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Managing Health in the Genomic Era

A Guide to Family Health History and Disease Risk

By: Vincent Henrich,Lori A. Orlando,Brian H. Shirts

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Managing Health in the Genomic Era

A Guide to Family Health History and Disease Risk

By: Vincent Henrich,Lori A. Orlando,Brian H. Shirts

In Managing Health in the Genomic Era: A Guide to Family Health History and Disease Risk, Drs. Vincent C. Henrich, Lori A. Orlando, and Brian H. Shirts discuss the practical considerations surrounding the use of genomic and genetic tests to manage patient health, to provide adult disease risk assessment, to improve diagnosis, and to support effective interventions and treatment. In 10 chapters, evidence-based information and case studies are described and examine the central place of family health history (FHH) in genomic medicine, tools and strategies for compiling and analyzing family health history, how to identify existing and novel genetic markers, how to identify lineage specific (or rare) variants within families, and how to find effective interventions based on genetic testing results and FHH. Factors that influence clinical practice, including gene-environment interactions, FHH social networking, direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing and data sharing, algorithms for analyzing genetic data, and patient counseling are discussed from the standpoint of clinical practice. Here, frontline healthcare providers will discover succinct commentary and key examples to assist with their local needs. Relevant principles of genetic biology and inheritance are explored and guidance on available support networks and online resources is also provided. - 2021 PROSE Awards - Winner: Category: Clinical Medicine: Association of American Publishers - Presents a practical, accessible resource for primary care providers, allied health professionals, pharmacologists, public health professionals, students and clinical researchers - Addresses genetic and genomic approaches in managing patient health, conducting and analyzing family health histories, and assessing adult disease risk - Features an expert author team with direct experience integrating genetics and genomics in primary care and family medicine settings - Examines the attributes and limitations of family health history, genetic testing, and genomic testing in clinical practice - Includes detailed explanations following practice-based examples

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Academic Press

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0128160160

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The Politics of the Past in Early China

By: Vincent S. Leung

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The Politics of the Past in Early China

By: Vincent S. Leung

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108425720

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The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949

A Social History of Urban Clerics

By: Vincent Goossaert

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The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949

A Social History of Urban Clerics

By: Vincent Goossaert

By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernization. The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Although almost forgotten, they were all major actors in urban religious and cultural life. The clerics at the heart of this study spent their time training disciples, practicing and teaching self-cultivation, performing rituals, and managing temples. Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ascetics, but active participants in the religious economy of the city. In exploring exactly what their crucial role was, he addresses the day-to-day life of modern Chinese religion from the perspective of ordinary religious specialists. This approach highlights the social processes, institutions, and networks that transmit religious knowledge and mediate between prestigious religious traditions and the people in the street. In modern Chinese religion, the Taoists are such key actors. Without them, ""Taoist ritual"" and ""Taoist self-cultivation"" are just empty words.

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BRILL

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1684174546

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Encyclopedia of Television Shows

A Comprehensive Supplement, 2011-2016

By: Vincent Terrace

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Encyclopedia of Television Shows

A Comprehensive Supplement, 2011-2016

By: Vincent Terrace

This is a supplement to the author's Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010. It covers 1,612 series broadcast between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2016. Major networks--ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and NBC--are covered along with many cable channels, such as AMC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Bravo, Lifetime, Discovery, TNT, Comedy Central and History Channel. Alphabetical entries provide storylines, casts, networks and running dates. A performer index is included.

