William B. Ober's Books

A Greener Vision of Home

Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918

By: William H. Rollins

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A Greener Vision of Home

Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918

By: William H. Rollins

The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany

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354

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108093

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9780472108091

God and Man at Yale

The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

By: William F. Buckley

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God and Man at Yale

The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

By: William F. Buckley

For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias. In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude" that prevailed at his alma mater. The book, God and Man at Yale, rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr. into the public spotlight. Now, half a century later, read the extraordinary work that began the modern conservative movement. Buckley's harsh assessment of his alma mater divulged the reality behind the institution's wholly secular education, even within the religion department and divinity school. Unabashed, one former Yale student details the importance of Christianity and heralds the modern conservative movement in his preeminent tell-all, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom.

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188

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Simon and Schuster

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1596988037

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9781596988033

Neurokinetics

The Dynamics of Neurobiology in Vivo

By: Albert Gjedde,William R. Bauer,Dean Wong

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Neurokinetics

The Dynamics of Neurobiology in Vivo

By: Albert Gjedde,William R. Bauer,Dean Wong

This book summarizes 20 years of work on the kinetics of blood-brain transfer and metabolism mechanisms in mammalian brain. The substances affiliated with these mechanisms include glucose, amino acids, monocarboxylic acids, and oxygen. These substances are important to energy metabolism and neurotransmission in the mammalian brain at rest and during activation. To understand the processes addressed by these mechanisms, the book examines the kinetics of compartmentation and compartmental analysis, particularly as they relate to transporter, enzyme, and receptor function. Compartments are subsets of substances separated by transporters and receptors in membranes, and enzymes in cells. This book is divided in six major chapters covering compartmental analysis, kinetic analysis of transport and metabolism, blood-brain transfer and metabolism of glucose, amino acids, and oxygen, and amino acid metabolism and interaction of amino acid metabolites with receptors.

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356

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441974091

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9781441974099

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

By: William Alexander Newman Dorland

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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

By: William Alexander Newman Dorland

Illustrates and defines terms used in different branches of medicine and health science.

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1928

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W.B. Saunders Company

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0721631541

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9780721631547

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays

Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions

By: William B. Ober

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Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions

By: William B. Ober

In this “cock to Aesculapius,” a distinguished pathologist shows how simple medical analyses can be applied centuries later to reconstruct the scene and assign a more probable cause of disability or death. The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell’s repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato’s account of Socrates’ death in the Phaedo, subjects both ancient and modern. Other essays include studies of the ailments of two medical doctors—William Carlos Williams and Chekhov—and the disabilities of Swinburne, Lawrence, Rochester, Shadwell, Keats, Collins, Cooper, and Smart. Documenting a wealth of physical and psychological symptoms that bear directly upon the writer’s work—“when there is a medical question,” Dr. Ober writes, “consult a doctor”—Dr. Ober diagnoses Swinburne’s masochism and penchant for writing flagellatory verse and facetiae as the combined results of anoxic brain damage at birth, sexual impotence, and the exposure to flagellation at public school. D. H. Lawrence’s “dirty words,” he finds, stemmed from Lawrence’s psychological needs. Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover while tuberculosis was weakening him physically, and the combination of his repressed homosexual tendencies and sexual impotence distorted his view of sexual relations. Rochester’s bisexuality and “double life” were at the root of his experience, celebrated in his poetry, of premature ejaculation, Dr. Ober shows. Dr. Ober also shatters two legends by proving that Shadwell did not die of self-administered laudanum and that Socrates’ death was not reported accurately by Plato. A pathologist by training and practice, more specifically a histopathologist, Dr. Ober has spent most of his life trying to diagnose diseases by looking through a microscope at pieces of tissue removed from the human body by biopsy, at surgery or autopsy. By applying medical analyses, and evidence from other disciplines as well, Dr. Ober scrutinizes selected literary subjects and brings to their mind-body problems new and often astonishing interpretations.

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0809314339

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9780809314331

Book's by William B. Ober

A Greener Vision of Home

A Greener Vision of Home

God and Man at Yale

God and Man at Yale

Neurokinetics

Neurokinetics

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays

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