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2020The Pharmaceutical Technician Logbook
Tips on record keeping and sample pharmaceutical calculations
by Heike Steen
The pharmaceutical technician students have almost made it: the first part of their training has been successfully completed, many exams have been passed and they are starting their six month internship in a wonderful pharmacy. Now they find themselves at the next milestone on the road to becoming a fully-fledged pharmaceutical technician: the internship logbook! The contents are laid down by the regulations governing the training and examination of pharmaceutical technicians. It is required before admission to the 2nd part of the examination and forms an important basis for the oral examination in the subject Pharmacy practice. This logbook gives pharmaceutical technician interns the decisive incentive to keep their own individual records. It contains tips on how to achieve a logical, accurate, wellstructured and visually perfect presentation of the contents. The second part of the book shows complete sample calculations for examples of individual and bulk formulations, tests on starting materials and selected topics of practical training in a pharmacy!
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March 2019Smart Boy 1: The Human Brain Online
by Mu Ling
After being admitted to the police school, the middle school student Mada, during the internship, participated in the series of reconnaissance missions. In the process of crime investigation, he did not believe in the authority of artificial intelligence detectives, but was obsessed with traditional investigative methods. By chance, the motor got acquainted with a giant rat, Jiji, who escaped from a lab. Jiji's wisdom was artificially stimulated with distortion in the lab. With the help of the young partner Jiji, the detective of the young boy gradually surfaced. However, in the reconnaissance of another case, the new situation emerged has repeatedly overturned their reasoning. Who is manipulating this? Where is the real murderer? Robots, artificial intelligence, man-machine wars ... Is it a human-made robot or a "semi-robot" that wants to control humans?
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March 2019Smart Boy 2: The Mind Thief
by Mu Ling
After being admitted to the police school, the middle school student Mada, during the internship, participated in the series of reconnaissance missions. In the process of crime investigation, he did not believe in the authority of artificial intelligence detectives, but was obsessed with traditional investigative methods. By chance, the motor got acquainted with a giant rat, Jiji, who escaped from a lab. Jiji's wisdom was artificially stimulated with distortion in the lab. With the help of the young partner Jiji, the detective of the young boy gradually surfaced. However, in the reconnaissance of another case, the new situation emerged has repeatedly overturned their reasoning. Who is manipulating this? Where is the real murderer? Robots, artificial intelligence, man-machine wars ... Is it a human-made robot or a "semi-robot" that wants to control humans?
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Children's & YAJuly 2021Vielleicht Jetzt
by Carolin Wahl
Maybe Now (MAYBE Trilogy, Vol. 1) Gabriella, Joana and Karla share a flat. To finance their studies, they all work at a catering company. And the three not only realize their professional dreams, but also find the love of their lives. Gabrielle almost missed her plane in Brazil and now she sits next to this super rude guy. Great! She‘s flying to Munich to finally meet her biological father. Undercover, as she starts an internship in his catering company. On her first day in the kitchen, her instructor turns out to be, of all people, Anton. Her rude – or rather rudely handsome – seatmate from the plane! He not only lights a fire at the stove... Gabriella tries in vain to fight the sparks between them. Because Anton has clear rules when it comes to relationships at work. As hot as the Brazilian sun and as seductive as a perfect chocolate mousse! • Feel-good page turner for New Adults• Original plots in heartfelt narrations, leaving out familiar clichés• Girl power: 3 self-confident protagonists and their strong friendship• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, parental pressure, exploring roots to find your place
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Children's & YAThe Sparkling Ponies (4). Jana in Search of Happiness
by Emily Palmer/Josephine Llobet
Fiona simply doesn’t know what she should do first: Leo, the owner of the farm, is very depressed, and even the funny tricks of Sunny, the sparkling pony, can’t cheer her up. What’s more, the mysterious island on Lake Sparkle is to be sold, and that would be a disaster! There are so many sparkling tasks to be performed that Fiona almost overlooks a vital clue. But fortunately, her sparkling pony Sunny is still there. Just like the black horse Opal and his friend Jana, who together show that with the right amount of sparkling magic, all problems finally disappear…
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Children's & YAThe Sparkling Ponies (3). Luna and the Moonstones
by Emily Palmer/ Josephine Llobet
The four friends Fiona, Aurelia, Jana and Leni thoroughly enjoy their friendship with their sparkling ponies and they’re looking forward to the festival that’s about to take place at Funfield Pony Farm. But there’s a lot to be done first. Only Aurelia can’t really enjoy the prospect because the problem she has to solve with the mare Luna is really giving her a tough time. Suddenly Fiona and Sunny are also given a tricky task. And when the secret of the sparkling ponies is then in danger of being exposed, everything goes topsy-turvy. Will the friends end up enjoying the pony festival or not?
