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African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition

The Space of Thought

By: Bruce B. Janz

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African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition

The Space of Thought

By: Bruce B. Janz

Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world neatly maps onto specifically African epistemologies to outline a new direction of study on what philosophy is. By working through a rich range of texts and thinkers, Janz provides a fruitful new interpretation of African philosophy and provides close readings of seminal and sidelined thinkers to provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars. Janz's study takes in the creative humanism of Sylvia Wynter, Placide Tempels's Bantu Philosophy, Mbiti's theory of time, Oruka's last work on sage philosophy, Mogobe Ramose's own version of Ubuntu, Sophie Oluwole's active literature of philosophy, Achille Mbembe's excoriating attack on the effects of colonialism on life in Africa, and Suzanne Césaire writings on négritude. This book reorients African philosophy towards an active and creative future informed by enactivist thinking.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350292206

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9781350292208

Philosophy in an African Place

By: Bruce B. Janz

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Philosophy in an African Place

By: Bruce B. Janz

Over the past few decades, there has been much effort put forth by philosophers to answer the question, "Is there an African philosophy?" Bruce B. Janz boldly changes this central question to "What is it to do philosophy in this (African) place?" in Philosophy in an African Place. Janz argues that African philosophy has spent a lot of time trying to define what African philosophy is, and in doing so has ironically been unable to properly conceptualize African lived experience. He goes on to claim that such conceptualization can only occur when the central question is changed from the spatial to a new, platial one. Philosophy in an African Place both opens up new questions within the field, and also establishes "philosophy-in-place", a mode of philosophy which begins from the places in which concepts have currency and shows how a truly creative philosophy can emerge from focusing on questioning, listening, and attending to difference. This innovative new approach to African philosophy will be useful not only to African and African-American philosophers, but also to scholars interested in any cultural, intercultural, or national philosophical projects.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739136682

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9780739136683

Shields' Textbook of Glaucoma

By: R. Rand Allingham,Sayoko Moroi,M. Bruce Shields,Karim Damji

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Shields' Textbook of Glaucoma

By: R. Rand Allingham,Sayoko Moroi,M. Bruce Shields,Karim Damji

Known for its consistent, authoritative content and presentation, Shields Textbook of Glaucoma is the premier succinct and clinically focused text on the medical and surgical management of glaucoma. This full-color, easy-to-use reference offers a rational approach to every aspect of the field, including rare glaucomas, and presents a total care plan for the patient. The seventh edition brings you fully up to date with all that’s new in this rapidly changing field with new chapters, newly colorized line drawings, and an updated design for faster reference.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496351460

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9781496351463

Pious Nietzsche

Decadence and Dionysian Faith

By: Bruce Ellis Benson

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Pious Nietzsche

Decadence and Dionysian Faith

By: Bruce Ellis Benson

Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche was never a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzsche affirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully at Nietzsche's life history and views of three decadents, Socrates, Wagner, and Paul, to come to grips with his pietistic turn. Key to this understanding is Benson's interpretation of the powerful effect that Nietzsche thinks music has on the human spirit. Benson claims that Nietzsche's improvisations at the piano were emblematic of the Dionysian or frenzied, ecstatic state he sought, but was ultimately unable to achieve, before he descended into madness. For its insights into questions of faith, decadence, and transcendence, this book is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, philosophy, and religion.

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Indiana University Press

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0253003571

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9780253003577

High-Performance Computing in Biomedical Research

By: Theo C. Pilkington,Bruce Loftis,Thomas Palmer,Thomas F. Budinger

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High-Performance Computing in Biomedical Research

By: Theo C. Pilkington,Bruce Loftis,Thomas Palmer,Thomas F. Budinger

Leading researchers have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to this overview of high-performance computing in biomedical research. The book includes over 30 pages of color illustrations. Some of the important topics featured in the book include the following:

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CRC Press

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1000141500

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9781000141504

The Fate of Transcendentalism

Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing

By: Bruce A. Ronda

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The Fate of Transcendentalism

Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing

By: Bruce A. Ronda

The Fate of Transcendentalism examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the creative outpouring it produced. In this wide-ranging study, Bruce A. Ronda offers an account of the movement as an early example of the secular turn in American culture and brings to bear insights from philosopher Charles Taylor and others who have studied the broad cultural phenomenon of secularization. Ronda’s account turns on the interplay and tension between two strands in the transcendentalist movement. Many of the social experiments associated with transcendentalism, such as the Brook Farm and Fruitlands reform communities, Temple School, and the West Street Bookshop, as well as the transcendentalists’ contributions to abolition and women’s rights, spring from a commitment to human flourishing without reference to a larger religious worldview. Other aspects of the movement, particularly Henry Thoreau’s late nature writing and the rich tradition it has inspired, seek to minimize the difference between the material and the ideal, the human and the not-human. The Fate of Transcendentalism allows readers to engage with this fascinating dialogue between transcendentalist thinkers who believe that the ultimate end of human life is the fulfillment of human possibility and others who challenge human-centeredness in favor a relocation of humanity in a vital cosmos. Ronda traces the persistence of transcendentalism in the work of several representative twentieth- and twenty-first-century figures, including Charles Ives, Joseph Cornell, Truman Nelson, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver, and shows how this dialogue continues to inform important imaginative work to this date.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820351253

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9780820351254

Behavior Theory in Public Health Practice and Research

By: Bruce Simons-Morton,Marc Lodyga

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Behavior Theory in Public Health Practice and Research

By: Bruce Simons-Morton,Marc Lodyga

The purpose of the book is to provide public health students with essential background in behavioral science theory. The early chapters present the rationale for behavioral science in public health practice. Each subsequent chapter describes a theory or set of related theories in a concise and organized manner, with ample applications to public health practice. The book is applicable to public health students at the graduate or upper undergraduate level, particularly for health education, health promotion, nursing, behavioral science, and population health students, and as a reference for a wide range of health professionals. The book provides a conceptual, multi-level orientation to behavioral science theory for use in courses for public health professionals. The writing level is comfortable for college students, with consistent style and voice throughout the book. Specific chapters provide authoritative descriptions of prominent theories. Cogent examples of applications to practice and research are integrated liberally within the text. HIV/AIDS and the Covid-19 corona virus pandemic are two contemporary examples of health problems with substantial behavioral components that require theory-based research and preventive methods. Racial, ethnic, and economic disparities are highlighted throughout. The authors are experienced behavioral scientists with substantial experience teaching public health students"--

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284231712

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9781284231717

Behavior Theory in Health Promotion Practice and Research

By: Bruce Simons-Morton,Kenneth McLeroy,Monica Wendel

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Behavior Theory in Health Promotion Practice and Research

By: Bruce Simons-Morton,Kenneth McLeroy,Monica Wendel

Grounded in public health practice, this text offers a comprehensive study of the health behavior theories that are the foundation of all health education and promotion programs. Your students will come away with a clear understanding of essential relationships between human behavior and health, as well as the practical application of theory and approaches to health promotion research and practice. Designed for graduates or upper level undergraduates, the book maintains a consistent, single voice and offers many examples throughout. Contents: Section I. Theory in Context: 1. Health Behavior in the Context of Public Health 2. A Social Ecological Perspective 3. Theories of Motivation and Behavior: A Brief History and Contemporary Perspectives Section II. Cognitive and Social Theories of Motivation and Behavior 4. Expectancy Value Models 5. Operant Conditioning, Self-Regulation, and Social Cognitive Theory 6. Social Influence Theory: The Effects of Social Factors on Health Behavior 7. Diffusion of Innovations Theory Section III. Behavior Change Theories 8. Learning, Teaching, and Counseling 9. Self-Determination Theory and Motivational Interviewing 10. Stage Models 11. Health Communication and Social Marketing 12. Communities and Health Promotion

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763786799

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9780763786793

The Toll House

Confessions of Katharine Brand

By: David Bruce Gardner

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The Toll House

Confessions of Katharine Brand

By: David Bruce Gardner

Admission to the Celestial Kingdom can be very costly, as discovered by the wealthy Scottish importer, Malcolm Sinclair. A devout seeker and converted follower of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., Malcolm and his family are held together by the tenacity and love of Katharine Brand. But Katharine has a secret and a confession to make. For her own integrity and salvation she must reveal her truth, even if it threatens to shatter the only family she has known. THE TOLL HOUSE is more than Katharine's story; it is a tale of the cost of one's faith, and the willingness of the faithful to pay the price.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146287035X

