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Social Change in South East Asia

New Perspectives

By: Jacques Hersh,Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Niels Fold

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Social Change in South East Asia

New Perspectives

By: Jacques Hersh,Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Niels Fold

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ongoing process of development and societal transformation in a dynamic region of the Third World. Written by a team of specialists from the fields of development studies, sociology and political economy, the book looks at some of the fundamental problems facing South East Asia by addressing the following issues: the social constellations; class, culture and political legitimation; and industrialisation and labour regulation.

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Routledge

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1317882881

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9781317882886

Soviet-Third World Relations in a Capitalist World

The Political Economy of Broken Promises

By: Ellen Brun,Jacques Hersh

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Soviet-Third World Relations in a Capitalist World

The Political Economy of Broken Promises

By: Ellen Brun,Jacques Hersh

Several aspects of Soviet Third-World relations in a capitalist world are looked at in this book. These include tracing the roots of the Third World within the Marxist tradition, and discussing Soviet attitudes to the capitalist world market as they have evolved from the Bolshevik era to today.

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Springer

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1349113832

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The Origins of AIDS

By: Jacques Pépin

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The Origins of AIDS

By: Jacques Pépin

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108800564

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Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination

Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories

By: Michel Jacques Gagné

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Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination

Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories

By: Michel Jacques Gagné

Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s shocking and untimely death. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the violent public assassination of President John F. Kennedy, over half of all Americans surveyed continue to believe that he was killed by a conspiracy involving multiple assassins. Through its reasoned and detailed analysis of the content and evolution of JFK conspiracy narratives, this book also serves as a comprehensive case study of paranoid reasoning and modern mythmaking. The book’s opening chapters lay out the "official" academic consensus concerning the Kennedy assassination (better known as the "Lone Gunman Theory") and discuss the origins of popular interpretations of Kennedy’s life and death, such as the nostalgic myth of "Camelot," the unsympathetic "Irish Mafia" narrative, and the many conspiracy theories critical of both. Subsequent sections scrutinize the alleged motives of leading conspiracy suspects, the ballistic, forensic, and medical evidence related to JFK’s murder, and the most popular "proofs" of an enduring government cover- up. The book concludes that no clear evidence exists to suggest that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy and ends with a discussion of the causes and consequences of paranoid thinking in contemporary public discourse. This volume will appeal to students of history, politics, psychology, and cultural and media studies, and to a broader audience interested in American history, critical thinking, and conspiracy thinking.

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1000544125

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Governig by fake news

International conflicts: 30 years of infoxes used by Western countries - L’inconnu

By: Jacques Baud

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Governig by fake news

International conflicts: 30 years of infoxes used by Western countries - L’inconnu

By: Jacques Baud

What are Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our democracies; that terrorism has struck France, not for what it does, but for what it is; that the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 victims?... Literally none, but these assertions are enough to establish the foreign policy of Western countries. The author, a former agent of the Swiss strategic intelligence service, reviews the main contemporary conflicts that Western countries have managed with fake news over the last thirty years. Jacques Baud, a colonel, chemical and nuclear weapons expert, trained in counter-terrorism and counter-guerrilla warfare, designed the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and its Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). In the service of the United Nations, he served as Chief of Doctrine for Peacekeeping Operations in New York, and was engaged in Africa. In NATO, he led the fight against the proliferation of small arms. He is the author of several books on intelligence, asymmetric warfare and terrorism.

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Max Milo

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2315010721

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Asymptotic Analysis for Periodic Structures

By: Alain Bensoussan,Jacques-Louis Lions,George Papanicolaou

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Asymptotic Analysis for Periodic Structures

By: Alain Bensoussan,Jacques-Louis Lions,George Papanicolaou

This is a reprinting of a book originally published in 1978. At that time it was the first book on the subject of homogenization, which is the asymptotic analysis of partial differential equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients, and as such it sets the stage for what problems to consider and what methods to use, including probabilistic methods. At the time the book was written the use of asymptotic expansions with multiple scales was new, especially their use as a theoretical tool, combined with energy methods and the construction of test functions for analysis with weak convergence methods. Before this book, multiple scale methods were primarily used for non-linear oscillation problems in the applied mathematics community, not for analyzing spatial oscillations as in homogenization. In the current printing a number of minor corrections have been made, and the bibliography was significantly expanded to include some of the most important recent references. This book gives systematic introduction of multiple scale methods for partial differential equations, including their original use for rigorous mathematical analysis in elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic problems, and with the use of probabilistic methods when appropriate. The book continues to be interesting and useful to readers of different backgrounds, both from pure and applied mathematics, because of its informal style of introducing the multiple scale methodology and the detailed proofs.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821853244

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Ukraine Between War and Peace

Essais - documents

By: Jacques Baud

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Ukraine Between War and Peace

