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Alcohol and the Gastrointestinal Tract

By: Victor R. Preedy

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Alcohol and the Gastrointestinal Tract

By: Victor R. Preedy

This book covers all aspects of gastrointestinal tract problems caused by alcohol misuse. Opening chapters discuss epidemiology and the metabolism of alcohol and the liver's role in that process. Alcohol and acetaldehyde dehydrogenases, free radicals, and endocrine changes are discussed in detail. Recent advances in the pathophysiology of alcohol-induced disorders are summarized and many chapters detail techniques such as permeability and protein synthesis. Effects on specific organs, including the salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, and small intestine, are also discussed. All contributors and both editors are internationally recognized experts in their fields.

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CRC Press

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135136930X

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9781351369305

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

By: Gabriel G. Haddad,Steven H. Abman,Victor Chernick

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Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

By: Gabriel G. Haddad,Steven H. Abman,Victor Chernick

This second edition of the landmark 1991 text, Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease reviews the importance of the integrations of molecular, cellular and physiologic strategies in the development of a new understanding of pediatric respiratory disorders. It provides state-of-the-art information about fundamental mechanisms underlying ......

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PMPH-USA

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155009159X

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9781550091595

Art Nouveau

The French Aesthetic

By: Victor Arwas

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Art Nouveau

The French Aesthetic

By: Victor Arwas

Rarely has a subject been served by a book of this stature. Five years in the making, it covers all aspects of Art Nouveau in France in 624 authoritative pages and 740 illustrations. Arwas traces the evolution of the movement as it developed, primarily in Nancy and Paris, with the help of carefully chosen illustrations, many never published before. Ranging from the 1900 Paris exhibition to paintings, graphics and posters and such collecting fields as furniture, jewellery, ceramics, book bindings and sculpture, the informative, witty text ranges over architecture, haute couture, and the role of women in Art Nouveau with a particular look at such theatrical icons as Sarah Bernhardt, Loïe Fuller and the Grandes Horizontales. Destined to become the standard book on the subject, both content and design will appeal widely to the connoisseur, the specialist and the collector, as well as to the novice who will be introduced to the magical wonders of the style.

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Papadakis Publisher

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1901092372

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9781901092370

Essay on Exoticism

An Aesthetics of Diversity

By: Victor Segalen

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Essay on Exoticism

An Aesthetics of Diversity

By: Victor Segalen

DIVA series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English for the first time, anticipates the post-colonial critique of colonial theory./div

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Duke University Press

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0822328224

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Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland

Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830

By: Victor Lieberman

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Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland

Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830

By: Victor Lieberman

This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. He describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation - which was simultaneously territorial, religious, ethnic, and commercial - and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible. Here, then, is a fundamentally original analysis not only of Southeast Asia, but of the pre-modern world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139437623

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9781139437622

The Complete Shih Tzu

By: Victor Joris

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The Complete Shih Tzu

By: Victor Joris

The Shih Tzu, number one Toy dog in registrations, is thoroughly examined in this all-new book. The author traces breed history to the Chinese Court and includes superb advice on puppy raising, care, training, and unique breed aspects. Original artwork by the author highlights his in-depth research.

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Howell Books

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0876053363

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9780876053362

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

By: Victor Buchli

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An Archaeology of the Immaterial

By: Victor Buchli

An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these ‘dematerialisations’, this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised.

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Routledge

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1317502132

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9781317502135

Chaste Cinematics

By: Victor Vitanza

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Chaste Cinematics

By: Victor Vitanza

Victor J. Vitanza (author of Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing) continues to rethink the problem of sexual violence in cinema and how rape is often represented in "chaste" ways, in the form of a Chaste Cinematics. Vitanza continues to discuss Chaste Cinematics as participating in transdisciplinary-rhetorical traditions that establish the very foundations (groundings, points of stasis) for nation states and cultures. In this offering, however, the initial grounding for the discussions is "base materialism" (George Bataille): divine filth, the sacred and profane. It is this post-philosophical base materialism that destabilizes binaries, fixedness, and brings forth excluded thirds. Vitanza asks: why is it that a repressed third, or a third figure, returns, most strangely as a "product" of rape and torture? He works with Jean-Paul Sartre and Page duBois's suggestion that the "product" is a new "species." Always attempting unorthodox ways of approaching social problems, Vitanza organizes his table of contents as a DVD menu of "Extras" (supplements). This menu includes Alternate Endings and Easter Eggs as well as an Excursus, which invokes readers to take up the political exigency of the DVD-Book. Vitanza's first "Extra" studies a trio of films that need to be reconsidered, given what they offer as insights into Chaste Cinematics: Amadeus (a mad god), Henry Fool (a foolish god), and Multiple Maniacs (a divine god who is raped and eats excrement). The second examines Helke Sander's documentary Liberators Take Liberties, which re-thinks the rapes of German women by the Russians and Allies during the Battle of Berlin. The third rethinks Margie Strosser's video-film Rape Stories that calls for revenge. In the Alternate Endings, Vitanza rethinks the problem of reversibility in G. Noé's Irréversible. In the Easter Eggs, he considers Dominique Laporte's "the Irreparable," as the object of loss and Giorgio Agamben's "the Irreparable," as hope in what is without remedy. The result is not another film-studies book, but a new genre, a new set of rhetorics, for new ways of thinking about cinematics, perhaps postcinematics. Victor J. Vitanza is Professor of English and Rhetorics and is the founding Director of the Ph.D. program in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design in the College of Architecture, Art, and Humanities, at Clemson University. He is also Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy, as well as the holder of the Jean-François Lyotard Chair in the Media and Communication Division at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is the Editor of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory. His books include Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape (Palgrave, 2011), Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric (SUNY, 1997), Writing Histories of Rhetoric (Southern Illinois, 1993); and PRE/TEXT: A Retrospective (Pittsburgh, 1993).

