Expressing the passion felt for the Mets using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the New York team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous characters in the baseball team's history, including Carlos Beltran, Yogi Berra, Sid Fernandez, Keith Hernandez, Al Leiter, Lindsey Nelson, Mike Piazza, Jose Reyes, Johan Santana, Darryl Strawberry, and Bobby Valentine.
Expressing the passion felt for the Bulldogs using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Georgia football team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in Georgia history, including Champ Bailey, Vince Dooley, Garrison Hearst, Knowshon Moreno, David Pollack, Frankie Sinkwich, Fran Tarkenton, and Herschel Walker.
Expressing the passion felt for basketball using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the sport explores the hardwood heroes in a fresh and fun way. Readers will enjoy fun facts about NBA superstars past and present, including LeBron, Kobe, Jordan, and Magic, seemingly doing the impossible on the court.
Expressing the passion felt for the Buckeyes using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Ohio State football team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in Ohio State history, including Hopalong Cassady, Eddie George, Archie Griffin, Woody Hayes, Troy Smith, Chris Spielman, Jack Tatum, and Jim Tressel.
Expressing the passion felt for the Red Sox using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Boston team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in the baseball team's history.
Expressing the passion felt for golf using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the sport explores immortal icons in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous names in golf history, including Jimmy Demaret, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Vijay Singh, Sam Snead, Lee Trevino, and Tiger Woods.
Expressing the passion felt for the Packers using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Green Bay team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in the football team's history, including Donald Driver, Brett Favre, Paul Hornung, Curly Lambeau, Vince Lombardi, Ray Nitschke, Bart Starr, and Reggie White.
Expressing the passion felt for the Tigers using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Detroit team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in the baseball team's history, including George Anderson, Ty Cobb, Bill Freehan, "Hammerin' Hank" Greenberg, Ernie Harwell, Harry Heilmann, Al Kaline, Mickey Lolich, Magglio Ordonez, and George Quellich.
Fred Klein is a special kind of writer. George Will has called his column, "On Sports", a "refreshing oasis" in The Wall Street Journal, where it appears regularly. His followers find in his writing an enjoyably different view of the oft-treated subjects he covers. In his new volume of selected columns, Klein gives readers short bursts of lively commentary on baseball, horse racing, tennis, golf and other favorite pastimes.
This long-awaited second edition of Manic-Depressive Illness will exhaustively review the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years, and incorporate cutting-edge research conducted since publication of the first edition. Drs. Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison have updated their surveys of psychological and epidemiological evidence, as well as that pertaining to diagnostic issues, course, and outcome, and they offer practical guidelines for differential diagnosis and clinical management. This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, neuroscientists, pharmacologists, and the patients and families who live with manic-depressive illness.
Klein and Anderson team up to create a perfect vehicle to introduce fans of all ages to the history and celebrated legends of baseball. Each letter of the alphabet is designated to at least one baseball immortal. Full color.
Gene therapy was conceived during the early and mid part of the 20th century. At first, it was considered a revolutionary biomedical procedure, which could potentially cure any disease for which the molecular bases were understood. Since then, gene therapy has gone through many stages and has evolved from a nearly unrealistic perspective to a real life application. Clinical efficacy in humans was demonstrated at the beginning of this century after its successful application in small-scale clinical trials to cure severe immunodeficiency in children. However, their successes were overshadowed some time later by the occurrence of vector-related leukaemia in a number of treated children. It is in this context that lentiviral vectors have appeared, with improved efficiency and, possibly, increased biosafety. Very recently, the first clinical trials with lentivectors have been carried out with some success. This Brief firstly defines gene therapy, and places lentivectors within this fascinating therapeutic strategy. Then follows a comprehensive description of the development of retroviral and lentiviral vectors and how to specifically target distinct cell types and tissues. The authors also discuss the application of lentivector gene therapy for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, ending with the application of lentivectors in human gene therapy clinical trials.
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