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9781462870356

Handbook of Geriatric Assessment

By: Terry Fulmer,Bruce Chernof

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Handbook of Geriatric Assessment

By: Terry Fulmer,Bruce Chernof

Handbook of Geriatric Assessment, Fifth Edition is a multidisciplinary text that takes a contemporary approach in line with patient and family centered care. With contributions from the foremost experts in the field, it contains the latest information on geriatric assessments for older adults. Completely updated and revised, the Fifth Edition includes several new chapters, including demographic trends, age friendly health systems, payment reform and impact, the VA health system, self-care and management, impact on familial relations, vulnerable populations, building geriatric interdisciplinary teams, advance care planning, caregiver information, spiritual assessment, senior hunger, and transitions of care.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284170500

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9781284170504

From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology

By: Bruce M. Knauft

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From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology

By: Bruce M. Knauft

A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation

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University of Michigan Press

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0472066870

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9780472066872

A Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder

Towards a Non-Reductionist Cognitive Science

By: Shaun Gallagher,Bruce Janz,Lauren Reinerman,Jörg Trempler,Patricia Bockelman

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A Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder

Towards a Non-Reductionist Cognitive Science

By: Shaun Gallagher,Bruce Janz,Lauren Reinerman,Jörg Trempler,Patricia Bockelman

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of two experimental, interdisciplinary studies that employ methods from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology and simulation technology, and it argues for a non-reductionist approach to cognitive science.

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Springer

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1137496053

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9781137496058

World War One

A History in 100 Stories

By: Bruce Scates,Laura James,Rebecca Wheatley

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World War One

A History in 100 Stories

By: Bruce Scates,Laura James,Rebecca Wheatley

There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well – the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building narratives. World War One: a history in 100 stories remembers not just the men and women who lost their lives during the battles of WWI, but those who returned home as well: the gassed, the crippled, the insane – all those irreparably damaged by war. Drawn from a unique collection of sources, including repatriation files, these heartbreaking and deeply personal stories reveal a broken and suffering generation – gentle men driven to violence, mothers sent insane with grief, the hopelessness of rehabilitation and the quiet, pervasive sadness of loss. They also retrieve a fragile kind of courage from the pain and devastation of a conflict that changed the world. This is an unflinching and remarkable social history. It is an act of remembering in the face of forgetting. Telling the truth about war requires its own kind of courage.

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Penguin Group Australia

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1760141887

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9781760141882

Pediatric Maxillofacial Surgery, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

By: Bruce B. Horswell,Michael S. Jaskolka

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Pediatric Maxillofacial Surgery, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

By: Bruce B. Horswell,Michael S. Jaskolka

A complete review of pediatric maxillofacial surgery for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Topics in this issue include soft tissue injuries, ear and nose reconstruction in children, facial dermatologic lesions, vascular anomalies, sino-nasal disease and orbital cellulitis, post-traumatic growth and development, cervical masses, calvarial injuries and scalp reconstruction, management of facial fractures, craniofacial dermoids, airway abnormalities and management, craniofacial fibrous dysplasia, and unusual head and neck infections.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455747890

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9781455747894

Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring

Principles and Practice

By: Bruce J Fisch, MD

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Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring

Principles and Practice

By: Bruce J Fisch, MD

Unlike many other diagnostic procedures, EEG, now over 80 years old, and epilepsy monitoring, now over 40 years old, have demonstrated their usefulness and stood the test of time. Although the benefits of these diagnostic procedures are clear, monitoring is currently not available to the majority of patients in need. One of the factors limiting broader implementation is the lack of practitioners with special expertise. Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring was developed to address this concern. This practical volume contains detailed chapters covering all areas of clinical epilepsy monitoring. Featuring expert authors from major epilepsy centers, this seminal work reviews all current procedures and applications for monitoring adults and children with epilepsy in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and the ICU. Opening sections are devoted to indications, procedures, administrative considerations, and technical aspects of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and ICU monitoring, followed by dedicated sections on EEG diagnosis and localization and monitoring of neurological disorders in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and ICU. The book concludes with special procedures and an Appendix with guidelines for organizing epilepsy monitoring centers and technical aspects of EEG monitoring. Key Features include Covers both adult and pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and ICU monitoring Contains over 235 high-quality EEGs and other illustrations, including an 8-page color section Comprehensive coverage; no other book in this area has comparable breadth and depth Clinical Focus Expert authors tell you when and how to perform the procedures they discuss

