Marks: 492 books
by James G. Marks Jr., MD, Jeffrey J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Intuitively organized by appearance rather than etiology, Lookingbill and Marks’ Principles of Dermatology, 6th Edition, by Drs. James G. Marks, Jr. and Jeffrey J. Miller, is a concise, abundantly illustrated everyday reference for dermatologic diagnosis and therapy. It offers expert guidance and...
by Marsha Marks
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Have you ever thought…
*My daughter will take care of the dog…
I can keep house like my mother-in-law…
I’ll never do* that again…
Not only has author Marsha Marks believed the lies many of us hear and tell on a daily basis–she’s willing to talk about them!
Tickling...
On the Cancer Frontier
One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war against cancer.” Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called...
by Winston K. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers of the 1940s-1960s who might otherwise be forgotten. Winston K. Marks (1915-1979) is one such unjustly forgotten author. Included here are 12 science fiction stories, published between 1953...
The Skin of the Film
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The...
The Illusion of Peace
International Relations in Europe 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Sally Marks provides a compelling analysis of European diplomacy between the First World War and Hitler's advent. She explores in clear and lively prose the reasons why successive efforts failed to create a lasting peace in the interwar era. Building on the theories of the first edition - many of...
Education, Social Background and Cognitive Ability
The decline of the social
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people’s occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic background...
Tales of the Ex-Apes
How We Think about Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates...
Gilles Deleuze
Vitalism and Multiplicity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Gilles Deleuze is widely regarded as one of the major postwar proponents of Nietzschean thought in continental philosophy. Over a period of forty years, he presented what amounts to a philosophy of vitalism and multiplicity, bringing together concepts from thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and Hume....
by David F Marks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Two billion people alive today are overweight or living with obesity. There is no sign that the obesity epidemic is slowing down or that medical science has an understanding of the problem. This book explains some brutal truths about the condition.David F Marks, PhD, proposes a powerful new explanation...
Occupied Ruptures in Space
Cultural recovery of the landscape within the former inner German border area
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
With the reunification of Germany in 1990, the two sides of the former inner German border area found itself no longer as remote regions on the margins of two separated political and social hemispheres, but in the center of a reunited Europe. With focus on the Schaalsee lake in northern Germany, once...
Lost Paradise
From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Pitcairn Island -- remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf -- is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship...
Who’S Hungry? Reciprocity
I Desire to Share My Privileges Because Someone Great Shared with Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Elisha Marks is a prophet who is passionate about guiding those who are hungry for true salvation and real love to look within for the answers. For it is deep inside our souls where the truth and happiness lies. In her spiritual guidebook, Marks shares wisdom and teachings on how to transform our...
Perfect Presenter
The fundamental strategies and techniques of highly effective presenters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In this comprehensive book, presentation expert Paul Marks shares a wealth of information, knowledge, and wisdom on how to give exciting, colorful, and unforgettable presentations. Drawing from years of experience in doing his own presentations, as well as inspiring his fellow presenters, Mr. Marks...