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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Cardiovascular Rehabilitation
Abstract: A reference text prepared by medical authorities in their respective fields, for physicians caring for carciovascular disease (CVD) patients, focuses on a wide variety of practical aspects concerning cardiovascular diseases and the use of therapeutic nutritional and exercise modalities. The material was a gleaned from experiences with over 700 referred patients, 2000 exercise stress tests, over 30,000 hours of exercise therapy, and from existing medical psychological, and nutritional management approaches. The 15 chapters of the text include exercise principles in CVD rehabilitation; patient responses to exercise testing and therapy; psychological aspects and disorders of CVD and their treatment; nutritional management in CVD rehabilitation; surgical treatment; risk evaluation; health care costs; blood pressure and pulse responses to exercise; data summaries from a 274-patient study; and the rationale of dietary management in a comprehensive CVD program. A detailed summary of the text is appended. Numerous tabular data and illustrations are presented throughout the text. (wz).
Mythical Ireland
Mythical Ireland embodies the search for a soul among Ireland's ancient ruins, and is an attempt to retrieve something of deeper import from 5,000-year-old megalithic monuments and their associated myths. The book represents a fascinating and engaging journey through time, landscape and the human spirit. Dealing with archaeology, interpretive mythography, cosmology and cosmogony, the book attempts to grapple with a core meaning, something beyond the functional interpretations of academia. In this revised and expanded edition, Anthony Murphy delves further into the many enthralling aspects of this journey. Just how much knowledge did locals have of the secrets of Newgrange before it was excav...
Child and Family
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
'Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph In 1993, Anthony Loyd hitchhiked to the Balkans hoping to become a journalist. Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see 'a real war' for himself. In Bosnia he found one. The cruelty and chaos of the conflict both appalled and embraced him; the adrenalin lure of the action perhaps the loudest siren call of all. In the midst of the daily life-and-death struggle among Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims, Loyd was inspired by the extraordinary human fortitude he discovered. But returning home he found the void of peacetime too painful to bear, and so began a longstanding personal battle with drug abuse. This harrowing account shows humanity at its worst and best. It is a breathtaking feat of reportage; an uncompromising look at the terrifyingly seductive power of war. 'As good as reporting gets. I have nowhere read a more vivid account of frontline fear and survival. Forget the strategic overview. All war is local' Martin Bell, The Times
Five Year Report
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