Essais - documents

By: Jacques Baud

Has the US strategy in Ukraine reached an impasse? What is the Russian conduct of military operations? When will the Ukrainian counter-offensive take place? Does Western weaponry really make a difference in Ukraine? Who are the winners of this war? What changes in the world are we witnessing since February 24, 2022? What is the reality of the losses on the Ukrainian and Russian sides? Can Western industry compete with Russian industry in Ukraine? Why is a negotiated solution not being sought? How is our perception of the conflit serving Ukraine? To answer these questions and many others, Jacques Baud relies on information from Western intelligence services and American documents that were leaked in April 2023. After the best-sellers Putin, Game Master? and Operation Z, both works praised world-wide, Baud returns to the war in Ukraine by analyzing the facts and nothing but the facts. Whether one is for or against the position of Ukraine, one must nevertheless deal with the field of operations and to analyze what is happening there. This is the only way to find a path to peace—because peace will not come by relying on illusions. Jacques Baud was a member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and a former head of the United Nations peace operations doctrine. In NATO, he was involved in programs in Ukraine, including after the Mayan revolution in 2014 and 2017. In addition to his major works on the conflit in Ukraine, he is the author of several books on intelligence, war, and terrorism, including Governing by Fake News, Defeating Jihadist Terrorism, and The Navalny Affair, all published by Max Milo.

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Max Milo

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2315012120

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A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard Analysis with Application to Newton’s Principia

By: Jacques Fleuriot

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A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard Analysis with Application to Newton’s Principia

By: Jacques Fleuriot

Sir Isaac Newton's philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica'(the Principia) contains a prose-style mixture of geometric and limit reasoning that has often been viewed as logically vague. In A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard Analysis, Jacques Fleuriot presents a formalization of Lemmas and Propositions from the Principia using a combination of methods from geometry and nonstandard analysis. The mechanization of the procedures, which respects much of Newton's original reasoning, is developed within the theorem prover Isabelle. The application of this framework to the mechanization of elementary real analysis using nonstandard techniques is also discussed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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085729329X

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9780857293299

L'art de la guerre russe

By: Jacques Baud

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L'art de la guerre russe

By: Jacques Baud

Pourquoi l’Ukraine est en train de perdre la guerre contre la Russie ? Comment les deux camps pensent et mènent leurs opérations ? Quelles ont été les erreurs de part et d’autre ? Comment l’Occident a contribué à la défaite ukrainienne ?... Pour répondre à ces questions et à bien d’autres, Jacques Baud s’appuie sur des informations officielles, des documents américains, occidentaux et russes. Il explique la manière dont la Russie comprend et conduit la guerre. Il montre combien l’incapacité des Occidentaux à comprendre cette réalité et leur détermination à affaiblir la Russie s’est retournée contre l’Ukraine. Après les best-sellers Poutine, le maître du jeu ?, Opération Z et Ukraine entre guerre et paix dont le travail d’analyse a été salué dans le monde entier et dont les ouvrages ont été traduits dans plusieurs pays, l’auteur revient sur la guerre en Ukraine. Il expose la manière dont la Russie l’a menée et comment l’image qu’en ont donné les Occidentaux a conduit l’Ukraine vers l’échec.

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Max Milo

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2315013070

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Non-Homogeneous Boundary Value Problems and Applications

Volume II

By: Jacques Louis Lions,Enrico Magenes

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Non-Homogeneous Boundary Value Problems and Applications

Volume II

By: Jacques Louis Lions,Enrico Magenes

I. In this second volume, we continue at first the study of non homogeneous boundary value problems for particular classes of evolu tion equations. 1 In Chapter 4 , we study parabolic operators by the method of Agranovitch-Vishik [lJ; this is step (i) (Introduction to Volume I, Section 4), i.e. the study of regularity. The next steps: (ii) transposition, (iii) interpolation, are similar in principle to those of Chapter 2, but involve rather considerable additional technical difficulties. In Chapter 5, we study hyperbolic operators or operators well defined in thesense of Petrowski or Schroedinger. Our regularity results (step (i)) seem to be new. Steps (ii) and (iii) are all3.logous to those of the parabolic case, except for certain technical differences. In Chapter 6, the results of Chapter'> 4 and 5 are applied to the study of optimal control problems for systems governed by evolution equations, when the control appears in the boundary conditions (so that non-homogeneous boundary value problems are the basic tool of this theory). Another type of application, to the characterization of "all" well-posed problems for the operators in question, is given in the Ap pendix. Still other applications, for example to numerical analysis, will be given in Volume 3.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642652174

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Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Edward Mills,Jean-Jacques Dugoua,Daniel Perri,Gideon Koren

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Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Edward Mills,Jean-Jacques Dugoua,Daniel Perri,Gideon Koren

This work focuses on the therapeutics, safety and risk information of herbs and supplements used during pregnancy and lactation for obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists and primary care physicians.

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CRC Press

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0203090292

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9780203090299

Neurosciences at the Postgenomic Era

8 Tables

By: Jacques Mallet,Yves Christen

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Neurosciences at the Postgenomic Era

8 Tables

By: Jacques Mallet,Yves Christen

In this new volume in the series Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences the authors have presented and discussed their findings in the fields of speech and language disorders, X-linked mental retardation, gene therapy in the CNS, memory and learning disorders and other fields.

