This book will help you to pass the Pharmacy licensing exam. The unique format differs from all other review and test preparation texts. The primary intent is to serve as a rapid review of Pharmacy principles and serve as a study aid to improve performance on the Pharmacy licensing examination. With this goal in mind, the text is written in rapid-fire, question/answer format. The student receives immediate gratification with a correct answer. Questions themselves often contain a 'pearl' reinforced in association with the question/answer. Emphasis has been placed on evoking both trivia and key facts that are easily overlooked, are quickly forgotten, and yet somehow always seem to appear on Pharmacy exams.
With over 3,000 rapid fire questions and answers for quick review, exam style multiple choice questions for clinical review, and a 178-question practice exam on the accompanying CD-ROM, Rapid Fire Pharmacy Review will help you conquer the exam and achieve your goal of becoming a licensed pharmacist."--BOOK JACKET.
In the fall of 1986 I survived a suicide attempt after feeling desponded and tired of dealing with my clinical depression. I had done everything within my power to overcome my feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and helplessness. Nothing worked. In this book I describe my journey out of that labyrinth. I wrote the book hoping to help others achieve the sense of peace that eludes those who feel desponded and hopelessly depressed. This does not mean that I have all the answers. I only hope that if you ever think that your life is not worth living that you make the decision to see another day.
The concept of independence means different things depending on the context. Indeed, the cinema and audiovisual industries use different definitions. Legislation also varies the definition of the concept of independence depending on the aim pursued. The EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive, for instance, speaks of independence vis-á-vis broadcasters. Interestingly, this means that, at least in theory, a big Hollywood studio production will be independent for the purposes of this directive. This publication aims at providing an overview of many relevant issues concerning the independent production of films and audiovisual works in Europe, including market figures, international and national rules, interprofessional agreements and case law.
This book will help you to pass the Pharmacy licensing exam. The unique format differs from all other review and test preparation texts. The primary intent is to serve as a rapid review of Pharmacy principles and serve as a study aid to improve performance on the Pharmacy licensing examination. With this goal in mind, the text is written in rapid-fire, question/answer format. The student receives immediate gratification with a correct answer. Questions themselves often contain a 'pearl' reinforced in association with the question/answer. Emphasis has been placed on evoking both trivia and key facts that are easily overlooked, are quickly forgotten, and yet somehow always seem to appear on Pharmacy exams.
With over 3,000 rapid fire questions and answers for quick review, exam style multiple choice questions for clinical review, and a 178-question practice exam on the accompanying CD-ROM, Rapid Fire Pharmacy Review will help you conquer the exam and achieve your goal of becoming a licensed pharmacist."--BOOK JACKET.
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin--prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters--between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries The New Christian elite of Jewish origin were at the forefront of early modern globalisation from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Either forced to convert to Christianity or descended from those who were, these Iberian traders, merchants, and bankers with links to the academic world and liberal professions played a pivotal role in intercontinental trade for two centuries--only to decline, and virtually disappear as an ethnic elite, by the mid-1700s. In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt offers a comprehensive study of the New Christian trading elite, describing their many achievements, innovations and migrations. Members of this new elite were instrumental in opening global trade, investing in plantations and industries and loaning money to kings, popes, cardinals, noblemen and religious orders. They lived under constant threat of the Inquisition for almost three hundred years, yet most of them stayed in the Iberian world. Others departed to create Sephardic communities in north Africa, the Ottoman Empire, northern Europe and the Americas. Drawing on new research in archives and research libraries in Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Simancas, Rome, Florence, Antwerp, London and Lima, Bethencourt traces the international networks New Christian trading elite families built, the different religious allegiances they assumed and the wide range of places in which they carried on their business activities. He describes the prominent roles they played in Iberian and European culture: Saint Teresa de Avila had a New Christian background, as did the philosopher Spinoza. Despite their prominence, after three centuries, the New Christians disappeared as a recognizable ethnicity, finally bowing under the accumulated weight of racism and persecution.
Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century—including the forced conversion of its native Muslim population. Written by Francisco Núñez Muley, one of many coerced Christian converts, this extraordinary letter lodges a clear-sighted, impassioned protest against the unreasonable and strongly assimilationist laws that required all converted Muslims in Granada to dress, speak, eat, marry, celebrate festivals, and be buried exactly as the Castilian settler population did. Now available in its first English translation, Núñez Muley’s account is an invaluable example of how Spain’s former Muslims made active use of the written word to challenge and openly resist the progressively intolerant policies of the Spanish Crown. Timely and resonant—given current debates concerning Islam, minorities, and cultural and linguistic assimilation—this edition provides scholars in a range of fields with a vivid and early example of resistance in the face of oppression.
First published in 1983, this book has become a classic among advanced textbooks. The new fourth edition maintains the high standard of its predecessors. The book offers basic knowledge of field theory and particle phenomenology. The author presents the basic facts of quark and gluon physics in pedagogical form. Explanations of theory are supported throughout with experimental findings. The text provides readers with sufficient understanding to follow modern research articles. This fourth edition presents a new section on heavy quark effective theories, more material on lattice QCD and on chiral perturbation theory.
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