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Based around the core curriculum for specialist trainees in gastroenterology and hepatology, this book contains 50 well-structured, peer-reviewed cases gathered from the Oxford Hospitals, comprehensively covering the various disorders of the gastrointestinal system.  Each case comprises a brief clinical history and relevant examination findings,...

Playing the Romantic PianistDreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a "e;Romantic"e; and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination, focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries through the touch, sights, and sounds...

An Essay on CircularityRoy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox--a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others later than it in the sequence--with special attention paid to the idea that this paradox provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity. The three main chapters of the book...

Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient SelinousThe Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general introduction to the new...

After more than twenty years of recognition as the indispensable guide for all dental students and practitioners, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry has been fully revised and updated for its new sixth edition, now better than ever!The authors have distilled the essentials of clinical practice into a readily accessible style. Concise and...

To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential for the correct evaluation of medical research and the appropriate implementation of findings in clinical practice. Written in an easily accessible...