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A Language of Our Own

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis

By: Peter Bakker

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A Language of Our Own

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis

By: Peter Bakker

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.

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Oxford University Press

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0195357086

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9780195357080

Pathology of the Human Placenta

By: Kurt Benirschke,Peter Kaufmann

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Pathology of the Human Placenta

By: Kurt Benirschke,Peter Kaufmann

This is a completely new, second edition of the classic reference which has been out of print since 1984. It is the most comprehensive work available on placental pathology, which has recently gained importance in clinical medicine, and includes discussion of legal aspects dealing with the relation between placenta and perinatal damage.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475741936

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9781475741933

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

By: Peter W. Hawkes

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Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

By: Peter W. Hawkes

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.

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Elsevier

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0080462839

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My New Orleans, Gone Away

A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

By: Peter M. Wolf

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My New Orleans, Gone Away

A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

By: Peter M. Wolf

Written with humor and telling detail, My New Orleans contains rare insight about the social structure of New Orleans; student life at Exeter, Tulane and Yale; the thrill of original scholarship; around the world travel before jets; medical school trauma; ingrained southern racism, and anti-Semitism; and American students’ role in anti-Vietnam uprisings in Paris. In the background, he traces the rags to riches rise and fall of his city’s and his family’s engagement in the cotton, sugar and retail trades. After a year of medical school at Columbia, and continuing his journey of self-discovery, Wolf returns to New Orleans to work in his father’s cotton brokerage and simultaneously earns a master’s degree at Tulane. In spite of a spicy love affair, his residence in a glorious French Quarter courtyard, his purchase of a dilapidated building he expects to restore, and growing prominence in his community, Wolf returns to the east. He completes doctoral studies at NYU and becomes an architectural historian, a profession in which he earns considerable prominence. The author’s complicated and achingly explored romantic life is slammed to a close by a saucy, waspy, ex-pat from Texas whom he meets in Paris during his year as a Fulbright scholar, and subsequently marries. Reflecting the yearnings and anxieties of a generation that came of age after World War II, this is the iconic journey of a restless man who leaves the hometown he loves to discover the world, and in so doing, to find himself. My New Orleans offers a penetrating and memorable account of a fading period of America’s evolution, turbulence and possibilities, as unique as the city of Wolf’s memory.

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Delphinium Books

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1480413453

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Disordered Mind and Brain

The Neural Basis of Mental Symptoms

By: Peter F. Liddle

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Disordered Mind and Brain

The Neural Basis of Mental Symptoms

By: Peter F. Liddle

Draws on evidence from neuroimaging studies, together with evidence from the fields of neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, electrophysiology, neurochemistry and pharmacology, to generate a coherent and plausible account of cerebral processes by which mental symptoms are generated.

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RCPsych Publications

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190124265X

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A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

By: Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus

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A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

By: Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198025750

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The Fovea

Structure, Function, Development, and Tractional Disorders

By: Andreas Bringmann,Peter Wiedemann

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The Fovea

Structure, Function, Development, and Tractional Disorders

By: Andreas Bringmann,Peter Wiedemann

The Fovea: Structure, Function, Development, and Disease summarizes the current biological knowledge regarding the two types of the vertebrate fovea (and its main structural elements, the Müller cells). This information is then used to explain different aspects of human vision, foveal development, and macular disorders. Sections give an overview of the retinal structure and the different types of retinal glia, survey the structure and function of the primate and non-mammalian fovea types, discuss foveal development—with a focus on the human fovea, cover the roles of Müller cells and astrocytes in the pathogenesis and regeneration of various human macular disorders are described. Using a translational approach, this reference is a valuable text for scientists, clinicians and physicians interested in the fovea. Readers will gain a new understanding of the cellular basics of the fovea, which is the most important part of the eye. - Adopts a translational approach, summarizing the biological knowledge regarding the structure and function of the fovea, the roles of Müller cells in mediating the structural integrity, and function of the fovea - Provides overviews of both basic types of the vertebrate fovea, countering the popular belief that there is only one type of the vertebrate fovea, the human fovea - Thoroughly shows the mechanisms involved in the development of the fovea that explain the rapid improvement of visual acuity in newborns - Explains pathological changes in the foveal structure and function with evaluation pointing toward possible prevention and/or cure

