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Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the ...

Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the ...

Nicolas Rasmussen

Picture Control is a welcome and notable exception. . . . The book is rich in historic anecdotes. . . . Rasmussen provides a cogent discussion of introducing a revolutionary instrument into science. American Zoologist"
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine

On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine

Nicolas Rasmussen

A detailed history of the use of amphetamines follows the rise, fall, and surprising resurgence of the popular drug in America since they were marketed as the original antidepressant in the 1930s.
Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

Nicolas Rasmussen

This book captures that heady, fleeting moment when a biologist could expect to do great science through the private sector and be rewarded with both wealth and scientific acclaim.
Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the ...

Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the ...

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For FDA compulsion in amphetamine's classification, see Nicolas Rasmussen, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (New York: New York University Press, 2008), chap. 4 and passim. For 19305 consumerism, see Arthur Kallett and ...
Insidious

Insidious

Catherine Coulter

"Venus Rasmussen, a powerful eighty-six-year-old woman who still runs Rasmussen Industries, an international conglomerate, believes someone is poisoning her.
The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

Steve Fuller

... Medhurst, Hugo Mendes, James Mittra, John S. Nelson, Nicolas Rasmussen, Paul Roth, Joseph Rouse, Raphael Sassower, Ullica Segerstråle, Nico Stehr, Stephen Turner, Peter Wagner, and Tom Woodward. Thanks must also go to Damon ...
Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics

Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics

Jed Z. Buchwald

On intuitive, everyday roots of interpretive methods in electron microscopy, see Nicolas Rasmussen, Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, ...
Spitting in the Soup: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports

Spitting in the Soup: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports

Mark Johnson

12 Nicolas Rasmussen, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (New York: New York University Press, 2009), 190 13 Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Knopf, 1977), 5. 14 World Heroin Problem, 4. 15 James M. Markham, “President ...
Pediatric Neurology Part I: Chapter 54. Rasmussen encephalitis

Pediatric Neurology Part I: Chapter 54. Rasmussen encephalitis

Tiziana Granata

Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare, inflammatory, and possibly immuno-mediated disease that typically affects one hemisphere.
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

David Herzberg

Andrea Tone, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, Nicolas Rasmussen, and David Healy address the commercial development and dissemination of medicines and medical devices. See, e.g., Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of ...
The Beginning and the End of 'Religion'

The Beginning and the End of 'Religion'

Nicholas Lash

39), whereas Antonio de Nicolas, surrendering the inequal struggle, settles for ' field of dharma' (The Bhagavad Gila, (trans.) Antonio de Nicolas (York Beach, Maine: Nicolas-Hays, 1990), p. 25). 53 In helpful glossary entries on dharma and  ...
Friend Me: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Social Networking

Friend Me: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Social Networking

Dana Rasmussen

"Edited by Dana Rasmussen from high quality Wikipedia articles"--Cover.
Les oeuvres de Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière,...

Les oeuvres de Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière,...

Nicolas-Abraham de La Framboisière

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Names of Foreigners who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the ...

Names of Foreigners who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the ...

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Nicolas Taller,. Nicolas Staller, Conrath Miller, Christian Kling. Nicolas Stemple, Christoph Kiser, Cornelius Teele, Albrecht Strauss, Casper Miere, Georg Schussler, Georg Phillip Pier, Conrad Aberman, Hans Michel Walck, Stephen Kennamer ...
Lebe – lache – liebe: Neustart ins Leben nach einem ...

Lebe – lache – liebe: Neustart ins Leben nach einem ...

Christina Rasmussen

Christina Rasmussen ist Mitte dreißig, glücklich verheiratet, Mutter von zwei Kindern und frisch promovierte Psychologin, als die Tragödie passiert.
Avatara

Avatara

Antonio T. De Nicolás

Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized possibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves.
A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most ...

A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most ...

Stacy Perman

Nicolas Hayek: The account of Hayek comes primarily from Michael Clerizo, “ Nicolas Hayek: Time Bandit,” Wall StreetJournal, June 10, 2010; Margarlit Fox, “ Nicolas Hayek Dies at 82,” New York Times, June 29, 2010; “Message and Muscle: ...
Dejanoff

Dejanoff

Nicolas Bourriaud

Introduction by Edelbert Kob. Text by Nicolas Bourriaud, Antonia Majaca, Mihnea Mircan.
Moksha Smith, Agni's Warrior-Sage: An Epic of the Immortal Fire

Moksha Smith, Agni's Warrior-Sage: An Epic of the Immortal Fire

Antonio de Nicolas

Of course, this experience is not new to anyone familiar with the other works of Antonio de Nicolas.
The Exform

The Exform

Nicolas Bourriaud

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Nicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator.
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International ...

Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International ...

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KERSTIN KNOPF In Memory of Alootook Ipellie ... discusses the film's two sources: the ethnological colonial one (the journals of Rasmussen and FOUR The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History Post/Colonial Cinema Kerstin Knopf.
Habits of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Habits of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Antonio T. De Nicolás

This stimulating new work is based on a highly-successful--and extremely popular--course which Professor De Nicolas has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over 15 years.
Relational Aesthetics

Relational Aesthetics

Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter ...
Remembering the God to Come

Remembering the God to Come

Antonio T. de Nicolas

You can imagine my surprise thirty years later when I came across a new English translation of Ignatius de Loyola by Antonio de Nicolas, and found that it opened a completely new door: instead of the didactic title Spiritual Exercises, ...
Un soir à Paris

Un soir à Paris

Nicolas Barreau

Cette fois encore Nicolas Barreau nous guide à travers une délicieuse aventure, où l'amour est la seule boussole qui permette d'arriver à bon port !
Of Angels and Women Mostly

Of Angels and Women Mostly

Antonio T. de Nicolas

In addition to being an inspired lecturer and translator, I can attest to Antonio de Nicolas's rare genius for conversation. I'm grateful for the talks I myself had with this amazing Platonist, especially one in which Antonio directed my attention to ...
Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary ...

Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary ...

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Nicolas Abraham, “Notes on the Phantom: A Complement to Freud's Metapsychology,” Critical Inquiry 13 (Winter 1987): 287, 289. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, trans. and ed.
Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel

Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel

Cristina Tonghini

Nicolas Faucherre, Jean Mesqui, Nicolas Prouteau, La fortification au temps des Croisades (Rennes, 2004), pp. 165–178. Edward Cecil Harris, “The Stratigraphy of Standing Structures”, Archeologia dell'Architettura VIII, (2003), pp. 9–14.

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