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Excerpt from Laboratory Manual of PhysiologyDescriptions of apparatus and illustrations have, to a large extent, been omitted, since these are more properly the function of the instructor and of the student himself. For the same rea son, results and conclusions of experiments have been left to the student to work out for himself, the descriptions in the text being largely confined to methods of procedure involved in obtaining the results.About...

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A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form, his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save their marriages, and rescue their children. In "Ralph the Duck, " a security guard struggles to hang on to his marriage. In "Name the Name, " a ...

Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife's infatuation with his best frien...

Some of the stories in this "brilliant" (Library Journal, starred review) collection feature the war in Iraq, and others feature domestic wars, in every case, a character seeks to comfort or to save someone. Physical love, familial love, the need to give comfort-and the need for comfort-are themes skillfully rendered by this "master of the genre" (Booklist, starred review), whose achievements earned the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awa...

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Haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack returns to upstate New York where he uncovers a brutal crime and finds himself involved with a treacherous woman. Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, "North" is both an adventure and a pilgrimage.

A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form, his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save their marriages, and rescue their children. In "Ralph the Duck, " a security guard struggles to hang on to his marriage. In "Name the Name, " a ...

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Excerpt from Laboratory Manual of Physiology It has been the aim of the author, in compiling this little volume, to give an outline of experimental physiology for the guidance of students, in a brief and concise form, and sufficiently comprehensive in the subject-matter considered. Descriptions of apparatus and illustrations have, to a large extent, been omitted, since these are more properly the function of the instructor and of the student...

Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Flannery O'Connor, among others.

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Peter's father, a prisoner who turned traitor in a Korean War POW camp, might have had something to do with a fellow captive's death, the father of one Hilary Pennels--now a woman Peter's age who lives in Salisbury. When Peter and Hilary meet, they both want information from the other, and more, and find themselves engaged in a wary dance of attraction laced with mistrust. But it may be a third person, the sole remaining survivor of the camp--...

Peter Santore, the narrator, is an American lawyer in his mid-thirties come to England to track down a certain Hilary Pennels, the daughter of a Korean War hero who died in a POW camp, the same camp in which Peter's own father turned traitor and whose informing became, perhaps, the cause of Hilary's father's death. Only Hilary's guardian, Fox himself a survivor of the camp can explain, if he will, the troubling past that haunts the now fully g...

For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set his fiction in a physical territory--the Northeast, upstate New York especially--which he has given literary shape. With the capaciousness of a Dickens and the control of a Hemingway, Busch's novels have come in steady counterpoint, raising and answering by turns insistent questions that worry e...