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Academic Press

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0323904688

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9780323904681

Compendium of Surface Microscopic and Dermoscopic Features

By: Volker Paech,Hans Schulz,Zsolt Argenyi,Thilo Gambichler,Peter Altmeyer

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Compendium of Surface Microscopic and Dermoscopic Features

By: Volker Paech,Hans Schulz,Zsolt Argenyi,Thilo Gambichler,Peter Altmeyer

New technological approaches in dermatologic diagnostics, such as surface microscopy and dermoscopy, are continuously advancing. Anatomical structures can be viewed like never before. Through these new techniques the necessity of a new terminology and a new set of dermoscopic criteria has come up. So far, many different and sometimes confusing terms have been used in designating these microscopic features. However, the daily challenge physicians face when evaluating skin lesions acquires immediate access to the current dermoscopic nomenclature and definition. This unique guide provides a comprehensive, current, and accurate A-Z encyclopaedia to clarify the meaning of surface microscopic and dermoscopic terminology including a broad range of both melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin lesions. It will support dermatologists, histopathologists and all other physicians in charge of a biopsy and excision decision.

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150

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540789731

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9783540789734

Introduction to the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Margaret Knowles,Peter Selby

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Introduction to the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Margaret Knowles,Peter Selby

This title includes the following features: Great breadth of coverage inone volume: covers all aspects of cancer, in a concise and affordable format;Provides a comprehensive introduction to the initiation, development, andtreatment of cancer; Chapter are written by experts in each field, giving astate-of-the-art summary of each topic; Extensive references provide links toall the relevant literature, facilitating further study

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Oxford University Press

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0198568533

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Binary Species of Silicon and Fluorine

By: Friedrich Schröder,Edwin Hengge,Robert Schlögl,Claudia Heinrich-Sterzel,Peter Merlet,Jörn v. Jouanne,Hans Schäfer,Alfred Pebler,Sigrid Ruprecht,Dag Schiöberg,Joachim Wagner

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Binary Species of Silicon and Fluorine

By: Friedrich Schröder,Edwin Hengge,Robert Schlögl,Claudia Heinrich-Sterzel,Peter Merlet,Jörn v. Jouanne,Hans Schäfer,Alfred Pebler,Sigrid Ruprecht,Dag Schiöberg,Joachim Wagner

The volume is concerned exclusively with all the binary species formed between the elements silicon and fluorine such as SiF, SiF2, SiF3, SiF4, and Sif62-. Most of the volume, i.e. 144 pages, is devoted to the description of the well known physical and chemical properties of the SiF4 as well as to its preparation. This is followed in length by the report on SiF2 with its interesting chemistry, along with a section on the diatomic radical SiF. Species with fivefold and sixfold coordination of silicon are exemplified by SiF5- and by the well known SiF62-. Interestingly, the detailed models for describing the bonding situation in both ions are still a matter of discussion. While for Si2F6 most of the basic data are known, information on the chemical and physical properties of the higher members of the acylic perfluorosilanes, SinF2n+2, is scarce. All available information on the unstable cyclic perfluorosilanes of composition (SiF2)n and some even more exotic species is also included.

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Springer

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3540936513

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9783540936510

The Talisman

A Novel

By: Stephen King,Peter Straub

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The Talisman

A Novel

By: Stephen King,Peter Straub

Originally published: New York: Viking, 1984.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451694911

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9781451694918

The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux

A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots

By: Peter M. Wolf

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The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux

A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots

By: Peter M. Wolf

“A remarkable, vivid, and meticulously researched story about an unjustly forgotten major figure of the nineteenth century.” - Nicholas B. Lemann “It’s more than a bio. It’s a way to understand Jewishness, the South, and America.” - Walter Isaacson “Peter Wolf’s The Sugar King is an absorbing ancestral journey.” - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Peter M. Wolf unearths Southern Jewish history in a major new work, with a foreword by Calvin Trillin. A penniless, illiterate, Jewish thirteen-year-old from France crosses the Atlantic alone. Landing in raucous and polyglot New Orleans in 1837, the third largest city in America, he starts out as a peddler of notions to plantations along the Mississippi. He remains unable to read or to write in English or in French his entire life. Nevertheless, by the end of his intrigue-filled life, Leon Godchaux is known as the “Sugar King of Louisiana,” the owner of fourteen plantations, the largest sugar producer in the region and the top taxpayer in the state. He refuses to enter the sugar business until the end of slavery. Unsympathetic to the Lost Cause, caught up in the Civil War, and negotiating Reconstruction and Jim Crow, Godchaux simultaneously builds an esteemed New Orleans clothing empire. Godchaux relies on the accomplishments of two Black men. Joachim Tassin, a slave whose birth status both men conceal, is entwined with Leon Godchaux in his clothing business, and Norbert Rillieux is a free man of color whose overlooked ingenious invention enables Godchaux to build his sugar empire.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669829294

