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The Handy Anatomy Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

Visible Ink Press, 2008

Pick up a magazine or newspaper, turn on the radio or television, or access medical and health information on the Internet and you will find that the human body is definitely in the news. Artificial hearts, dietary supplements, stem cell research, genetic engineering, arthroscopic surgery, and many other intriguing subjects on human biology and...

Diabetes: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today. But the general perception of diabetes is...

Disasters at Sea (Disasters Up Close)

Lerner Publications, 2007

For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, human error, and many more types of tragedies have all sent ships to watery graves. While modern technology has made sea-going vessels safer and rescues easier, there still are terrible disasters that...

Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2018

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'. Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics investigates his claim and its reception in ancient and medieval Aristotelian traditions, including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew...

Map-based Mobile Services: Theories, Methods and Implementations

Springer, 2004

The book is divided into three parts: theory, method and implementation. Starting with a summary of the state-of-the-art in mobile technologies, the first part analyses their impacts on cartography and pinpoints the missing theories concerned with the development of map-based mobile services. A conceptual framework of mobile cartography is then...

The Apocalypse: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

This accessible and enlightening history provides insights into the fascinating genre of apocalyptic literature, showing how the apocalypse encompasses far more than popular views of the last judgment and violent end of the world might suggest.

An accessible and enlightening history of the "apocalypses"--ancient...

Weird Science: 40 Strange-Acting, Bizarre-Looking, and Barely Believable Activities for Kids

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Discover the weird science behind the ickiest, wackiest, most unusual things ever to exist!

Would you like to make your own slime, discover how lava lamps work, or learn how materials decompose?
Have you ever heard about ball lightning or the Aurora Borealis on the news and wondered what the reporter was talking about?
Are...

A Brief History of the Olympic Games

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence.

Classics professor David Young, who...

Beginning CSS3

Apress, 2012

CSS3 is the latest version of Cascading Style Sheets, the language that in the hands of a skilled designer turns the ugly duckling of unadorned HTML into the gracious swan of a sophisticated web page. Some web designers will tell you dismissively that CSS3 won’t be ready for years. In one sense, they’re right. Instead of...

Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World

FT Press, 2010

"A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness." -–Matt Ridley, author of Genome

10 World-Changing Revolutions...

Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology

Taylor & Francis, 2008

SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in Archaeology ‘Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology’ (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the world’s greatest experts in the field of...

The Facts on File Calculus Handbook (The Facts on File Science Handbooks)

Facts on File, 2003

Over the past 25 years or so, the typical college calculus textbook has grown from a modest 350-page book to a huge volume of some 1,200 pages, with thousands of exercises, special topics, interviews with career mathematicians, 10 or more appendixes, and much, much more. But as the old adage goes, more is not always better. The enormous size and...

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