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1935281593

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9781935281597

Cummings Otolaryngology E-Book

Head and Neck Surgery, 3-Volume Set

By: Paul W. Flint,Bruce H. Haughey,Valerie J. Lund,K. Thomas Robbins,J. Regan Thomas,Marci M. Lesperance,Howard W. Francis

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Cummings Otolaryngology E-Book

Head and Neck Surgery, 3-Volume Set

By: Paul W. Flint,Bruce H. Haughey,Valerie J. Lund,K. Thomas Robbins,J. Regan Thomas,Marci M. Lesperance,Howard W. Francis

The most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary text in the field, Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, 7th Edition, provides detailed, practical answers and easily accessible clinical content on the complex issues that arise for otolaryngologists at all levels, across all subspecialties. This award-winning text is a one-stop reference for all stages of your career—from residency and board certification through the challenges faced in daily clinical practice. Updated content, new otology editor Dr. Howard W. Francis, and new chapters and videos ensure that this 7th Edition remains the definitive reference in today's otolaryngology. - Brings you up to date with the latest minimally invasive procedures, recent changes in rhinology, and new techniques and technologies that are shaping patient outcomes. - Contains 12 new chapters, including Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Facial Pain, Geriatric Otology, Middle Ear Endoscopic Surgery, Pediatric Speech Disorders, Pediatric Cochlear Implantation, Tongue-Ties and Lip Ties, Laryngotracheal Clefts, and more. - Covers recent advances and new approaches such as the Draf III procedure for CRS affecting the frontal recess, endoscopic vidian and posterior nasal neurectomy for non-allergic rhinitis, and endoscopic approaches for sinonasal and orbital tumors, both extra- and intraconal. - Provides access to 70 key indicator (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Key Indicator Procedures), and surgical videos – an increase of 43% over the previous edition. - Offers outstanding visual support with 4,000 high-quality images and hundreds of quick-reference tables and boxes. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323612172

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9780323612173

Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Twelfth Edition

By: Laurence Brunton,Bruce Chabner,Bjorn Knollman

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Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Twelfth Edition

By: Laurence Brunton,Bruce Chabner,Bjorn Knollman

The landmark text in medical pharmacology is now in full color Includes DVD with image bank A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE for 2011! 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This 12th edition of the most authoritative book in pharmacology is the best both in content and physical appearance....This edition of Goodman & Gilman's continues to be the most authoritative and widely used resource bridging the discipline of pharmacology with therapeutics. Moreover, readers will find this edition to be substantially improved from past editions in both content and physical appearance."--Doody's Review Service The most universally respected and read medical text in all of pharmacology, Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics represents the pinnacle of authority and accuracy in describing the actions and uses of therapeutic agents in relation to physiology and pathophysiology. Goodman & Gilman’s careful balance of basic science and clinical application has guided thousands of practitioners and students to a clear understanding of the drugs essential to preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease. Enriched by a new full-color presentation and updated to reflect all critical new developments in drug action and drug-disease interaction, the twelfth edition includes more than 440 color illustrations depicting key principles and actions of specific pathways and therapeutic agents. The companion DVD includes all the images and tables in the text along with narrated animations. Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12e is divided into nine sections, covering: General Principles Neuropharmacology Modulation of Cardiovascular Function Inflammation, Immunomodulation, and Hematopoiesis Endocrine Pharmacology Gastrointestinal Pharmacology Chemotherapy of Infectious Disease Chemotherapy of Neoplastic Diseases Special Systems Pharmacology More than a textbook, Goodman & Gilman's is a working template for the effective and rational prescribing of drugs in daily practice.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071624422

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9780071624428

The Frugal Globetrotter

Your Guide to World Adventure Bargains

By: Bruce Thoreau Northam

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The Frugal Globetrotter

Your Guide to World Adventure Bargains

By: Bruce Thoreau Northam

In this comprehensive budget travel resource, the author reveals how to get a lot of travel excitement for a little price with low-cost travel options available from air couriers, around-the-world airline ticket brokers, domestic and international air charters, auto driveaways, offbeat adventure travel companies, and many other resources.

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