New Books for March 2013

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month.

Titles include:

Adult development and aging / Bert Hayslip Jr., Julie Hicks Patrick and Paul E. Panek
Infection and immunity / John H.L. Playfair and Gregory J. Bancroft
Oxford textbook of public health / edited by Roger Detels ... [et al.].
Physics in nuclear medicine / Simon R. Cherry, James A. Sorenson, Michael E. Phelps.
Qualitative data analysis : an introduction / Carol Grbich
The student's guide to exam success / Eileen Tracy

New eBooks include:

Acute stroke nursing / edited by Jane Williams, Lin Perry, Caroline Watkins.
Applied psychology : current issues andnew directions / edited by Rowan Bayne and Ian Horton.
Clinical obesity in adults and children / edited by Peter Kopelman, Ian Caterson, William Dietz.
Medicine at a glance / edited by Patrick Davey.
Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / By Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.].

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