The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of epidemiology, with application both to public health and clinical practice (clinical epidemiology). These principles and strategies are also applied to critical...
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Auteur:Patten, Scott B.Sommaire: - Auteur:Patten, Scott B.Sommaire:
This introductory textbook of epidemiology and critical appraisal is intended for undergraduate and graduate students as well as health professionals and trainees. The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of...
- Auteur:Hanson, Eric J.Sommaire:
Eric Hanson - Alberta’s first, and arguably greatest, economist - wrote a number of influential books on federal-provincial relations, education finance, health care finance, and energy economics. In 1949, he took a leave...
- Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened...
- Auteur:Crook, Kenneth H., Truscott, DerekSommaire:
Since its initial release in 2004, Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada has filled a vital need for a single source on professional ethics and law relevant to Canadian psychologists. Focussing on the most pertinent ethical...
- Auteur:Truscott, Derek, Crook, Kenneth H.Sommaire:
In this new edition of the groundbreaking Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, content is both revised and expanded. Continuing to fill a vital need for a Canadian textbook, the authors focus on major ethical issues faced by...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
The primary purpose of this book is to offer psychology graduate students and practitioners a glimpse of the ethical and cultural intricacies that influence the everyday practice of psychology in Canada. Through the sharing of lived...
- Auteur:Milligan, FrankSommaire:
In this unusual biography of one of Canada's most well-known public figures, author Frank Milligan traces the intellectual foundations on which Eugene Forsey's world-view was constructed. Starting with his middle-class Ottawa...
- Auteur:Cook, Sarah, Diamond, SaraSommaire:
Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005, the book celebrates the belief that the creative and cultural sector, in collaboration with scientists and humanists, have a critical role to play in developing...
- Auteur:Jack, CastleSommaire:
In 2168, a mysterious five-sided pyramid is discovered on the ocean floor of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. Commander Mac O’Bryant and her team of astronauts find the body of a missing World War II pilot, whose hands...
- Auteur:Smith, BarbaraSommaire:
A follow-up to Barbara’s other popular books of Alberta’s ghost stories, this volume features more tantalizing tales of paranormal events, from splashing spectres at a city swimming pool to haunted homesteads in central Alberta. Over 80...
- Auteur:Jakober, MarieSommaire:
A young queen must confront her destiny, and overcome the powerful forces arrayed against her When she is kidnapped by enemy invaders, Marwen of Kamilan must escape her oppressive foe and reclaim her throne. But it will be a fight that...
- Auteur:Tarnopolsky, DamianSommaire:
Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange. From the tangled threads of a messed-up family...
- Auteur:Kilpatrick, NancySommaire:
Vampires have Evolved and They are Here! Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers re-imagine the future of vampires in this new collection of all-original short fiction. One of the most...
- Auteur:Kilpatrick, NancySommaire:
Vampires: friend or foe? Either way, time is on their side, and they are more powerful than ever before! Meet the eternal predator that humanity never ceases to find both fascinating and terrifying. Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the...
- Auteur:D.A., AdebeSommaire:
The possibility that the present is a continued struggle against nihilism, marked by the will to create, offers important questions about identity and heritage: what does it mean to exist in the present? Out of what matter do we form...
- Auteur:Explorers, SuperSommaire:
They dig, drill, tunnel, hoe, scrape, pulverize and so much more. These are the big machines that help people work everyday. SUPER EXPLORERS can be very big, or very small to explore everything from volcanoes, to machines to inside...
- Auteur:Zits, PaulSommaire:
Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with a pillowcase. Her brother, Alex,...
- Auteur:Cresey, PaulSommaire:
A compelling and inventive collection about the ways we leave and the reasons we choose what to leave behind. Framed within a tale about a journalist investigating choices of life and death, the eighteen stories in this collection...
- Auteur:Foran, MaxSommaire:
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building...
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