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3540001948

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War Crimes Trials and Investigations

A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction

By: Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher

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War Crimes Trials and Investigations

A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction

By: Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History, Violence Studies, International Criminal Justice, International Relations, and Moral Philosophy. The contributors are experts in their respective fields and the chapters highlight each discipline’s major trends, debates, methods and approaches to mass atrocity, genocide, and crimes against humanity, as well as their interactions with adjacent disciplines. Case studies illustrate how the respective disciplines work in practice, including examples from the Allied Hunger Blockade, WWII, the Guatemalan and Spanish Civil Wars, the Former Yugoslavia, and Uganda. Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial orientation when approaching the specialist literature in each case, this edited collection equips readers with what they need to know in order to navigate a complex, and until now, deeply fragmented field. A diverse and interdisciplinary body of research, this book will be indispensable reading for scholars of war crimes.

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3319640720

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General Sun, My Brother

By: Jacques Stéphen Alexis

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General Sun, My Brother

By: Jacques Stéphen Alexis

A novel on the exploitation of the poor in the Caribbean. The hero is a Haitian peasant who becomes politicized while in jail. Forced to work as a sugar-cane cutter in the Dominican Republic, he participates in a strike which ends in a massacre.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918901

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9780813918907

Imaging and Vision Systems

Theory, Assessment and Applications

By: Jacques Blanc-Talon

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Imaging and Vision Systems

Theory, Assessment and Applications

By: Jacques Blanc-Talon

Imaging & Vision Systems - Theory, Assessment & Applications, Advances in Computation, Theory & Practice -- Volume 9

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Nova Publishers

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1590330331

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Principles and Methods of Immunotoxicology

By: Jacques Descotes

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Principles and Methods of Immunotoxicology

By: Jacques Descotes

This is a review of clinical adverse effects on the human immune system that may occur following drug treatments and chemcical exposures. Current and prospective models and assays that can be used to predict these adverse effects in animal toxicity studies or in human beings are described.

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Elsevier

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0080472990

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Defeating Jihadist Terrorism

Essais - documents

By: Jacques Baud

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Defeating Jihadist Terrorism

Essais - documents

By: Jacques Baud

Since the early 1990s, terrorism and its victims have increased exponentially. Without any action strategy or exit solution, through political and military incompetence, stupidity and ideological blindness, Western interventions have only contributed to its development. We eliminate terrorists, but not terrorism. The solution lies in a more holistic, more subtle, more intelligent and less dogmatic approach. Terrorism is not an ideology. It is a method that takes many forms, including jihadist terrorism. Each form of terrorism is fought with a specific strategy. Based on the original texts of jihadist strategists as well as on their own analyses of attacks in France, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States, Jacques Baud explains the reasons for Western failure. He uses the analyses of Western intelligence services to decipher the mechanisms of jihadist terrorism, in order to extract strategies of action likely to avoid it or to fight it effectively and durably.

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Max Milo

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2315010802

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9782315010806

From Dawn to Decadence

500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

By: Jacques Barzun

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From Dawn to Decadence

500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

By: Jacques Barzun

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch's Revolution," "The Artist Prophet and Jester" -- show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the creative novelty that will burst forth -- tomorrow or the next day. Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume.

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Harper Perennial

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0060928832

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Fleischer's Sonography in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Principles and Practice, Eighth Edition

By: Arthur C. Fleischer,Eugene C. Toy,Frank A. Manning,Jacques Abramowicz,Luis Goncalves,Ilan Timor-Tritsch,Ana Monteagudo

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Fleischer's Sonography in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Principles and Practice, Eighth Edition

By: Arthur C. Fleischer,Eugene C. Toy,Frank A. Manning,Jacques Abramowicz,Luis Goncalves,Ilan Timor-Tritsch,Ana Monteagudo

The definitive guide to sonography in obstetrics and gynecology—thoroughly updated and enhanced by the addition of teaching cases Doody's Core Titles for 2021! This acclaimed guide is a clinically relevant reference text, an atlas, and a teaching/learning resource. Presented in full color and enriched by more than 2,000 illustrations, it expertly examines the full spectrum of disorders and conditions likely to be encountered in gynecologic and maternal-fetal care. You will find expert, all-inclusive coverage of everything from sonographic operating instruments and screening the fetal patient for syndromes and anomalies, to diagnosing the female patient for cysts, infertility, and incontinence. This edition has been updated to include coverage of the latest procedures and diagnostic guidelines for the use of sonography in ob/gyn, including 3D and 4D US and enhanced image processing, contrast enhanced sonography, ultrasound guided fetal therapy, sonographic evaluation of pelvic pain, and much more. The Eighth Edition also features an extensive series of teaching cases. Each case consists of the patient’s medical history, representative US images, cineloop videos, Q&A, and teaching points with references. Fleischer’s Sonography in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Eighth Edition opens with general obstetric sonography, covering such pivotal topics as normal pelvic anatomy and fetal echocardiography, before moving into fetal anomalies and disorders. Risk assessment and therapy, including first trimester screening and amniocentesis, are explored in the next section, while the remaining parts of the book focus on maternal disorders, gynecologic sonography, and the newest complementary imaging modalities.

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