MIKE DAVIS

Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.

Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s.From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians have been directly touched by disaster-related death, injury, or d...

This important book offers an introduction to the theory and the varying types of assessment for health care professionals. The book includes information on such topics as Where have work based assessments come from?; Why do we have different parts to the same exam like MCQs and OSCEs?; How do colleges decide who has passed or not?; Why can peop...

Book-and-video package gets novices up to speed on Microsoft SQL Server 2012If you need a practical, hands-on introduction, especially to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), this book-and-video package from authority Brian Knight is the perfect solution. Each lesson includes three major components: a description of how each SSIS feature or p...

Se han realizado grandes avances en la medicina geriátrica humana en los últimos veinte años. La gente de avanzada edad se considera ahora un grupo clínico separado de la población adulta joven, y el desarrollo de la especialización en geriatría ha incrementado nuestro conocimiento de muchas de las enfermedades de nuestros mayores y así, mejorad...

This important book offers an introduction to the theory and the varying types of assessment for...