The doctor's verdict is final: David has cancer. There is still a possibility of remission, but it is very small. And if the tumour kills him, David won't have a chance to see his baby granddaughter Louise grow up. We see his wife become progressively consumed by the looming shadow of death, in Vani[...]
David har strupcancer. För honom och hans familj är diagnosen en chock. David har aldrig varit en man av många ord, och nu verkar det vara omöjligt för alla i familjen att tala med varandra om sin vrede, sin kärlek och sin skräck inför Davids döende. Livets och dödens vägar korsar varan[...]
The discovery of the notes for Richard Feynman's major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed.[...]
So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovul[...]
So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovul[...]
Complete with full-color illustrations, a revised edition of a Caldecott-winning book provides young readers with colorful profiles on many of the most popular presidents--now including "dubya"--along with humorous tales, anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, and more.[...]
Rev. ed. of: Occupational health services / Tee L. Guidotti, John W.F. Cowell, Geoffrey G. Jamieson; with the assistance and contribution of Alan L. Engelberg. c1989.[...]
This analysis of emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy presents a new theory of collaborative rationality to overcome the challenges of complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty and global processes. This is insightful reading that will move both practice and scholarship to [...]
With contributions from experts in the field, this important volume includes fifty ready-to-use activities spanning a variety of training topics: communication, conflict management, creativity, team-building, decision-making, problem-solving, customer service, and sales and marketing.[...]
In a collection of essays on key events, works, themes, and other aspects of German literary history, the entries focus on particular literary works, events in the life of the authors, historical moments, pieces of music, technological innovations, and theatrical and cinematic premiers.[...]
Applying new research to sex in the animal world, esteemed scientists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton dispel the notion that monogamy comes naturally. In fact, as The Myth of Monogamy reveals, biologists have discovered that for nearly every species, cheating is the rule for both sexes.[...]
"Racial Castration", the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past as well[...]
Under the guidance of the new editorial team, this new edition has been completely revised and updated. The book has been refocused solely to cats and dogs and reorganized, while retaining the practical approach.
The first section covers anatomy and physiology of the oral cavity, diagnos[...]
In "The Myth of Monogamy," husband and wife David P. Barash (an evolutionary biologist) and Judith Eve Lipton (a psychiatrist), stunned the public by showing how rare monogamy is in nature. Now, in "Strange Bedfellows," they look at the other side of the coin: how biology actually promotes monogamy [...]
Ja, wie sind denn die Frauen zu ihren Kurven gekommen? Warum haben sie Bruste, wahrend andere Saugetiere nur dann Brustgewebe ausbilden, wenn sie Milch geben, und warum menstruieren Frauen, wahrend fast alle anderen Geschopfe darauf verzichten? Welche Grunde gibt es fur den weiblichen Orgasmus? Wies[...]