H Thomas: 629 books
Fate’s Instruments
No Safeguards 2 - Paul's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from the beginning, and they break up. Then fate, in the form of a brain tumour,...
Temperament
Infancy through Adolescence The Fullerton Longitudinal Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fullerton Longitudinal Study, launched in 1979, chronicled the development of over 100 children and their families from the children's first birthday through their high school completion using a cross-informant/cross-context methodology. In this volume, the developmental course and sequelae of...
Biobased Aerogels
Polysaccharide and Protein-based Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Aerogels have been in use for over 80 years and have been utilised in a wide variety of applications, in particular, there has been growing use of insulating nanoporous materials in the aerospace industry. Recent awareness of the environmental implications of materials has driven researchers to develop...
Sexuality and Slavery
Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most...
by Thomas H. Macbride
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The fungi as a class may hardly be called popular. For various reasons they are, so to speak, under a cloud. They are little known, and so in lieu of better information the legend "poison" seems to run for all the finer and more showy species. If not held absolutely poisonous, most are at...
A Developmental Model of Borderline Personality Disorder
Understanding Variations in Course and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are among the most challenging patients for clinicians to treat. Their behaviors and emotions can shift abruptly. As a result, these patients can seem like therapeutic moving targets, and improvement can be vexingly slow.
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by Stuart H. Orkin, MD, David G. Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Written by the leading names in pediatric oncology and hematology, Nathan and Oski’s Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood offers you the essential tools you need to overcome the unique challenges and complexities of childhood cancers and hematologic disorders. Meticulously updated, this...
Katholisches Medienhandbuch
Fakten - Praxis - Perspektiven
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Der rasante Medienwandel stellt die katholische Kirche und ihren Kommunikationsauftrag vor enorme Herausforderungen. Wie kann sich Kirche in einer durch Medien bestimmten Gesellschaft noch Gehör verschaffen? Sind Kirche und Medien überhaupt kompatibel? Und wie gelingt ihr der Spagat zwischen ihrer...
by Daron I Freedberg, Anthony S Serianni, Mario Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume focuses on solution and solid-state NMR of carbohydrates, glycoproteins, glyco-technologies, biomass and related topics. It is estimated that at least 80% of all proteins are glycoproteins. Because of the complexity, heterogeneity and flexibility of the sugar chains, the structural biology...
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including...
by Thomas H. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Emergency ophthalmology is an area full of pitfalls for the unwary primary care practitioner. Vitreoretinal disorders make up the majority of emergency sight-threatening conditions, and a wide and increasingly varied range of conditions of the eye present in primary care settings. Correct diagnosis...
Stress Echocardiography
Its Role in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
W. F. ARMSTRONG While stress echocardiography is not the first technique to be applied to patients for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, it represents an impor tant clinical tool, likely to become of increasing pertinence in today's era of cost containment and mandated cost-effectiveness...
by Thomas H. MacRae
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The unusual life history of the brine shrimp, Artemia, and the relative ease with which it can be experimentally manipulated have long made his crustacean a favorite system for biological studies. Over the years, descriptive morphological work has given way to a rigorous analysis of biochemical and...
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, edited by Ruth A. Maher and Ramona Harrison, provides a framework for studying interactions of various human and natural entities in the past. Contributors apply this knowledge to address global...