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McFarland

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1476630941

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Colon and Other Gastrointestinal Cancers

Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Colon and Other Gastrointestinal Cancers

Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Selected from the world’s leading comprehensive cancer textbook, this tightly focused resource provides you with the practical, cutting-edge information you need to provide the best cancer care to each patient. Colon and Other Gastrointestinal Cancers: Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th Edition, offers a comprehensive and balanced view of this rapidly changing field, meeting the needs of oncology practitioners, fellows, and others who need an in-depth understanding of colon and GI cancer. The print reference gives you the solid, dependable guidance you’ve come to expect from this outstanding title, and the Inkling version features new quarterly updates written by a team of experts selected by the authors.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496354184

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Heavenly Masters

Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State

By: Vincent Goossaert

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Heavenly Masters

Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State

By: Vincent Goossaert

The origins of modern Daoism can be traced to the Church of the Heavenly Master (Tianshidao), reputedly established by the formidable Zhang Daoling. In 142 CE, according to Daoist tradition, Zhang was visited by the Lord on High, who named him his vicar on Earth with the title Heavenly Master. The dispensation articulated an eschatological vision of saving initiates—the pure, those destined to become immortals—by enforcing a strict moral code. Under evolving forms, Tianshidao has remained central to Chinese society, and Daoist priests have upheld their spiritual allegiance to Zhang, their now divinized founder. This book tells the story of the longue durée evolution of the Heavenly Master leadership and institution. Later hagiography credits Zhang Daoling’s great-grandson, putatively the fourth Heavenly Master, with settling the family at Longhushan (Dragon and Tiger Mountain); in time his descendants—down to the present contested sixty-fifth Heavenly Master living in Taiwan—made the extraordinary claim of being able to transmit hereditarily the function of the Heavenly Master and the power to grant salvation. Over the next twelve centuries, the Zhangs turned Longhushan into a major holy site and a household name in the Chinese world, and constructed a large administrative center for the bureaucratic management of Chinese society. They gradually built the Heavenly Master institution, which included a sacred site; a patriarchal line of successive Heavenly Masters wielding vast monopolistic powers to ordain humans and gods; a Zhang lineage that nurtured talent and accumulated wealth; and a bureaucratic apparatus comprised of temples, training centers, and a clerical hierarchy. So well-designed was this institution that it remained stable for more than a millennium, far outlasting the longest dynasties, and had ramifications for every city and village in imperial China. In this ambitious work, Vincent Goossaert traces the Heavenly Master bureaucracy from medieval times to the modern Chinese nation-state as well as its expansion. His in-depth portraits of influential Heavenly Masters are skillfully embedded in a large-scale analysis of the institution and its rules, ideology, and vision of society.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824890213

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

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By: Vincent T DeVita Jr,Steven A Rosenberg,Theodore S Lawrence

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

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By: Vincent T DeVita Jr,Steven A Rosenberg,Theodore S Lawrence

The standard-setting text in oncology for 40 years, DeVita, Hellman and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 12th Edition, provides authoritative guidance and strategies for managing every type of cancer by stage and presentation. Drs. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, and Steven A. Rosenberg oversee an outstanding team of expert contributing authors who keep you up to date and fully informed in this fast-changing field. This award-winning reference is also continually updated on Health Library and VitalSource platforms for the life of the edition.

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1975184750

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Wireless Communication Systems

Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception

By: Xiaodong Wang,H. Vincent Poor

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Wireless Communication Systems

Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception

By: Xiaodong Wang,H. Vincent Poor

Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Receptionoffers a unified frameworkfor understanding today's newest techniques for signal processing in communication systems - andusing them to design receivers for emerging wireless systems. Two leading researchers cover a fullrange of physical-layer issues, including multipath, dispersion, interference, dynamism, andmultiple-antenna systems. Topics include blind, group-blind, space-time, and turbo multiuserdetection; narrowband interference suppression; Monte Carlo Bayesian signal processing; fast fadingchannels; advanced signal processing in coded OFDM systems, and more.

