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Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

By: Donald J. McGraw

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Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

By: Donald J. McGraw

National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency because it supports scientific research financially, but does not engage in scientific work itself. Its history is known only in part because the NSF is a vibrant, expanding, and living entity that makes the final telling of its story impossible. Much can be learned from its beginning as well as its component parts. If the founding of the NSF in 1950 was couched in an era of physics, especially atomic physics, certainly by the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, biology was, and remains, the queen of sciences for the predictable future. This book highlights the elite status of America’s biological sciences as they were funded, affected, and, to a very real degree, interactively guided by the NSF. It examines important events in the earlier history of the Foundation because they play strongly upon the development of the various biology directorates. Issues such as education, applied research, medical science, the National Institutes of Health, the beginnings of biotechnology, and other matters are also discussed.

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Springer Nature

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3030563677

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The Red Sox Before the Babe

Boston's Early Days in the American League, 1901-1914

By: Donald Hubbard

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The Red Sox Before the Babe

Boston's Early Days in the American League, 1901-1914

By: Donald Hubbard

Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Though Ruth was a star pitcher in Boston, he was merely continuing a 14-year tradition of the club's strong arms and bats. With rosters that included Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Jesse Burkett, Jack Chesbro, Big Bill Dinneen, Smoky Joe Wood and Tris Speaker, among others, the young franchise powered its way to three pennants and a couple of world championships before Babe arrived in Beantown. This book covers the team's early years from the diamond to the executive offices.

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McFarland

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0786454636

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9780786454631

Schism

By: Donald J. McGraw

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Schism

By: Donald J. McGraw

Early 21st century America simmers with colliding ideologies, torn between nostalgia for a romanticized past and yearning for an impossible risk-free future. When such disparate values clash, eruptions lay bare our deepest divisions and resentments, triggering uncontrolled hostility. Utopian visions devolve into vehicles for personal vendettas and blood feuds, capable of cascading into uncontainable turmoil. This provocative character study peers into modern America’s soul, chronicling the relentless unravelling of societal fabric against gathering storms. Is stability mere illusion when all moorings have been severed?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035852500

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9781035852505

Baseball America

By: Donald Honig

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Baseball America

By: Donald Honig

From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure.

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Simon and Schuster

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074322275X

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9780743222754

Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

By: Donald Fink,H. Wayne Beaty

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Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

By: Donald Fink,H. Wayne Beaty

The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers has served the EE field for nearly a century. Originally published in 1907, through 14 previous editions it has been a required resource for students and professionals. This new 15th edition features new material focusing on power generation and power systems operation – two longstanding strengths of the handbook that have recently become front-burner technology issues. At the same time, the entire format of the handbook will be streamlined, removing archaic sections and providing a quick, easy look-up experience.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071441468

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Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

By: Donald G. Stein,Bernhard A. Sabel

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Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

By: Donald G. Stein,Bernhard A. Sabel

Although there are over 400,000 people each year in the United States alone who suffer from traumatic injury to the central nervous system (CNS), no phar macological treatment is currently available. Considering the enormity of the problem in terms of human tragedy as well as the economic burden to families and societies alike, it is surprising that so little effort is being made to develop treatments for these disorders. Although no one can become inured to the victims of brain or spinal cord injuries, one reason that insufficient time and effort have been devoted to research on recovery is that it is a generally held medical belief that nervous system injuries are simply not amenable to treatment. At best, current therapies are aimed at providing symptomatic relief or focus on re habilitative measures and the teaching of alternative behavioral strategies to help patients cope with their impairments, with only marginal results in many cases. Only within the last decade have neuroscientists begun to make serious inroads into understanding and examining the inherent "plasticity" found in the adult CNS. Ten years or so ago, very few researchers or clinicians would have thought that damaged central neurons could sprout new terminals or that intact nerve fibers in a damaged pathway could proliferate to replace inputs from neurons that died as a result of injury.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461309271

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9781461309277

Ring Lardner

A Biography

By: Donald Elder

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Ring Lardner

A Biography

By: Donald Elder

This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner’s whole world—the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter. At the height of Lardner’s fame in the middle twenties he was known simultaneously as a baseball reporter unlike any the world had ever seen; a newspaper columnist part gadfly and part reporting etymologist; a writer of short stories as rich in native, idiom as they were polished in execution; and as a humorist who deplored the telling of “stories” as such. Whenever anyone said. “Stop me if you’ve heard this one, “Ring would never hesitate to say, “Stop.” Lardner spent an idyllic if somewhat unorthodox youth as the youngest among nine children—(at sixteen he knew how to say “Ich war ein und zwanzig Jahre alt,” to a gullible German-speaking local bartender). Mr. Elder chronicles the Lardner career from the earliest years through the sports-writing days in Chicago, his marriage and love of home life, and the continued flowering of his literary talents. Then comes the pathetic decrescendo in which he fought his appetite for liquor, tried to beat TB, and finally died at the age of 48, in 1933. Mr. Elder, who grew up in Ring Lardner's hometown, has included liberal selections from Lardner's writing all through the book, and there is a complete listing of all his published work at the end. Four years of meticulous research went into the writing of this valuable and entertaining appreciation of Ring Lardner's career. “A fine biography of Ring Lardner”—Kirkus Review

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789121701

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Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

By: Donald J. McGraw

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Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

The Red Sox Before the Babe

The Red Sox Before the Babe

Schism

Schism

Baseball America

Baseball America

Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner

Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005

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