The aim of this book is to provide a general introduction, for the specialist and for students, to the whole field of cancer research. After a general introduction describing the pathology and natural history of the disease, each section gives a more detailed, but nevertheless general summary of its particular area, giving principles rather than a mass of information. Each chapter gives a list for further reading, and there is an extensive glossary. Each topic is discussed by an acknowledged expert who is able to give an authoritative review, but one which is aimed to be comprehensible to the non-expert. The book should give a wider understanding of the practical problems of cancer treatment and research, and indicates the areas in which exciting new developments are taking place and how the application of scientific technology may lead to the solution of many problems in cancer biology. The second edition expands in the areas in which there have been rapid advances in knowledge, especially from the application of new technology. In particular the chapters on genetic and chromosomal changes, growth factors, immunotherapy, and epidemiology have been expanded, and new information on viral and chemical carcinogenesis added. The lists of references and books and articles for further reading have also been updated, as has the glossary. For this second edition many of the illustrations are new or have been redrawn. Comments and criticisms from readers and reviewers have been taken into account in revising the text. (view table of contents)

This book should be of interest to graduates of psychology, education, social work, sociology and human services. (view table of contents)

Examines the different kinds of flamingos, their physical characteristics, natural habitat, and behavior.

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the work of wildlife photographers, offering insights into this challenging career, the artistic skills required, and wildlife photography's role as a promoter of wildlife preservation.

Aimed at systems designers and microwave engineers, this book provides readers with a sound understanding of this evolving field and enables them to apply this technology to a wide range of systems.

While collecting sticks to build a nest, Nightingale is hit on the neck by a nut and is taken to the hospital by his friend Nellie the nurse

This text-reference for dermatology - is now even better! The fourth edition uses color illustrations throughout and incorporates the most recent clinical and scientific findings to present the practitioner with the most complete reference on the diagnosis and treatment of skin disease and the dermatologic manifestation of systemic disease. New topics include: the skin manifestations of HIV and AIDS, genetics in relation to skin, neurobiology of the skin. Merkel cell carcinoma, skin problems in amputees, sports dermatology, skin signs of drug abuse, geriatric dermatology and more.

Encompassing forty German-language lessons, a common usage dictionary, and a conversational manual, this introductory course teaches the fundamentals of the German language.

Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) was widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful and emotionally vivid novels about Vietnam. Now, writing with the same sharp, richly expressive language, the same edgy dark humor and complete honesty, and the same rawness of nerve and energy, Tim O’Brien gives us an equally powerful novel about growing up as a child of anxiety—thebig anxiety, the one that’s been with us since the fifties, when we finally realized that Einstein’s theories translated into Russian.It’s 1995 and William Cowling is digging a hole in his backyard. He is forty-nine, and after years and years of pent-up terror he has finally found the courage of a fighting man. And so a hole. A hold that he hopes will one day be large enough to swallow up his almost fifty years’ worth of fear. A hole that causes his twelve-year-old daughter to call him a “nutto,” and his wife to stop speaking to him. A hole that William will not stop digging and out of which rise scenes of his past to play themselves out in his memory.The scenes take him back to his quietly peculiar adolescence (No. 2 pencils had a surprising significance), to his college days, down into the underground, and up through several stabs at “normal” adulthood . . . they take him from Montana to Florida, from Cuba to California, from Kansas to New York to Germany and back to Montana as he makes him way through an often mystifying—but just as often hilarious —labyrinth of fears and desires, obsessions and obligations, blessed madness and less-than-blessed sobriety . . . they take him into the lives of a shrink who’s a whiz a role reversal and of a dizzying eccentric cheerleader; of radical misfits and misfit radicals; of an ethereal stewardess (the traveling man’s dream); and two guerilla commandos who mix shtick and nightmare in their tactical brew. And each scene is a reminder of the unbargained-for-terror that has guided him to the bottom of his hole. For this digging is his final act of “prudence and sanity”—he’s taking control, getting there first, robbing his fears of their power to destroy . . . or so he believes. But is this act really sane? Is his daughter’s estimation of his emotional well-being (“pretty buggo, too”) the only truly sane statement being made? Is sanity even the issue? In the dazzling final scenes, William turns from the hole—from his past and from his future 0 to himself, digging deeper and deeper to find his answers.The Nuclear Age is pyrotechnically funny and moving, courageous and irreverent. It takes on our supreme unacknowledged terror (whose reality we both refuse to accept and all too easily accommodate ourselves to), finds it lunatic core, and shapes it into a story that speaks of, and to, an entire age: our own, our nuclear age. It is an extraordinary novel.

Cast back to Los Angeles with the Specter of Death's hounds in pursuit, Alouzon Dragonmaster, the Goddess of Gryylth and a former UCLA graduate student, searches for a gateway back to the magic land that she has come to call home. Original.

Product Description: Discover the huge range of bright-colored plumage of the many species of parrots and their cousins: macaws, parakeets, lorikeets, and rosellas.

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Eyewitness -- bringing the natural world into your living room. Eyewitness is a compelling video series featuring wonders of nature. Viewers will journey into a three-dimensional "virtual museum" where live-action photography creates the sensation of being there. Eyewitness presents a completely different view of the marvels and mysteries of the natural world as they have never been seen before. Spectacular wildlife footage from all over the world takes the viewer to hundreds of places -- without leaving the comfort of home.

Describes the life cycle, behavior, eating habits, and endangered status of vultures

Describes the life cycle, habitats, and reputation of both Old and New World vultures.

A behind-the-scenes look into the world's most sophisticated crime lab reveals the riveting stories of the super-technical crime-solving techniques done in each of the lab's twelve units, from firearms to fibers, toxicology to explosives, and much more. Reprint. K. PW. AB.

Introduces the Antarctic birds, with full-color illustrations showing penguins as they build a nest, protect their young, and dive into the icy waters of their homeland.

Shows penguins building nests, protecting their young, and diving into the icy waters of the Antarctic.

A turn-of-the-century frontier novel by the author of Morning Star follows the story of Tom Sandcrane, a Cheyenne Indian who unwisely forsakes a tribal legacy to follow the white man's dream. Original.

A visit to the University of Minnesota's Gabbert Raptor Center focuses on a bald eagle, from its arrival with a gunshot wound through surgery, rehabilitation, and release, and discusses the threats to these majestic birds.