Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution

A laboratory manual that diagrams and explains the anatomical systems and structures of the bull frog

Julia Child's inimitable ways of coping with common kitchen dilemmas are shared along with menus and recipes that range from a vegetarian caper and lobster souffle to a country dinner of leek and rabbit pie

Product Description: Monograph on the exiled Spanish artist, Eduardo Arroyo--a polemical, anti-fascist painter. Text by Pierre Astier. 96 pages; 52 color and 15 b&w full-page plates; 8.5 x 11 inches.

Product Description: Hardcover book in dust-jacket. Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, India, 1984. 194 pages. Jet-black cloth boards with white title-lettering on spine.

Product Description: Here is the remarkable and inspirational autobiography of Ann Wigmore, an internationally recognized name synonymous with the discovery and use of raw and living foods for nutrition and health. This fascinating first-hand account includes stories from Ann's early childhood, watching her grandmother heal the sick in war-torn Central Europe...read more

Product Description: Our volume is a compilation of succinct and insightful extracts from the literature of mermaids, and also some of our favorite images of mermaids. The pictures are by a variety of painters (including Waterhouse, Bocklin, and Burne-Jones) and book illustrators (including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, and W...read more

Product Description: A rabbi facing the possibility of death is confronted with profound physical and spiritual questions.

Tells the stories of recently graduated doctors who are following the new medical specialty of family practice, and describes their interactions with their patients

Product Description: This DOCUMENTS SUPPLEMENT contains the basic international agreements on trade in goods and services and the principal U.S. statutes regulating international trade, as well as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides a revealing, graphic self-portrait of a teacher who discovered that he had Parkinson's disease and decided that he would not allow the disease to destroy him

This is a practical non-parametric handbook of statistical tests for use in general research, but particularly useful in the fields of Behavioural and Neural Sciences. Topics covered include: a full explanation of statistical terms, correct test choice and applications, small and large sample procedures, interpretation of test results, dependence testing and independent and dependent testing of two, three or more samples. Many of these tests are based on extensive modern statistical research, so are more relevant and accurate than the earlier book on the subject (Siegel 1956). Results obtained from traditional and modern methodologies have been investigated and included for comparison of significance and variance by the reader.

Product Description: From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke. A dynamic personality whose determination improved public health care and nurses’ education, and began the recognition of senior citizens’ needs; yet she was fired at the height of her nursing career...read more

Product Description: When WIlliam ("Bill") Mustard graduated from the University of Toronto medical faculty in 1937 at the age of 22, he was the youngest doctor in Canada. During the next four decades he distinguished himself, first as part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the Second World War, then at Toronto’s Hospital For Sick Children, as a surgical pioneer...read more

Product Description: Discourse and Language Education is part of the Cambridge Language Teaching Library series. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This book gives practical experience in analyzing discourse and the study of written language...read more

From the pages of his best-selling book, Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson comes to life in this even more inspiring video. Instead of having to imagine the man and his world, you can actually see and hear Ben Carson at home with his family and watch his gifted hands during surgery. You can observe him encouraging school children to try to be all that they can be. And you can accompany him on his professional rounds at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide recognition and was featured on ABC's 20/20 for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head -- an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months in planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. In this video you will meet these twins and other former patients along with members of their families.

Biography of the Quaker, humanitarian, and activist, who was committed to medical reform, opposed slavery, and had Hodgkin's Disease named after him, and who accomplished all this against the restrictive society of nineteenth-century England