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| | Phobias (Diseases and Disorders)Human beings have a love/hate relationship with fear. Medals are given to valiant warriors who charge fearlessly into combat, while those who sneak around whimpering in their battle helmets are labeled cowards and in some cultures are even put to death for what is considered a war-time crime. As a whole, people generally find fear to be... | | Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD)
has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality,
morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has
profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting... |
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The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)It is no exaggeration to say that weather affects everything we do in our lives. Weather influences how we dress, changes our plans for outdoor activities, cancels sporting events, closes airports, changes the course of wars, erodes mountains, destroys entire towns and cities, and has even been blamed for the death of U.S. President William Henry... | | Death before Birth: Fetal Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective
Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area. Medical historians have tended to focus on maternal mortality and professional conflicts between midwives rather than on the unborn, while among the social scientists demographers and epidemiologists have until recently devoted most of their... | | Language and the InternetAccording to popular mythology, the Internet will be bad for the future of language--technospeak will rule, standards will be lost, and creativity diminished as globalization imposes sameness. David Crystal, one of the foremost authorities on language, argues the reverse in his new book: that the Internet is enabling a dramatic expansion of the... |
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| | The Element of Fire"The Element of Fire is a powerful fantasy." -- Locus Magazine, 1993
Scientific magic and fairy magic collide headlong in the threatened kingdom of Ile-Rien, where the Captain of the Queen's Guard fights a perilous battle standing between opposing forces seeking to topping the kingdom's young king. Reprint.... | | The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American JusticeAmerica is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the "rights of victims" and make pronouncements against... |
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