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Focuses on the information required to know about the basic sciences of muscles, bones and skin. This book considers each component in an integrated format, putting the basic sciences in clinical context.

Covering various aspects of the syllabus, this work offers you a fast way to recap on what you need to know to get through the exams with ease. Prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision, each chapter commences with learning objectives and has ample use of Hints and Tips boxes.

This volume examines the three components of the convergence phenomenon - technologies, companies and services - in order to help the reader understand how the fundamentals of customer service are created.

Designed for the librarian in a small public library or a quick review for those offering reference services.

Using real-world examples, this book explains how WiMAX works and discusses the business and economic implications of this technology. It provides an overview of the solution for wireless delivery of broadband services.

Storytelling extras (props to puppets including costumes) and lists of grade-appropriate, time- and teller-tested stories are provided. This basic guide by experienced storytellers provides all that is needed to encourage any novice storyteller to take the plunge.

People who run small, rural libraries without formal education will use this book to help them make informed decisions about the organization of their library and the information it holds.

What do you do when you are offered any number of gifts including but not limited to artifacts, letters, historical documents, collections of pictures, postcards, arrowheads?

Taking a management position in a new library or being promoted to a higher position in your library means a new approach to interpersonal relations.

This introduction will help plan for attracting this rapidly growing Spanish-speaking population into the library and library services, a major challenge to librarians in small public libraries who have no Spanish-speaking staff.Providing services to Spanish speakers is both an honor and a challenge. Before public institutions venture into reaching out to the Spanish-speaking community, they need to become familiar with their cultural competency so that their decisions and initiatives are not at risk.

The best way to avoid the pitfalls of public library administration without experiencing them firsthand is to take direction from someone experienced in the field. Crash Course in Public Library Administration introduces librarians in rural or small urban areas to public administration as it applies to libraries.

This text contains a comprehensive overview of library services for preschool children that provides simple, practical tips for working with the youngest library patrons, including computer usage. Tailoring a portion of your library towards the needs of toddlers, preschoolers, and parents of infants is a complicated undertaking.

A basic, how-to book written primarily to prepare librarians to assist genealogy researchers, this guide can also be used by those who wish to discover and document their family histories.

For telecom service providers attempting to deliver complex bundles of broadband services across different network types this book is a survival guide. It provides clear and non-mathematical explanations of the delivering technologies and the business models for these services.

Family literacy programs can be remarkably effective in helping families who struggle in various areas of literacy or supporting their children's academic needs.Crash Course in Family Literacy Programs provides an introduction and an overview of this critical subject, defining what literacy, family literacy, and family literacy events are, and covering critical topics such as sources of funding, conclusions of recent research, and bilingual family literacy. The first half of the book is focused on laying out background information about family literacy, while the remainder provides practical how-to information for public and school libraries to develop their own family literacy programming. The book shows perspectives of public librarians, school principals, children's book store owners, and school personnel who have successfully implemented a family literacy program. Planning sheets and lesson templates are included, making it easy to develop a family literacy program.

i-mode is NYY SoCoMo's mobile Internet access system. It allows users to access email, weather, stock prices, message friends and buy airline tickets from their cellular phones. This book provides everything a service provider needs to know to gauge the effect of i-mode on his or her business.