited leading authorities from Harvard as well as former chief residents at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to contribute to this book. This thorough resource features 500 board review questions and answers on internal medicine specialties including: Infectious Disease, Hematology and Oncology, Rheumatology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Endocrinology, Nephrology and Hypertension, Digestive Diseases and Disorders of the Pancreas and Liver, Cardiovascular Disease, Neurology, and General Internal Medicine. As the required content for the American Board of Internal Medicine continues to evolve, studying can prove challenging. The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine Question and Answer Companion is the ideal guide for preparing for certification or recertification.

A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics by Mady Schutzman
English | Jan. 15, 2006 | ISBN: 0415322936, 0415322944 | 224 Pages | PDF | 1 MB

A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory – Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology – to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal’s project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible.

Robert Altman"s Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion (Repost)

Robert Altman’s Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion By Gayle Sherwood Magee
2014 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0199915962 | PDF | 21 MB

American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman’s films, and in addition to his feature films, Altman worked in theater, opera, and the emerging field of cable television. His treatment of sound is a hallmark of his films, alongside overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and large ensemble casts. Several of his best-known films integrate musical performances into the central plot, including Nashville (1975), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), Kansas City (1996), The Company (2003) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his final film. Even such non-musicals as McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) have been described as, in fellow director and protégé Paul Thomas Anderson’s evocative phrase, as “musicals without people singing.”

Robert Altman’s Soundtracks considers Altman’s celebrated, innovative uses of music and sound in several of his most acclaimed and lesser-known works. In so doing, these case studies serve as a window not only into Altman’s considerable and varied output, but also the changing film industry over nearly four decades, from the heyday of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s through the “Indiewood” boom of the 1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. As its frame, the book will consider the continuing attractions of auteurism inside and outside of scholarly discourse, by considering Altman’s career in terms of the director’s own self-promotion as a visionary and artist; the film industry’s promotion of Altman the auteur; the emphasis on Altman’s individual style, including his use of music, by the director, critics, scholars, and within the industry; and the processes, tensions, and boundaries of collaboration.

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Routledge Philosophy Companions) by Frisbee Sheffield, James Warren
2013 | ISBN: 0415991269 | English | 728 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and successors.

The contributors also address various problems of interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original texts discussed are translated into English.

A Companion to Woody Allen

Sam B. Girgus, Peter J. Bailey, “A Companion to Woody Allen”

ISBN: 1444337238 | 2013 | EPUB | 594 pages | 3 MB

Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director’s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood.

• A timely companion by the authors of two of the most important books on Allen to date

• Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectives

• Explores the contexts in which his work should be understood

• Assesses Allen’s remarkable filmmaking career from its early beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictions that suffuse it

• Discusses Allen’s recognition as a global cinematic figure