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This innovative new resource provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of emergency medicine. Each topic is covered in a single two-page unit to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiological images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance. Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information. Wide range of colour clinical photographs, radiological images, ECGs and artwork schematics. Covers the main aspects of emergency medicine. Contains useful 'key point' boxes and 'paediatric application' boxes. Joins a very successful series with a high profile in the market.

Thoroughly updated, this accessible introduction to the methods of ethnographic fieldwork reconsiders the status of ethnography and places it quite explicitly in a general methodological context.

Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify main features of ethnographic work, including: the selection and sampling of cases the problems of access observation and interviewing recording and filing data the process of data analysis and writing research reports. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers utilizing social research methods in the social sciences and cultural studies.

Focusing on material culture and sensory ethnography, this concluding volume of Paul Atkinson's quartet draws on original fieldwork to examine the interplay between materials, techniques, tools, and sensory experiences. It highlights how these elements shape ethnographic methods, offering a unique perspective on understanding cultural practices through the senses.

A multitude of articles - written by academics mostly centered around the industrial-design scene in the Netherlands - attempting definitions, describing challenges, opportunities and listing the tools, methodologies of the emerging field of Open Design. There is no consensus, especially in trying to define the field (what's included, what's not), and there is partially too much overlap in some of the articles (yes, the consumer turns into a pro-sumer, i get it now) but all in all the book, with its articles and additional short portraits, gives a great overview of the field (era 2011). Joost Smiers thought experiment stood out to me, where he theorizes that a complete abolishment of copyright laws would lead to a negative-feedback controlled market that wouldn't allow any blockbusters, any bestsellers to emerge and therefore even out the market to a more localized, fair system that would feed all artists and designers equally. One of the aspiring characteristics of Open Design - whether intentionally or not - is that it makes end-users (pro-sumers) assume more responsibility for their products/goods. And as we are facing scarcity of resources and nevertheless dispose of 50% of products within 3 months of buying (stats?), the books leaves one with the hope that the Open Design movement and all its cousins (Hacking, Recycling, Repairing, Sharing culture ..) might grip and help solve these problems.