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Prentice Hall Professional

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0130214353

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Principles of Cognitive Radio

By: Ezio Biglieri,Andrea J. Goldsmith,Larry J. Greenstein,Narayan B. Mandayam,H. Vincent Poor

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Principles of Cognitive Radio

By: Ezio Biglieri,Andrea J. Goldsmith,Larry J. Greenstein,Narayan B. Mandayam,H. Vincent Poor

Widely regarded as one of the most promising emerging technologies for driving the future development of wireless communications, cognitive radio has the potential to mitigate the problem of increasing radio spectrum scarcity through dynamic spectrum allocation. Drawing on fundamental elements of information theory, network theory, propagation, optimisation and signal processing, a team of leading experts present a systematic treatment of the core physical and networking principles of cognitive radio and explore key design considerations for the development of new cognitive radio systems. Containing all the underlying principles you need to develop practical applications in cognitive radio, this book is an essential reference for students, researchers and practitioners alike in the field of wireless communications and signal processing.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139851918

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Steven A. Rosenberg,Theodore S. Lawrence

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Steven A. Rosenberg,Theodore S. Lawrence

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Now updated online for the life of the edition, DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 11th Edition keeps you up to date in this fast-changing field. Every quarter, your eBook will be updated with late-breaking developments in oncology, including new drugs, clinical trials, and more.

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149639464X

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The Eight Immortals' Revolving Sword of Pure Yang

By: Dr. Baolin Wu,Michael McBride,Vincent Wu

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The Eight Immortals' Revolving Sword of Pure Yang

By: Dr. Baolin Wu,Michael McBride,Vincent Wu

This is the story of Master Wu and the esoteric sword practice he learned at the White Cloud Monastery in Beijing. It opens this practice to the outside world for the first time, explaining its history, theory, cosmology, and practice in great detail.The Eight Immortals'Revolving Sword goes back for seventeen generations, starting with Wang Chongyang, the founder of the Complete Reality school and martial arts champion of the Song dynasty, and actively continued through Qiu Chuji and other senior Daoist lineage holders. Practicing sword to attain immortality is a profound Daoist method. Master Wu shares his insights and practice instructions as a way of self-cultivation, illuminating the power of the practice to drive away inauspicious energies, eliminate harmful incidents, and safeguard against ghosts. Able to harness good fortune, practice of this sword set enhances inner communication and creates an intimate connection with the universe.In traditional Chinese fashion, Master Wu guides the reader through the ins and outs of the history, folklore, and technique of this sword practice, focusing especially on the figures of the Eight Immortals and explaining their legends, practices, and feats in great detail. Along the way, he highlights the hidden jewels of training with insightful commentaries on various parables, thereby to bring out the essence of Dao. He succeeds masterfully at braiding together his unique training history and deep Daoist insights with treasured traditional stories, creating a thrilling account and setting a palpable example of Daoism 1/2s best kept inner secrets as brought to life in actual experiences today.

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Lulu.com

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1931483191

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Observer-Based Fault Estimation Techniques

By: Ke Zhang,Bin Jiang,Peng Shi,Vincent Cocquempot

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Observer-Based Fault Estimation Techniques

By: Ke Zhang,Bin Jiang,Peng Shi,Vincent Cocquempot

This book investigates observer-fault estimation techniques in detail, while also highlighting recent research and findings regarding fault estimation. Many practical control systems are subject to possible malfunctions, which may cause significant performance loss or even system instability. To improve the reliability, performance and safety of dynamical systems, fault diagnosis techniques are now receiving considerable attention, both in research and applications, and have been the subject of intensive investigations. Fault detection – the essential first step in fault diagnosis – is a binary decision-making process used to determine whether or not a fault has occurred. In turn, fault isolation is used to identify the location of the faulty component, while fault estimation is used to identify the size of the fault online. Compared with the problems involved in fault detection and isolation, fault estimation is considerably more challenging.

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Springer

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3319674927

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Modern Architecture and Other Essays

By: Vincent Scully

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Modern Architecture and Other Essays

By: Vincent Scully

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691074429

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Making the Gods Speak

The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History

By: Vincent Goossaert

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Making the Gods Speak

The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History

By: Vincent Goossaert

For two millennia, Chinese society has been producing divine revelations on an unparalleled scale, in multifarious genres and formats. This book is the first comprehensive attempt at accounting for the processes of such production. It builds a typology of the various ritual techniques used to make gods present and allow them to speak or write, and it follows the historical development of these types and the revealed teachings they made possible. Within the large array of visionary, mediumistic, and mystical techniques, Vincent Goossaert devotes the bulk of his analysis to spirit-writing, a family of rites that appeared around the eleventh century and gradually came to account for the largest numbers of books and tracts ascribed to the gods. In doing so, he shows that the practice of spirit-writing must be placed within the framework of techniques used by ritual specialists to control human communications with gods and spirits for healing, divining, and self-divinization, among other purposes. Making the Gods Speak thus offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.

