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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik
5.0
A New York Times Bestseller
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally-renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
In Stuff Matters, Miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper. He offers a compendium of the most astounding histories and marvelous scientific breakthroughs in the material world, including:
The imprisoned alchemist who saved himself from execution by creating the first European porcelain. The hidden gem of the Milky Way, a planet five times the size of Earth, made entirely of diamond. Graphene, the thinnest, strongest, stiffest material in existence—only a single atom thick—that could be used to make entire buildings sensitive to touch. From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.
Mark Miodownik’s personal and professional obsession, as he explains in his book Stuff Matters, is basic materials we often take for granted such as paper, glass, concrete, and steel -- as well as new super-materials that will change our world in the decades ahead. I’m pleased to report that he is a witty, smart writer who has a great talent for imparting his love of this subject. As a result, Stuff Matters is a fun, accessible read. [source]
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MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2020-2021: Online + Book + 3 Practice Tests
Kaplan Test Prep
5.0
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included with the product. ​ Kaplan’s MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2020-2021 includes updates across all 7 books to reflect the latest, most accurate, and most testable materials on the MCAT. New layouts make our books even more streamlined and intuitive for easier review.
You’ll get efficient strategies, detailed subject review, and three full-length online practice tests—all authored by the experts behind the MCAT prep course that has helped more people get into medical school than all other major courses combined.
Efficient Strategies and In-Depth Review
New to this edition: Guided Examples with Expert Thinking in our Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry, and Biology books present scientific articles and walk you through challenging open-ended questions. New to this edition: Entirely revamped CARS content with updated methods for the latest exam challenges High Yield badges indicate the most testable content based on AAMC materials Concept summaries that boil down the need-to-know information in each chapter, including any necessary equations to memorize Full-color, 24-page MCAT Quicksheets emphasize the most important information in visual form Chapter Profiles indicate the degree to which each chapter is tested and the testmaker content categories to which it aligns Charts, graphs, diagrams, and full-color, 3-D illustrations from Scientific American help turn even the most complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts. Realistic Practice One-year online access to 3 full-length practice tests, instructional videos, practice questions, and quizzes Hundreds of practice questions in the books show you how to apply concepts and equations 15 multiple-choice “Test Your Knowledge” questions at the end of each chapter for all books except CARS Learning objectives and concept checks ensure you’re focusing on the most important information in each chapter Expert Guidance Sidebars illustrate connections between concepts and include references to more information, real-world tie ins, mnemonics, and MCAT-specific tips Comprehensive subject review written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors who guide you on where to focus your efforts and how to organize your review. All material is vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor. We know the test: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every MCAT-related document available, and our experts ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test
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Examkrackers MCAT Complete Study Package
Jonathan Orsay
4.8
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
Maggie Callanan
4.7
In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.
Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share.
Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
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Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
4.6
Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy
Written in 1949 by the famous journalist John Gunther about his death of his son–a genius–at 17 from a brain tumor, this book is deeply moving and profound. Every young person will be awed by this young boy who knows he will die too soon and struggles to do it with dignity and purpose. Midway through the book, Johnny writes what he calls the Unbeliever’s Prayer. It’s good enough to be from Epictetus or Montaigne–and he was fucking 16 when he wrote it. It’s reading the book for that alone. [source]
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Examkrackers 101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning
David Orsay
4.6
The passages in this book have been designed to closely resemble official MCAT Verbal passages. This volume includes fourteen 60-minute, full-length practice MCAT Verbal Exams in official MCAT format, 560 MCAT Verbal questions in total, 2,240 detailed explanations for all answer choices, and 14 tear-out answer sheets.
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger
4.6
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall.
Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.
In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal. With a new introduction by novelist and GP, Gavin Francis.
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Recommended by Dan Richards, Gavin Francis, and Tom Overton.
Dan Richards
So the landscape is almost virgin and primordial, but at the same time, you get this very forward-thinking, almost revolutionary, doctor John Sassall. He’s kind of as much an alchemist as he is a doctor. It’s almost a nature documentary, this little microcosm of the country doctor as viewed through the lens of John Berger. [source]
Gavin Francis
Berger was an astonishingly skilled and observant witness of anything he turned his gaze onto. [source]
Tom Overton
It’s about a country GP, he had this extremely intimate relationship with the people around him, but also had to be extremely distant. [source]
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Dying Well
Ira Byock MD
4.5
From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well.
Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone.
This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. Through the true stories of patients, he shows us that a lot of important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. It is a companion for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to loved ones—and how to make the end of life as meaningful and enriching as the beginning.
Ira Byock is also the author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life.
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
J. Larry Jameson, Anthony Fauci, et al.
4.5
Reflecting the state of the art in medical practice, this edition delivers the latest strategies for understanding, diagnosing and managing disease.
THE TOTAL PACKAGE FOR MCAT MASTERY. With 7 complete subject guides and 3 online practice tests, The Princeton Review's MCAT boxed set brings you everything you need to ace the MCAT--at an unbeatable value and price!
This boxed set includes:
- 7 complete books covering all parts of the MCAT: biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, general chemistry, physics and math, psychology and sociology, and critical analysis and reasoning skills - 3 full-length practice tests (accessible online) to help you benchmark your score - In-depth subject review coverage of each of the challenging test subjects - Thousands of practice questions in end-of-chapter review sections and MCAT-style practice passages - Full-color illustrations, diagrams, and tables for easy visual comprehension - Chapter summaries for quick review - Strategic techniques and test-taking guidance to hone your ability to take the MCAT effectively - Extensive glossaries in each book for immediate reference and review - Online student tools for up-to-the-moment info on any late-breaking AAMC exam updates
The following individual titles are included in the Complete Set: - MCAT Biochemistry Review - MCAT Biology Review, 2nd Edition - MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review, 2nd Edition - MCAT General Chemistry Review, 3rd Edition - MCAT Organic Chemistry Review, 3rd Edition - MCAT Physics and Math Review, 3rd Edition - MCAT Psychology and Sociology Review, 3rd Edition
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The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
Ira Byock M.D.
4.5
Four simple phrases -- "Please forgive me", "I forgive you", "Thank you", and "I love you" -- carry enormous power. In many ways, they contain the most powerful words in our language. These four phrases provide us with a clear path to emotional wellness; they guide us through the thickets of interpersonal difficulties to a conscious way of living that is full of integrity and grace.
In The Four Things That Matter Most, Dr. Ira Byock, an international leader in palliative care, teaches us how to practice these life-affirming words in our day-to-day lives. Too often we assume that the people we love really know we love them. Dr. Byock reveals the value of stating the obvious and provides insights into how we burden ourselves by hanging on to old grudges unconsciously and unnecessarily. He shows us how to avoid living with those awkward silences and uncomfortable issues that distance us from the people we love and erode our sense of well-being and joy. His insights and stories help us to forgive, appreciate, love, and celebrate one another more fully. The inspiring stories in The Four Things That Matter Most demonstrate the usefulness of the Four Things in a wide range of life situations. They also show that a degree of emotional healing is always possible and that we can experience a sense of wholeness even in the wake of family strife, personal tragedy, divorce, or in the face of death. With practical wisdom and spiritual punch, The Four Things That Matter Most gives us the language and guidance to honor and experience what really matters most in our lives every day.
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Thomas Hager
4.5
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
Sulfa saved millions of lives—among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.—but its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients; and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness.
A strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel.
For thousands of years, humans had sought medicines with which they could defeat contagion, and they had slowly, painstakingly, won a few battles: some vaccines to ward off disease, a handful of antitoxins. A drug or two was available that could stop parasitic diseases once they hit, tropical maladies like malaria and sleeping sickness. But the great killers of Europe, North America, and most of Asia—pneumonia, plague, tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, meningitis—were caused not by parasites but by bacteria, much smaller, far different microorganisms. By 1931, nothing on earth could stop a bacterial infection once it started. . . .
