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Every Version of You

By: Grace Chan

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Asks what it is to be human. Visceral, mind-bending and tender.' - Inga Simpson In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned 'real' world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, preferring instead to indulge in memories of her life in Malaysia. When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past. Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, this is speculative literary fiction at its best.

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Affirm Press

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1922848867

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9781922848864

Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media

The Prosaic Image

By: Helen Grace

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Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media

The Prosaic Image

By: Helen Grace

This book argues that ubiquitous media and user-created content establish a new perception of the world that can be called ‘particulate vision’, involving a different relation to reality that better represents the atomization of contemporary experience especially apparent in social media. Drawing on extensive original research including detailed ethnographic investigation of camera phone practices in Hong Kong, as well as visual analysis identifying the patterns, regularities and genres of such work, it shows how new distributed forms of creativity and subjectivity now work to shift our perceptions of the everyday. The book analyses the specific features of these new developments – the components of what can be called a ‘general aesthesia’ – and it focuses on the originality and innovation of amateur practices, developing a model for making sense of the huge proliferation of images in contemporary culture, discovering rhythms and tempo in this work and showing why it matters.

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Routledge

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1134665024

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9781134665020

The White Flower

By: Grace Livingston Hill

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The White Flower

By: Grace Livingston Hill

While traveling to accept a position as companion to an elderly lady out West, Rachel Rainsford receives a startling note from a fellow train passenger—she’s actually in the middle of a dastardly scheme to sell her as companion to a corrupt Chicago businessman. But can Rachel trust daring Chan Prescott after being deceived before? Caught in a dangerous chase with the criminals close behind, will faith—and love—be enough to save her?

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Barbour Publishing

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1620296640

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9781620296646

The Breath of a Wok

Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Throug

By: Grace Young,Alan Richardson

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The Breath of a Wok

Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Throug

By: Grace Young,Alan Richardson

Award-winning author Grace Young celebrates and demystifies the art of wok cooking for the Western home cook. When Grace Young was a child, her father instilled in her a lasting appreciation of wok hay, the highly prized but elusive taste that food achieves when properly stir-fried in a wok. As an adult, Young aspired to create that taste in her own kitchen. Grace Young's quest to master wok cooking led her throughout the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Along with award-winning photographer Alan Richardson, Young sought the advice of home cooks, professional chefs, and esteemed culinary teachers like Cecilia Chiang, Florence Lin, and Ken Hom. Their instructions, stories, and recipes, gathered in this richly designed and illustrated volume, offer not only expert lessons in the art of wok cooking, but also capture a beautiful and timeless way of life. With its emphasis on cooking with all the senses, The Breath of a Wok brings the techniques and flavors of old-world wok cooking into today's kitchen, enabling anyone to stir-fry with wok hay. IACP award-winner Young details the fundamentals of selecting, seasoning, and caring for a wok, as well as the range of the wok's uses; this surprisingly inexpensive utensil serves as the ultimate multipurpose kitchen tool. The 125 recipes are a testament to the versatility of the wok, with stir-fried, smoked, pan-fried, braised, boiled, poached, steamed, and deep-fried dishes that include not only the classics of wok cooking, like Kung Pao Chicken and Moo Shoo Pork, but also unusual dishes like Sizzling Pepper and Salt Shrimp, Three Teacup Chicken, and Scallion and Ginger Lo Mein. Young's elegant prose and Richardson's extraordinary photographs create a unique and unforgettable picture of artisan wok makers in mainland China, street markets in Hong Kong, and a "wok-a-thon" in which Young's family of aunties, uncles, and cousins cooks together in a lively exchange of recipes and stories. A visit with author Amy Tan also becomes a family event when Tan and her sisters prepare New Year's dumplings. Additionally, there are menus for family-style meals and for Chinese New Year festivities, an illustrated glossary, and a source guide to purchasing ingredients, woks, and accessories. Written with the intimacy of a memoir and the immediacy of a travelogue, this recipe-rich volume is a celebration of cultural and culinary delights.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476740240

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9781476740249

Guide to Hong Kong Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries and Information Resources

