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This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, focussing on lameness. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustration (over 650 full colour, high quality photographs).Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The clinical information is split into anatomy-based sections.Ideal for veterinary students on clinical placements with horses as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’, the spiralbound format allows the book to lie open during practice.

This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students need to succeed in equine medicine and surgery, focussing on skin, urinary, liver and endocrine diseases. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet points, tables, flow charts, diagrams, lists, protocols and extensive illustrations.Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques.The liver section is divided into clinical evaluation, diagnostic tests, possible causes and treatmentThe diagnostic approach to endocrine disease is followed by specific diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary gland, equine metabolic syndrome and other miscellaneous disordersThe approach to urinary tract problems includes information on diagnostic tests and imaging, renal diseases and diseases of the ureter, bladder and urethraThe approach to skin disease is discussed in detail, including relevant diagnostic tests. Following this, individual skin diseases are covered under the headings of genetic, infectious, immune-mediated, nutritional, endocrine, idiopathic, traumatic and neoplastic causesFinally, skin wounds, burns and infections of synovial structures are discussedIdeal for veterinary students and nurses on clinical placements with horses as well as practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’.

This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, focussing on lameness. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustration (over 650 full colour, high quality photographs).Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The clinical information is split into anatomy-based sections.Ideal for veterinary students on clinical placements with horses as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’, the spiralbound format allows the book to lie open during practice.

This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students need to succeed in equine medicine and surgery, focussing on skin, urinary, liver and endocrine diseases. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet points, tables, flow charts, diagrams, lists, protocols and extensive illustrations.Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques.The liver section is divided into clinical evaluation, diagnostic tests, possible causes and treatmentThe diagnostic approach to endocrine disease is followed by specific diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary gland, equine metabolic syndrome and other miscellaneous disordersThe approach to urinary tract problems includes information on diagnostic tests and imaging, renal diseases and diseases of the ureter, bladder and urethraThe approach to skin disease is discussed in detail, including relevant diagnostic tests. Following this, individual skin diseases are covered under the headings of genetic, infectious, immune-mediated, nutritional, endocrine, idiopathic, traumatic and neoplastic causesFinally, skin wounds, burns and infections of synovial structures are discussedIdeal for veterinary students and nurses on clinical placements with horses as well as practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’.

These five concise, practical texts cover the essential information veterinary students, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, each focussing on a different body system. Written for an international readership, the books convey the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustration (over 1500 full colour, high quality photographs in total).The series extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, distilling best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The clinical information is split into anatomy-based sections.Ideal for veterinary students on clinical placements with horses as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’, the spiralbound format allows the books to lie open during practice.

These five concise, practical texts cover the essential information veterinary students, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, each focussing on a different body system. Written for an international readership, the books convey the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustration (over 1500 full colour, high quality photographs in total).The series extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, distilling best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The clinical information is split into anatomy-based sections.Ideal for veterinary students on clinical placements with horses as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’, the spiralbound format allows the books to lie open during practice.

En los últimos años hemos sido testigos de grandes cambios sociales y culturales en Occidente, cambios originados por la búsqueda continua del hombre de un fundamento. Ayer había esperanza en la razón, la fe y la ciencia. Hoy existe el desaliento, la muerte de las ideas y los valores, el surgimiento de la verdad relativa y el individualismo. Esta nueva manera de pensar que difiere de las ideas tradicionales y estilos de vida que llamábamos ayer modernidad, hoy se denomina postmodernidad. Tanto ayer como hoy, el evangelio es la respuesta a esa búsqueda del hombre. Como cristianos, estamos llamados a conocer y ser sensibles a esa necesidad del hombre para saber cómo darle una respuesta y esperanza. Postmodernidad del Dr. Cruz analiza esta nueva filosofía de vida y, además, plantea al cristiano las pautas a seguir para alcanzar a ese hombre necesitado de hoy con el poder del Evangelio.

La bioética es la ética aplicada a la biología, el respeto a la vida humana, el derecho a vivir y a morir, a clonar seres humanos y a llegar con el ser humano hasta donde los límites de la ciencia nos permitan. No obstante... ¿Es lícito aplicar a la vida humana todo aquello que científicamente es posible hacer El futuro que proponen la biología y la medicina modernas es altamente esperanzador; pero también es verdad que algunos nubarrones preocupantes se han empezado a elevar sobre el horizonte del respeto y de la dignidad humana. La actualidad del tema hace que pastores y líderes cristianos, acosados constantemente, en conferencias e intervenciones de radio y televisión, con preguntas sobre cuál es nuestra posición al respecto, se vean en la necesidad de afrontarlo. Pero el tema es complejo y las respuestas no son fáciles. En este libro encontrarán un fuente de información erudita y documentada, a la vez que asequible y comprensible, de la mano de una autoridad en ambas materias involucradas: biología y teología. Así, este libro trata temas tan interesantes como: el aborto, el control de natalidad, la eutanasia, la manipulación de genes y el proyecto del genoma humano, entre otros muchos más. Todo ello, bajo una perspectiva cristiana.

