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Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the ...

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the ...

Norman Cousins

"An eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease."—Melvin Konner.
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

Melvin Konner

14, 2014, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/business/mary-barra-gms-new- chief-speaking-her-mind.html? ref=business. Barra's response to ignition-system failure: Bill Vlasic, “Recall at G.M. Is Early Trial for New Chief," New York Times, ...
J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy

J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy

Deke Parsons

Story by Christopher Reeve and Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. Screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. Perf. Christopher Reeve. The SuProse: Middle-Earth's Magical Style. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 . Print.
American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

Melvin I. Urofsky

It caught on in Europe but was moribund in the United States until World War I. Melvin I. Urofsky shows how the Zionist movement was Americanized by Louis D. Brandeis and other reformers.
The French Review

The French Review

James Frederick Mason

New York University Charles Affron Yokbn, Melvin B. Claude Tillier. (Twayne World Author Series.) Boston: Twayne, 1976. Pp. 143. This is a straightforward work of literary rehabilitation. Melvin Yoken makes no bones about it: Tillier is an  ...
Lethal judgments: assisted suicide and American law

Lethal judgments: assisted suicide and American law

Melvin I. Urofsky

In this concise and gracefully written overview of one of the most complex and contentious areas of American law, noted constitutional scholar Melvin Urofsky discusses the tangled legal, historical, ethical, and medical issues related to ...
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

Brent Holcomb

BOOK REVIEWS Henry Rice (1717-1818) The Pioneer Tennessee Gristmlller, and his Twelve Children by Melvin Weaver Little. 312 pages, soft cover, indexed. Price $12.95 postpaid from Melvin Weaver Little, 924 20th St., South, Arlington, ...
Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Melvin Delgado

In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services.
Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile

Lawrence Konner

Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual ...
Practical Pain Management

Practical Pain Management

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2d Damages $1006, 9 PERSONAL INJURY: ACTION, DEFENSES, DAMAGES $3.04.1[2][c] (Louis R. Frumer & Melvin I. Friedman, eds. 1998). 14.9 PERSONAL INJURY: ACTION, DEFENSES, DAMAGES §3.04[2][c] (Louis R. Frumer & Melvin  ...
Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)

Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)

Evan S. Smith

LAWRENCE KONNER: Laziness shows in rewriting. If the worst surprise of the first draft is to turn in a completely different story [than was discussed], then the worst of the second draft is to demonstrate laziness. You do token changes, a line  ...
The Cry Of The Wolf

The Cry Of The Wolf

Melvin Burgess

It was a mistake for Ben to tell the Hunter that there were still wolves in Surrey.

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