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Shaking Up Parkinson Disease

Fighting Like a Tiger, Thinking Like a Fox : a Book for the Puzzled, the Hopeful, the Willing, and the Prepared

By: Abraham N. Lieberman

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Shaking Up Parkinson Disease

Fighting Like a Tiger, Thinking Like a Fox : a Book for the Puzzled, the Hopeful, the Willing, and the Prepared

By: Abraham N. Lieberman

This book explains Parkinson's disease--how it's recognized, what causes it, who gets it, when and how to get help, and much more.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763718661

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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

By: Abraham Riesman

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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

By: Abraham Riesman

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost HUGO AWARD FINALIST • EISNER AWARD NOMINEE • “A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking.”—Neil Gaiman Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn’t who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee’s life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars’ worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days? And, above all, what drove this man to achieve so much yet always boast of more?

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Crown

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0593135733

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Liberal and Illiberal Arts

Essays (Mostly Jewish)

By: Abraham Socher

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Liberal and Illiberal Arts

Essays (Mostly Jewish)

By: Abraham Socher

“Socher is one of the sharpest observers of Jewish America in our times. These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka to Rabbi Kook, are a loving, cutting, whimsical, and wise look at a Jewish moment that he senses might be ending.”—Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel How did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film Key Largo, and what does that have to do with Plato’s theory of recollection—or American Jewish assimilation? Precisely what poem of Robert Frost’s inspired Nabokov’s Pale Fire, and how did Walter Benjamin learn about the remarkable stones of Sinai? Abraham Socher wears his learning lightly. These witty and original essays embody the spirit of the liberal arts, but the highlight of this collection may be his devastating account of the illiberal arts at work in Oberlin College, where he taught for eighteen years.

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Paul Dry Books

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1589881605

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9781589881600

Transforming Identity

The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew – Structure and Meaning

By: Abraham Sagi,Tsevi Zohar

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Transforming Identity

The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew – Structure and Meaning

By: Abraham Sagi,Tsevi Zohar

Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an ascriptive status entered through birth to a Jewish mother. This book provides a close reading of primary halakhic texts as a key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.

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A&C Black

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0826496725

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Jews and Money

The Story of a Stereotype

By: Abraham H. Foxman

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Jews and Money

The Story of a Stereotype

By: Abraham H. Foxman

In the wake of Bernie Madoff's ruinous investment schemes, Abe Foxman takes a cultural and political look at the many variations throughout history of the assumptions made about Jews and money. These include Jews as greedy global capitalists; Jews as wealthy secret communists; Jews as cheapskates; and Jews controlling the media with their money to unduly influence society. Foxman makes the case that these stereotypes have permeated cultures globally and argues that these beliefs are rooted in deep-seated and pervasive anti-Semitism. As with all forms of bigotry, society at large needs to respond to the persistence of stereotypes by educating the young, denouncing hate speech, and by encouraging Jews, like all groups, to express pride in their ethnic and religious heritage.

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St. Martin's Press

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0230112250

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9780230112254

100 Questions and Answers about Parkinson Disease

By: Abraham Lieberman,Marcia McCall

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100 Questions and Answers about Parkinson Disease

By: Abraham Lieberman,Marcia McCall

Whether you are newly diagnosed with Parkinson Disease, a long-term PD patient, or a friend of relative of either, this book offers help. the only text to provide the doctor and patient view, 100 Questions and Answers About Parkinson Disease gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Eminent neurologist and psychiatrist Abraham Lieberman, MD, of the National Parkinson Foundation draws questions from his extensive databank of inquiries from thousands of PD patients to create a book focusing on the day

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0763704334

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9780763704339

Justices, Presidents, and Senators

A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II

By: Henry J. Abraham

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Justices, Presidents, and Senators

A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II

By: Henry J. Abraham

Totally revised and updated, this classic history of the 110 members of the U.S. Supreme Court addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court, how their nominations were received, whether the appointees ultimately lived up to the expectations of the American public, and what their legacy was on the development of American law and society. Enhanced by photographs of every justice from 1789 to 2007.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461602483

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9781461602484

Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II

By: N.B. Abraham,F.T. Arecchi,L.A. Lugiato

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Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II