But all that was about to change. . . . —from The Demon Under the Microscope
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Human Anatomy Coloring Book: An Entertaining and Instructive Guide to the Human Body - Bones, Muscles, Blood, Nerves, and How They Work
Margaret Matt and Joe Ziemian
4.5
From a biological point of view, the human body is an infinitely complex marvel of fine design, superbly adapted to its functions by eons of evolutionary development. Hundreds of specialized organs, bones, muscles, nerve fibers, blood vessels, and other anatomical features comprise an interdependent network of bodily systems that enables the human organism to survive. Now the component parts of this intricate flesh-and-bone machine can be absorbed and understood by means of an ingenious format: a coloring book that can help mature children and adult colorists learn anatomy. An affordable anatomy class, this easy learning study aid contains careful, scientifically accurate line renderings of the body's organs and major systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, reproductive, and more. A total of 43 coloring pages (often with several illustrations on each) offers numerous views, cross-sections, diagrams and detailed closeups, labelled and numbered to correspond with suggestions for coloring. These suggestions are specially designed to emphasize the structural relationship in the body. By working through each system, the reader will gain not only an intimate knowledge of the location, appearance and role of the body parts, this learning tool will also be laying the groundwork for more sophisticated studies of anatomy.
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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer, et al.
4.5
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—maybe for the first time—make mathematics fun.
Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.
Also available as an eBook
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Kaplan MCAT General Chemistry Review: Created for MCAT 2015
Kaplan
4.5
This book is designed with MCAT 2015 test-takers in mind, covering all the necessary General Chemistry material for the overhauled MCAT 2015 exam. It features tips and tricks to maximize study efficiency and success on Test Day.
The MCAT is changing in 2015. With the addition of three semesters’ worth of material, more advanced critical thinking skills, a longer duration, and changes in General Chemistry content, the new exam requires even more diligent prep with resources from Kaplan Test Prep.
Kaplan's MCAT General Chemistry Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT 2015 KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to MCAT 2015 available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
NEW PRACTICE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT: Brand-new end-of-chapter questions and the introduction of Concept Checks, which allow students to identify their strengths and areas of opportunity in real time.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and at the end of every chapter, Kaplan's MCAT General Chemistry Review has more practice than any other MCAT General Chemistry book on the market.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With dozens of new images and full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT General Chemistry Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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Aamc the Official Guide to the McAt(r) Exam, Fifth Edition
Association of American Medical Colleges
4.5
The Official Guide to the MCAT(R) Exam, the only comprehensive overview about the MCAT exam, includes 120 practice questions and solutions (30 questions in each of the four sections of the MCAT exam) written by the developers of the MCAT exam at the AAMC Everything you need to know about the exam sections Tips on how to prepare for the exam Details on how the exam is scored, information on holistic admissions, and more.
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Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier
Philip Ball
4.5
Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change color while you wear them. They have fashioned metals from plastics, drugs from crude oil, and have pinpointed the chemical pollutants affecting our atmosphere and are now searching for remedies for the imperiled planet. Philip Ball, an editor for the prestigious magazine Nature, lets the lay reader into the world of modern chemistry. Here, for example, chemists find new uses for the improbable buckminsterfullerene molecules--60-atom carbon soccerballs, dubbed buckyballs--which seem to have applications for everything from lubrication to medicine to electronics.
The book is not intended as an introduction to chemistry, but as an accessible survey of recent developments throughout many of the major fields allied with chemistry: from research in traditional areas such as crystallography and spectroscopy to entirely new fields of study such as molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, and smart polymer gels. Ball's grand tour along the leading edge of scientific discovery will appeal to all curious readers, with or without any scientific training, to chemistry students looking for future careers, and to practicing chemical researchers looking for information on other specialties within their discipline.
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The Premed Playbook: Guide to the MCAT: Maximize Your Score, Get Into Med School
Ryan Gray MD
4.5
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The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement: Write Your Best Story. Secure Your Interview.
Ryan Gray
4.5
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Organic Chemistry
David R. Klein
4.4
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Kaplan MCAT Physics and Math Review: Created for MCAT 2015
Kaplan
4.4
The MCAT is changing in 2015. With the addition of three semesters’ worth of material, more advanced critical thinking skills, a longer duration, and changes in Physics content, the new exam requires even more diligent prep with resources from Kaplan Test Prep.
Kaplan's MCAT Physics and Math Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT 2015 KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to MCAT 2015 available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
NEW PRACTICE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT: Brand-new end-of-chapter questions and the introduction of Concept Checks, which allow students to identify their strengths and areas of opportunity in real time.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and at the end of every chapter, Kaplan's MCAT Physics and Math Review has more practice than any other MCAT Physics book on the market.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With dozens of new images and full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Physics and Math Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
John Kelly
4.4
The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern
The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. But statistics can’t convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. Or to live in a society where the bonds of blood and sentiment and law have lost all meaning, where anyone can murder or rape or plunder anyone else without fear of consequence.
In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished.
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Examkrackers MCAT Biology
Jonathan Orsay
4.4
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The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement: Write Your Best Story. Secure Your Interview.
Ryan Gray MD
4.4
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Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us How to Live
Marie De Hennezel, Carol Janeway
4.4
How do we learn to die? Most of us spend our lives avoiding that question, but this luminous book--a major best-seller in France--answers it with a directness and eloquence that are nothing less than transforming. As a psychologist in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris, Marie de Hennezel has spent seven years tending to people who are relinquishing their hold on life.
She tells the stories of her patients and their families. de Hennezel teaches us how to turn death--our loved ones' or our own--from something lonely and agonizing into a sacred passage. She discusses the importance of an honest reckoning, the value of ritual, the necessity of touch. In imparting these lessons, Intimate Death becomes a guide to living more fully, more intensely, than we had thought possible.
"Unique...Of all the books I have read about the endings of our lives, this elegiac testimony has taught me the most."--Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die
"The quiet, obvious truths [de Hennezel] discovers in her work--these things have a kind of cumulative power."--Washington Post Book World
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MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2018-2019: Online + Book
Kaplan Test Prep
4.4
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2019-2020, ISBN 9781506235486, on sale June 26, 2018.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entities included with the product.
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Examkrackers 1001 Questions in MCAT Chemistry
Scott Calvin
4.4
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Examkrackers 1001 Questions in MCAT Organic Chemistry
Ph.D. Gilbertson
4.4
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Examkrackers MCAT Physics
Jonathan Orsay
4.4
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Kaplan MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review: Created for MCAT 2015
Kaplan
4.4
The MCAT is changing in 2015. With the addition of three semesters’ worth of material, more advanced critical thinking skills, a longer duration, and changes in content, the new exam requires even more diligent prep with resources from Kaplan Test Prep.
The seven-book MCAT set emulates Kaplan’s tried and true classroom experience. With its easy-to-follow format and helpful teacher commentaries and advice, students can be completely prepared for Test Day success.
Kaplan's MCAT Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT 2015 KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to MCAT 2015 available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
NEW PRACTICE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT: Brand-new end-of-chapter questions and the introduction of Interactive Concept Checks, which allow students to identify their strengths and areas of opportunity in real time.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and access to three full-length practice tests, Kaplan's MCAT Review has more practice than any other MCAT books on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: Access to online resources for all seven books to augment content studying, including three full-length practice tests. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With dozens of new images and full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
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Dialogue with Death: A Journey Through Consciousness
Eknath Easwaran
4.4
Why am I here? Is there a purpose to my life? What happens when I die? These deep questions are addressed with clear wisdom, vivid images and memorable stories.
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MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2019-2020: Online + Book + 3 Practice Tests
Kaplan Test Prep
4.4
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2020-2021, ISBN 978-1-5062-4886-8, on sale July 2, 2019.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included with the product.
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The Premed Playbook Guide to the Medical School Interview: Be Prepared, Perform Well, Get Accepted
Ryan Gray MD
4.4
The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Interview is the only book needed to prepare premed students for their medical school interviews. Through interviews with Admissions Committee members and others, Dr. Gray has compiled the most comprehensive book on this subject. Premed students want to know what to expect, but more importantly they need to see examples of what successful applicants have done. The Premed Playbook not only gives them close to 600 potential interview questions, it also gives them real answers and feedback from interview sessions that Dr. Gray has held with students.
