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Mechanisms of Vascular Defects in Diabetes Mellitus

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This book intends to bring together, a panel of renowned experts in the field of vascular biology and diabetology, to integrate the current understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of vascular diseases in diabetes mellitus. This attempt is significant given the increasing interest in...

Our Dual Citizenship

by David Steven Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

David Steven Roberts, Best Selling author of “Preparing for the Coming Collapse of the US Dollar” has written a new book. “Our Dual Citizenship” explores the Christian’s citizenship in God’s Kingdom and in America. For too long, Christians have been passive in regard to the direction that...

Should We Colonize Other Planets?

by Adam Morton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

As humans continue to degrade and destroy our planet’s resources, leading to predictions of total ecological collapse, some (such as the entrepreneur Elon Musk) now suggest that a human colony elsewhere may be our species’ best hope for survival. Adam Morton examines extra-terrestrial colonization...

Confidentiality and Its Discontents

Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy

by Paul W. Mosher, Jeffrey Berman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Freud promised his patients absolute confidentiality, regardless of what they revealed, but privacy in psychotherapy began to erode a half-century ago. Psychotherapists now seem to serve as “double agents” with a dual and often conflicting allegiance to patient and society. Some therapists even...

Implantation

Biological and Clinical Aspects

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

The advent of assisted conception procedures such as in-vitro fertili sation (IVF) has provided the impetus for exploration of the factors that lead to the establishment of pregnancy. This collection of papers from leading research workers brings together current concepts of the processes which...

THE ANT, THE GRASSHOPPER, THE PHILOSOPHER & THE SLAVE

A novel about the meaning of work & on the direction of the achievement of freedom

by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014

The man is the only creature who, being of the species "homo sapiens", not also brings a pre-determination and/or a complete nature and finished in itself and, therefore, not to be carried out, due to a lack of a quality education, he can also throw-if it is not able to "be...

Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast

A Multispecies Impression

by Julian Yates
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our livesour past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges,...

Advanced Materials

Proceedings of the International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2018

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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019

This book includes selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2018 International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2018, held in Busan, South Korea, 9–11 August 2018. Focusing on manufacturing techniques, physics, mechanics, and applications...

A Short History of Scientific Instruction

by Joseph N. Lockyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

"It is perhaps the more necessary to insist upon stern necessity as being the origin of learning, because it is so difficult for us now to put ourselves in the place of those early representatives of our race that had to face the problems of life among conditionings of which they were profoundly...

The Square Jaw (Illustrations) (English Edition)

by Henry Ruffin, André Tudesq
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Example in this ebook PART I. THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE. CHAPTER I. THE IMPROMPTU VICTORY. The Ancre Front, 13th November. You read the reports. The names of the places that have been taken, the calculations of the gains, the numbers of the prisoners, leave you cold. Words! words!...

Love and Physics

The Peierlses

by Mikhail Shifman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019

This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renowned physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he...

Computational Approaches for Studying Enzyme Mechanism Part B

by Gregory Voth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

Computational Approaches for Studying Enzyme Mechanism, Part B is the first of two volumes in the Methods in Enzymology series that focuses on computational approaches for studying enzyme mechanism. The serial achieves the critically acclaimed gold standard of laboratory practices and remains one...

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The...

Waiting for Contact

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

by Lawrence Squeri
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

"A cogent, engaging history of humanity's most ambitious quest--seeking outward for other minds."--David Brin, author of Existence "A fascinating perspective on humankind's obsession for knowing if there is anyone else out there."--Gerrit L. Verschuur, author of The Invisible Universe: The Story of...