Medical / Research

Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival

by T. S. Wiley

When it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, everything you believe is a lie.

Lights Out

With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby...

Invariant Measurement: Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

by George Engelhard Jr.

This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the...

New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research

by Frances Rapport

This edited volume brings together innovative contributions from a range of health and social care professionals and research scientists who are interested in introducing new approaches to qualitative research...

The Healing Cell: How the Greatest Revolution in Medical History is Changing Your Life

by Max Gomez, Robin L. Smith & Tomasz Trafny

THE HEALING CELL is an easy to read, carefully researched, and clear-eyed view of medicine many decades in the making that is now paying off with treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer,...

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working With Excel

by James E. Veney

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel (second edition) is written in a clear, easily followed style keyed to the powerful statistical tool, Microsoft Excel 2007. It introduces the use...

Kinanthropometry VIII: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK)

by Mike Marfell-Jones & Thomas Reilly

The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry held its 8th International Conference in Manchester in July 2002. This volume contains a selection of papers presented to the Conference, where...

Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research

by Priscilla R. Ulin, Elizabeth T. Robinson & Elizabeth E. Tolley

Qualitative Methods in Public Health is a comprehensive resource that presents practical strategies and methods for using qualitative research and includes the basic logic and rationale for making qualitative...

Publish or perish... on diabetes

by Silvia Maina

Publishing is an essential practice for all health care professionals. This booklet aims at providing some suggestions to physicians who would like to publish on diabetes. An exmplanation of editorial process...

Intervention Research: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Funding

by Bernadette Melnyk & Dianne Morrison-Beedy

2012 First Place AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Nursing Research!

This book is a practical, user-friendly guide for health care researchers across multiple disciplines who are involved in intervention research....

Fast Facts for Curriculum Development in Nursing: How to Develop & Evaluate Educational Programs in a Nutshell

by Jan L. McCoy & Marion Anema

This new addition to the Fast Facts series is a pithy guide for novice nurse educators to the development, revision, and evaluation of programs and curricula that meet the standard requirements of the National...

Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis

by Howard L. Md Weiner

What causes multiple sclerosis?

When will there be a cure?

Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and debilitating...

LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious

by Stanislav Grof, M.D.

"An extraordinary alchemical text that explores the vast dimensions of inner experience that have been ignored and marginalized by the mainstream. It provides a framework that synthesizes the unconscious and...