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MedicineSeptember 2020Small Animal Veterinary Psychiatry
by Sagi Denenberg, Ali Thompson
Problem behaviours are often the result of how an animal thinks and feels, genetics, and environmental influences. Steering away from just description diagnoses and focusing instead on emotional and cognitive causes, this book provides a practical approach to diagnosing, treating, and managing behaviour pathologies in dogs and cats. Beginning by addressing cases in the first opinion practice, this book then considers physical disorders that may lead to or exacerbate abnormal behavior. From there, the focus shifts to mental and emotional health, from an assessment of normal behavior and giving juveniles an optimal start in life, to diagnosing mental and emotional disorders, addressing emotions such as anxiety and frustration, and how to manage these issues - by modifying behavior, managing the animal's environment, training, and, when necessary, the use of medications. The second half of the book then addresses owner concerns, including management problems, aggression, affective disorder, elimination disorder, abnormal and repetitive behaviours and ageing-related problems. With an emphasis on helping first line veterinarians identify common presentations and offer help to owners, this book: - Addresses both normal and abnormal behaviour in cats and dogs from an emotion and cognition perspective; - Provides behaviour modification protocols, and drug doses and indications; - Includes handouts to be used both within the practice and with clients to help the veterinary surgeon manage the case. Written by international experts, the book translates their insights and experience into approaches taken in behavioural medicine. Also including the most up-to-date drugs, it is an important resource for both small animal veterinarians and students of veterinary medicine or animal behaviour.
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Biography & True StoriesDiary of a Medical Student Or Life in the Tropical Paradise
Or Life in the Tropical Paradise
by Katerina Naumenko
I began my “diary” as a way to keep my loved ones updated half a world away, myself in Grenada – West Indies and everyone else in USA, on my well being. I was not in the best physical health and there were a lot of people worried that I may not make it back …alive. What came out as a result of my highly optimistically edited updates, at least initially, is a story of the wonders I discovered while studying in what can only described as “tropical paradise”. Alas, the tropics were replaced by the hectic life in the New York City – The Big Apple… with many wonderful discoveries and lessons to learn from. And then, the first, and likely last, five months of my internship as a brand new doctor. The work includes brief glimpses into both what I studied in Grenada course wise and what I did outside of class. When I began my clinical years of training in New York City it has brief snippets about interesting cases I've encountered and lessons I learned along the way, prejudices that were dropped, frustrations, and adventures outside of the hospital walls. Lastly, it is closed with my adventures and lessons as a freshly minted unlicenced doctor in my first, and likely last, five months of internship in family medicine.
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2014Blade of Light
Intrigue and suspense by the waters of Lake Titicaca
by Gillian Jones
Four students head off to Bolivia to protest about the building of a dam. In Paraguay a gap-year backpacker goes missing. Ripples of concern spread to an English village and into the boardrooms of the City of London.
