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Grant Speaks

By: Ev Ehrlich

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Whether putting Generals Burnside, Hooker, and Robert E. Lee in their place, or listening to foul-mouthed General Sherman, Hiram Ulysses S. 'Useless' Grant offers an amusingly warped perspective on the Civil War.

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0759523444

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The Geography of Survival

Ecology in the Post-Soviet Era

By: Ze'ev Wolfson

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The Geography of Survival

Ecology in the Post-Soviet Era

By: Ze'ev Wolfson

In 1989 a Soviet environmental expert writer under the pseudonym Boris Komarov startled the world. His book "The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union", was both a chilling description of the environmental devastation in the Soviet Union and an indictment of the official policy and public apathy that allows it to be perpetuated. Today Boris Komarov writes freely under his own name - Ze'ev Wolfson. But the ecological crisis he documents has only become more severe, more widespread, more deadly. In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out in unmistakable terms about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.

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Routledge

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1317456688

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9781317456681

Evo-Devo of Child Growth

Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution

By: Ze'ev Hochberg

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Evo-Devo of Child Growth

Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution

By: Ze'ev Hochberg

Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal development to preadulthood. Based on the author's in-depth review of the current literature and his own observations as a pediatric endocrinologist, the book demonstrates how the transitions between human life history phases represent unique periods of evolutionary adaptive response to the environment. In addition, the author explains why an understanding of these transition periods enables us to better understand the sequence and mechanisms of child growth as well as to better diagnose child growth disorders. Logically organized and clearly written, Evo-Devo of Child Growth: Sets a solid foundation of principles such as evolutionary thinking in medicine and child growth, life history theory, and heterochrony and allometry Examines the relationship between child growth and the theory of life history Applies evo-devo theory to fetal growth, infancy, childhood, juvenility, adolescence, and preadulthood Explores the trade-offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity during transition periods Explains the role of life history theory in understanding and diagnosing growth disorders such as Down syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and Silver-Russell syndrome In addition to the author's own analysis and observations, this book also features notes from leading clinicians and evolutionary biologists, offering additional perspectives on the relationship between evo-devo and child growth and development. Evo-Devo of Child Growth provides a new perspective for evolutionary biologists to understand the phases and transitions of child growth. Moreover, it offers a new approach to help clinicians to better understand and diagnose a broad range of child growth disorders.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118156145

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Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men

Inside the New Israel

By: Zeʼev Chafets,Ze'ev Chafets

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Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men

Inside the New Israel

By: Zeʼev Chafets,Ze'ev Chafets

Widely acclaimed, Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men is a penetrating iconoclastic, and often hilarious report on the place author Ze'ev Chafets calls "a good country in a bad neighborhood".

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William Morrow

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0688072941

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Superoxide Ion: Volume II (1991)

Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

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Superoxide Ion: Volume II (1991)

Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

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CRC Press

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1351357441

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Superoxide Ion

Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

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Superoxide Ion

Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

The chemical properties of superoxide ion, its biological role, and the role of other oxygen radicals which arise as a result of its transformations are contained in this text. In Volume I the principal reactions of superoxide ion, including protonation reactions with proton donors, nucleophilic reactions with esters, alkyl halides and other compounds, electron transfer reactions with quinones and metal complexes, are described. Basic quantitative data including rate constants and yields for the reactions of superoxide ion of all types are given in tables. This volumecontains the mechanisms of the generation of oxygen radicals in cells and the interaction of superoxide ion with cell components. The role of superoxide ion in lipid peroxidation and destruction of proteins and nucleic acids is explained, as well as oxygen radicals in the mechanisms of toxic and therapeutic action of drugs, especially anticancer antibiotics. In addition, the action of superoxide ion and other oxygen radicals on plants, micro-, and macroorganisms is discussed, along with the role of oxygen radicals in normal metabolic and pathological processes.