By: Grace Cheng

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Guide to Hong Kong Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries and Information Resources

By: Grace Cheng

This comprehensive guide includes detailed information on the policies, services and facilities of about 80 libraries, and is a valuable resource for all those involved in medical, health and social welfare services in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622094104

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9789622094109

Neural Membranes

By: Grace Y. Sun,Nicolas Bazan,Jang-Yen Wu,Guiseppe Porcellati,Albert Y. Sun

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Neural Membranes

By: Grace Y. Sun,Nicolas Bazan,Jang-Yen Wu,Guiseppe Porcellati,Albert Y. Sun

One of the most active and productive areas of biological science in the past decade has been the study of the biochemical and biophysical prop erties of cell membranes. There is little doubt that membranes are essen tial components of all cellular systems and that each type of membrane manifests specific and characteristic cellular functions. In the nervous system, important events such as neurotransmission, receptor binding, ion transport, axonal transport, and cell uptake are all known to take place within the neural cell membrane. Phospholipids, one of the major components of membranes, not only provide the membrane with its structural integrity and physical proper ties, but also play an important role in regulating membrane function. Attention has recently been focused on the asymmetric localization of these molecules, the identification of discrete metabolic pools of phospholipids within the membrane matrix, and their involvement in sig nal transmission. Although synaptic membranes generally lack an active mechanism for the de novo biosynthesis of phospholipids, a number of enzymic routes are present for their interconversions and for facilitating metabolic turnover. Metabolites generated during the interconversion reactions may also exert a great influence in modulating membrane func tions. The phosphogylcerides of neural membranes are especially enriched in polyunsaturated fatty acids. However, only very small amounts of these fatty acids are present in the free form, and they are maintained in dynamic equilibrium with the membrane phospholipids.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461256364

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9781461256366

Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge

The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories

By: Grace Young

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Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge

The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories

By: Grace Young

Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for International Cooking, this is the authoritative guide to stir-frying: the cooking technique that makes less seem like more, extends small amounts of food to feed many, and makes ingredients their most tender and delicious. The stir-fry is all things: refined, improvisational, adaptable, and inventive. The technique and tradition of stir-frying, which is at once simple yet subtly complex, is as vital today as it has been for hundreds of years—and is the key to quick and tasty meals. In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, award-winning author Grace Young shares more than 100 classic stir-fry recipes that sizzle with heat and pop with flavor, from the great Cantonese stir-fry masters to the culinary customs of Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as other countries around the world. With more than eighty stunning full-color photographs, Young’s definitive work illustrates the innumerable, easy-to-learn possibilities the technique offers—dry stir-fries, moist stir-fries, clear stir-fries, velvet stir-fries—and weaves the insights of Chinese cooking philosophy into the preparation of beloved dishes as Kung Pao Chicken, Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli, Chicken Lo Mein with Ginger Mushrooms, and Dry-Fried Sichuan Beans.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416580735

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9781416580737

Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong

A Global City in China and Asia

By: Grace L K Leung

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Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong

A Global City in China and Asia

By: Grace L K Leung

The experience of Hong Kong’s innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese and Asian cities that are actively developing their innovative and creative industries in the era of globalization. The return of sovereignty over Hong Kong back to China in 1997 has led to both collaboration and competition between the two places in innovative and creative sectors for the Greater China and Asian Regions. Hong Kong has remained unique in spite of the integration, but she has to strike a delicate balance between being simultaneously a Chinese and an international city. This book looks at different innovative and creative industries, such as international art and culture exhibition, innovative technology, digital entertainment, TV and movies, as well as government policy for innovative and creative industries, particularly the changing competitive landscape brought about by the latest Great Bay Area development. Drawing insights from cultural history, innovation economics, cultural policy studies, and cultural geography, this book explores the opportunities and challenges of Hong Kong's innovative and creative industries, in particular after the change of sovereignty in 1997. It demonstrates that the city’s legacy, and heavy government input in capital, do not guarantee their sustainable development. This is a book not only for policymakers or academics interested in innovative and creative industries but also to students contemplating a career in these areas in Hong Kong, the Greater China and the Asian Region.