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Global warmingI want to live.
by James Kilcullen
Global warming has reached its peak; the area between the tropics of Cancer and Capriciorn is so hot it can no longer support human or animal life. People are dying or moving north and south to cooler climates, which have closed their borders as they cannot cope with increased populations. Violence is widespread. James Laffoy,earth scientist, has failed to persuade the powers to take drastic action before it's too late. He retreats to his late father's uninhabited island off the west coast of ireland and, over a number of years, with a small number of like minded people, prepares for the worst. Can they survive in a world that's closing down rapidly?
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FictionSeptember 2019THE DUCKS IN THE LAGOON
by Chu Yuhsun
One semester shy of graduation, unforeseen circumstances force teaching intern Ho Po-Ssu to move to a new school to complete his internship. The new private high school is unusual – even during winter break a team of student volunteers stand guard at the front gates, and inside, all students are required to address the school’s founder and former principal as “Master”. Moved by the struggles of a handful of special needs students, Ho Po-Ssu organizes them into an odd-jobs crew, hoping to better integrate them into campus life. His charges include Fa-Ko, who struggles with even the most basic tasks; Hui, an unapologetic class-cutter; Hsiang, who, despite his challenges, still dreams of getting top marks; and Ning who refuses to don a school uniform. Not only are Ho Po-Ssu’s well-intentioned efforts dismissed, when a scandal rocks the school, the administration sets up Ho Po-Ssu to take the fall. Consumed with outrage, he watches helplessly as the circumstances that ended his first internship once again unfold before his eyes. Yet, far more disturbing is the way innocent students are sacrificed in the power struggle that follows. Author Chu Yuhsun’s writing is marked by tight pacing and quicksilver prose. Chapters are interspersed with remembered dreams, providing an absurd foil to the unimaginable circumstances of Ho Po-Ssu’s waking life. Themes of integrity, outrage, injustice, and the dangers of unchecked authority pulse through the novel, as the dark tendrils of a corrupt system threaten to smother youthful innocence and idealism.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Mujer azul (Blue woman)
by Antje Rávik Strubel
Adina is the last teenager in the Giant Mountains. When she leaves her small village for the first time - to take a language course in Berlin - she meets Rickie, a photographer who arranges an internship for her at a newly built cultural center in Uckermark. Adina is assaulted by a respected cultural politician from West Germany, and after an odyssey through half of Europe, she ends up stranded in Helsinki. There she meets Leonides, an Estonian political scientist and Member of the European Parliament, who becomes her first stop. While he campaigns for human rights, Adina seeks a way out of her inner exile. These are the circumstances.
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THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Pooriya Farrokhniya
The Ferris Wheel written by Pouria Farrokhnia, an Iranian poet and lawyer who wrote this book during his internship in law, reminds us of the facts of life and the unwritten laws of the world with a pathological insight. In this book, he reminds us of gender discrimination. And he talks about injustice, but in describing it he uses nature. He talks about pain and wounds but promises upcoming good days. He speaks of war but calls for world peace. He speaks of love, altruism, working children, homeless women, animals, nature, and all the truths that are respected and loved, the poet's worldview in this book is distinct in a way that makes you think a little about yourself and your surroundings, and this is the goal that the poet of the book pursues.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesOctober 2021Social Queue
by Kay Kerr
Zoe has just finished school and started an internship at a local newspaper. Her first assignment is to write about romance, but where to begin? Zoe hasn’t been in love. She doesn’t think anyone has ever even liked her. So when her article is published and she’s contacted by a number of young men who had been interested in her in their schooldays, Zoe realises that somehow she had missed the social cues. Social Queue is a funny-serious own-voices story about being a young autistic woman navigating the dating scene and sorting out complex and often confusing feelings on the road to finding love. Kay Kerr’s debut novel Please Don’t Hug Me was beloved by readers for its portrayal of the life of an autistic teenager. Her second novel, Social Queue, is another heartwarming contemporary YA novel with huge appeal for neuro-diverse and neuro-typical readers alike.
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EducationTalk about Careers in Science
by Roth, W.-M.