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CRC Press

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0849354528

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Interferon

Theory and Applications

By: V. Solov'ev

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Interferon

Theory and Applications

By: V. Solov'ev

Interferon has been and continues to be one of the more fas cinating substances produced by apparently all animals in response to particular stimuli. It has led to major revisions in concepts of cellular immunity and theories on the recovery of multicellular systems from viral infection. Since its discovery, interferon has held the interest of the molecular biologist, and definitive answers as to its clinical value are close at hand. The following treatise is an attempt by the authors to pre sent a complete picture of the many aspects of interferon. Having recently had the privilege of visiting the laboratories of the au thors and several others of our Soviet colleagues working in the interferon field, I was most impressed with the amount of research being done in this area. Since a great deal of this work is published in the Russian language, there is unfortunately a time lag until it can be received and translated. We are therefore most grateful to Drs. Solov'ev and Bektemirov for having produced this impres sive work which offers the opportunity to review the entire field and, very importantly, some of the work being done by our Soviet counterparts, and also to Plenum Publishing Corporation for pro viding the English translation. Work on the mechanism of interferon induction, the relative role of the cellular constituents, and work in cell-free systems and the molecular mechanism of the antiviral action of interferon continues to excite scientists in the field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468420313

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Israel's Lebanon War

By: Zeev Schiff,Ze'ev schiff/ehud ya'ari,Ehud Yaari

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Israel's Lebanon War

By: Zeev Schiff,Ze'ev schiff/ehud ya'ari,Ehud Yaari

From Simon & Schuster, Israel's Lebanon War is the first and only complete inside account of a disastrous military adventure and its ongoing consequences. A detailed narrative by two Israeli journalists on the origins, conduct, and political repercussions of the Lebanon war, based on previously unreleased documents and interviews with high officials.

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0671602160

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Einstein Before Israel

Zionist Icon or Iconoclast?

By: Ze’ev Rosenkranz

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Einstein Before Israel

Zionist Icon or Iconoclast?

By: Ze’ev Rosenkranz

Was Einstein a Zionist? Albert Einstein was initially skeptical and even disdainful of the Zionist movement, yet he affiliated himself with this controversial political ideology and today is widely seen as an outspoken advocate for a modern Jewish homeland in Palestine. What enticed this renowned scientist and humanitarian, who repeatedly condemned nationalism of all forms, to radically change his views? Was he in fact a Zionist? Einstein Before Israel traces Einstein's involvement with Zionism from his initial contacts with the movement at the end of World War I to his emigration from Germany in 1933 in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence—much of it never before published—this book offers the most nuanced picture yet of Einstein's complex and sometimes stormy relationship with Jewish nationalism. Ze'ev Rosenkranz sheds new light on Einstein's encounters with prominent Zionist leaders, and reveals exactly what Einstein did and didn't like about Zionist beliefs, objectives, and methods. He looks at the personal, cultural, and political factors that led Einstein to support certain goals of Jewish nationalism; his role in the birth of the Hebrew University; his impressions of the emerging Jewish settlements in Palestine; and his reaction to mounting violence in the Arab-Jewish conflict. Rosenkranz explores a host of fascinating questions, such as whether Zionists sought to silence Einstein's criticism of their movement, whether Einstein was the real manipulator, and whether this Zionist icon was indeed a committed believer in Zionism or an iconoclast beholden to no one.

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Princeton University Press

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1400838371

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Acetylcholine

An Approach to the Molecular Mechanism of Action

By: M. J. Michelson,E. V. Zeimal

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Acetylcholine

An Approach to the Molecular Mechanism of Action

By: M. J. Michelson,E. V. Zeimal

Acetylcholine: An Approach to the Molecular Mechanism of Action is an in-depth study of neurotransmitter system, with much focus on acetylcholine and its action and the cholinergic synapse. The book, divided into seven chapters, covers the following topics: the function of the cholinergic synapse; the movement of ions across membranes; the excitatory postsynaptic potential; the nature of cholinoreceptors and cholinesterases; the structure of its active centers; and the pattern of arrangement of the receptors of the cholinoreceptive membrane. The book also covers the quantitative evaluation of the action of neurotransmitters; the reactive capacity of the acetylcholine molecule and its effects on nerve endings and nerve fibers; and the release of mediators and hormones. The text is recommended for those who specialize in the fields of biology, medicine, biochemistry, and pharmacology, especially those wish to study about the neurotransmitter system, cholinoreceptors, the cholinergic synapse, the acetylcholine, and its action.