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9781669829294

Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

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Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444359258

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9781444359251

My New Orleans, Gone Away

A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

By: Peter M. Wolf

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My New Orleans, Gone Away

A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

By: Peter M. Wolf

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Delphinium Books

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1480413453

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The East German Leadership, 1946-73

Conflict and Crisis

By: Peter Grieder

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The East German Leadership, 1946-73

Conflict and Crisis

By: Peter Grieder

Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. In this volume Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist through both ethnic and feminist discourses, investigating her novels, occasional writings and her two-book 'life-writing project'.The publication of The Woman Warrior not only propelled Kingston into the mainstream literary limelight, but also precipitated a vicious and ongoing controversy in Asian American letters over the authenticity -- or fakery -- of her cultural references. Grice traces the debates through the appearance of China Men (1981), as well as the novels, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and her most recent work, The Fifth Book of Peace.Maxine Hong Kingston will be of value to students and academics researching in the areas of diaspora writing, contemporary American and Asian- Amercianfiction, as well as feminist and postcolonial literature.

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Manchester University Press

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0719054982

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9780719054983

Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics

A Practical Approach to High Power and Single Mode Devices

By: Peter W. Epperlein

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Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics

A Practical Approach to High Power and Single Mode Devices

By: Peter W. Epperlein

This reference book provides a fully integrated novel approach to the development of high-power, single-transverse mode, edge-emitting diode lasers by addressing the complementary topics of device engineering, reliability engineering and device diagnostics in the same book, and thus closes the gap in the current book literature. Diode laser fundamentals are discussed, followed by an elaborate discussion of problem-oriented design guidelines and techniques, and by a systematic treatment of the origins of laser degradation and a thorough exploration of the engineering means to enhance the optical strength of the laser. Stability criteria of critical laser characteristics and key laser robustness factors are discussed along with clear design considerations in the context of reliability engineering approaches and models, and typical programs for reliability tests and laser product qualifications. Novel, advanced diagnostic methods are reviewed to discuss, for the first time in detail in book literature, performance- and reliability-impacting factors such as temperature, stress and material instabilities. Further key features include: practical design guidelines that consider also reliability related effects, key laser robustness factors, basic laser fabrication and packaging issues; detailed discussion of diagnostic investigations of diode lasers, the fundamentals of the applied approaches and techniques, many of them pioneered by the author to be fit-for-purpose and novel in the application; systematic insight into laser degradation modes such as catastrophic optical damage, and a wide range of technologies to increase the optical strength of diode lasers; coverage of basic concepts and techniques of laser reliability engineering with details on a standard commercial high power laser reliability test program. Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics reflects the extensive expertise of the author in the diode laser field both as a top scientific researcher as well as a key developer of high-power highly reliable devices. With invaluable practical advice, this new reference book is suited to practising researchers in diode laser technologies, and to postgraduate engineering students.

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1118481860

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9781118481868

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A Language of Our Own

A Language of Our Own

Pathology of the Human Placenta

Pathology of the Human Placenta

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

My New Orleans, Gone Away

My New Orleans, Gone Away

Disordered Mind and Brain

Disordered Mind and Brain

A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

The Fovea

The Fovea

Compendium of Surface Microscopic and Dermoscopic Features

Compendium of Surface Microscopic and Dermoscopic Features

Introduction to the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer

Introduction to the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer

Binary Species of Silicon and Fluorine

Binary Species of Silicon and Fluorine

The Talisman

The Talisman

The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux

The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux

Stroke

Stroke

My New Orleans, Gone Away

My New Orleans, Gone Away

The East German Leadership, 1946-73

The East German Leadership, 1946-73

Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics

Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics

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