Non scholae sed vitae discimus, we learn for life rather than for school. In this Roman saying, the ultimate reason for school is recognized as being a preparation for life. High school science, too, is a preparation for life, the possible careers students identify, and for defining possible future Selves. In this book, the contributors take one dataset as their object of scholarship informed by discursive psychology, Bakhtin, and poststructural positions to investigate the particulars of the language used in interviews about possible careers conducted both before and after an internship in a university science laboratory. Across this collection, some contributors focus on data driven analyses in which the authors present more macro-perspectives on the use of language in science career talk, whereas others see the data using particular lenses that provide intelligible and fruitful perspectives on what and how students and interviewer talk careers in science. Other contributors propose to transform the database into different representations that allows researchers to single out and demonstrate particular dimensions of discourse. Thus, these contributions roughly fall into three categories that are treated under the sections entitled “Discourse Analyses of Career Talk,” “Discursive Lenses and Foci,” and “Innovations in Theory, Method, and Representation of Career Talk Research.”
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Higher & further education, tertiary educationJanuary 2016Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Report of a Convocation
by Committee for Convocation on Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Students who participate in scientific research as undergraduates report gaining many benefits from the experience. However, undergraduate research done independently under a faculty member's guidance or as part of an internship, regardless of its individual benefits, is inherently limited in its overall impact. Faculty members and sponsoring companies have limited time and funding to support undergraduate researchers, and most institutions have available (or have allocated) only enough human and financial resources to involve a small fraction of their undergraduates in such experiences. Many more students can be involved as undergraduate researchers if they do scientific research either collectively or individually as part of a regularly scheduled course. Course-based research experiences have been shown to provide students with many of the same benefits acquired from a mentored summer research experience, assuming that sufficient class time is invested, and several different potential advantages. In order to further explore this issue, the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education organized a convocation meant to examine the efficacy of engaging large numbers of undergraduate students who are enrolled in traditional academic year courses in the life and related sciences in original research, civic engagement around scientific issues, and/or intensive study of research methods and scientific publications at both two- and four-year colleges and universities. Participants explored the benefits and costs of offering students such experiences and the ways that such efforts may both influence and be influenced by issues such as institutional governance, available resources, and professional expectations of faculty. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum summarizes the presentations and discussions from this event.
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EducationThe Legacy of the Baby Boomers or the French Social System?
Issues of Equality and Brain Drain
by Patron, M.-C.
This book aims to identify key factors influencing the increasing brain drain of French early and mid-career graduates primarily to Anglo-Saxon countries in order to avoid the inexorable outcome of their tertiary studies: precarious employment conditions relegating them to the status of intellectual underclass in France. This qualitative ethnographic study investigated the experiences of 38 French nationals and expatriates aged between 21 and 48 to provide a voice to the increasing number of students and graduates who despair at the thought of witnessing their years of study culminate in a perennial cycle of training, unemployment, internship. What distinguishes the French from their European counterparts who also struggle to secure employment and a decent future? These unprecedented circumstances in Europe are as a result of the global financial crisis and the current sovereign debt predicament. Who is responsible for the quandary in which French graduates find themselves in the stratified French society of today, where globalisation has made academic mobility de rigueur? France risks losing her talented Generation X to more accepting countries where a spirit of meritocracy exists and economic rewards are awarded after years of tertiary education and assiduousness. A large number of constituents belonging to Baby Boomer Generation are ensconced in comfortable government positions or are established in lucrative careers reserved for the upper echelons of the privileged classes. Are the Baby Boomers to blame for the predicament of Generation X, for failing to transmit intergenerational equality to subsequent generations? Will the new government deliver on the promises to grant France’s youth the economic rewards they deserve, and the respect and equality that the previous generation have taken for granted? Biography: Marie-Claire Patron has a background in education through teaching French and Spanish in Australia, France and Spain. During her eight years in Spain, she had industrial experience in business, law, banking and the building industry, using extensively her skills in Interpreting and Translation. Marie-Claire is an Assistant Professor in language teaching and her research focuses on the intercultural field and the internationalisation of students. She has been at Bond University, Australia for 21 years, 18 as Head of French and Spanish Language. This is Marie-Claire’s third book.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureJanuary 2008Agricultural Extension
