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Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

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Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery presents you with authoritative guidance on reconstructive techniques for degenerative mitral valve disease. Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD—who pioneered the field—David H. Adams, MD; and Farzan Filsoufi, MD provide step-by-step instructions for each procedure and over 200 detailed anatomic drawings so that you can effectively apply the techniques of a master. - Apply the techniques and procedures of Dr. Alain Carpentier—pioneer of mitral valve reconstruction—to your practice. - View more than 200 detailed anatomic drawings that depict reconstruction procedures clearly. - Master each procedure using step-by-step instructions and a consistent chapter format. - Grasp the nuances of procedures thanks to "tips from the Master" and a section of questions and answers. - Tap into the knowledge and experience of leaders in the field of mitral valve repair and reconstruction.

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Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

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Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

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The Lord's First Night

The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage

By: Alain Boureau

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The Lord's First Night

The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage

By: Alain Boureau

From the late Middle Ages to THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO to Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. But here, in a fascinating case study of the folklore of sexuality, Alain Boureau elegantly demonstrates such tradition is a myth.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226067432

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9780226067438

Optical and Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Materials

By: Alain Diebold,Tino Hofmann

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Optical and Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Materials

By: Alain Diebold,Tino Hofmann

This book covers the optical and electrical properties of nanoscale materials with an emphasis on how new and unique material properties result from the special nature of their electronic band structure. Beginning with a review of the optical and solid state physics needed for understanding optical and electrical properties, the book then introduces the electronic band structure of solids and discusses the effect of spin orbit coupling on the valence band, which is critical for understanding the optical properties of most nanoscale materials. Excitonic effects and excitons are also presented along with their effect on optical absorption. 2D materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, are host to unique electrical properties resulting from the electronic band structure. This book devotes significant attention to the optical and electrical properties of 2D and topological materials with an emphasis on optical measurements, electrical characterization of carrier transport, and a discussion of the electronic band structures using a tight binding approach. This book succinctly compiles useful fundamental and practical information from one of the fastest growing research topics in materials science and is thus an essential compendium for both students and researchers in this rapidly moving field.

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Springer Nature

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3030803236

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Distribution System Planning

Evolution of Methodologies and Digital Tools for Energy Transition

By: Marie-Cecile Alvarez-Herault,Victor Gouin,Trinidad Chardin-Segui,Alain Malot,Jonathan Coignard,Bertrand Raison,Jerome Coulet

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Distribution System Planning

Evolution of Methodologies and Digital Tools for Energy Transition

By: Marie-Cecile Alvarez-Herault,Victor Gouin,Trinidad Chardin-Segui,Alain Malot,Jonathan Coignard,Bertrand Raison,Jerome Coulet

Distribution systems drive energy and societal transition. System planning enables investments to be made in the right place, at the right time and with the right technology. Distribution System Planning is centered on the evolution of planning methods that will best support this transition, and describes the historical context and concepts that enable planning, its challenges and key influencing factors to be grasped. It also analyzes the impact of the development of renewable and decentralized energy resources, government recommendations and distributor initiatives to promote their integration. Through the use of case studies, this book provides examples of how planning methodologies have evolved, as well as an overview of new and emerging solutions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394209460

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Weariness of the Self

Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

By: Alain Ehrenberg

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Weariness of the Self

Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

By: Alain Ehrenberg

Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition. Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values. The first book to offer both a global sociological view of contemporary depression and a detailed description of psychiatric reasoning and its transformation - from the invention of electroshock therapy to mass consumption of Prozac - The Weariness of the Self offers a compelling exploration of depression as social fact.

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0773578706

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9780773578708

Strategic Intelligence for the Future 1

A New Strategic and Operational Approach

By: Henri Dou,Alain Juillet,Philippe Clerc

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Strategic Intelligence for the Future 1

A New Strategic and Operational Approach

By: Henri Dou,Alain Juillet,Philippe Clerc

Information in all its forms is at the heart of the economic intelligence process. It is also a powerful vector of innovation and, more than ever, a balance between economic and societal forces. Strategic Intelligence for the Future 1 analyzes the need for the French economic intelligence to mutate in order to develop the economy, strengthen social cohesion and protect vital interests. This mutation requires a change of attitudes and a new way of thinking, widely open to global change and new technologies. The focus of the French economic intelligence on conventional objectives such as business and the economy does not allow for the integration of its multiple possible fields and thus its global nature. The strategy, foresight and temporal dynamics necessary to the understanding of the world, and the new balance of power and control of complex situations, have thus increased the time needed to put this in place. Both theoretical and practical, this book provides a basis from which to develop "enhanced economic intelligence" leading to the implementation of global security.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119527651

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Robi for the Close Friends

By: Alain Auderset

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Robi for the Close Friends

By: Alain Auderset

Nokyo is a city of 38,801,225 robots. In a world of monotonous routine, Robi is in search of happiness. But he is troubled by an aching void within. Neither materialism, nor culture, nor wisdom, nor music, nor religion, nor the practice of magic—nothing can fill it. A story that reminds us of the maxim, “In every man’s heart, there is a hole in shape of God ...” The creator is the only one who can fill our souls. The great love of Jesus offering his life is the bridge that connects us to God in this parable for our times.

