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Dizzy Pollen is at the top of his game as a jazz bandleader and trumpet player in 1930s San Francisco. When his group is booked for a multi-country tour of Europe, he sets out on what he knows will be the trip of a lifetime. The tour takes them to Romania, where Dizzy realizes he is just a few hours from his ancestral home in Moldova. Knowing little of his family history, he decides to investigate, and borrows a car in search of adventure.Afte...

Dizzy Pollen is at the top of his game as a jazz bandleader and trumpet player in 1930s San Francisco. When his group is booked for a multi-country tour of Europe, he sets out on what he knows will be the trip of a lifetime. The tour takes them to Romania, where Dizzy realizes he is just a few hours from his ancestral home in Moldova. Knowing little of his family history, he decides to investigate, and borrows a car in search of adventure.Afte...

Dealing with some of the thorniest problems in medicine, from euthanasia to the distribution of health care resources, this book introduces the reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics. Exploring how medical ethics supports health professionals' work, it also considers the impact of the media, pressure groups, and legal judgments.

A new vision of dramatic horror from Michael Dunn, the author of BEAUTIFUL, filled with suspense, terror andÑunexpectedlyÑromance and featuring passages of experimental typography, DETOX is a unique experience in storytelling.

Excerpt from The Cascade Metre, or Poems Pertaining to OregonPoetry is not always a thin fabric woven with the warp and woof of dreams, dissolving like a cloud at the first ray of sunshine, yea, rather it is a species of cloth of gold either adorning the edges of a personality, or the literature of a na tion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

This comprehensive text demonstrates how various notions of logic can be viewed as notions of universal algebra. It is aimed primarily at logisticians in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and linguistics with an interest in algebraic logic, but is also accessible to those from a non-logistics background. The premise of the text is that standard algebraic results (representations) translate into standard logical results (completeness) a...

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The Cell Biology of Fibroblast Cyclooxygenase.- Arachidonic Acid Metabolism During Interactions Between Glomerular and Bone Marrow-derived Cells.- Lipoxygenase Products and Their Functions in Glomeruli.- The Development of New Antileukotriene Drugs: Specific Leukotriene D4 Antagonists and 5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitors.- The Renal Cytochrome P450 System Generates Novel Arachidonic Acid Metabolites.- The Biosynthesis and Actions of Prostaglandins in...

Although income and material wealth have no measurable effect on happiness, how we spend the money we do have does. Using cutting-edge research, the authors combine science, wit and practical pointers for a more rewarding and fulfilled life.

Two professors combine their fascinating and cutting-edge research in behavioral science to explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smart spending.Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money of...

Understanding how to apply the principles of green chemistry into a vital area such as pharmaceuticals is the overall goal of this monograph. Edited by three of the world?s leading pharmaceutical scientists, this is the first book to collate much previously unpublished information into one resource. It handles all aspects of green chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, from simple molecules to complex proteins, and from drug discovery to th...

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Opens the door to the sustainable production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals Driven by both public demand and government regulations, pharmaceutical and fine chemical manufacturers are increasingly seeking to replace stoichiometric reagents used in synthetic transformations with catalytic routes in order to develop greener, safer, and more cost-effective chemical processes. This book supports the discovery, development, and implementati...

The sibling relationship, as any parent with two or more children knows, is an extraordinarily intense one: young brothers and sisters love and hate, play and fight, tease and mock each other with a devastating lack of inhibition. Full of practical advice for coping with the daily trials of parenting two or more children.

This work charts the growth of sculpture in this former British colony from the era of British imports through a period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the 20th century, using a wider set of sources and materials and more personal forms of expression.

This study of the late 19th- and early 20th-century Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli traces his artistic development, personal life, and travels to the South Pacific where he became an influential figure in Australasian art circles. Forty full-color reproductions of Nerli's work are included with commentary.

Have you ever wondered how a child who once believed in the Story of Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Jonah and the Whale, David and Goliath, the Gospel Message, songs about the 'B I B L E yes that's the Book for me' and then they enter High School and go through what I believe to be a spiritual metamorphosis where their whole mindset on Biblical truths suddenly changes into doubts, fears and unbelief. How does this happen so quickly ...

In June, 1981, we conducted a two day international symposium in Rome devoted to original scientific presentations on arachidonic acid metabolism in the kidney. Scientists from 20 countries were represented either in the general scientific program or in the poster presentation. This book does not represent the proceedings of this international gathering, but rather the edited manuscripts specifically prepared as sum­ maries of the scientific p...

VERY GRISLY, HAUNTING' //WILDSOUND 'HIGHLY ORIGINAL AND UNUSUAL' //SLAMDANCE Identical twins: Stéphane and Rémy Janssen. They believe one of them was supposed to have been absorbed in utero. With the help of a transgendered surgeon, they attempt to do what nature didn't. A story of loneliness and perversion, BEAUTIFUL explores the obsession with the physical while lifting away the flesh to understand what's underneath.