Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds (Book with 2 Audio CD-ROMs) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this as a nursing student, 5 years ago, and never wrote a review for it. I love this product. In nursing school we are taught what different lung and heart sounds should sound like. However, reading what something sounds like and actually hearing it make all the difference. This CD breaks down different sounds nursing students and nurses should be familiar with. It's a good refresher for a nurse who hasn't had a patient with rales or hasn't heard a gallop in a while. I'd recommend this to nursing instructors, students, and nurses.

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A popular title in its Second Edition includes breath and heart sound physiology, more than 200 illustrations highlighting anatomy, pertinent heart and lung areas, and optimum auscultation sites. Features include auscultation tips and alerts, a chart of auscultation findings for common disorders, phonocardiogram and ECG tracings, glossary, and pretests and posttests for each topic section. The audio CD is PC and MAC compatible, and features electronically generated examples of more than 40 different breath sounds and over 50 different heart sounds. An audio index cues to sounds sequentially with the text or out of sequence.

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Deaf People: Evolving Perspectives from Psychology, Education, and Sociology Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is required reading for one of my deaf culture classes on my way to becoming a sign language interpreter. The authors are hearing people and deaf people, collaborating to provide the most in-depth knowledge possible on the subject. I especially enjoy the section that discusses the roles of interpreters for educational purposes, and includes reaction footnotes written by various deaf students of their experiences using interpreters. This text covers so many areas of deafness that would never have otherwise occurred to me to ask. I can see why this book is required reading.

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Deaf People: Evolving Perspectives in Psychology, Sociology, and Education is an examination of the psychology of the Deaf community through history, current topics, and the personal experiences of the three deaf authors.This text provides a unique perspective in that the topic-psychology and deaf people-is typically presented through the hearing person's perspective. The deaf person's perspective as this book demonstrates is important because it is the deaf community that is most impacted by the decisions professionals make, whether in school in the clinic or in the family.Case studies are presented throughout the text to demonstrate real life issues and end of chapter study questions help reinforce chapter concepts.

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Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2006-2007 Edition (College Test Preparation) Review

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(More customer reviews)This review book offers a good summary of the entire AP Environmental Science course. This is perfect for last-minute crammers like me! It seems pretty thick, but actually, this book only contains 7 chapters of review (and one chapter of the lab review), with each chapter averaging about 10 pages long. I read through practically the whole thing today! It's very easy and quick to read through.
That said, the practice multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter are really pointless. Most of the info being asked isn't even covered in the chapters. So how are you supposed to know the answers??? It makes me wonder if the real exam questions are going to be all that specific, and none of the specifics were covered in the review book. Also, the explanations to the multiple choice are useless (they basically just restate the answer). The essay topics at the end of each chapter are very specific, a lot more specific than essay topics from the real previous AP exams. It seems pretty irrevelent to the AP exam. The sample essay responses are poorly written and offer little explanantion of the ideas they point out. In addition, there are many grammatical errors that get very annoying (and sometimes confusing).
Basically, the summary is brief and clear, but the sample questions really suck. I still think this is worth the time, and a LOT better than not studying at all. But here is one of the silly sample questions asked: "Exposure to which of the following noises would cause the most damage to a person's hearing? A) A vacuum cleaner, B) A chain saw, C) A factory, D) A lawn mower." I just thought that was totally random and very funny. But enough procrastinating, and back to studying for me!

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The Princeton Review realizes that scoring high on the AP Environmental Science Exam is very different from earning straight A's in school. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about environmental science–only the strategies and information you'll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, we'll teach you how to·Use our preparation strategies and test-taking techniques to raise your score·Focus on the topics most likely to appear on the test·Test your knowledge with review questions for each topic coveredThis book includes 2 full-length practice AP Environmental Science tests. All of our practice questions are just like those you'll see on the actual exam, and we explain how to answer every question.

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The Power of a Whisper Participant's Guide: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought the book- The Power of a Whisper - and just had to get the participant's guide. Now waiting for the DVD so a group of friends can go through this with me. An amazing book - eveerything I wanted to know in easy to read and understand language. Samuel's prayer - great to remember

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God still speaks, is anyone listening?Join bestselling author and pastor Bill Hybels in this four-session video-based study where your group will learn to navigate life through whispers from God.Through this dynamic teaching and group study, you will learn to practice hearing from God, surrender to the voice of God, obey his promptings and become a more effective kingdom-builder.This Participant's Guide is designed to help facilitate group discussion and further study alongside the Power of a Whisper DVD.For more information go to: www.thewhisperwall.com.

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