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1684176530

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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its hidden world, taking readers from ancient Egypt, where measuring the annual depth of the Nile was an essential task, to the intellectual origins of the metric system in the French Revolution, and from the surprisingly animated rivalry between metric and imperial, to our current age of the “quantified self.” At every turn, Vincent is keenly attuned to the political consequences of measurement, exploring how it has also been used as a tool for oppression and control. Beyond Measure reveals how measurement is not only deeply entwined with our experience of the world, but also how its history encompasses and shapes the human quest for knowledge.

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1324035862

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Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification

By: Vincent C. Alfonso,Dawn P. Flanagan

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Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification

By: Vincent C. Alfonso,Dawn P. Flanagan

Practical, up-to-date guidance on identifying Specific Learning Disability Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification provides accessible, authoritative guidance on specific learning disability (SLD), with the most up-to-date information on assessment, identification, interventions, and more. Contributions by leading experts examine multiple theoretical orientations and various identification approaches for dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and other common SLDs. Emphasizing real-world utility, this book provides important information for professionals who work with children and youth at risk; many of the SLD identification practices can be put to work immediately, and the expert coverage offers many strategies and interventions for student support in the classroom. This new second edition has been updated to align with the most current understanding of SLD manifestations, diagnostic assessment, and evidence-based interventions, and includes new material covering nonverbal learning disability, speech-language impairment, general learning difficulties, and differentially diagnosing SLD from other conditions. Early SLD identification and the right kind of help can raise the trajectory of a child's life. This book provides in-depth information to facilitate accurate identification and appropriate intervention to help you help the children in your care. Understand how SLD manifests in academic performance Learn theory- and research-based approaches to SLD identification Examine the latest information about new aspects of SLD determination Utilize appropriate and effective intervention strategies for student support If a child's learning disability is caught early, and the correct type of support is provided, that child gets the chance to develop the skills that lead to achievement in school and beyond. As a high-incidence disorder, SLD affects 10-15 percent of the general population, making successful identification an essential skill for those who work with children. Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification provides authoritative guidance and practical methods that can help you start changing children's lives today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119313856

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition has garnered universal acclaim as the world’s definitive, standard-setting oncology reference. More than 400 respected luminaries explore today’s most effective strategies for managing every type of cancer by stage of presentation - discussing the role of all appropriate therapeutic modalities as well as combined-modality treatments. This multidisciplinary approach will help your cancer team collaboratively face the toughest clinical challenges and provide the best possible care for every cancer patient. Access the complete contents online or on your mobile device, with quarterly updates reflecting late-breaking developments in cancer care, free for the first year on LWW Health Library. Take full advantage of the latest advances with brand-new chapters on Hallmarks of Cancer, Molecular Methods in Cancer, Oncogenic Viruses, Cancer Screening, and new sections on Genetic testing and counseling for cancer, plus comprehensive updates throughout – including coverage of the newest biologic therapies. Make optimal, well-coordinated use of all appropriate therapies with balanced, multidisciplinary advice from a surgeon, a medical oncologist, and a radiation oncologist in each major treatment chapter. Review the latest molecular biology knowledge for each type of cancer and its implications for improved management. Make the best decisions on cancer screening and prevention, palliative care, supportive oncology, and quality-of-life issues

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1469894556

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9781469894553

Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners

By: Jennifer T. Mascolo,Vincent C. Alfonso,Dawn P. Flanagan

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Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners