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Intoxicated by My Illness
Anatole Broyard, Alexandra Broyard, Oliver Sacks
4.4
"Succeeds brilliantly....He lives as a writer and we are the wealthier for it." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Anatyole Broyad, long-time book critic, book review editor, and essayist for THE NEW YORK TIMES wants to be remembered. He will be, with this collection of irreverent, humorous essays he wrote concerning the ordeals of life and death--many of which were written during the battle with cancer that led to his death in 1990. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Gavin Francis
Broyard has a gentle irreverence about the medical process which is comforting after you’ve read a lot of medical memoirs. [source]
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
4.4
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico—and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart.
Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School, becoming the first Navajo woman surgeon. Rising above the odds presented by her own culture and the male-dominated world of surgeons, she returned to the reservation to find a new challenge. In dramatic encounters, Dr. Alvord witnessed the power of belief to influence health, for good or for ill. She came to merge the latest breakthroughs of medical science with the ancient tribal paths to recovery and wellness, following the Navajo philosophy of a balanced and harmonious life, called Walking in Beauty. And now, in bringing these principles to the world of medicine, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear joins those few rare works, such as Healing and the Mind, whose ideas have changed medical practices-and our understanding of the world.
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Kaplan MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review: Book + Online
Kaplan
4.3
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-5062-0559-5, on sale now.
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The Joy of Science
Jacquelyn L. Banasik PhDARNP
4.3
Science is humanity's greatest achievement. It ranges from the study of the universe itself to the smallest particles of matter contained within it - and everything in between. It explores everything from the big bang to theories about the end of the universe. If you want to better understand our physical world, as most of us do, gaining a basic understanding of science itself is profoundly important - yet many are intimidated by the breathtaking scope of such an endeavor. Now an award-winning science teacher has taken out the intimidation, harnessing that breathtaking scope into a series of 60 exciting, comprehensive, and accessible lectures that let you explore and understand the wealth of ideas, discoveries, and principles in all of the physical and biological sciences. You learn that understanding science comes from understanding not only its component disciplines - each of which has its own theories, pioneers, problems, and fundamental questions - but of knowing how these disciplines work with one another to create an entire mosaic of human knowledge. The lectures have been crafted to make those relationships crystal-clear, with an integrated approach that takes you through all of the major disciplines that fall under the umbrella of "science," including physics, chemistry, Earth science, geophysics, and biology. Each lecture covers one of the 60 fundamental principles of the scientific world - offering you new knowledge and insight into topics such as the scientific method, gravitation, atoms, the big bang, plate tectonics, volcanoes, proteins, ecosystems, and electricity.
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First, Do No Harm
Lisa Belkin
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What is life worth? And what is a life worth living?
At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former New York Times correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
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1001 Questions in MCAT Biology
Alex Merkulov
4.3
1001 Questions in MCAT Biology provides 101 practice passages and 1001 question covering all biology topics tested by the MCAT. Answers and explanations are provided in the back of the book.
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Just Your Type: Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
4.3
Discover how the secrets of Personality Type can enliven your love life! Learn the real reason why your strong quiet type has trouble expressing his feelings. Or why your social butterfly is always flirting...or why the neatnik in your life just can't leave that dirty sock where it is . . . or why the hopeless romantic really is blinded by the stars in his eyes. Whether you're evaluating a new relationship or looking to strengthen the one you have, this savvy guide will provide fresh insight into the mysteries of love.
Barbara Barron-Tieger and Paul Tieger explain that it's not gender but personality type -- your natural tendency to be outgoing or quiet, methodical or whimsical -- that rules the way men and women relate. Drawing on twenty years of experience as well as groundbreaking new research, they explain everything you need to know about Personality Type, and offer an individualized approach to improving your love life. Once you've discovered which personality type describes you and your partner (or potential partner) best, you'll recognize your own behavior patterns, understand more about your partner's strengths and quirks, and learn.
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The MCAT Physics Book
Garrett Biehle
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Comprehensive, Rigorous Prep for MCAT Physics. Revised for MCAT 2015.
The MCAT Physics Book offers the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of MCAT physics available. Including,
* 49 MCAT-style passages
* 500 MCAT-style practice problems and detailed solutions to all problems.
Illustrations and tables are included wherever necessary to focus and clarify key ideas and concepts.
Dr. Biehle's classic MCAT Physics Book presents a clear, insightful analysis of MCAT physics. His lively prose and subtle wit make this challenging topic more palatable.
Dr. Biehle received his Ph.D. from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) in physics. He has ten years experience at various levels in science education. The MCAT Physics Book is a result of his experience presenting physics concepts in a classroom setting to students preparing for the MCAT.
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Physics and Our Universe
Richard Wolfson
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Physics also gives us extraordinary power over the world, paving the way for devices from radios to GPS satellites, from steam engines to nanomaterials. It's no exaggeration to say that every invention ever conceived makes use of the principles of physics. Moreover, physics not only underlies all of the natural sciences and engineering, but also its discoveries touch on the deepest philosophical questions about the nature of reality.
Which makes physics sound like the most complicated subject there is. But it isn't. The beauty of physics is that it is simple, so simple that anyone can learn it. In 60 enthralling half-hour lectures, Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works proves that case, giving you a robust, introductory college-level course in physics. This course doesn't stint on details and always presents its subject in all of its elegance—yet it doesn't rely heavily on equations and mathematics, using nothing more advanced than high school algebra and trigonometry.
Your teacher is Professor Richard Wolfson, a noted physicist and educator at Middlebury College. Professor Wolfson is author or coauthor of a wide range of physics textbooks, including a widely used algebra-based introduction to the subject for college students. He has specially designed Physics and Our Universe to be entirely self-contained, requiring no additional resources. And for those who wish to dig deeper, he includes an extensive list of suggested readings that will enhance your understanding of basic physics.
Explore the Fundamentals of Reality
Intensively illustrated with diagrams, illustrations, animations, graphs, and other visual aids, these lectures introduce you to scores of fundamental ideas such as these:
Newton's laws of motion: Simple to state, these three principles demolish our intuitive sense of why things move. Following where they lead gives a unified picture of motion and force that forms the basis of classical physics. Bernoulli effect: In fluids, an increase in speed means a decrease in pressure. This effect has wide application in aerodynamics and hydraulics. It explains why curve balls curve and why plaque in an artery can cause the artery to collapse. Second law of thermodynamics: Echoing the British novelist and physicist C. P. Snow, Professor Wolfson calls this law about the tendency toward disorder "like a work of Shakespeare's" in its importance to an educated person's worldview. Maxwell's equations: Mathematically uniting the theories of electricity and magnetism, these formulas have a startling outcome, predicting the existence of electromagnetic waves that move at the speed of light and include visible light. Interference and diffraction: The wave nature of light looms large when light interacts with objects comparable in size to the light's wavelength. Interference and diffraction are two intriguing phenomena that appear at these scales. Relativity and quantum theory: Introduced in the early 20th century, these revolutionary ideas not only patched cracks in classical mechanics but led to realms of physics never imagined, with limitless new horizons for research. A Course of Breathtaking Scope
The above ideas illustrate the breathtaking scope of Physics and Our Universe, which is broken into six areas of physics plus an introductory section that take you from Isaac Newton's influential "clockwork universe" in the 17th century to the astonishing ideas of modern physics, which have overturned centuries-old views of space, time, and matter. The seven sections of the course are these:
Introduction: Start the course with two lectures on the universality of physics and its special languages. Newtonian Mechanics: Immerse yourself in the core ideas that transformed physics into a science. Oscillations, Waves, Fluids: See how Newtonian mechanics explains systems involving many particles. Thermodynamics: Investigate heat and its connection to the all-important concept of energy. Electricity and Magnetism: Explore electromagnetism, the dominant force on the atomic through human scales. Optics: Proceed from the study of light as simple rays to phenomena involving light's wave properties. Beyond Classical Physics: Review the breakthroughs in physics that began with Max Planck and Albert Einstein. As vast as this scope is, you will not be overwhelmed, because one set of ideas in physics builds on those that precede it. Professor Wolfson constantly reviews where you've been, tying together different concepts and giving you a profound sense of how one thing leads to another in physics. Since the 17th century, physics has expanded like a densely branching tree, with productive new shoots continually forming, some growing into major limbs, but all tracing back to the sturdy foundation built by Isaac Newton and others—which is why Physics and Our Universe and most other introductory physics courses have a historical focus, charting the fascinating growth of the field.
