Product Description: Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a less questionable way of living in the world and by his late twenties has reinvented himself as a successful middle manager...read more

Product Description: The research for this book began in the early 1980s when brain tanned hide was already very difficult to obtain, very expensive, and Aboriginal hide tanners were difficult to find in Central Alberta. From 1989 to 1991 author Morgan Baillargeon interviewied as many hide tanners as he could find in northern Alberta, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories as part of his field research for his Master's degree...read more

When his father finally says he can get a pet, George, a little boy who has everything, searches high and low for the perfect companion--with hilarious results!

Product Description: Recent progress in fundamental tumor immunology has led to immunotherapy trials in patients with solid tumors and hematological malignancies. In the past, immunotherapy approaches were primarily based on enhancement of tumor immunity with cytokines and adjuvant therapy, without knowledge of relevant tumor antigens...read more

Product Description: The idea that the immune system may play a role in protecting against malignant disease is not new. Since the earliest days of immunology research, scientists have sought to understand the mechanisms by which the host immune system might recognise cancer cells, and to manipulate theseresponses for therapeutic gain...read more

Product Description: Research in recent years has established that in certain types of human cancer gangliosides and other glycolipids are expressed in large amounts. Consequently, approaches to cancer therapy are being developed, where these compounds serve as targets...read more

Product Description: This book discusses, in relation to the biochemistry of metastatic disease, the phenomenon of recognition at the molecular level, which leads to communication within and between cells. The contributions emphasise various aspects of cancer that can be traced to changes in the cell surface...read more

Product Description: Developmental cancer products (oncodevelopmental markers, ODM) not only serve as diagnostic and prognostic indicators but also may be used to study the nature of the carcinogenic process and the biology of tumors. For many years oncologists have searched for markers of cancer cells that would permit unequivocal recognition of cancer in contrast to noncancerous tissue...read more