By: N.B. Abraham,F.T. Arecchi,L.A. Lugiato

This volume contains tutorial papers from the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics", held at the "Il Ciocco" Conference Center, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy, June 28-July 7, 1987. The title of the volume is designated Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II, because of the nearly coincident publication of a collection of articles on research in this field edited by F.T. Arecchi and R.G. Harrison [Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics, (Springer, Berlin, 1987) 1. That volume provides more detailed information about some of these topics. Together they will serve as a comprehensive and tutorial pair of companion volumes. This school was directed by Prof. Massimo Inguscio, of the Department of Physics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy to whom we express our gratitude on behalf of all lecturers and students. The Scientific Advisory Committee consisted of N.B. Abraham of Bryn Mawr College; F.T. Arecchi of the National Institute of Optics in Florence and the University of Florence, and L.A. Lugiato of the Politechnic Institute of Torino. The school continues the long tradition of Europhysics Summer Schools in Quantum Electronics which have provided instruction and training for young researchers and advanced students working in this field for almost twenty years.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306429144

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9780306429149

The Last Days in Israel

Understanding the New Israeli Democracy

By: Abraham Diskin

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The Last Days in Israel

Understanding the New Israeli Democracy

By: Abraham Diskin

During the 1990s many dramatic changes influenced the basic characteristics of the Israeli democracy. This volume examines the challenges and circumstances the country has faced and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security". The book also investigates the renewed constitutional framework which attempted to meet new challenges, but in reality contributed to the evolution of "new politics" and a new party system. This new system is explored through an analytical study of the history of the party system with an emphasis on new phenomena, such as the growing fragmentation of recent years. Developments since the early 1990s are also examined, looking at the governmental periods of Prime Ministers: Shamir, Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and Barak.

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Routledge

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1135759448

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9781135759445

Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

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Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358226

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9780817358228

Struggling with Tradition

Reservations about Active Martyrdom in the Middle Ages

By: Abraham Gross

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Struggling with Tradition

Reservations about Active Martyrdom in the Middle Ages

By: Abraham Gross

This monograph discusses the disagreement within the Jewish community concerning the medieval practice of active martyrdom, including slaughter of children and suicide, from the 11th until the 16th centuries. It covers the mainly implicit reservations about and objections in Jewish society to this practice. It is suggested that such opinions existed throughout the period when this practice was accepted in halakhic (legal) terms and by the most outstanding Jurists. It is argued that this was the case during the persecutions of the First Crusade in Germany and in the following centuries in the Ashkenazic cultural sphere. This is complemented by a survey and analysis of the situation in the Iberian peninsula during the 14th-15th centuries, when such phenomenon is detected during the persecutions in 1391 and during the so-called "expulsion" from Portugal in 1497. A series of appendices discuss a variety of related topics and all main texts discussed in the book in the original Hebrew. While many scholars discussed the phenomenon of active martyrdom and described its status among medieval Jewry as positive and monolithic, this book proposes a different angle which reveals the ongoing objections of scholars and parts of Jewish society who opposed active martyrdom on legal as well as on emotional grounds until the eventual waning and disappearance of this practice. It is suggested that this actual change set the background for an explicit and total legal rejection of a tradition which lasted and was admired and hailed for more than 400 years.

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BRILL

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9047413784

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9789047413783

Foundations Of Mechanics

By: Ralph Abraham

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Foundations Of Mechanics

By: Ralph Abraham

Foundations of Mechanics is a mathematical exposition of classical mechanics with an introduction to the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and applications to the two-body problem and three-body problem.

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CRC Press

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0429689047

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9780429689048

The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925

By: Karl Abraham

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The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925

By: Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud’s inner circle of trusted colleagues. As such he played a significant part in the establishment of psychoanalysis as a recognised and respected discipline. Regarded by Ernest Jones as one of the best clinical analysts among his contemporaries1 he also elaborated and expanded upon Freud’s theories. Exploring first-hand the complex relationship and rivalries that existed not only between Freud and his master pupil, but also the details of their combined and individual relationships with Jung, this substantial and absorbing collection of letters enables the reader to gain valuable insights into these two pioneers of psychoanalysis.‘Since psychoanalysis is established as an essential part of the history of ideas for the last century, intellectual historians should relish the fact that an absolutely excellent and full edition of this correspondence has finally come out.’