An interesting example is Newtonian mechanics. Developments in the late 19th century showed that Newton's system breaks down at very high speeds and small scales, which is why relativity and quantum theory replaced classical physics in these realms. But the Newtonian approach is still alive and well for many applications. Newtonian mechanics will get you to the moon in a spacecraft, allow you to build a dam or a skyscraper, explain the behavior of the atmosphere, and much more. On the other hand, for objects traveling close to the speed of light or events happening in the subatomic realm, you learn that relativity and quantum theory are the powerful new tools for describing how the world works.
Seeing Is Believing
Physics would not be physics without experiments, and one of the engaging aspects of this course is the many on-screen demonstrations that Professor Wolfson performs to illustrate physical principles in action. With a showman's gifts, he conducts scores of experiments, including the following:
Whirling bucket: Why doesn't water fall out of a bucket when you whirl it in a vertical circle? It is commonly believed that there is a force holding the water up. But this is a relic of pre-Newtonian thinking dating to Aristotle. Learn to analyze what's really going on. Bowling ball pendulum: Would you bet the safety of your skull on the conservation of energy? Watch a volunteer release a pendulum that swings across the room and hurtles back directly at her nose, which escapes harm thanks to the laws of physics. Big chill: What happens when things get really cold? Professor Wolfson pours liquid nitrogen on a blown-up balloon, demonstrating dramatic changes in the volume of air in the balloon. Discover other effects produced by temperature change. Energy and power: How much power is ordered up from the grid whenever you turn on an electric light? Get a visceral sense by watching a volunteer crank a generator to make a light bulb glow. Try a simple exercise to experience the power demand yourself. Total internal reflection: How does a transparent medium such as glass act as an almost perfect mirror without a reflective coating? See a simple demonstration that reveals the principle behind rainbows, binoculars, and optical fibers. Relativity revelation: What gave Einstein the idea for his special theory of relativity? Move a magnet through a coil, then move a coil around a magnet. You get the same effect. But in Einstein's day there were two separate explanations, which made him think ... Math for Those Who Want to Probe Deeper
Professor Wolfson doesn't just perform memorable experiments. He introduces basic mathematics to analyze situations in detail—for example, by calculating exactly the speed a rollercoaster needs to travel to keep passengers from falling out at the top of a loop-the-loop track, or by showing that the reason high voltage is used for electrical power transmission is revealed in the simple expression that applies Ohm's law, relating current and voltage, to the formula for power.
You also see how amazing insights can be hidden in seemingly trivial mathematical details. Antimatter was first postulated when physicist Paul Dirac was faced with a square root term in an equation, and instead of throwing out one of the answers as would normally have been done, he decided to pursue the implications of two solutions.
Whenever Professor Wolfson introduces an equation, he explains what every term in the equation means and the significance of the equation for physics. You need not go any further than this to follow his presentation, but for those who wish to probe deeper he works out solutions to many problems, showing the extraordinary reach of mathematics in analyzing nature. But he stresses that physics is not about math; it's the ideas of physics that are crucial.
Understand the World in a New Way
Above all, the ideas of physics are simple. As you discover in this course, just a handful of important concepts permeate all of physics. Among them are
conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, second law of thermodynamics, conservation of electric charge, principle of relativity, and Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The key is not just to think in terms of these principles, but also to let go of common misconceptions, such as the idea that force causes motion; in fact, force causes change in motion. As you progress through Physics and Our Universe, you'll inevitably start to see the world differently.
"I love teaching physics and I love to see the understanding light up in people's eyes," says Professor Wolfson. "You'll see common, everyday phenomena with new understanding, like slamming on the brakes of your car and hearing the antilock brake system engage and knowing the physics of why it works; like going out on a very cold day and appreciating why your breath is condensing; like turning on your computer and understanding what's going on in those circuits. You will come to a much greater appreciation of all aspects of the world around you."
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Medical Terminology: The Best and Most Effective Way to Memorize, Pronounce and Understand Medical Terms: Second Edition
David Andersson, M. Mastenbjörk M.D., et al.
4.3
Medical Terminology Let's be very clear about this, if you want to feel proud of yourself and do a great job in the health care field, you need to learn and understand medical terminology! It is a fundamental part of the future of your career. Our medical terminology book is a must-have study guide and workbook for students looking to broaden or refreshen their skills of understanding medical terms. It is perfect for anyone who wishes to enter the medical field, and is a great complementary tool to have when preparing for the NCLEX or MCAT! Many students are also ordering this book as a complement to their Anatomy and Physiology book! With this book you will learn and understand the basic concepts of medical terminology and how it is being used in everyday life among healthcare personnel. Becoming familiarised with medical terminology is a fundamental part of any medical career. With that many medical books to choose from, it can be hard to decide which one to buy. This book focuses on the readability apsect, which allows for an easy training guide and review. It is divided into chapters, and since the addition of multiple choice questions, the reader now has the possibility to practice and test what they have learned from previous chapters. The answers to these questions can be found at the very end of the book. By focusing on the important word parts - common prefixes, suffixes, and root words - the book goes to great lengths in simplifying the process of memorizing the medical language. With this book you will:
..Be able to interpret medical terminology ..Learn and understand the basic fundamentals ..Be able to test your knowledge with multiple choice questions
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Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach
Dee Unglaub Silverthorn
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For courses in Human Physiology.Move beyond memorization: Prepare students for tomorrow's challengesHuman Physiology: An Integrated Approach is the #1 best-selling 1-semester human physiology text world-wide. The 8th Edition engages students in developing a deeper understanding of human physiology by guiding them to think critically and equipping them to solve real-world problems. Updates, such as new Try It activities and detailed teaching suggestions in the new Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules, help students learn and apply mapping skills, graphing skills, and data interpretation skills. The text reflects Dr. Silverthorn's active learning style of instruction, and builds upon the thorough integration of "big picture" themes with up-to-date cellular and molecular physiology topics that have always been the foundation of her approach. Mastering A&P features new Interactive Physiology 2.0 tutorials, new Try It! Coaching Activities, and Phys in Action! Video Tutors, complementing Human Physiology and providing a cohesive learning experience for today's learners. Also available packaged with Mastering A&P or as an easy-to-use, standalone Pearson eTextMastering(TM) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. Features in the text are supported by Mastering A&P assignments, including new Interactive Physiology 2.0 tutorials, Dynamic Study Modules, Learning Catalytics, 3D animations, lab study tools, Get Ready for A&P, plus a variety of Art Labeling Questions, Clinical problem-solving activities, and more. Pearson eText allows educators to easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their reading and what they learn in class--motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning. Portable access lets students study on the go, even offline. And, reading analytics offer insight into how students use the eText, helping educators tailor their instruction. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering A&P and Pearson eText do not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering A&P or Pearson eText, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering A&P, search for: 0134701526 / 9780134701523 Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach Plus MasteringA&P with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134701410 / 9780134701417 MasteringA&P with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach 0134605195 / 9780134605197 Human Physiology: An Integrated ApproachIf you would like to purchase the standalone Pearson eText, search for: 013521291X / 9780135212912 Pearson eText Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach -- Access Card
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How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
Louis A. Bloomfield
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson M.D.
4.3
Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head -- an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Gifted Hands reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitivity who serves as a role model for young people (and everyone else) in need of encouragement to attempt the seemingly impossible and to excel in whatever they attempt. Dr. Carson also describes the key role that his highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster into one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.
