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The Equations: Icons of Knowledge

The Equations: Icons of Knowledge

Sander Bais

Publication coincides with the World Year of Physics: "http://www.wyp2005.nl">www.wyp2005.nl "This beautifully designed book deserves a place on the coffee table .[..] Sander Bais confides the reader in the exciting secrets of the laws of ...
August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

August Sander

"The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the J. Paul Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist.
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Acknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
The Dog with the Old Soul: True Stories of the Love, Hope ...

The Dog with the Old Soul: True Stories of the Love, Hope ...

Jennifer Basye Sander

Sander, Jennifer Basye, 1958The dog with the old soul : true stories of the love, hope, and joy animals bring to our lives / Jennifer Basye Sander. p. cm. ISBN 978 -0-373-89262-4 (pbk.) 1. Dogs—Anecdotes. 2. Pet owners—Anecdotes. 3.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander L. Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Sander L. Gilman

In this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide "healthy" bodies from ones that are ill.
Obesity: The Biography

Obesity: The Biography

Sander L. Gilman

Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more ...
The Jew's Body

The Jew's Body

Sander L. Gilman

Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose.
A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, ...

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, ...

Jennifer Basye Sander

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree ISBN-13: 978-0-373-89263-1 © 2012 by Jennifer Basye Sander All rights reserved. The reproduction, transmission or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles

Jennifer Basye Sander

Jennifer Basye Sander, Sheree Bykofsky. Dead Lines "Dead Lines" boxes contain warnings about professional missteps we want you to be sure to avoid. The Write Words "The Write Words" margin notes contain definitions of terms you need ...
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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That my adopted daughter after her adoption by me shall be known as Kumari Rajlakshmi d/o Vijaychandra Singh Bais. In witness whereof, I have subscribed my signature to this deed at Nagpur on this 23d day of May 1986. Witnesses: ...
REPORT OF THE SETTLEMENT OPERATIONS OF THE RA'I BARELI DISTRICT.

REPORT OF THE SETTLEMENT OPERATIONS OF THE RA'I BARELI DISTRICT.

J.F. MACANDREW, MAJOR, B:S,C.

These two latter soon came into collision with the Gautam Raja, Urgal, whose Government was established at Kanauj. Near that city the Bais engaged the Gautams commanded by Jyechfind, and were victorious, Nerbhee Rae falling in action.
There's More You Should Know: A Journal of My Life

There's More You Should Know: A Journal of My Life

Jennifer Basye Sander

Beautifully designed with full-color illustrations throughout, this book is a special place for parents to record the most significant reflections and remembrances of their lives, and it is sure be a treasured keepsake for their children ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Publishing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Publishing

Jennifer Basye Sander

A practical guide for a booming market. Every aspiring self-published author needs this guide, which covers everything from design to sales.
Seeing the Insane

Seeing the Insane

Sander L. Gilman

Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.
Sexuality: An Illustrated History

Sexuality: An Illustrated History

Sander L. Gilman

The first book of its type, this beautifully illustrated work contains 328 plates, many heretofore unknown, which comprise the visual tradition of human sexuality.
Current Topics in Complement

Current Topics in Complement

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J Mocco, Michael E. Sughrue, Andrew F. Ducruet, Ricardo J. Komotar, Sergei A. Sosunov, and E. Sander Connolly, Jr. 1. INTRODUCTION Ischemic stroke remains the leading cause of disability and third leading cause of death in the United ...
Inflammation and Stroke

Inflammation and Stroke

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David J. Pinsky and E. Sander Connolly Jr. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA Overview of inflammatory mechanisms in stroke When blood flow is interrupted to regions of ...
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander Gilman

On Senoçak, see Leslie A. Adelson, “Back to the Future: Turkish Remembrances of the GDR and Other Phantom Pasts,” in The Cultural After-Life of East Germany: New TransnationalPerspectives, ed. Leslie A. Adelson (Washington, ...
Hot Flash Haiku

Hot Flash Haiku

Jennifer Basye Sander

"In Hot Flash Haiku, you'll find 200 funny and frank, punny and profound poems designed to delight women of a certain age.
Fat Boys: A Slim Book

Fat Boys: A Slim Book

Sander L. Gilman

He is the picture of wealth and plenty?or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat man?a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue?and he is the subject of this remarkably rich book.
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's ...

Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's ...

Richard Sander

In Mismatch, he and journalist Stuart Taylor present a rich and data-driven picture of the way affirmative action works (and doesn't work) in this setting.

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