Nurse's Quick Reference to Common Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests

Nurse's Quick Reference to Common Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests Review

This full-color, portable handbook contains an alphabetical listing of common laboratory and diagnostic tests, with nursing interventions, in a consistent format. The focus is on the nurse's role in performing, evaluating, or assisting with tests. Clinical Alerts throughout highlight vital information. This edition includes many recently approved tests, as well as the latest information on legal, ethical, and safety issues important to nurses and their expanded role in diagnostic testing.

Engineer-In-Training Reference Manual

Engineer-In-Training Reference Manual Review

More than 300,000 engineers have relied on the Engineer-In-Training Reference Manual to prepare for the FE/EIT exam. The Reference Manual  provides a broad review of engineering fundamentals, emphasizing subjects typically found in four- and five-year engineering degree programs. Each chapter covers one subject with solved example problems illustrating key points. Practice problems at the end of every chapter use both SI and English units. Solutions are in the companion Solutions Manual.

Comprehensive review of thousands of engineering topics, including FE exam topics

• Over 980 practice problems
• More than 590 figures
• Over 400 solved sample problems
• Hundreds of tables and conversion formulas
• More than 2,000 equations and formulas
• A detailed 7,000-item index for quick reference

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bash Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

bash Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Review

It's simple: you need to know how to work with the bash shell if you want to get to the heart of Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix systems. Updated for the most recent version of bash, this concise little book puts all of the essential information about bash at your fingertips. You'll quickly find answers to annoying questions that always come up when you're writing shell scripts -- What characters do you need to quote? How do you get variable substitution to do exactly what you want? How do you use arrays? -- and much more.

If you're a user or programmer of any Unix variant, or if you're using bash on Windows, you'll find this pocket reference indispensable. This book covers:

• Invoking the Shell
• Syntax
• Functions
• Variables
• Arithmetic Expressions
• Command History
• Programmable Completion
• Job Control
• Shell Options
• Command Execution
• Coprocesses
• Restricted Shells
• Built-in Commands

Encyclopedia - the World's Biggest English Encyclopedia. Over One Million Articles. Intuitive navigation (Mobi Reference)

Encyclopedia - the World's Biggest English Encyclopedia. Over One Million Articles. Intuitive navigation (Mobi Reference) Review

Encyclopedia - the World's Biggest English Encyclopedia. Over One Million Articles. Intuitive navigation. (Mobi Reference)

Look no further - the world's biggest Encyclopedia. Over 1 million articles. Intuitive navigation.

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- Over 1 million articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts.
- Fifteen times as many articles as in the largest printed 17 volume Encyclopedia.
- The Encyclopedia is based on Wikipedia, the largest collection of reference work in the history of human knowledge. To keep the file size manageable we have only included the abstracts from each article.
- People, History, Literature, Business, Biology, Engineering, Chemicals, Animals and plants, Actors and Actresses, Music bands and albums, Movies, Military equipment, Medical terminology – we would not be able to list all subjects covered by this encyclopedia.
- Intuitive navigation: just start typing in the word - the list of available articles is updated automatically.
- No internet connection or registration required.
- The Encyclopedia takes about 50MB.
- The FREE trial version includes randomly chosen articles.

Updated May 15, 2011


EXAMPLES OF ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

- ABBA was a pop music group formed in Sweden in November 1970. The band consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog. The group topped the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. ...
- Deltoid muscle: The deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder. It was previously called the Deltoideus and the name is still used by some anatomists. It is called so because it is in the shape of the Greek letter Delta (triangle). ...
- Tibia: The tibia is the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates. ...
- Angkor: Angkor is a name conventionally applied to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the 9th century to the 15th century A.D....
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American educator and poet whose works include 'Paul Revere's Ride', ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and 'Evangeline'. ...
- Banderas, Antonio: José Antonio Domínguez Banderas (born 10 August 1960) is a Spanish film actor and singer who has starred in several high-profile Hollywood films including ‘‘Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever‘‘, ‘‘Assassins‘‘, ‘‘Interview with the Vampire‘‘, ‘‘Mariachi Trilogy‘‘, ‘‘Philadelphia‘‘, ‘‘The Mask of Zorro‘‘ and the ‘‘Shrek‘‘ sequels. ...

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HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference: Quick, Comprehensive, Indispensible (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference: Quick, Comprehensive, Indispensible (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Review

After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent standards-compliant design can be intimidating. HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference is the perfect little book when you need answers immediately.

Jennifer Niederst-Robbins, author Web Design in a Nutshell, has revised and updated the fourth edition of this pocket guide by taking the top 20% of vital reference information from her Nutshell book, augmenting it judiciously, cross-referencing everything, and organizing it according to the most common needs of web developers. The result is a handy book that offers the bare essentials on web standards in a small, concise format that you can use carry anywhere for quick reference.

HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference features easy-to-find listings of every HTML and XHTML tag, and every Cascading Style Sheet value. It's an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer who needs a fast on-the-job resource when working with established web standards.

First Space Encyclopedia (DK First Reference)

First Space Encyclopedia (DK First Reference) Review

The latest title in DK's First Reference series introduces the universe, visiting all the planets of our solar system and their moons, as well as our Sun and other stars, black holes, asteroids, comets, and other galaxies. Up to date with the latest astronomical theories, First Space Encyclopedia includes information about the great Pluto debate and the recent discovery of an Earth-like planet, as well as pictures from the latest voyages by shuttles, rovers, and probes, and the conflicting evidence on aliens and UFOs. And of course, young space enthusiasts will want to know all about the cool technology behind what astronauts wear, what they do to train, and even what they eat. All of this and more is ready to reference in a thorough and accessible hardcover volume just right for young scholars.

A Writer's Reference with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

A Writer's Reference with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates Review

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates.

 

A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.

• A Writer’s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
• A Writer’s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.

National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World, Third Edition

National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World, Third Edition Review

A modern atlas demands not just state-of-the-art cartography but a vast array of information organized clearly, efficiently, and above all, usefully—and that’s what the Family Reference Atlas provides: more than 1,000 maps, illustrations, and photographs; more than 400 charts and tables; and 30 global thematic spreads displaying key facts and figures on everything from biodiversity and the distribution of natural resources to world health and education, global Internet connectivity, and conflict and terror hot spots.

A comprehensive index makes it easy to pinpoint more than 40,000 locations all over the globe. Need to know the population of Brunei, what the weather’s like in San Juan in March, or how to use metric conversions? These answers and thousands more are at your fingertips. Readers learn about the planet itself—landforms, the biosphere, continental drift, environmental change—and the human world’s many dimensions, from political, religious, and economic data to population trends and the effect of globalization. The atlas even reaches beyond Earth to explore the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe.

Microsoft Access 2010 Intermediate Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated Card)

Microsoft Access 2010 Intermediate Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated Card) Review

Laminated quick reference card showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use Microsoft Office Access 2010.
The following topics are covered:
Table Design: Preventing Data Entry Errors, Find and Sort More Quickly With Indexing, Joining Tables to Create Relationships, Deleting a Table Join, Preventing Orphaned Data with Referential Integrity.
Query Design: Performing Calculations, Summarizing Selected Data.
Form Design: Adding Form Controls, Sorting, Removing Automatic Labels, Modifying Automatic Labels, Modifying Form Controls.
Report Design: Summarizing by Group, Printing Options.
Table Relationships. Complex Expressions Examples. Form Control.