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punctum books

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0692541551

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9780692541555

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Darryl Carter,Joel K. Greenson,Victor E. Reuter,Mark H. Stoler

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Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Darryl Carter,Joel K. Greenson,Victor E. Reuter,Mark H. Stoler

Completely updated, the Fifth Edition of this standard-setting two-volume reference presents the most advanced diagnostic techniques and the latest information on all currently known disease entities. More than 90 preeminent surgical pathologists offer expert advice on the diagnostic evaluation of every type of specimen from every anatomic site. The Fifth Edition contains over 4,400 full-color photographs. This edition provides detailed coverage of the latest developments in the field, including new molecular and immunohistochemical markers for diagnosis and prognosis of neoplasia, improved classification systems for diagnosis and prognosis, the role of pathology in new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, and the recognition of new entities or variants of entities. All full-color illustrations have been color-balanced to dramatically improve image quality.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451152892

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9781451152890

Novels of Flaubert

A Study of Themes and Techniques

By: Victor H. Brombert

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Novels of Flaubert

A Study of Themes and Techniques

By: Victor H. Brombert

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert’s art in relation to his tragic themes. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the features which contribute to Flaubert’s total vision, while respecting the integrity of each work and discussing each novel in its own terms. The vision of Flaubert emerges, showing his artistic relevance to his time and to our own. Above all, the book brings out the poetic density and beauty of Flaubert’s novels: the poetry of loss and constriction, the poetry of subjective time, the tragic poetry of frustration, and the poetry of unconquerable dreams. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400874815

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9781400874811

The Hidden Reader

Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert

By: Victor Brombert

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The Hidden Reader

Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert

By: Victor Brombert

Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson in criticism. Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism--wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic--that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves.

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Harvard University Press

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0674390121

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9780674390126

Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea

Uncovering Buried Treasures and the Value of the Benthos

By: Jose Victor Lopez

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Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea

Uncovering Buried Treasures and the Value of the Benthos

By: Jose Victor Lopez

Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea: Uncovering Buried Treasures and the Value of the Benthos examines marine benthic habitats around the world that are linked by their physical location at the bottom of the oceans. The book approaches deep sea marine biodiversity with perspectives on genetics, microbiology and evolution, weaving a narrative of vital expert linkages with the goal of protecting something that most people cannot witness or experience. It provides a full assessment of biological diversity within benthic habitats, from coral reefs to plankton and fish species, and offers global case studies. It is the ideal resource for marine conservationists and biologists aiming to expand their knowledge and efforts to the rarely seen, yet equally important, realms of the ocean and respective benthic species. As these deep-sea ecosystems and their species face unprecedented threats of destruction and extinction due to factors including climate change, this book provides the most current knowledge of this undersea world along with solutions for its conservation. - Compares and contrasts between shallow and marine habitats to reveal revolutionary connections and continuity - Analyzes modern threats and gaps in biological knowledge regarding benthic communities - Examines benthic biodiversity through vertical vs. horizontal gradients - Poses possible solutions for the conservation of benthic habitats and organisms

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Elsevier

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0128241136

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9780128241134

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

eBook without Multimedia

By: Paul Tornetta III,William M. Ricci,Robert F. Ostrum,Michael D. McKee,Benjamin J. Ollivere,Victor A. de Ridder

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Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

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By: Paul Tornetta III,William M. Ricci,Robert F. Ostrum,Michael D. McKee,Benjamin J. Ollivere,Victor A. de Ridder

Since its first edition over 60 years ago, Rockwood and Green’s Fractures in Adults has been the go-to reference for treating a wide range of fractures in adult patients. The landmark, two-volume tenth edition continues this tradition with two new international editors, a refreshed mix of contributors, and revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with today’s techniques and technologies for treating fractures in orthopaedics. Drs. Paul Tornetta III, William M. Ricci, Robert F. Ostrum, Michael D. McKee, Benjamin J. Ollivere, and Victor A. de Ridder lead a team of experts who ensure that the most up-to-date information is presented in a comprehensive yet easy to digest manner.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975211618

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9781975211615

Last Times

By: Victor Serge

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Last Times

By: Victor Serge

A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France. Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris in June 1940 and joined the chaotic mass exodus south to the unoccupied zone on foot with nothing but his manuscripts. He found himself trapped in Marseille under the Vichy government, a persecuted, stateless Russian, and participated in the early French Resistance before escaping on the last ship to the Americas in 1941. Exiled in Mexico City, Serge poured his recent experience into a fast-moving, gripping novel aimed at an American audience. The book begins in a near-deserted Paris abandoned by the government, the suburbs already noisy with gunfire. Serge’s anti-fascist protagonists join the flood of refugees fleeing south on foot, in cars loaded with household goods, on bikes, pushing carts and prams under the strafing Stukas, and finally make their way to wartime Marseille. Last Times offers a vivid eyewitness account of the city’s criminal underground and no less criminal Vichy authorities, of collaborators and of the growing resistance, of crowds of desperate refugees competing for the last visa and the last berth on the last—hoped-for—ship to the New World.

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New York Review of Books

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1681375141

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Alcohol and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Alcohol and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Essay on Exoticism

Essay on Exoticism

Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland

Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland

The Complete Shih Tzu

The Complete Shih Tzu

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

An Archaeology of the Immaterial

Chaste Cinematics

Chaste Cinematics

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

Novels of Flaubert

Novels of Flaubert

The Hidden Reader

The Hidden Reader

Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea

Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

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