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Routledge

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1351655019

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9781351655019

Creativity

When East Meets West

By: Sing Lau,Anna H. H. Hui,Grace Y. C. Ng

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Creativity

When East Meets West

By: Sing Lau,Anna H. H. Hui,Grace Y. C. Ng

What actually is creativity? And what contributes to its conceptualization and development? This collection of articles is an attempt at exploring and answering the above questions from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Readers may find some answers stimulating, and others bewildering. This is in fact the reality and fascination of creativity research and education.

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World Scientific

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9812388265

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9789812388261

Making the Chinese Mexican

Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Grace Delgado

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Making the Chinese Mexican

Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Grace Delgado

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating the interlocking global and local systems of migration that underlay Chinese borderlands communities, the author situates the often-paradoxical existence of these communities within the turbulence of exclusionary nationalisms. The world of Chinese fronterizos (borderlanders) was shaped by the convergence of trans-Pacific networks and local arrangements, against a backdrop of national unrest in Mexico and in the era of exclusionary immigration policies in the United States, Chinese fronterizos carved out vibrant, enduring communities that provided a buffer against virulent Sinophobia. This book challenges us to reexamine the complexities of nation making, identity formation, and the meaning of citizenship. It represents an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783713

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9780804783712

The Year of the Rat

By: Grace Lin

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The Year of the Rat

By: Grace Lin

A fresh new look for this modern classic by the Newbery-Award winning and bestselling author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon In this sequel to Year of the Dog, Pacy has another big year in store for her. The Year of the Dog was a very lucky year: she met her best friend Melody and discovered her true talents. However, the Year of the Rat brings big changes: Pacy must deal with Melody moving to California, find the courage to forge on with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and learn to face some of her own flaws. Pacy encounters prejudice, struggles with acceptance, and must find the beauty in change. Based on the author's childhood adventures, Year of the Rat, features the whimsical black and white illustrations and the hilarious and touching anecdotes that helped Year of the Dog earn rave reviews and satisfied readers.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316029289

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9780316029285

Managing Public Services

Crises and Lessons from Hong Kong

By: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Grace O.M. Lee

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Managing Public Services

Crises and Lessons from Hong Kong

By: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Grace O.M. Lee

This title was first published in 2000: The management of public services is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Demands are increasing while funds appear to be decreasing, but quality of service must remain high. New services are required, demands have to be faced, activities don't always go according to plan and problems emerge in unexpected places and at unusual times; and public managers are expected to deal with these deviations from their regular work patterns. While some activities are concrete in nature and can be seen, such as medical care and education, others are obscured from public view. With governments emphasizing areas that produce visible and quantifiable results, they often neglect the intangible services that must also be provided to the public. Poor performance in these areas can contribute to major crisi in public organizations. This volume examines four case studies in the context of the changing political and social environment of the new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The use of these cases from the public sector in Hong Kong will hopefully help readers to understand the difficulties faced by modern governments in providing basic services to the public.

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Routledge

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1351735675

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9781351735674

Professional Well-Being

Enhancing Wellness Among Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Mental Health Clinicians

By: Grace Gengoux, Ph.D., BCBA-D,Sanno E. Zack, Ph.D.,Jennifer L. Derenne, M.D.,Athena Robinson, Ph.D.,Laura B. Dunn, M.D.,Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.

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Professional Well-Being

Enhancing Wellness Among Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Mental Health Clinicians

By: Grace Gengoux, Ph.D., BCBA-D,Sanno E. Zack, Ph.D.,Jennifer L. Derenne, M.D.,Athena Robinson, Ph.D.,Laura B. Dunn, M.D.,Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.