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Elsevier

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148314545X

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Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin

A Chemist’s Biography

By: N.A. Figurovskii,Yu.I. Solov'ev

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Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin

A Chemist’s Biography

By: N.A. Figurovskii,Yu.I. Solov'ev

A full century has passed since the sudden and tragically premature demise of Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin in 1887 at the age of 53, when he was following with phenomenal success the disparate careers of musician, composer, organic chemist, and pioneer in women's medical education. As a unique figure among the remarkable group of geniuses who suddenly appeared in Russia in the middle of the last century and explosively propelled that country into the mainstream of world culture in the arts, humanities, and sciences, it might have been expected that Borodin was the object of much research. There is no doubt that the Russian contribution to the amazing development of structural chemistry in the last century has tended to be underplayed, while that in the rest of Europe has received much more attention. One wonders, in particular, whether Borodin's name might not have appeared in the chemical pantheon, as have those of Mendeleev, Markovnikov, Menshutkin, and many other Russians, if the aldol condensation, which he was the first to discover and investigate, had been named the Borodin condensation. Straightening out the record is important; Figurovskii and Solov'ev's biography does much in this respect. Just as meritorious have been the scholarly and exhaustive efforts of Professors Charlene Steinberg and George B. Kauffman, who have made the Russian text accessible to the Western world in their accurate and engrossing translation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642727328

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The Einstein Scrapbook

By: Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Kurator.)

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The Einstein Scrapbook

By: Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Kurator.)

Provides an inside look at the life and mind of the great physicist and his scientific theories, as well as his role in the international peace movement and his views on such topics as social justice, the state of Israel, and music.

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JHU Press

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0801872030

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Variational Methods for Boundary Value Problems for Systems of Elliptic Equations

By: M. A. Lavrent’ev

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Variational Methods for Boundary Value Problems for Systems of Elliptic Equations

By: M. A. Lavrent’ev

Famous monograph by a distinguished mathematician presents an innovative approach to classical boundary value problems. The treatment employs the basic scheme first suggested by Hilbert and developed by Tonnelli. 1963 edition.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486160289

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Signaling Mechanisms of Oxygen and Nitrogen Free Radicals

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

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Signaling Mechanisms of Oxygen and Nitrogen Free Radicals

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

Once the existence of free radicals was proven, an avalanche of studies on free radical-mediated biological processes ensued. The study of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) is center stage in biological free radical investigations. Written by a biochemist, Signaling Mechanisms of Oxygen and Nitrogen Free Radicals discusses the regu

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1420073753

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Superoxide Ion Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

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Superoxide Ion Chemistry and Biological Implications

By: Igor B. Afanas'ev

The chemical properties of superoxide ion, its biological role, and the role of other oxygen radicals which arise as a result of its transformations are contained in this text. In Volume I the principal reactions of superoxide ion, including protonation reactions with proton donors, nucleophilic reactions with esters, alkyl halides and other compounds, electron transfer reactions with quinones and metal complexes, are described. Basic quantitative data including rate constants and yields for the reactions of superoxide ion of all types are given in tables. This volume contains the mechanisms of the generation of oxygen radicals in cells and the interaction of superoxide ion with cell components. The role of superoxide ion in lipid peroxidation and destruction of proteins and nucleic acids is explained, as well as oxygen radicals in the mechanisms of toxic and therapeutic action of drugs, especially anticancer antibiotics. In addition, the action of superoxide ion and other oxygen radicals on plants, micro-, and macroorganisms is discussed, along with the role of oxygen radicals in normal metabolic and pathological processes.

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