By: Jennifer T. Mascolo,Vincent C. Alfonso,Dawn P. Flanagan

A Resource for Designing and Implementing Intervention Programs for At-Risk Learners This authoritative resource provides step-by-step procedures for planning, selecting, and tailoring interventions for at-risk learners with a unique focus on how to individualize interventions using actual case examples. In addition, this volume offers guidelines for gathering and interpreting data in a manner that assists in identifying targets for intervention and rich discussion and information relating to specific academic, cognitive, and behavioral manifestations of students with learning difficulties in reading, math, writing, and oral language. Practitioners will also recognize and learn how to intervene with students from underserved and mis-served populations who are at risk for learning failure including English-language learners and students from impoverished environments. Each chapter describes how specific difficulties interfere with classroom tasks and explain how to select, modify, or otherwise tailor an intervention based on that information. As with all volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this volume includes callout boxes highlighting key concepts, extensive illustrative material, and test questions. The companion CD-ROM provides additional worksheets, case studies, and handouts.

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1118417356

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Winning Not Fighting

Why you need to rethink success and how you achieve it with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun

By: John Vincent,Julian Hitch

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Winning Not Fighting

Why you need to rethink success and how you achieve it with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun

By: John Vincent,Julian Hitch

Winning Not Fighting draws on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art, to offer a profound and practical guide to achieving success at work, life and business. By explaining what these teachings reveal about decision-making, professional relationships, personal targets and positivity, it challenges some of our deepest-held assumptions and forces us to unlearn many ideas that inform our current ideas on professional success. Why, for example, do we refer to business through a lens of conflict? Why does winning always require confrontation, competition and a loser? John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge our ingrained assumptions about success and achievement to to guide us through a path of self-cultivation using the eight wisdoms of Wing Tsun. John Vincent, the co-founder of LEON, has applied these mantras to his healthy fast- food empire with enormous success. In Winning Not Fighting, he collaborates with Wing Tsun master, Sifu Julian Hitch to sculpt this timeless wisdom into a practical and accessible guide to achieving success for your business.

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0241318386

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Radical and Ion-pairing Strategies in Asymmetric Organocatalysis

By: Maxime R Vitale,Sylvain Oudeyer,Vincent Levacher,Jean-Francois Briere

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Radical and Ion-pairing Strategies in Asymmetric Organocatalysis

By: Maxime R Vitale,Sylvain Oudeyer,Vincent Levacher,Jean-Francois Briere

Considering the challenge of sustainability facing our society in the coming decades, catalysis is without any doubt a research area of major importance. In this regard, asymmetric organocatalysis, now considered a pillar of green chemistry, deserves particular attention. The first chapter of this volume examines the topic of asymmetric organocatalysis in light of radical chemistry. Recent important progress in this field has been attained by promoting the formation and harnessing the high reactivity of open-shell intermediates. Merging organocatalysis with radical chemistry has been the key to solving some longstanding bottlenecks, and has also significantly contributed to reinforcing the key role of organocatalysis in asymmetric catalysis. This chapter presents the most significant developments in this area, with a particular focus on asymmetric SOMO- and photoredox-organocatalyzed transformations. Chapter 2 focuses on quaternary ammonium salts (R4N+X-), especially chiral derivatives, and their behavior as unique catalysts in organocatalysis. Forming chiral ion-pairs capable of promoting asymmetric reactions, they also operate as unique "transporters involved in phase transfer catalytic processes between liquid–liquid or liquid–solid systems. Furthermore, they offer unique opportunities when forming cooperative ion-paired entities R4N+X-, allowing a synergistic implication of the counter-ion X- either as Brønsted bases or Lewis bases. Specific design of such chiral catalysts in modern chemistry and better insight into their mode of activation facilitates efficient and unprecedented chemical transformations. This chapter provides an overview of the use of chiral quaternary ammonium salts in organocatalysis, emphasizing both general mechanistic aspects and the scope of this approach. - Presents the most significant developments with a particular focus on asymmetric SOMO- and photoredox-organocatalyzed transformations - Givies a larger overview of chiral ammonium salts in organocatalysis rather than a specific review dedicated to specialists in this area - Affords a historical evolution of this field of research