This volume is a collaboration by several psychiatrists and psychologists who posit a new culture, one that is supportive of the health and well-being of health care professionals and the patients and populations they serve. The individual and systemic barriers to professional well-being and the unique challenges faced by health care providers at different stages of professional and personal development are examined. Personal resilience and realistic strategies to improve well-being are discussed. Detailed case studies and vignettes and thought-provoking discussion questions and exercises are included"--

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American Psychiatric Pub

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1615372296

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9781615372294

Cincinnati Cemeteries

The Queen City Underground

By: Kevin Grace,Tom White

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Cincinnati Cemeteries

The Queen City Underground

By: Kevin Grace,Tom White

Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics, to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrison's father and the notorious "resurrection men." In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these "sack 'em up" grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply cadavers to Cincinnati's medical schools. And if fresh graves weren't available, they lurked for victims in the saloons and the dark alleys of Vine Street and the West End.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738533483

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9780738533483

The Civil Service in Hong Kong

Continuity and Change

By: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Grace O.M. Lee,Anthony B.L. Cheung

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The Civil Service in Hong Kong

Continuity and Change

By: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Grace O.M. Lee,Anthony B.L. Cheung

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, problems, issues and prospects of the civil service in Hong Kong. It examines the origin and development of the civil service, efforts to deal with the changes before and after the transition, and the process of managing public services with references to its changing role and responsibilities. The book will be of interest to academics, civil servants, professionals and students, as well as researchers interested in the role of civil servants in changing societies, and can be used for teaching courses on public administration and Asian studies.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622094589

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9789622094581

Nus Overseas Colleges Story, The: Grooming Start-up Founders At Asia's Top University

By: Yeow Meng Chee,Grace Chng

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Nus Overseas Colleges Story, The: Grooming Start-up Founders At Asia's Top University

By: Yeow Meng Chee,Grace Chng

Told in a narrative, story-telling style, this book tells the story of how NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) was founded, and the critical role played by the NOC in the development of Singapore's startup ecosystem. It chronicles how the founders overcame various challenges to launch the first NOC run in 2002. Featuring the experiences of many individuals whose lives have been touched by the programme, the book captures the early days of NOC startup entrepreneurs who are now household names in the Singapore startup scene. It is a must-read for readers interested in entrepreneurship and how it can be nurtured, and those who are keen to understand the history of Singapore's startup ecosystem.

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World Scientific

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9811267340

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9789811267345

Why You Should Fail

Practical Wisdom from Twenty-Three of Singapore's Top Entrepreneurs

By: Vincent Ng,Grace Lin

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Why You Should Fail

Practical Wisdom from Twenty-Three of Singapore's Top Entrepreneurs

By: Vincent Ng,Grace Lin

Build A Profitable Company That Lasts Learn the exact business strategies that helped 23 of Singapore’s best and brightest entrepreneurs start and grow their companies to the multi-million empires they are today. From crafting a winning investment pitch to unleashing a consistent stream of customers, this is a book packed with tons of real life examples in every area you need to build a profitable company that lasts.

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The Entre Club Pte Ltd (Singapore)

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9813170573

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9789813170575

Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration

By: Grace C. H. Yang

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Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration

By: Grace C. H. Yang

This practical text and color atlas tells the story of 350 patients, covering a wide range of thyroid lesions with high quality composite images that correlate cytology with histology, and radiology with pathology. Each case includes clinical presentation and final pathology. Concise, easy-to-read text enables readers to quickly find the information they need for accurate diagnosis. 'Lookalike' lesions are grouped together so the subtle cytological differences can be appreciated. The author's practical approach explains mistakes made and lessons learned, so diagnostic pitfalls can be avoided. Logarithmic triage diagrams are provided, as well as over 2000 printed photomicrographs and a CD-ROM offering images in downloadable format. Written by a leading cytopathologist who has performed onsite assessment for over 10,000 ultrasound-guided thyroid fine needle aspirations, this is an important resource for all healthcare professionals dealing with thyroid patients, including cytopathologists, surgical pathologists, cytotechnologists, sonographers, radiologists, endocrinologists and surgeons.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107022207

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9781107022201

Internet Directory for Teachers

By: Grace Jasmine,Julia Jasmine

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Internet Directory for Teachers

By: Grace Jasmine,Julia Jasmine

These pages guide teachers to the best and most useful resources on the Internet for use in the classroom, for career development, and for joining the educational community. The multi-platform CD-ROM includes an Internet service provider, a search engine, and links to sites.

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Wiley

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0764502190

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9780764502194

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