The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Rita Carter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1465487972
This award-winning science book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain. CGI illustrations and brain MRI scans reveal the brain's anatomy in unprecedented detail. Step-by-step sequences unravel and simplify the complex processes of brain function, such as how nerves transmit signals, how memories are laid down and recalled, and how we register emotions. The book answers fundamental and compelling questions about the brain: what does it mean to be conscious, what happens when we're asleep, and are the brains of men and women different? This is an accessible and authoritative reference book to a fascinating part of the human body. Thanks to improvements in scanning technology, our understanding of the brain is changing quickly. Now in its third edition, The Human Brain Book provides an up-to-date guide to one of science's most exciting frontiers. With its coverage of more than 50 brain-related diseases and disorders--from strokes to brain tumors and schizophrenia--it is also an essential manual for students and healthcare professionals.
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Page : 872 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bibliography
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1907
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Arts
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Author : Katherine Roeder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 1617039608
The first study to place this genius of modern comics creation in his historical context
Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307807894
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
Author : Hilary Evans
Publisher : Anomalist Books, LLC
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1933665254
From fads, crazes, and manias to collective delusions, scares, panics, and mass hysterias, history is replete with examples of remarkable social behavior. Many are fueled by fear and uncertainty; others are driven by hope and expectation. For others still, the causes are more obscure. This massive collection of extraordinary social behaviors spans more than two millennia, and attempts to place many of the episodes within their greater historical and cultural context. Perhaps the most well known example of unusual collective behavior occurred in 1938, when a million or more Americans were frightened or panicked after listening to a realistic radio drama about a Martian invasion of New Jersey, based on an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds." Less known but equally remarkable scares based on Wells' book occurred in Chile in 1944 (when Army units were mobilized), in Ecuador in 1949 (when riots broke out, leaving more than a dozen dead), as well as in Buffalo in 1968, Rhode Island in 1974, and Europe in 1988 and 1998. The modern civilized world is by no means immune to such peculiar episodes. In the late 20th century, scores of people in the U.S. and Europe were wrongly incarcerated following claims of Satanic ritual abuse by authorities untutored in False Memory Syndrome. This episode recalls the European witch terror of the late Middle Ages, when innocent people were tortured and executed for consorting with the Devil based on the flimsiest of evidence. OUTBREAK! THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR is an authoritative reference on a broad range of topics: collective behavior, deviance, social and perceptual psychology, sociology, history, folklore, religious studies, political science, social anthropology, gender studies, critical thinking, and mental health. Never before have so many sources been brought together on the mesmerizing topic of collective behavior.