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0081011555

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Understand and apply the scientific advances that are revolutionizing cancer research and practice with Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology: Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer. Derived from DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology – widely hailed as the definitive clinical reference in oncology – the second editon of this popular Primer focuses on the molecular biology information that is of critical importance to research scientists and clinical oncologists alike. Get up-to-date, dependable coverage of every important frontier in aspect of the molecular biology of cancer with contributions from a noteworthy roster of leading scientists and clinicians, featuring an updated version of the classic “Hallmarks of Cancer” by Hanahan and Weinberg See how molecular biology advances are impacting clinical practice with separate chapters on each of the 19 most common cancer types. Navigate the challenges and ethical dilemmas of cancer genetics with a thorough section chapters on genetic counseling and genetic testing.

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1496318501

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(Not) Dancing Together

Monetary Policy Stance and the Government Spending Multiplier

By: Vincent Belinga,Mr.Constant Lonkeng Ngouana

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(Not) Dancing Together

Monetary Policy Stance and the Government Spending Multiplier

By: Vincent Belinga,Mr.Constant Lonkeng Ngouana

This paper provides estimates of the government spending multiplier over the monetary policy cycle. We identify government spending shocks as forecast errors of the growth rate of government spending from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) and from the Greenbook record. The state of monetary policy is inferred from the deviation of the U.S. Fed funds rate from the target rate, using a smooth transition function. Applying the local projections method to quarterly U.S. data, we find that the federal government spending multiplier is substantially higher under accommodative than non-accommodative monetary policy. Our estimations also suggest that federal government spending may crowd-in or crowd-out private consumption, depending on the extent of monetary policy accommodation. The latter result reconciles—in a unified framework—apparently contradictory findings in the literature. We discuss the implications of our findings for the ongoing normalization of monetary conditions in advanced economies.

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1513572180

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The Year in Television, 2009

A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies

By: Vincent Terrace

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The Year in Television, 2009

A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies

By: Vincent Terrace

This reference work is a chronicle of all the first run entertainment programs broadcast from January 1 to December 31, 2009. Included are series, TV movies, aired pilots, specials, miniseries and Internet series. Alphabetically arranged entries provide casts, storylines, production credits, networks, broadcast dates, and excerpts from newspaper reviews. New to this volume is a listing of the highlights of the year and coverage of all the unaired pilots produced for the 2008–2009 season.

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History of India, in Nine Volumes: Vol. II - From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great

By: Vincent A. Smith

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History of India, in Nine Volumes: Vol. II - From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great

By: Vincent A. Smith

A special agency of censors was also organized for the purpose of enforcing the regulations concerning the sanctity of animal life and the observance of filial piety, in the most extended sense. These officers were expressly enjoined to concern themselves with all sects, and with every class of society, not excluding the royal family, while separate officials were charged with the delicate duty of supervising female morals. In practice, this system must have led to much espionage and tyranny] from Chapter VII: Asoka Maurya and His Successors First published in 1906, this classic nine-volume history of the nation of India places it among the storied lands of antiquity, alongside Egypt, China, and Mesopotamia. Edited by American academic ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS JACKSON (18621937), professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University, it offers a highly readable narrative of the Indian people and culture through to the time of its publication, when the nation was still part of the British Empire. Volume II, From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, by British scholar VINCENT ARTHUR SMITH (1848-1920), features entertaining and enlightening treatments of: [ the dynasties before Alexander [ Alexanders Indian campaign [ imperial monarch Asoka Maurya [ the Indo-Greek and Indo-Parthian dynasties [ the Gupta Empire and the white Huns [ the reign of Harsha [ the medieval kingdoms of the north [ and much more. This beautiful replica of the 1906 first edition includes all the original illustrations.