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0429920326

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9780429920325

The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau

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The Tapestry of Culture

An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly, responding to scholarly and political influences as well as changing generations; the ninth edition reflects this ongoing transformation. The influence of postmodernism has generated new debates over theory and practice in anthropology. The content of Tapestry explains these debates, as well as what is still generally accepted and agreed upon by most anthropologists. This edition provides the instructor, student and lay public with the information necessary to enable them to critically read the literature of anthropology, more specifically ethnographic texts which are still the heart of this field. The approach of the book is to accommodate the various points of view in anthropology today. It shows how the concepts, ideas and behavior of other cultures are translated into our culture's terms. Though today many emphasize each culture's uniqueness, the presence of cultural similarities is compelling. Using a comparative approach, The Tapestry of Culture reveals cultural similarities, as well as the cultural differences.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759118515

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9780759118515

The Jester's Bells

By: Carol E. Abraham

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The Jester's Bells

By: Carol E. Abraham

Events jolting and stirring, historic and whimsical, come to life thick and fast in The Jester's Bells. Filled with irony, satire, and caricature, it is the story of Carol Enid Abraham, a Depression Baby, growing up in Brooklyn during the lean, war-torn 1940s and the A-bomb scare of the 1950s. It reflects the pendulous swing of morals and ethics, gender and racial advances, radical religious thinking, inspired silliness and profound creativity that shaped her life, leaving permanent yet invisible scars. Live in the atmosphere of this vibrant, hard-charging century as her family comes full circle from its origin in the shtetls of Europe to an American generation of assimilation.

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iUniverse

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059509791X

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9780595097913

Business Improvement Districts in the United States

Private Government and Public Consequences

By: Abraham Unger

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Business Improvement Districts in the United States

Private Government and Public Consequences

By: Abraham Unger

This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America’s downtown. These public-private partnerships between property owners and municipal government have developed retail strips across the United States into lifestyle and commercial hubs. BIDs are non-profit community organizations with the public power to tax and spend on services in their districts, but they are unelected bodies often operating in the shadows of local government. They work as agents of economic development, but are they democratic? What can we learn from BIDs about the accountability of public-private partnerships, and how they impact our lives as citizens? Unger explores these questions of local democracy and urban political economy in this age of rampant privatization and the reinvention of neighborhoods.

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Springer

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331932294X

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The Earth is the Lord's

The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The Earth is the Lord's

The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

Powerfully and beautifully portrays a bygone Jewish culture. An eloquent masterpiece, originally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Includes woodcut illustrations by Ilya Schor.

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Jewish Lights Publishing

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1879045427

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9781879045422

They Too Influenced a Nation's History

The Unique Contributions of 105 Lesser-known Americans

By: Abraham Resnick

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They Too Influenced a Nation's History

The Unique Contributions of 105 Lesser-known Americans

By: Abraham Resnick

The United States, ever since its inception, has recognized innumerable Americans, be they native-born or newly arrived immigrants, for their unique contributions to their nation's history and heritage. Many have been bestowed with honors. Many are legends, their memories forever cherished. Yet, there are so many other important American contributors that tend to be lesser-known or sometimes overlooked when examining the events of the country's past. This book accounts for 105 mini-biographies, each highlighting the life of a lesser-known contributor, their achievements, influences and impacts on America's development. A picture of many faces, from many places, from many walks of life.

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iUniverse

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0595284345

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9780595284344

A Formula for Proper Living

Practical Lessons from Life and Torah

By: Abraham J. Twerski

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A Formula for Proper Living

Practical Lessons from Life and Torah

By: Abraham J. Twerski

In this special book of practical wisdom, Dr. Abraham J. Twerski draws from his extensive professional experience as a psychiatrist and spiritual counselor, a life-long student of Jewish wisdom texts, and his personal experience as a son of a wise Chassidic rabbi, to give us practical lessons for life that we can put to day-to-day use in dealing with ourselves and others.

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Jewish Lights Publishing

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158023402X

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9781580234023

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology

By: Jame Abraham,James L. Gulley,Carmen J. Allegra

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The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology

By: Jame Abraham,James L. Gulley,Carmen J. Allegra

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology is a clear, concise and comprehensive reference book for the busy clinician to use in his or her daily patient encounters. It focuses less on etiology, pathophysiology, and epidemiology, and considerably more on practical clinical information. Cancer management information is presented in a reader-friendly format that offers a comprehensive review of each disease along with the most commonly used treatment regimens, including chemotherapy dosing and schedules. Features: Clear, concise, complete reference book for busy clinician for daily patient management User-friendly formatting – tables, algorithms, charts, bullet points Contributors all from NIH (or they trained there) Great for board exams Organized by body region New to this edition: Add a chapter on Cancer Genetics and expand the Basics of Genomics for practicing oncologists to include the clinically relevant molecular tests. Major addition will be to add about 5 board review question and answers per chapter - more than 200 board review questions New treatment regimens added to all appropriate chapters New clinical trial data added on treatment More chemotherapeutic agents added (including newer regimens and dosages)