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WestBow Press

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1449719171

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Neuro-inspired Information Processing

By: Alain Cappy

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Neuro-inspired Information Processing

By: Alain Cappy

With the end of Moore's law and the emergence of new application needs such as those of the Internet of Things (IoT) or artificial intelligence (AI), neuro-inspired, or neuromorphic, information processing is attracting more and more attention from the scientific community. Its principle is to emulate in a simplified way the formidable machine to process information which is the brain, with neurons and artificial synapses organized in network. These networks can be software and therefore implemented in the form of a computer program but also hardware and produced by nanoelectronic circuits. The material path allows very low energy consumption, and the possibility of faithfully reproducing the shape and dynamics of the action potentials of living neurons (biomimetic approach) or even being up to a thousand times faster (high frequency approach). This path is promising and welcomed by the major manufacturers of nanoelectronics, as circuits can now today integrate several million neurons and artificial synapses.

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1119721792

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Monsieur de Saint-George

Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered

By: Alain Guédé

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Monsieur de Saint-George

Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered

By: Alain Guédé

The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart" Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the doomed court of Louis XVI, and, most of all, a virtuosic musician. A violinist, he directed the Olympic Society of Concerts, which was considered the finest in Europe in an age of great musicians, including Haydn, from whom he commissioned a symphony, and Mozart, to whom he was often compared. He also became the first Freemason of color, embracing the French Revolution with the belief that it would end the racism against which-despite his illustrious achievements-he struggled his whole life. This is the life of Joseph Bologne, known variously as Monsieur de Saint-George, the "Black Mozart," and, because of his origins, "the American." Alain Guédé offers a fascinating account of this extraordinary individual, whose musical compositions are at long last being revived and whose story will never again be forgotten.

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1250091489

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Mesh Adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 2

Unsteady and Goal-oriented Adaptation

By: Alain Dervieux,Frederic Alauzet,Adrien Loseille,Bruno Koobus

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Mesh Adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 2

Unsteady and Goal-oriented Adaptation

By: Alain Dervieux,Frederic Alauzet,Adrien Loseille,Bruno Koobus

Simulation technology, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular, is essential in the search for solutions to the modern challenges faced by humanity. Revolutions in CFD over the last decade include the use of unstructured meshes, permitting the modeling of any 3D geometry. New frontiers point to mesh adaptation, allowing not only seamless meshing (for the engineer) but also simulation certification for safer products and risk prediction. Mesh Adaptation for Computational Dynamics 2 is the second of two volumes and introduces topics including optimal control formulation, minimizing a goal function, and extending the steady algorithm to unsteady physics. Also covered are multi-rate strategies, steady inviscid flows in aeronautics and an extension to viscous flows. This book will be useful to anybody interested in mesh adaptation pertaining to CFD, especially researchers, teachers and students.

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1394164017

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Mesh Adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 1

Continuous Riemannian Metrics and Feature-based Adaptation

By: Alain Dervieux,Frederic Alauzet,Adrien Loseille,Bruno Koobus

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Mesh Adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 1

Continuous Riemannian Metrics and Feature-based Adaptation

By: Alain Dervieux,Frederic Alauzet,Adrien Loseille,Bruno Koobus

Simulation technology, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular, is essential in the search for solutions to the modern challenges faced by humanity. Revolutions in CFD over the last decade include the use of unstructured meshes, permitting the modeling of any 3D geometry. New frontiers point to mesh adaptation, allowing not only seamless meshing (for the engineer) but also simulation certification for safer products and risk prediction. Mesh Adaptation for Computational Dynamics 1 is the first of two volumes and introduces basic methods such as feature-based and multiscale adaptation for steady models. Also covered is the continuous Riemannian metrics formulation which models the optimally adapted mesh problem into a pure partial differential statement. A number of mesh adaptative methods are defined based on a particular feature of the simulation solution. This book will be useful to anybody interested in mesh adaptation pertaining to CFD, especially researchers, teachers and students.

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1786308312

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Analyzing Ecological Data

By: Alain Zuur,Elena N. Ieno,Graham M. Smith

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Analyzing Ecological Data

By: Alain Zuur,Elena N. Ieno,Graham M. Smith

This book provides a practical introduction to analyzing ecological data using real data sets. The first part gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods (including GAM and mixed modeling techniques), multivariate analysis, time series analysis, and spatial statistics. The second part provides 17 case studies. The case studies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology and can be used as a template for a reader’s own data analysis. Data from all case studies are available from www.highstat.com. Guidance on software is provided in the book.