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Examkrackers MCAT Verbal Reasoning
Jonathan Orsay
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Examkrackers 1001 Questions in MCAT Physics
Jonathan Orsay
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MCAT Organic Chemistry Review
Princeton Review
4.3
The MCAT is a test of more than just the facts about basic physical and biological sciences—it’s an in-depth, rigorous examination of your knowledge of scientific concepts and principles, as well as your critical-thinking and writing skills. With the Princeton Review’s subject-specific MCAT series, you can focus your review on the MCAT topics that are most challenging to you. Each book in the series contains the most in-depth coverage of subjects tested on the MCAT.
Each chapter in MCAT Organic Chemistry Review includes:
• Full-color illustrations and diagrams • Examples of organic chemistry questions and their solutions, worked out step by step • Chapter Review Quizzes and answers • A real, MCAT-style practice passage with questions and answers • Bulleted summaries for quick review
MCAT Organic Chemistry Review also includes:
• A complete glossary of organic chemistry terms • A summary sheet of chemical reactions
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So you want to be a doctor?: The ultimate guide to getting into medical school (Success In Medicine)
A Current Medical Student
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
Katherine Howe
4.3
A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history--the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.
As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation. (katherinehowe.com)
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MCAT 528: Advanced Prep for Advanced Students
Kaplan Test Prep
4.3
Kaplan has been the world leader in the MCAT prep industry for 40+ years. Our decades of test expertise and experience are available with Kaplan’s MCAT 528. This book features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, and the highest-yield questions available. The commentary and instruction come directly from Kaplan MCAT experts and include targeted focus on the most-tested concepts.
MCAT 528 offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every MCAT-related document available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, we are able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors, all material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
EXPANDED CONTENT THROUGHOUT: As the MCAT has continued to develop, this book has been updated continuously to match the AAMC’s guidelines precisely—no more worrying if your prep is comprehensive!
“STAR RATINGS” FOR EVERY SUBJECT: Every topic is assigned a “star rating”—informed by Kaplan’s decades of MCAT experience and facts straight from the testmaker—of how important it will be to your score on the real exam.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With 500+ questions throughout the book and access to a full-length practice test online, MCAT 528 has more practice than any other advanced MCAT book on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: One practice test and additional online resources help augment content studying. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan is a leader in the MCAT prep market.
UTILITY: MCAT 528 can be used alone or with the other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT series.
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Examkrackers: MCAT Organic Chemistry
Jonathan Orsay
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One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
David Biro
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It is a situation we all fear and none of us can imagine: a life-threatening diagnosis. But what if the person receiving the diagnosis--young, physically fit, poised for a bright future--is himself a doctor?
At thirty-one David biro has just completed his residency and joined his father's successful dermatology practice. Struck with a rare blood disease that eventually necessitates a bone marrow transplant, Biro relates with honesty and courage the story of his most transforming journey. He is forthright about the advantages that his status as a physician may have afforded him; and yet no such advantage can protect him from the anxiety and doubt brought on by his debilitating therapies. The pressures that Biro's wild "one hundred days" brings to bear on his heretofore well-established identity as a caregiver are enormous--as is the power of this riveting story of survival.
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The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
Robert Coles
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The Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.
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Getting Into Medical School for Dummies
Carleen Eaton
4.3
Your plain-English guide to getting into the medical school of your dreamsGetting accepted to medical school is a long and rigorous process and many students find they need help. If you're one of these students, "Getting into Medical School For Dummies "is the perfect tool to help you through the process and realize your dream.
By providing you with concise information about preparing for and applying to medical school, "Getting into Medical School For Dummies" prepares you for the application process. Written by an industry expert, it gives you a distinct advantage in the competitive medical school admissions process, preparing you for every step and helping you create your best application.Takes you through the often-overwhelming process of applying to medical school Explains what medical schools and admissions committees are really looking forProvides plain-English explanations of complicated medical school admissions processes
If you're one of the over 40,000 students who apply to medical school each year and need help sorting through the admissions schedule, writing statements of intent, and preparing to take the MCAT, "Getting Into Medical School For Dummies" has you covered!
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Sociology: A Brief Introduction
Richard T. Schaefer
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This revised edition of Richard T. Schaefers Sociology: A Brief Introduction provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of sociology. Students learn to think critically about society and their own lives from a wide range of classical and contemporary perspectives. Combining balanced coverage of theory with current research findings, examples that students can relate to, and abundant learning aids and exercises, the new edition continues to encourage the development of sociological imagination. Greater coverage of globalization through a new chapter and boxes focusing on Social Change in the Global Community help remove ethnocentric blinders and teaches students to think globally about issues and policies. .
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MCAT Biology Review
Selena Coppock, Heather Brady
4.3
The MCAT is a test of more than just the facts about basic physical and biological sciences—it’s an in-depth, rigorous examination of your knowledge of scientific concepts and principles, as well as your critical-thinking and writing skills. With the Princeton Review’s subject-specific MCAT series, you can focus your review on the MCAT topics that are most challenging to you. Each book in the series contains the most in-depth coverage of subjects tested on the MCAT.
Each chapter in MCAT Biology Review includes: • Full-color illustrations, charts, and diagrams • Examples of biology questions and their solutions, worked out step by step • Chapter Review Quizzes and answers • A real, MCAT-style practice passage with questions and answers • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review MCAT Biology Review also includes a complete glossary of biology terms.
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MCAT Biochemistry Review 2019-2020: Online + Book
Kaplan Test Prep
4.3
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Biochemistry Review 2020-2021, ISBN 978-1-5062-4865-3, on sale July 2, 2019.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included with the product.
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Lab Values: Everything You Need to Know about Laboratory Medicine and its Importance in the Diagnosis of Diseases
David Andersson
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Exploring Psychology in Modules
David G. Myers
4.2
The success of the modular version of David Myers's bestselling brief text, Exploring Psychology, proves the author's longheld belief (supported by independent research) that for a number of students, a text comprised of 45 15-page chapters is more effective than one of 15 45-page chapters.
Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition, in Modules includes all the features and up-to-date content of the current edition of Exploring Psychology organized into 45 modules. It is accompanied by its own expansive variety of media and supplements similar to the Exploring Psychology package, also reorganized to match the modular format.
This is NOT a brief version of Psychology, Seventh Edition, in Modules. Rather, this text is a MODULARIZED version of Exploring Psychology, Sixth Edition.
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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
Harriet A. Washington
4.2
From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.
Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical- industrial complex.
Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. It examines the shaky legal, ethical, and social bases for Big Pharma’s argument that such patents are necessary to protect their investments in new drugs and treatments, arguing that they instead stifle the research, competition, and innovation that can drive down costs and save lives. In opposing the commodification of the body, Harriet Washington provides a crucial human dimension to an often all-too-abstract debate.
Like the bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deadly Monopolies reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics. It is sure to stir debate—and instigate change.
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Doctors In The Movies: Boil The Water And Just Say Ahh
Peter E. Dans
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MCAT Organic Chemistry Review
The Princeton Review
4.2
IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. The Princeton Review’s MCAT® Organic Chemistry Review brings you everything you need to ace the organic chemistry concepts found on the MCAT, including thorough subject reviews, example practice questions with step-by-step explanations, hundreds of practice problems, and 3 full-length practice tests.
Inside this book, you’ll find proven strategies for tackling and overcoming challenging questions, along with all the practice you need to help get the score you want.
Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score. • In-depth coverage of the challenging organic chemistry topics on this important test • Sample MCAT questions with step-by-step walk-through explanations • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review • Full-color illustrations, diagrams, and tables • Extensive glossary for handy reference
Practice Your Way to Excellence. • Access to 3 full-length practice tests online to help you gauge your progress • End-of-chapter drills and explanations • MCAT-style practice passages and questions • Test-taking strategies geared toward orgo mastery
Gain Mastery of These and Other Organic Chem Topics! • Organic Chemistry Fundamentals • Nomenclature • Structure and Stability • Lab Techniques: Separations and Spectroscopy • Reactions: Nucleophilic Substitution and Addition • Biologically Important Molecules
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Equal Partners: A Physician's Call for a New Spirit of Medicine
Jody Heymann
4.2
One week after graduating with honors from Harvard Medical School, Jody Heymann woke up in an emergency room with no memory of how she got there, and, within hours, was turned from physician into patient. The hospitalization and brain surgery that followed taught her more about the practice of medicine in America than all her years of schooling. Her deeply disturbing conclusion: patients all too often occupy the bottom rung of the ladder, with their legs tied to prevent them from climbing. Heymann's experiences as a patient convinced her to work toward a new, more compassionate spirit of medicine--one in which physicians and patients are equal partners.
