Product Description: Microbial infection is increasingly seen as a problem as we begin to run out of antibiotics. Understanding how microbes cause disease is essential. In recent years it has begun to emerge that bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses can use their cell stress proteins to cause infection...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work we realize, over and over again, that each of the mind's worlds speaks a secret language, which it is the poet's task to discover and translate...read more

Product Description: This book reviews understanding of the biological roles of extracellular molecular chaperones. It provides an overview of the structure and function of molecular chaperones, their role in the cellular response to stress and their disposition within the cell...read more

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Product Description: The new work centres on the Memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, perhaps the most written about of mental patients, as well as one of the most articulate. The Memoirs formed the basis of Freud's theory of paranoia, the interpretation of which was a primary cause of the split between Jung and Freud, was the basis of Bleuler's definition of schizophrenia (which is till operative today) and has been subjected to many other readings such as Canetti's attempt to connect paranoia and proto-fascist power and Wilden's to see a proto-feminism in a revolt against the forensic psychiatry and ideas of the masculine of the day...read more

Product Description: Ninety percent of the cells in the human body are bacteria, and humans may be host to many thousands of different species of bacteria. These striking statistics are part of a new paradigm in microbiology in which bacteria are no longer viewed as disease-causing killers but more as lifelong partners which are often essential for the survival of their host...read more

This book examines the underlying science and design of laser materials. It emphasizes the principles of crystal-field engineering and discusses the basic physical concepts that determine laser gain and nonlinear frequency conversion in optical crystals. Henderson and Bartram develop the predictive capabilities of crystal-field engineering to show how modification of the symmetry and composition of optical centers can improve laser performance. They also discuss applications of the principles of crystal-field engineering to a variety of optical crystals in relation to the performances of laser devices. This book will be of considerable interest to physical, chemical and material scientists and to engineers involved in the science and technology of solid state lasers.

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Product Description: This introductory textbook explores bacterial disease mechanisms and bacteria-host interactions. The central premise is that bacteria have evolved by means of manipulating normal host cell functions and overcoming host defense systems to ensure their survival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Light in Dark Objects is a journey from endings to beginning, from absence to presence, from exile to dwelling, from woundedness where “the mind soaks up pain” to the “glorious song of the body.” Objects take on a particularly haunted life during the course of this journey as they bring us to a truth about our relationship to the world...read more

Cellular Microbiology is a new area of microbiology research, bridging the gap between the disciplines of microbiology and cell biology. It is the study of the interaction between cells and microbes, especially mammalian or plant cells and bacteria. Cellular Microbiology is an advanced textbook for students of microbiology and medical microbiology, presenting a comprehensive introduction to the current molecular and cellular biology of the interactions between bacteria and eukaryotic cells, and their relevance to human diseases. * Covers an exciting new area of research and is an ideal introduction for the subject * The only textbook to cover this rapidly-growing field of research * Authored by well-renowned experts in the field (view table of contents)

Product Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenney committee in 1946 and two of its board members came under fire from the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson's poetry, poised and listening on this hinge of creativity, ontological wonder is informed by awareness of the paradoxes at the heart of language, that language wants you for itself, and that what is named, falls...read more

Product Description: Smoking Mirror is a selection of new prose poems based on the imagery of Aztec mythology and folklore. Illustrated with reproductions of Aztec paintings and stone cuttings, Smoking Mirror is a compelling work by the author of The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet, Migration of Light, The Expanding Room, and Paracelcus...read more

The scripts for five motion picture comedies are accompanied by biographical background and critical analyses (view table of contents)