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Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held...
El Libertador:Writings of Simon Bolivar
Writings of Simón Bolívar
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar...
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to...
Voodoo Science:The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the International...
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a...
The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves
How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Compatibility Gene takes readers on a global journey of discovery spanning 60 years, involving scores of scientists, and encompassing the history of transplants and immunology. That journey has revealed astonishing links between who we are as individuals and our never-ceasing struggle to survive...
by Pat Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate...
by Lawrence H. Keeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1996
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare,...
The Periodic Table:Its Story and Its Significance
Its Story and Its Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present...
by Adrian Bardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience...
by Eric J. Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians...
Living with Bipolar Disorder:A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and to become expert partners in the management of this challenging disorder. Drawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug treatments with behavioral...
Transforming the Twentieth Century:Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances. The history of the 20th century is...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent...