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by Marc De Hert, Felix Sperans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
The Belgian writer Felix Sperans has been diagnosed as a psychiatric patient and has remained one for almost fifty years now. Inspite of this disability he writes and paints, resulting in twenty-five published books and almost a thousand paintings. This is not at all surprising when one realizes...
First Contact
Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not.
In First Contact, Marc Kaufman provides a gripping tour of the magnificent new science of astrobiology that is closing in on the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In recent decades, scientists generally held that the genesis of life was...
A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy
A Guide to Retail Pharmacy for Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Technicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred look at the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist...
The Inner Pulse
Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Understanding the secret code of illness and health
Many doctors overlook the seemingly inexplicable tragedies and recoveries that happen in hospitals every day, opting to view them simply as aberrations from the medical norm. In this book, Dr. Marc Siegel draws from his decades of experience...
What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting
How to Support Your Wife, Save Your Marriage, and Conquer Infertility!
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Marc Sedaka stood by while he and his wife endured endless rounds of drug therapies, sixteen artificial inseminations, ten in-vitro fertilizations, three miscarriages, and, finally, a gestational surrogate (womb for rent”) who carried their twin girls to term. He was as supportive and loving as...
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in...
Single Digits
In Praise of Small Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their history, applications, and connections to various areas of mathematics, including number theory, geometry, chaos theory, numerical analysis, and mathematical physics....
by Marc Brookhuis
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Interest in Eastern philosophy and ways of thinking has flourished in the western world for some time now. Meditation and yoga have become commonplace in our society. Recently interest has bloomed in another aspect of Eastern thinking: mindfulness. But what is mindfulness? What is it good for? Where...
Star-Spangled Banner
The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Nearly every American knows The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States of America. Yet many people dislike the song, contend that it glorifies militarism, and question its suitability as the musical embodiment of nationhood. Even professional vocalists have trouble singing...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
Intraitables
Roman humoristique
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Rien ne va plus au Cours François, une école chic de la rive gauche...
Les années ont passé, la crise est arrivée, et les choses se gâtent au Cours François, institution vénérable de la rive gauche.
Jean-Baptiste n'est plus un prof débutant, il a accepté des responsabilités et se...
Anthony Fokker
The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator
Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family...
Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed
The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 2009, Marc Bekoff was asked to write on animal emotions for Psychology Today. Some 500 popular, jargon-free essays later, the field of anthrozoology — the study of human-animal relationships — has grown exponentially, as have scientific data showing how smart and emotional nonhuman animals...
Sacramento Kings
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The first NBA Western Conference franchise to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!
THE TEAM: The Sacramento Kings are one of the oldest franchises in NBA history with one World Championship, nine Hall of Fame players, twenty-nine playoff appearances,...