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Exam Review for Milady's Standard Nail Technology
Milady
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A simple, powerful tool for the Nail Technology student, Milady's Standard Nail Technology, 6e Exam Review contains chapter-by-chapter questions in a multiple-choice format to help students prepare for their state board exams. The answer key at the back of the book allows students to check accuracy and identify weak areas. The questions themselves are unique to this supplement.
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Examkrackers MCAT Audio Osmosis (12 Audio CDs)
Jonathan Orsay
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Exploring Chemical Analysis
Daniel C. Harris
4.2
Exploring Chemical Analysis provides an ideal one-term text for both chemistry majors and non-majors. Its coverage of analytical and problem-solving methods teaches students how to understand analytical results and how to use quantitative manipulations, preparing them for the problems they will encounter in fields from biology to chemistry to geology. The book contains coverage of chemical equilibrium in the areas of activity, systematic treatment of equilibrium, solubility, EDTA titration curves, and redox titration curves.
The new Third Edition contains a new chapter on Quality Assurance/Quality Control, and enhanced coverage of spectrometry and chromatography. In addition to giving students the fundamentals of chemical analysis, the book has an abundance of new applications and research in the field, making Exploring Chemical Analysis, Third Edition a text that students will be able to use and draw upon again and again in all future science courses.
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Spanish for Medical Professionals: Essential Spanish Terms and Phrases for Healthcare Providers (Spanish English Medical Dictionary nº 1)
My Daily Spanish
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The MedEdits Guide to Medical School Admissions, Third Edition
Dr. Jessica Freedman
4.2
Are you thinking about applying to medical school?After reading this book there will be little mystery as to how the process works. The MedEdits Guide to Medical School Admissions covers many topics for medical school applicants, including: 1) Where to go to college if you are premed and what activities (extracurricular and scholarly) to be involved in2) When to take the MCAT 3) Retaking the MCAT4) Taking a gap year (or two!)5) Whom to ask for letters of reference and how6) What medical schools look for in applicants7) How to approach the personal statement8) How to approach the application and most meaningful entries9) Applying to allopathic, osteopathic, off-shore, and Texas medical schools10) The different application systems: AMCAS, TMDSAS, and AACOMAS11) Deciding where to apply and attend12) Average GPAs and MCATs for accepted students13) What to do if you are waitlisted14) What to do if you are rejectedHaving been on a medical school admissions committee, I have worked with medical school applicants for over a decade and know which components of your candidacy are important. So: The book includes multiple full-length examples of:1) Medial school personal statements2) Medical school application entries for the work and activity sections of AMCAS, TMDSAS, and AACOMS 3)
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MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review 2019-2020: Online + Book
Kaplan Test Prep
4.2
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review 2020-2021, ISBN 9978-1-5062-4862-2, on sale July 2, 2019.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included with the product.
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Princeton Review MCAT Subject Review Complete Box Set, 2nd Edition: 7 Complete Books + Access to 3 Full-Length Practice Tests
The Princeton Review
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Make sure you're studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for The Princeton Review's MCAT Subject Review Complete Box Set, 3rd Edition (ISBN: 9780525567837, on-sale December 2018).
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
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The Healer's Power
Howard Brody
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Although the physician’s use and misuse of power have been discussed in the social sciences and in literature, they have never been explored in medical ethics until now. In this book, Dr. Howard Brody argues that the central task is not to reduce the physician’s power, as others have suggested, but to develop guidelines for its use, so that the doctor shares with the patient both information and the responsibility for deciding on appropriate treatment.
Dr. Brody first reviews literary works dealing with medical power, from Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” to stories by William Carlos Williams, Vonda McIntyre, and Richard Selzer. These works, he shows, reveal the healers’ ambivalence over their own powers and patients’ fears of the abuse of power. Dr. Brody then points out important but neglected ethical issues that emerge from an analysis of power, such as the tension between care of individual patients and the pressures of the doctor’s workload; the rescue fantasy that impels some physicians to extraordinary lengths to save a life; and the economic system, which rewards surgeons and other specialists more than it does physicians who spend time talking with patients about their problems. He also shows how the perspective of shared power can shed new light on standard topics in medical ethics—from informed consent and confidentiality to resource allocation and cost containment.
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MCAT 528 Advanced Prep 2019-2020: Online + Book
Kaplan Test Prep
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Kaplan's MCAT 528 Advanced Prep 2019-2020 features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, and the highest-yield questions available – all authored by the experts behind the MCAT prep course that has helped more people get into medical school than all other major courses combined.
Prepping for the MCAT is a true challenge. Kaplan can be your partner along the way – offering guidance on where to focus your efforts, how to organize your review, and targeted focus on the most-tested concepts. This edition features commentary and instruction from Kaplan's MCAT experts and has been updated to match the AAMC's guidelines precisely—no more worrying if your MCAT review is comprehensive! The Most PracticeMore than 500 questions in the book and access to even more online – more practice than any other advanced MCAT book on the market.The Best Practice Comprehensive subject review is written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material is vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor. Online resources, including a full-length practice test, help you master the computer-based format you'll see on Test Day. Expert Guidance Star-Ratings throughout the book indicate how important each topic will be to your score on the real exam—informed by Kaplan's decades of MCAT experience and facts straight from the testmaker. We know the test: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every MCAT-related document available. Kaplan's expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test.
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Kaplan MCAT Physics Review
Kaplan
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If you are taking the MCAT by January 23, 2015, and need physics prep, this is your book. This full-color guide features complete test-targeted physics review for the MCAT and includes over 500 practice questions (hundreds more than the competition) and three full-length physics practice sections. Expert commentary and instruction from top Kaplan teachers include tips, tricks, and test expertise. Vibrant illustrations, charts, and graphs from the pages of Scientific American make this guide a compelling source of MCAT prep. If you are studying for the new MCAT, launching on April 17, 2015, you should prep with Kaplan's MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review: Created for MCAT 2015 or Kaplan's MCAT Physics and Math Review: Created for MCAT 2015, both on sale now.
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Kaplan MCAT Biology Review: Book + Online
Kaplan
4.2
More people get into medical school with a Kaplan MCAT course than all major courses combined. Now the same results are available with Kaplan’s MCAT Biology Review. This book features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, and the highest-yield questions available. The commentary and instruction comes directly from Kaplan MCAT experts and includes targeted focus on the most-tested concepts plus more questions than any other guide.
Kaplan's MCAT Biology Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to the MCAT available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
EXPANDED CONTENT THROUGHOUT: While the MCAT has continued to develop, this book has been updated continuously to match the AAMC’s guidelines precisely—no more worrying if your prep is comprehensive!
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and access to one practice test, Kaplan's MCAT Biology Review has more practice than any other MCAT Biology book on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: Access to online resources to augment content studying, including one practice test. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Biology Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain By Dr. Steven Gundry
Teresa Parker
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The Student Doctor Network's Medical School Admission Guide, 2nd Edition
Christian Becker
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The Official Guide to the MCAT Exam (McAt2015)
Association of American Medical…
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This all-new edition is the first and only official comprehensive overview about the new MCAT2015 exam. This guide is for all MCAT exams administered AFTER January 2015.
Written by the MCAT® exam developers at the Association of American Medical Colleges, this all-new edition is the ONLY official guide to the Medical College Admission Test® - and is completely updated for the new exam (MCAT2015) that will first be administered in spring of 2015.
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the registration and testing process, details on how the exam is scored, information on holistic admissions, and more. Plus, the guide provides everything you need to know about the sections in the new MCAT exam, tips on how to prepare, and 120 practice test questions and solutions.
