William H : 870 books
Vanishing Bone
Conquering a Stealth Disease Caused by Total Hip Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
When dozens of holes appeared in a patient's femur alongside his hip prosthesis, experts were baffled as such a phenomenon had never been seen before. Over the first four decades of total hip surgery, the severe bone destruction multiplied, crippling many thousands of patients. Eventually identified...
by William H. Brereton
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The object of these lectures is to tell you what I know about opium smoking in China—a very important subject, involving the retention or loss of more than seven millions sterling to the revenue of India, and what is far more precious, the character and reputation of this great country. With respect...
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man...
Recovering the Personal
The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Recovering the Personal will be of interest to a broad range of intellectual readers with interests in philosophy, psychology, theology, and the humanities.
The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy
Platonis aemulus and the Invention of Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Less than two years before his murder, Cicero created a catalogue of his philosophical writings that included dialogues he had written years before, numerous recently completed works, and even one he had not yet begun to write, all arranged in the order he intended them to be read, beginning with...
Cunard's Modern Queens
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
2008 was a magical year for Cunard. For the first time, the line had three Queens in service: Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria. Queen Elizabeth 2 retired during the year, sailing for Dubai on 11 November, while Queen Mary 2 had reached her fifth anniversary as the largest ocean liner...
Love, Justice, and Education
John Dewey and the Utopians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Love, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of a highly evocative article that Dewey published in the New York Times in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having...
Care for the Church and Its Liturgy
A Study of Summorum Pontificum and the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum, designating two "uses" or "forms" of the Roman Rite, declaring the Missal of Paul VI to be the "ordinary form" and the 1962 Missal of John XXIII to be its "extraordinary form." On the same day, the...
by William H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...
by Dr William H. Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Authority and the Teacher seeks to overturn the notion that authority is a restrictive force within education, serving only to stifle creativity and drown out the voice of the student. William H. Kitchen argues that any education must have, as one of its cornerstones, a component which encourages...
by William H. Ukers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
All About Coffee by William H. Ukers.
by Gerhard Meisenberg, PhD, William H. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Principles of Medical Biochemistry condenses the information you need into a comprehensive, focused, clinically-oriented textbook. Drs. Gerhard Meisenberg and William H. Simmons covers the latest developments in the field, including genome research, the molecular basis of genetic diseases, techniques...
How Brains Think
Evolving Intelligence, Then And Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
If you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're ”smart.” But ”intelligence” is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them; or if you're trying to speak a sentence that you've never...
by William H. McCrea
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Brief but rigorous, this text is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It covers the coordinate system, planes and lines, spheres, homogeneous coordinates, general equations of the second degree, quadric in Cartesian coordinates, and intersection of quadrics.Mathematician, physicist,...