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Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives)
She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With wrists and elbows no longer ... | | Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution
Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a supremely entertaining foray into the heart of... | | Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, HistoryThe burst of scholarship on colonial studies in the last two decades—crossing the disciplinary boundaries of literature, anthropology, and history—has begun to fill one of the most notable blind spots in the Western world’s examination of its history.Yet there is something strange about the timing: scholarly interest in... |
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COBOL Programmers Swing with Java"This book will get maximum leverage out of any reader's COBOL background. I would recommend it as a starting point for a COBOL programmer who is planning to learn Java." Computing Reviews
Featuring the development of graphical user interfaces (GUI's) using the latest in Java swing components, this new edition of... | | | | Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of AlgebraPrime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages—and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting... |
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Hepatology: Diagnosis and Clinical Management
This book will be an affordable, highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managing patients presenting with possible or overt liver disease.
It will be of particular use for those GI... | | Phenomenology of Perception
First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of... | | Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines
Readers of the Hebrew Bible are interested readers, bringing their own perspectives to the text. The essays in this volume, written by friends and colleagues who have drawn inspiration from and shown interest in the scholarship of David Clines, engage with his work through examining interpretations of the Hebrew Bible in areas of common... |
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