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Springer

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0387459723

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9780387459721

The Works of Alain Locke

By: Alain Locke

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The Works of Alain Locke

By: Alain Locke

A comprehensive collection of essays by the leading early 20th-century public intellectual covers a broad range of topics from philosophy and literary criticism to race and politics, offering insight into his considerable contributions to the Harlem Renaissance and influence in helping to launch the civil rights movement.

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OUP USA

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0199795045

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9780199795048

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

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French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

Recent studies and exhibitions, combined with the discovery of work by hitherto little-known artists have enabled Merot to take a fresh look at the period and to suggest a new configuration. The great names of the period - Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard - are located in relation to other developments. Merot includes discussion of the impact of contemporary literature and political, philosophical and social influences. The foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648, and the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments are considered with other issues of status, patronage and connoisseurship. The book provides a panorama of the period; the text is profusely illustrated in colour, and accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography.

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Yale University Press

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0300065507

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9780300065503

Geochemistry of Fossil Fuels

From Conventional to Unconventional Hydrocarbon Systems

By: Alain-Yves Huc

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Geochemistry of Fossil Fuels

From Conventional to Unconventional Hydrocarbon Systems

By: Alain-Yves Huc

Understanding the origin and fate of hydrocarbons in the subsurface was the major endeavor of organic geochemists during the second half of the twentieth century. They succeeded to the point where the deciphered interplaying of elements and processes paved the way for the revolutionary concept of the petroleum system, a unifying paradigm that plays an important role in decision making associated with oil and gas exploration. The chemistry and physics involved have been addressed in a quantitative way and integrated into the other aspects of petroleum geology, giving rise to the development of numerical basin modeling. This book has been designed to offer an overview of different aspects of the geochemistry of fossil fuels, in particular the functioning of a petroleum system. In this respect, it can be viewed as a foundation for approaching basin modeling. This book will be of interest to a large audience including specialists in the field, nonspecialist professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students.

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Editions TECHNIP

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2710809907

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9782710809906

Ultrametric Functional Analysis

Seventh International Conference on P-Adic Functional Analysis, June 17-21, 2002, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands

By: Wilhelmus Hendricus Schikhof,C. Perez-Garcia,Alain Escassut

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Ultrametric Functional Analysis

Seventh International Conference on P-Adic Functional Analysis, June 17-21, 2002, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands

By: Wilhelmus Hendricus Schikhof,C. Perez-Garcia,Alain Escassut

This volume contains research articles based on lectures given at the Seventh International Conference on $p$-adic Functional Analysis. The articles, written by leading international experts, provide a complete overview of the latest contributions in basic functional analysis (Hilbert and Banach spaces, locally convex spaces, orthogonality, inductive limits, spaces of continuous functions, strict topologies, operator theory, automatic continuity, measure and integrations, Banach and topological algebras, summability methods, and ultrametric spaces), analytic functions (meromorphic functions, roots of rational functions, characterization of injective holomorphic functions, and Gelfand transforms in algebras of analytic functions), differential equations, Banach-Hopf algebras, Cauchy theory of Levi-Civita fields, finite differences, weighted means, $p$-adic dynamical systems, and non-Archimedean probability theory and stochastic processes. The book is written for graduate students and research mathematicians. It also would make a good reference source for those in related areas, such as classical functional analysis, complex analytic functions, probability theory, dynamical systems, orthomodular spaces, number theory, and representations of $p$-adic groups.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821833200

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9780821833209

Tropical Agroforestry

By: Alain Atangana,Damase Khasa,Scott Chang,Ann Degrande

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Tropical Agroforestry

By: Alain Atangana,Damase Khasa,Scott Chang,Ann Degrande

Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land-use management in the tropics, as it provides environmental-friendly ecosystems; it also provides people with their every day need for food and cash. Since the recognition of agroforestry as a science, curricula have been developed for agroforestry programs for undergraduate and graduate trainings in Universities. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop and make available educational material. This textbook strives to provide up-to-date information on tropical agroforestry to serve as educational material in the tropical context. The authoritative textbook of Nair (1993) on agroforestry was published 18 years ago, and before the advent of tree domestication, an important agroforestry practice today. In addition, many other research activities, such as carbon sequestration and integrated pest management, have been included in the agroforestry agenda. This textbook is intended for agroforestry students, teachers, and practitioners.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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940077723X

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9789400777231

The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

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The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.

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Yale University Press

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0300218885

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9780300218886

Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

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Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

A comprehensive reference on diabetes mellitus, covering basic biochemistry, physiology, and pathogenesis, as well as clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Sixth Edition includes five new chapters, plus new material on the genetic basis of the disease, new hypoglycemic drugs, mechanisms of hormone action, and regulation of hormone secretion.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0838521789

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9780838521786

The Flood

By: Alain Royer,Georges Carpentier

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The Flood

By: Alain Royer,Georges Carpentier

Classic bible stories, in this case The Flood are brought to life in this series of illustrated books, which aim to teach young children religious education in the most accessible way. Illustrations are used to bring each story alive and enable the readers to appreciate them.

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