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Analytical Groundwater Modeling

Theory and Applications using Python

By: Mark Bakker,Vincent Post

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Analytical Groundwater Modeling

Theory and Applications using Python

By: Mark Bakker,Vincent Post

This book provides a detailed description of how Python can be used to give insight into the flow of groundwater based on analytic solutions. Starting with simple problems to illustrate the basic principles, complexity is added step by step to show how one-dimensional and two-dimensional models of one or two aquifers can be implemented. Steady and transient flow problems are discussed in confined, semi-confined, and unconfined aquifers that may include wells, rivers, and areal recharge. Special consideration is given to coastal aquifers, including the effect of tides and the simulation of interface flow. Application of Python allows for compact and readable code, and quick visualization of the solutions. Python scripts are provided to reproduce all results. The scripts are also available online so that they can be altered to meet site-specific conditions. This book is intended both as training material for the next generation of university students and as a useful resource for practitioners. A primer is included for those who are new to Python or as a refresher for existing users.

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CRC Press

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1351796100

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Chronic Inflation in an Industrializing Economy

The Brazilian Experience

By: Vincent Parkin

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Chronic Inflation in an Industrializing Economy

The Brazilian Experience

By: Vincent Parkin

Vincent Parkin explains the nature and causes of chronic inflation in middle-income developing countries by focusing on the Brazilian experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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Trends and Future Perspectives in Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery

By: Vincent Lee

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Trends and Future Perspectives in Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery

By: Vincent Lee

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Labor Market Representation in Quantitative Macroeconomic Models for Developing Countries

An Application to Cote D'Ivoire

By: Mr.Jean Le Dem,Mr.Vincent Bodart

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Labor Market Representation in Quantitative Macroeconomic Models for Developing Countries

An Application to Cote D'Ivoire

By: Mr.Jean Le Dem,Mr.Vincent Bodart

This paper presents a quantitative macroeconomic model that accounts for key features of the labor market in developing countries. Primarily inspired by Côte d’Ivoire, the model contrasts a formal urban sector, where wages are rigidly fixed and employment is submitted to firms profit-seeking behavior, to urban and rural informal sectors, where wages are flexible and employment is affected by fluctuations in formal sector employment. Dynamic simulations assess the impact on key macroeconomic variables of a terms of trade improvement, a public wage decrease, and an exchange rate adjustment, highlighting the roles of rural-urban migrations and capital accumulation in the informal urban sector.

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1451850964

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The Religious Question in Modern China

By: Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer

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The Religious Question in Modern China

By: Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present. Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226304183

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The GutSMART Protocol

Revitalize Your Health, Boost Your Energy, and Lose Weight in Just 14 Days with Your Personalized Gut-Healing Plan

By: Vincent Pedre

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The GutSMART Protocol

Revitalize Your Health, Boost Your Energy, and Lose Weight in Just 14 Days with Your Personalized Gut-Healing Plan

By: Vincent Pedre

Take back control of your health—starting with the foundation for ultimate well-being: your gut and its microbiome. Use the GutSMART Quiz to evaluate your gut-related wellness and get a personalized 14-day meal plan and food lists based on your GutSMART Score. When you heal your gut, you heal your body. With The GutSMART Protocol’s two-week reset, it’s easier than ever to heal your gut to gain more energy, achieve easier weight loss, revitalize your health, and even boost your mood and mental performance. "America’s Gut Doctor" Vincent Pedre, MD, author of Happy Gut, updates us on the latest research about the gut, the microbiome, and the way our environment impacts our health, then translates the science into actionable and easy-to-apply advice for how to eat (and more!). Turbocharge your journey toward optimal gut (and total) wellness with proven tools, including: The GutSMART Quiz to determine your level of gut-related health dysfunction Categorized food lists for the three GutSMART Score types, making it easy to shop for your gut type 65 mouth-watering, gut-healing recipes from clinical nutritionist and chef Lee Holmes 14-day personalized meal plans customizable for any diet, from vegan to paleo Science-backed breathwork and meditation exercises to destress and further improve gut health Excellent health starts with the gut! The GutSMART Protocol is your first-of-its-kind personalized, food-based gut-healing plan for achieving a happy, healthy gut, in a happy body with a happy mind. The past several years have seen an explosion in gut microbiome research, and the powerful role the gut plays in whole-body health has never been more clear. What’s less clear is how to use that information day to day to actually improve the way you feel—that’s where this book comes in. Good health starts with the gut. The GutSMART Protocol is your food-based healing plan for achieving a happy gut.