Online Practice Test Option: The AAMC offers an option to take the practice test questions that are included in this book, in an online format that simulates the actual MCAT exam. You may find the online practice test option on the AAMC website.
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MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review, 2nd Edition
The Princeton Review
4.1
IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. The Princeton Review’s MCAT® Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review brings you everything you need to conquer the complex CARS passages on the MCAT, including hundreds of practice problems and 3 full-length practice tests.
Inside this book, you’ll find proven strategies for tackling and overcoming challenging questions, along with all the practice you need to help get the score you want.
Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score. • In-depth coverage of the challenging critical analysis and reasoning skills needed for this important test • Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample CARS questions • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review • A fundamental 6-step approach to cracking any passage, including an annotated model to demonstrate the process
Practice Your Way to Excellence. • Access to 3 full-length practice tests online to help you gauge your progress • End-of-chapter drills and explanations • MCAT-style practice passages and questions • Test-taking strategies geared toward CARS mastery
Gain Mastery of These and Other CARS Skills! • Critical Reasoning Skills Development • Active Reading • Passage Annotating and Mapping • Question Types and Formats • Process of Elimination and Attractors • Ranking and Ordering Passages • Strategy and Tactics • Mental Preparation
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Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach
Elisa J Sobo
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This lively text offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity for undergraduate courses in fields including anthropology, medicine, human ecology, and general education. Leading medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. Her inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important new ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines, regardless of academic background. Students learn to conceptualize human biology and culture concurrently—as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today. With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex, interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach.
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Kaplan MCAT Biochemistry Review: Book + Online
Kaplan
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More people get into medical school with a Kaplan MCAT course than all major courses combined. Now the same results are available with Kaplan’s MCAT Biochemistry Review. This book features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, and the highest-yield questions available. The commentary and instruction comes directly from Kaplan MCAT experts and includes targeted focus on the most-tested concepts plus more questions than any other guide.
Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to the MCAT available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
EXPANDED CONTENT THROUGHOUT: While the MCAT has continued to develop, this book has been updated continuously to match the AAMC’s guidelines precisely—no more worrying if your prep is comprehensive!
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and access to one practice test, Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review has more practice than any other MCAT Biochemistry book on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: Access to online resources to augment content studying, including one practice test. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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MCAT General Chemistry Review
The Princeton Review
4.1
IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. The Princeton Review’s MCAT® General Chemistry Review brings you everything you need to ace the gen-chem concepts found on the MCAT, including thorough subject reviews, example practice questions with step-by-step explanations, hundreds of practice problems, and 3 full-length practice tests.
Inside this book, you’ll find proven strategies for tackling and overcoming challenging questions, along with all the practice you need to help get the score you want.
Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score. • In-depth coverage of the challenging general chemistry topics on this important test • Sample MCAT questions with step-by-step walk-through explanations • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review • Full-color illustrations, diagrams, and tables • Extensive glossary for handy reference
Practice Your Way to Excellence. • Access to 3 full-length practice tests online to help you gauge your progress • End-of-chapter drills and explanations • MCAT-style practice passages and questions • Test-taking strategies geared toward gen-chem mastery
Gain Mastery of These and Other General Chemistry Topics! • Chemistry Fundamentals • Atomic Structure and Periodic Trends • Bonding and Intermolecular Forces • Thermodynamics • Phases • Gases • Kinetics • Equilibrium • Acids and Bases • Eletrochemistry • MCAT Math for General Chemistry
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So, You Want to Be a Physician: Getting an Edge in the Pursuit of Becoming a Physician or Other Medical Professional
Edward M Goldberg
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2018 Edition The journey to becoming a medical professional is laden with a variety of challenges, including acing your personal statement in the application, knowing about new interview techniques such as the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) and CASPer, and impressing medical school staff during the interview. So, You Want to Be a Physician offers first-hand examples from aspiring medical students the author has mentored, including actual interview questions, personal statements, and practical advice on how to master the art of the interview.
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MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition: Advanced Strategies to Score a 528
The Princeton Review
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THE TOUGHEST QUESTIONS FOR THE HIGHEST-SCORING STUDENTS. Prep to be the best of the best with The Princeton Review and this guidebook full of elite strategies, challenging practice questions, and 2 full-length online practice MCATs.
Students trying to win admission to the most elite med schools know that every point on the MCAT matters. If you've mastered the exam basics, practicing only the test's toughest questions can help take your score from "good" to "outstanding." MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition provides everything you need to conquer the most challenging questions and get a top score on the MCAT.
Advanced Techniques That Actually Work. - Targeted strategies for all facets of the exam: general, journal article analysis, and test analysis - Advanced strategies to power past problems that trap other elite students - Detailed coverage of every section of the exam to help push your study into the top tier - Section-specific pacing guidelines and advice for all parts: CARS and the sciences
Practice Your Way to Excellence. - 2 full-length practice tests online - 6 full chapters' worth of practice sections along with comprehensive explanations - A ton of practice drills designed to look and feel exactly like the toughest problems on the real MCAT
MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition provides practice with the hardest questions on: - Atomic Structure - Periodic Trends and Bonding - Phases - Gases - Solutions - Kinetics - Equilibrium - Acids and Bases - Thermodynamics - Electrochemistry - Biochemistry and Cellular Respiration - Molecular Biology - Microbiology - Eukaryotic Cells - Genetics and Evolution - The Nervous and Endocrine Systems - The Circulatory, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems - The Excretory and Digestive Systems - The Muscular and Skeletal Systems
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Harvard Classics (Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf - 51 Original Volumes + 20 Bonus Volumes)
Benjamin Franklin
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Contents: Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents.
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- All 20 volumes of the 'Harvard Classics Shelf Of Fiction'
Each volume is also available separately in the store.
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MCAT General Chemistry Review
Princeton Review
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The MCAT is a test of more than just the facts about basic physical and biological sciences—it’s an in-depth, rigorous examination of your knowledge of scientific concepts and principles, as well as your critical-thinking and writing skills. With the Princeton Review’s subject-specific MCAT series, you can focus your review on the MCAT topics that are most challenging to you. Each book in the series contains the most in-depth coverage of subjects tested on the MCAT.
Each chapter in MCAT General Chemistry includes: • Full-color illustrations, charts, and diagrams • Examples of general chemistry questions and their solutions, worked out step by step • Chapter Review Quizzes and answers • A real, MCAT-style practice passage with questions and answers • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review
MCAT General Chemistry Review also includes:
• A complete glossary of general chemistry terms • A general chemistry formula sheet
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Kaplan MCAT Biochemistry Review: Created for MCAT 2015
Kaplan
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The MCAT is changing in 2015. With the addition of three semesters’ worth of material, more advanced critical thinking skills, a longer duration, and changes in Biochemistry content, the new exam requires even more diligent prep with resources from Kaplan Test Prep.
Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT 2015 KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to MCAT 2015 available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
NEW PRACTICE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT: Brand-new end-of-chapter questions and the introduction of Interactive Concept Checks, which allow students to identify their strengths and areas of opportunity in real time.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and access to three full-length practice sections, Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review has more practice than any other MCAT Biochemistry book on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: Access to online resources to augment content studying, including three full-length practice sections. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With dozens of new images and full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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MCAT Physics and Math Review
Princeton Review
4.1
The MCAT is a test of more than just the facts about basic physical and biological sciences—it’s an in-depth, rigorous examination of your knowledge of scientific concepts and principles, as well as your critical-thinking and writing skills. With the Princeton Review’s subject-specific MCAT series, you can focus your review on the MCAT topics that are most challenging to you. Each book in the series contains the most in-depth coverage of subjects tested on the MCAT.