Worldwide Innovations
by R. Saravanan
Agricultural extension is in a great transition worldwide. The demand for public extension reform is greater than ever before. The agriculture knowledge infrastructure is evolving in a big way with the emergence of pluralistic extension actors and innovations to cater the needs of the farmeThis book is an attempt to document the past experiences and recent developments in the agriculture knowledge information systems. The compilation of 14 country s such as; Afghanistan, Benin, Cote dIvoire, Ghana, India, Iran, Mozambique, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe is intended to document the experience of extension systems. The fourteen country s highlight the worldwide agricultural extension reform measures (Decentralization, Privatization, Demand driven and Cost-recovery approaches), Institutional Pluralism (Public, Private, and NGOs) and Innovations (Farmer to Farmer extension, Participatory and Self-Help Group (SHG) approaches and ICT initiatives). The agricultural extension students, academicians, scientist, practitioners, administrators, and policy makers will find this compilation of extension experiences from the fourteen countries relevant for designing future reforms, advancing pluralistic extension system and also to integrating innovations in their extension approaches.
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RelationshipsAugust 2019THE END OF OUR STORY
by Graciela Mayrink
An anonymous message uniting two sad and lonely hearts: a singer and his fan. Monica was the only girl at school who didn't want to be friends with the self-centered João Carlos. In trying to win her over, he discovers that both are fans of superheroes and Star Wars, and the road to Monica's heart seems easier and easier. After a few months of trying, he reaches his goal, and the courtship lasts two years, until João moves with his parents to the United States to study and pursue his dream of having a career as a painter. The courtship doesn't resist the distance and a mistake of João, and they break up. João becomes a celebrity worldwide after one of his paintings appears on a popular reality show. Despite all the fame, he feels that his happiness is not complete with success, because he lacks the woman he loves. Now, João returns to Brazil for an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro and with the objective of reconquering the love of his life. Will the reunion of the two reopen some wounds or is it still possible to revive this great love?
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureOctober 2015Declutter Guide
How to Organize your life in 2 weeks or less
by Ariel Benet Savant
Don’t get paralyzed by your clutter and stuff. Start applying proven systems that work!! Do you feel you’ve become a slob or a clutter bug? Does tidying up or home organizing seem like a never-ending chore? If you are struggling in this area and want solutions that speak to you as you are guided through the maze of clutter, then this book is written just for you. Learn easy to apply tips to end the mess and live clutter-free without becoming overwhelmed or depressed. Decluttering doesn’t have to be stressful when you have the right information. Life’s constant demands can be stressful and keep in mind as long as you are living, clutter will always appear. Once you apply the time-saving tips in this guide, you will learn how to become more efficient and tame the clutter bug. Let’s face it- Clutter is a BIG problem. Some people’s homes are so full of junk and clutter that they experience a never-ending cycle of anxiety. Many people are simply too embarrassed to invite friends over. Excess clutter affects relationships, can cause a home to become unlivable and can make you feel tired and fatigued. So what makes the Declutter guide special? The Declutter Guide helps you discover the following: • Why you clutter and how to break the cycle • Helping your family declutter • Declutter in the midst of real-life challenges • Working out one room at a time systematically • Identifying the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter • How to avoid digital clutter trap which zaps your time and energy • How to determine what you must keep, donate, or throw away Decluttering expert and author, Ariel Benet savant knows that letting go of the things that are personal and sentimental can be difficult. You will quickly find you can follow the easy to follow procedures and start enjoying a clean, organized, and clutter-free home or office that will make you proud. Ariel grew up knowing how to apply these strategies and helped her friends, co-workers, and family achieve astounding results.