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163774255X

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Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design

By: Christina Comaniciu,Narayan B. Mandayam,H. Vincent Poor

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Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design

By: Christina Comaniciu,Narayan B. Mandayam,H. Vincent Poor

Cross-layer design seeks to enhance the capacity of wireless networks significantly through the joint optimization of multiple layers in the network, primarily the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers. Although there are advantages of such design in wireline networks as well, this approach is particularly advantageous for wireless networks due to the properties (such as mobility and interference) that strongly affect performance and design of higher layer protocols. This unique monograph is concerned with the issue of cross-layer design in wireless networks, and more particularly with the impact of node-level multiuser detection on such design. It provides an introduction to this vibrant and active research area insufficiently covered in existing literature, presenting some of the principal methods developed and results obtained to date. Accompanied by numerous illustrations, the text is an excellent reference for engineers, researchers and students working in communication networks.

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0387277501

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Prostate and Other Genitourinary Cancers

From Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Prostate and Other Genitourinary Cancers

From Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Selected from the world’s leading comprehensive cancer textbook, this tightly focused resource provides you with the practical, cutting-edge information you need to provide the best cancer care to each patient. Prostate and Other Genitourinary Cancers: Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th Edition, offers a comprehensive and balanced view of this rapidly changing field, meeting the needs of oncology practitioners, fellows, and others who need an in-depth understanding of prostate and GU cancer. The print reference gives you the solid, dependable guidance you’ve come to expect from this outstanding title, and the Inkling version features new quarterly updates written by a team of experts selected by the authors.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496354214

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Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.

By: Vincent Terrace

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Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.

By: Vincent Terrace

This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.

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0786486414

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An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation

By: H. Vincent Poor

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An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation

By: H. Vincent Poor

Essential background reading for engineers and scientists working in such fields as communications, control, signal, and image processing, radar and sonar, radio astronomy, seismology, remote sensing, and instrumentation. The book can be used as a textbook for a single course, as well as a combination of an introductory and an advanced course, or even for two separate courses, one in signal detection, the other in estimation.

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1475723415

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Forgotten Diplomacy

The Modern Remaking of Dutch-Chinese Relations, 1927–1950

By: Vincent K.L. Chang

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Forgotten Diplomacy

The Modern Remaking of Dutch-Chinese Relations, 1927–1950

By: Vincent K.L. Chang

In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang resurrects a near forgotten yet pivotal chapter of Dutch-Chinese ties to narrate how World War II, the civil war in China, and Indonesia’s decolonization redefined and remade this age-old bilateral relationship. Drawing on a unique range of hitherto unexplored archives, the book explains how China’s nascent rise on the global scene and the Netherlands’ simultaneous decline as a colonial power shaped events in Dutch-controlled Indonesia (and vice versa) and prompted a recalibration of their mutual ties, culminating in the Netherlands’ recognition of the People’s Republic and laying the foundations for Dutch and Chinese policies through to the present. Offering insightful analyses of power dynamics and international law at the close of empire, this book is a critical resource for historians and China specialists as well as scholars of international relations.

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BRILL

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9004410929

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9789004410923

A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume III

Stod (Eastern Half)

By: John Vincent Bellezza

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A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume III

Stod (Eastern Half)

By: John Vincent Bellezza

Focusing on the Eastern half of Stod, this is the third in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the long-term development of culture and religion on a large swathe of the Tibetan Plateau.

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