Each chapter in MCAT Physics and Math Review includes:
• Full-color illustrations and diagrams • Examples of physics and math questions and their solutions, worked out step by step • Chapter Review Quizzes and answers • A real, MCAT-style practice passage with questions and answers • Bulleted summaries for quick review
MCAT Physics and Math Review also includes:
• A complete glossary of physics terms • A summary sheet of physics formulas and physics constants and units • A complete review of all the math topics you’ll need to know for the MCAT, including algebra, trigonometry, vectors, proportions, and logarithms
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Becoming a Physician: A Practical and Creative Guide to Planning a Career in Medicine
Jennifer Danek, Marita Danek
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I have advised countless medical students and applicants over more than two decades and I repeatedly found myself agreeing with the advice given by the Daneks. --Michael V. Drake, M.D.Professor and Associate Dean, School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco
"These authors have the experience, knowledge, and writing skills to lead the lost through the maze of uncertainties of medical schools and beyond."--Robert H. Shapiro, Ph.D.Academic Dean and Provost U.S. Naval Academy
"Any student thinking about a career in medicine should have this book."--Tyrone D. Taborn Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Career Communications Group, Inc.
Here, at last, is the book that will help you realize your dream of a career in medicine. Whether your goal is to work in a busy city hospital ER, as a country doctor, or in research, here you'll find innovative ways to actively plan and tailor your medical school education to meet your specific needs. Explore your many options with: * Straight facts on the medical school admissions process * Up-to-date information on the MCAT * Advice on selecting the right medical school * The current medical trends and the most attractive specialties
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Tim and Pete
James Robert Baker
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Baker's groundbreaking novel of simmering rage and justifiable violence follows combative ex-lovers Tim and Pete, thrown together on a bizarre trek from Laguna Beach, Calif., to Los Angeles. Sarcastic, satiric, violent, and exhilarating, "Tim & Pete" is a fiercely imagined, boldly realized vision of the cultural war raging in the hearts of the disenfranchised and in the streets of America.
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WORKBOOK For Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases by Dean Ornish M.D. and Anne Ornish
Pocket Books
4.0
HOW TO USE THIS WORKBOOK FOR ENHANCED APPLICATION This workbook is created to help readers grasp a deeper understanding of the book Undo It! by Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish. By going a step further than simply reading. The book proffers a lifestyle change program for the reversal of most chronic diseases and it is only fitting that certain practical steps be put in place by the reader. This workbook provides that. The lessons outline essential points offered by the authors, Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish, while questions crafted from each chapter help the reader look inward and discover where their lives stand in relation to the book's position. Action Steps keep you on your toes with putting the book's theory into practice and if you need something to tick off as you progress, there's the Checklist section. At the end of it all, you should be able to have successfully implemented the lifestyle medicine program proposed in this phenomenal book. Scroll Up and Click The Buy Button To Get Started
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MCAT Biology Review
The Princeton Review
4.0
IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. The Princeton Review’s MCAT® Biology Review brings you everything you need to ace the biology portions of the MCAT, including thorough subject reviews, example practice questions with step-by-step explanations, hundreds of practice problems, and 3 full-length practice tests.
Inside this book, you’ll find proven strategies for tackling and overcoming challenging questions, along with all the practice you need to help get the score you want.
Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score. • In-depth coverage of the challenging biology topics on this important test • Sample MCAT questions with step-by-step walk-through explanations • Bulleted chapter summaries for quick review • Full-color illustrations, diagrams, and tables • Extensive glossary for handy reference
Practice Your Way to Excellence. • Access to 3 full-length practice tests online to help you gauge your progress • End-of-chapter drills and explanations • MCAT-style practice passages and questions • Test-taking strategies geared toward biology mastery
Gain Mastery of These and Other Biology Topics! • Biology Strategy • Biologically Important Molecules • Molecular Biology • Microbiology • Eukaryotic Cells • Genetics and Evolution • The Nervous and Endocrine Systems • The Circulatory, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems • The Excretory and Digestive Systems • The Muscular and Skeletal Systems • The Respiratory System and the Skin • The Reproductive Systems
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MCAT Verbal Practice: 108 Passages for the new CARS Section
Bryan Schnedeker
4.0
Revised for 2016! All of Next Step's books have gotten a full review and update.
More Free Stuff! We are now offering a free full-length exam in addition to the free half-length diagnostic test. Anyone who purchases one of our books can register for the free exam here:
http: //nextsteptestprep.com/mcat-diagnostic/
Need lots and LOTS of practice for the MCAT CARS section? This book has over one hundred practice passages arranged in a dozen timed practice verbal sections to help you hone your critical analysis and reasoning skills.
This book is meant for a student who has already gotten a start with different reading strategies and now needs to hone their skills with lots of practice.
If you're looking to get an introduction to the CARS section and strategies to master it, pick up Next Step's MCAT CARS: Strategy and Practice book in addition to this book.
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Kaplan MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review: Created for MCAT 2015
Kaplan
4.0
The MCAT is changing in 2015. With the addition of three semesters’ worth of material, more advanced critical thinking skills, a longer duration, and changes in Behavioral Sciences content, the new exam requires even more diligent prep with resources from Kaplan Test Prep.
Kaplan's MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review offers:
UNPARALLELED MCAT 2015 KNOWLEDGE: The Kaplan MCAT team has spent years studying every document related to MCAT 2015 available. In conjunction with our expert psychometricians, the Kaplan team is able to ensure the accuracy and realism of our practice materials.
THOROUGH SUBJECT REVIEW: Written by top-rated, award-winning Kaplan instructors. All material has been vetted by editors with advanced science degrees and by a medical doctor.
NEW PRACTICE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT: Brand-new end-of-chapter questions and the introduction of Interactive Concept Checks, which allow students to identify their strengths and areas of opportunity in real time.
MORE PRACTICE THAN THE COMPETITION: With questions throughout the book and access to three full-length practice sections, Kaplan's MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review has more practice than any other MCAT Behavioral Sciences book on the market.
ONLINE COMPANION: Access to online resources to augment content studying, including three full-length practice sections. The MCAT is a computer-based test, so practicing in the same format as Test Day is key.
TOP-QUALITY IMAGES: With dozens of new images and full-color, 3-D illustrations, charts, graphs and diagrams from the pages of Scientific American, Kaplan's MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review turns even the most intangible, complex science into easy-to-visualize concepts.
KAPLAN'S MCAT REPUTATION: Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses, combined.
UTILITY: Can be used alone or with other companion books in Kaplan's MCAT Review series.
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American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young
James Harvey Young
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James Harvey Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, finds quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in earlier and allegedly more naive eras. The modern quack isn't an outrageous-looking hawker of magic remedies operating from the back of a carnival wagon, but he knows how to use antiregulatory sentiment and ingenious promotional approaches to succeed in a trade that is both bizarre and deceitful. In The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young traced the history of health quackery in America from its colonial roots to the late 1960s. This collection of essays discusses more recent health scams and reconsiders earlier ones. Liberally illustrated with examples of advertising for patent medicines and other alternative therapies, the book links evolving quackery to changing currents in the scientific, cultural, and governmental environment. Young describes varieties of quackery, like frauds related to the teeth, nostrums aimed at children, and cure-all gadgets with such names as Electreat Mechanical Heart. The case of Laetrile illustrates how an alleged vitamin for controlling cancer could be ballyhooed and lobbied into a national mania, half the states passing laws giving the cyanide-containing drug some special status. And AIDS is the most recent example of an illness that, tragically, has panicked some of its victims and members of the general public into putting their hopes in fake cures and preventives. Young discusses the complex question of vulnerability--why people fall victim to health fraud--and considers the difficulties confronting governmental regulators. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, the annual quackery toll has escalated from two billion to over twenty-five billion dollars. Young helps us discover why.
Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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The Princeton Review Hyperlearning MCAT Biological Sciences Review 2007 Edition
Judene Wright Daniel Pallin and The Princeton Review
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The Game of Sunken Places (Norumbegan Quartet, #1)
M.T. Anderson
4.0
When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange manse . . . well, they should know better than to go, since this is a middle-grade adventure novel. But they go anyway. Why not? Once there, they stumble upon The Game of Sunken Places, a board game that mirrors a greater game in which they have suddenly become players. Soon the boys are dealing with attitudinal trolls, warring kingdoms, and some very starchy britches. Luckily, they have wit, deadpan observation, and a keen sense of adventure on their side.
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