A lo largo del siglo XX, la ciencia ha hecho descubrimientos espectaculares. Y todos ellos confluyen en un punto: la necesidad de recurrir a la idea de un designio inteligente para explicar la creciente complejidad del universo. La física ha demostrado que el cosmos tuvo un comienzo, que el universo es mucho mayor, más complejo y más maravilloso de lo que en principio se intuía. La biología, desentrañando los misterios del gen y los mecanismos irreductiblemente complejos, ha puesto en tela de juicio el desarrollo evolutivo a través de mutaciones aleatorias. El origen de la vida sigue siendo inexplicable sin recurrir a un designio inteligente. La neurología, al investigar el comportamiento del cerebro humano en relación a la espiritualidad, está descubriendo que las conclusiones de Sigmund Freud, al afirmar que “La religión es un espejismo”, eran precipitadas y reduccionistas. El cerebro, visto como una simple computadora desligada de todo elemento trascendente, no encaja a la hora de explicar la complejidad y la peculiaridad de la conciencia humana. Las cosas han cambiado tanto que se ha invertido el proceso. Antaño eran los apologistas cristianos los que tenían que esforzarse en argumentar la existencia de un Creador, hoy son algunos científicos ateos los que investigan febrilmente tratando de apartarle de la escena. Hace unos años, creer en Dios requería un salto de fe, ahora cada vez hace falta más fe para seguir negando su existencia. El científico cristiano Antonio Cruz, biólogo y pastor, en un lenguaje asequible pero sin perder por ello su valor científico, con la ayuda de imágenes esquemas y diagramas, explica en éstas páginas los más recientes descubrimientos de la nueva ciencia que apuntan hacia la realidad de Dios. Con ello, abre un nuevo horizonte en el campo de la apologética cristiana para el siglo XXI.

En el Nuevo Ateísmo se habla del movimiento intelectual que prolifera hoy en los ambientes universitarios, en el que se cambia erróneamente la Fé en Dios por la fe en la materia. Este libro es una respuesta desde la ciencia, la razón y la fe que analiza un importante tema actual desde el punto de vista de la biología, la teología y la fe. El autor Antonio Cruz (pastor, biólogo, catedrático, con múltiples publicaciones científicas y teológicas prolíficas) examina las diferencias y la relación que existe entre la teología y la ciencia. El expone como ante el espíritu científico del hombre, Dios sigue presentándose como respuesta a la pregunta humana acerca la complejidad de la vida y de su origen, entendiéndose la vida como una estructura biológica con un diseño real y perfecto. Incluye:Contenido teológico y científico por un experto en ambas materias.Temática controversial y compleja.Orden y secuencia.Tipografía adecuada para una lectura agradable.New AtheismIn New Atheism the writer shares about this intellectual movement that proliferates today in university environments, in which Faith in God is erroneously exchanged for faith in things. This book is an answer elaborated from science, reason, and faith that analyzes an important current topic from the point of view of biology, theology, and faith. The author Antonio Cruz (pastor, biologist, professor, with multiple prolific scientific and theological publications) examines the differences and the relationship that exists between theology and science. He exposes how in view of the scientific spirit of man, God continues to appear as an answer to the human question about the complexity of life and its origin, understanding life as a biological structure with a real and perfect design. It includes:Theological and scientific content by an expert in both subjects.Addresses a controversial and complex subject.Order and sequence.Suitable typography for a pleasant reading.

Sermones actuales sobre las parábolas de Jesús es un libro de gran utilidad para aquellos que quieran examinar el verdadero mensaje de las enseñanzas de Jesús y conocer sus aplicaciones actuales. A diferencia de las clasificaciones clásicas en esta obra se analizan las parábolas no por tema sino por orden de aparición en los evangelios sinópticos. El propósito principal del libro es servir de referencia como base y ayudar al predicador, pastor, o líder cristiano en el importante ministerio de llevar el mensaje de Jesucristo al hombre de hoy. Sermones actuales sobre las parábolas de Jesús aborda 43 relatos que constituyen las parábolas sinópticas, precedidos por el título que les da la versión Reina-Valera y uno menos ortodoxo dado por el autor. Incluye:Citas con puntos de vista de diversos especialistas con su correspondiente bibliografía.Parábolas sinópticas con su introducción, contexto original. Facilita ideas actuales y sugerentes para crear nuevas predicaciones con una aplicación a nuestros días.Current Sermons on the Parables of JesusCurrent Sermons on the Parables of Jesus is a particularly useful book for those who want to examine the true message of the teachings of Jesus and how to apply them nowadays. Unlike the classical classifications, in this work the parables are analyzed not by theme but by order of appearance in the synoptic gospels. The purpose of the book is to serve as a base reference and assist the Christian preacher, pastor, or leader in the important ministry of carrying the message of Jesus Christ to mankind today. UpToDate sermons on the parables of Jesus considering 43 stories that make up the synoptic parables, preceded by the title given by the Reina-Valera Spanish version and a less orthodox one given by the author. It includes:Citations with the opinion of various specialists and their corresponding bibliography.Synoptic parables with their introduction, original context.Provides current and suggestive ideas to create new sermons with an application to our days.