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469870606

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9781469870601

Inside Straight

By: Daniel Abraham

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Inside Straight

By: Daniel Abraham

From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the launch of a new generation of Wild Cards tales

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Macmillan

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0765317818

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9780765317810

The Columbia Retirement Handbook

By: Abraham Monk

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The Columbia Retirement Handbook

By: Abraham Monk

The Columbia Retirement Handbook

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Columbia University Press

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0231516231

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9780231516235

The Legend of the Septuagint

From Classical Antiquity to Today

By: Abraham Wasserstein,David J. Wasserstein

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The Legend of the Septuagint

From Classical Antiquity to Today

By: Abraham Wasserstein,David J. Wasserstein

The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a legend about the miraculous nature of the translation have existed since antiquity. Beginning in the Letter of Aristeas, the legend describes how Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned seventy-two Jewish scribes to translate the sacred Hebrew scriptures for his famous library in Alexandria. Subsequent variations on the story recount how the scribes, working independently, produced word-for-word, identical Greek versions. In the course of the following centuries, to our own time, the story has been adapted and changed by Jews, Christians, Muslims and pagans for many different reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.

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Cambridge University Press

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113945501X

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Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Edward A. Bittner,Lorenzo Berra,Peter J. Fagenholz,Jean Kwo,Jarone Lee,Abraham Sonny

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Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Edward A. Bittner,Lorenzo Berra,Peter J. Fagenholz,Jean Kwo,Jarone Lee,Abraham Sonny

With concise, full-color coverage of this rapidly enlarging field, Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Seventh Edition, is your go-to guide for practical, complete, and current information on medical and surgical critical care. Edited by Drs. Edward A. Bittner, Lorenzo Berra, Peter J. Fagenholz, Jean Kwo, Jarone Lee, and Abraham Sonny, this user-friendly handbook is designed for rapid reference, providing reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today's most advanced critical care practices. An at-a-glance outline format and portable size make it an essential manual for medical students, residents with rotations in ICUs, and physicians and nurses who work in critical care.

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1975183800

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9781975183806

Alzheimer’s Disease

Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives

By: Abraham Fisher,Israel Hanin,Chaim Lachman

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives

By: Abraham Fisher,Israel Hanin,Chaim Lachman

Alzheimer's disease is a primary neurodegenerative disease whose incidence and prevalence is rapidly approaching epidemic proportions. A major reason for this is that man is living longer than he has ever lived before and the likelihood of contracting the disease is significantly greater within the elderly portion of the population. The problem becomes even more acute in the light of recent estimates which predict that the number of people living beyond the age of 65 is expected to continue to increase. The impact of these statistics on the family and the health care industry in terms of time, effort and cost are staggering. A recent report issued by the Michigan Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Conditions (1987) effectively underscores this last point. "Each person with a dementing disease requires an average of seven years of care, either at home or in a residential care facility. Care provided at home is estimated to cost about $12,000 annually, for a total of $84,000 per person. This is a conservative figure, however, because many persons with dementia spend their last few years in a nursing home at an average 'cost of $22,000 per year, and some spend from 10 to 15 years in a nursing home, for a total cost of $220,000 to $330,000.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146156414X

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9781461564140

The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

By: David S. Abraham

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The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

By: David S. Abraham

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become the building blocks of modern society; their properties are now essential for nearly all our electronic, military, and “green” technologies. But their growing use is not without environmental, economic, and geopolitical consequences. Abraham traces these elements’ hidden paths from mines to our living rooms, from the remote hills of China to the frozen Gulf of Finland, providing vivid accounts of those who produce, trade, and rely on rare metals. He argues that these materials are increasingly playing a significant role in global affairs, conferring strength to countries and companies that can ensure sustainable supplies. Just as oil, iron, and bronze revolutionized previous eras, so too will these metals. The challenges this book reveals, and the plans it proposes, make it essential reading for our rare metal age.

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Yale University Press

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0300216718

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9780300216714

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