Many primary care clinicians are busy to the point of being overwhelmed and there is not time to do thorough evaluations on every patient. The outpatient clinician must be able to quickly identify and manage the overtly ill but also those with potential or even hidden issues that require a referral to the emergency department. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the various conditions the primary care practitioner could encounter in his/her office that require emergency department referral.

Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly.

Mordecai Kurz develops a comprehensive integrated theory of the dynamics of market power and income inequality. He shows that technological innovations are not simply sources of growth and progress: they sow the seeds of market power. Technological market power tends to rise, increasing inequality of income and wealth.

In The Banker's Blacklist, Julia C. Morse demonstrates how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has enlisted global banks in the effort to keep "bad money" out of the financial system, in the process drastically altering the domestic policy landscape and transforming banking worldwide.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate. With some important exceptions, most notably from the tradition of Latin American constitutionalism, scholarship on constitutional law has paid negligible attention to questions of how constitutions relate to economic phenomena.

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again.

An intimate record of Kahn’s musings on design, coupled with preparatory drawings of his monumental last project. Published in honor of the 50th anniversary of his death in March 1974, this two-volume set contains a facsimile of the notebook in which Louis Kahn drew and wrote during his last year of life, alongside a second volume of scholarly commentary and transliterations of his musings.

Este libro presenta una sintética exposición de los rasgos caracterizadores de las etapas del proceso de desarrollo de las ciudades españolas, realizado principalmente interpretando las representaciones gráficas (mapas, planos y dibujos) que fueron apareciendo durante el propio proceso, y asumiendo o revisando los análisis históricos y las consideraciones conceptuales que de ello se han ido haciendo. Existe una importante producción editorial dedicada a temas de historia urbana, mayoritariamente tratados con carácter temático o temporalmente acotado, pero puede constatarse una cierta escase

Questo libro vuole tracciare il perimetro di una professionalità digitale. E, quando si parla di professionalità, ci si riferisce a un insieme di conoscenze, esperienze, qualità, attitudini e predisposizioni che possono caratterizzare sia un ruolo specifico, sia il sapere condiviso di più figure che fanno parte di un team composito. Nel nostro caso, questa professionalità influisce sul miglioramento delle performance di business nella progettazione delle esperienze digitali e deve caratterizzare un intero team di design.