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Real-world ophthalmology patient management cases provide a solid foundation of clinical knowledge Ophthalmology Review: A Case-Study Approach, Second Edition by renowned experts Kuldev Singh, William Smiddy, and Andrew Lee is a practical, case-based reference covering a wide array of common to serious ophthalmic conditions encountered in daily practice. The new edition reflects significant advances in ophthalmologic surgery and additional quick-reference material. The focus is on patient management problems and how to handle them and optimally manage the patient. A cadre of esteemed contributors discuss diagnostic methods, evaluation, contraindications, and patient management issues for a full spectrum of clinical disorders, with significant clinical pearls gleaned from hands-on expertise. A full spectrum of subspecialties are reflected in nearly 100 ophthalmology cases presented in 11 sections, encompassing the cornea and external disease, lens, glaucoma, retina, uveitis, tumors, posterior segment complications, ocular trauma, neuro-ophthalmology, pediatrics, and oculoplastic surgery. Each succinct case walks readers step by step through patient history, the examination, differential diagnoses, test interpretation, definitive diagnosis, medical and/or surgical management, rehabilitation, and follow up, with handy key point summaries. Key Features * Hundreds of tables, full-color images, and line drawings enhance clinical understanding * Presents patient management problems, focusing on diagnosis, problem-solving, and treatment * Disorders of the retina such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein and artery occlusion, AMD, myopic degeneration, chorioretinopathy, vitreous hemorrhage, and retinitis pigmentosa * Neuro-ophthalmologic conditions including optic neuritis, various types of nerve palsy, internuclear ophthalmoplegia, and anisocoria * Pediatric eye conditions — from leukocoria and torticollis — to optic nerve hypoplasia This is an essential exam review resource for ophthalmology residents... Its systematic approach provides an ideal teaching tool for ophthalmologists to use in courses and grand rounds.

In this volume nineteen contributors, in as many essays, discuss various aspects of critical and aesthetic development in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, from the time of Dryden to Wordsworth. This was a period in which traditional literary criticism progressed n important new directions and which saw the rise of aesthetic theory. The book is published in honor of Samuel Holt Monk, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and distinguished American scholar in the field of eighteenth-century English literature, literary criticism, and aesthetics. The essays, all of which were written for this volume, analyze the literary theories and assumptions of some of the most important artists and critics of the time, as well as the aesthetic theories which influenced painting and literature. During the period under discussion, the progress of social and philosophical thought stimulated an intensive examination of the nature and function of art. Although neoclassical ideals dominated Restoration criticism and continued to influence Pope and later critics like Johnson and Reynolds, other tendencies were gaining ground, and throughout the eighteenth century the effort to reconcile a growing interest in “the pleasing emotions” with the tenets of classicism created criticism and aesthetic theory of extraordinary complexity. These essays illuminate that complexity without oversimplifying it. The book is illustrated with reproductions of works of art of the period. In addition to the essays, there is a bibliography of Professor Monk’s writings.

Dr. Frymoyer's definitive two-volume reference, The Adult Spine: Principles and Practice , has been thoroughly revised and refocused for its Third Edition. This edition covers both the adult and the pediatric spine, provides more complete and detailed information on surgical techniques, and includes eminent neurosurgeons as section editors and contributors. Chapters thoroughly describe the clinical presentation, diagnosis, prognosis, nonoperative management, and surgical treatment of all diseases and traumatic injuries. Each chapter includes algorithms and bulleted lists of key points. This edition's coverage of each region of the spine features a separate comprehensive section on operative techniques, with original drawings that demonstrate the techniques.

For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, with the attendant economic booms and busts, or clashes between rebels and ruling governments over hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vásquez writes that while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out in ways inextricable from the region itself. Oil disputes in the Amazon primarily involve local indigenous populations. These groups’ social and cultural identities differ from the rest of the population, and the diverse disputes over land, displacement, water contamination, jobs, and wealth distribution reflect those differences. Vásquez’s conflict analyses, and her recommendations to resolve or prevent them, are based on fifteen years of travel to the oil-producing regions of Latin America, and hundreds of interviews with the stakeholders in local conflicts.

This book addresses the patterns of school failure that are often faced by subordinated minority groups in the United States by presenting a socioacademic framework based on the notion that all groups can have comparable access to quality schooling, can realize comparable participation in the schooling, and can derive comparable education benefits from their participation. Organized around three key interrelated components--communication, integration, and cooperation--the book combines theoretical concepts with actual classroom practices that support change. Chapters and their authors are as follows: \"The Rhetoric and Practice of Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools: Socialization, Resocialization, and Quality Schooling\" (Robert A. DeVillar); \"Cooperative Learning in the Culturally Diverse Classroom\" (David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson); \"Building Bridges for the Future: Anthropological Contributions to Diversity and Classroom Practices\" (Steven F. Arvizu); \"Responding Successfully to Cultural Diversity in Our Schools: The Teacher Connection\" (Robert D. Milk); \"Mentoring, Peer Coaching, and Support Systems for First-Year Minority/Bilingual Teachers\" (Margarita Calderon); \"Cooperative Learning for Language-Minority Students\" (Richard P. Duran); \"Influences of L1 Writing Proficiency on L2 Writing Proficiency\" (Robert S. Carlisle); \"Promoting Positive Cross-Cultural Attitudes and Perceived Competence in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms\" (Kathryn J. Lindholm); \"Managing Behavior in the Culturally Diverse Classroom\" (Saundra Scott Sparling);\"Effectiveness of Bilingual Education: A Comparison of Various Approaches in an Elementary School District\" (Linda Gonzales); \"A Communicative Computer Environment for the Acquisition of ESL\" (Nidia Gonzalez-Edfeldt); \"Bilingual Team-Teaching Partnerships over Long Distances: A Technology-Mediated Context for Intragroup Language Attitude Change\" (Dennis Sayers); \"Teaching Teachers about Computers and Collaborative Problem-Solving\" (Howard Budin); \"Pedagogical and Research Uses of Computer-Mediated Conferencing\" (Armando A. Arias, Jr. and Beryl Bellman); and \"The Socioacademic Achievement Model in the Context of Coercive and Collaborative Relations of Power\" (Jim Cummins). References follow chapters. Contains author and subject indexes. (GLR)