Presents paradigms, model systems, and techniques for the study of dysfunctions in the nervous system. This work features topics such as: neural injury, developmental cell death, and disease processes and aging. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches presented.
Answers questions frequently asked by thermal and packaging engineers. Providing problem-solving analyses, this title covers theoretical, numerical, and experimental analyses, includes descriptions of 12 air cooling enhancement techniques, and discusses the limiting roles of heat transfer, fluid flow, and thermal coupling in electronic enclosures.
This publication is unique and ground breaking because no previous volume has focused on the mechanisms by which nitric oxide and oxygen radicals are involved in vascular pathophysiology. This book provides a current review of the use of nitric oxide to treat pulmonary hypertension, whether idiopathic or secondary to congenital heart disease.
Coherent Flow Structures in Open Channels presents the first integrated treatment, across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, of the origins and characteristics of coherent fluid motions and their influence on sediment transport and bed morphology. This book contains contributions from an international and interdisciplinary authorship who are responsible for many of the recent advances in geophysical boundary layer research. Coherent ...
Time for bed, Biscuit! Biscuit is a little yellow puppy. And like most puppies, he would rather play than go to bed. Will Biscuit ever go to sleep?It's Biscuit's bedtime, but this lively little puppy doesn't want to go to sleep! Before he gets into bed, Biscuit plays out the familiar bedtime drama of wanting just one more thing. A perfect story for young readers who won't be able to resist reading about this adorable puppy for themselves. 1996...
This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation--a view that is gaining ground in Rus
A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal). Line drawings.
In "Sucess Stories, " an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. "Queen for a Day, Success Story, " and "Adultery" trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. "The Fish" is an evocating parable of faith and...
From the elephants with the long trunks swingin' to the monkeys scritch, scritch, scratchin' to the kangaroos hop, hop, hoppin', young children will want to stay all day with the marvelous menagerie, illustrated in Karen Lee Schmidt's bright and boisterous style. Includes an easily played melody for the piano or guitar. Full color.
In "Mornings Like This, " Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
In this very special collection, thirty distinguished authors and illustrators explore the unique and varied meanings of home. Their beautiful words and magnificent art affirm the importance--and joy--of having a place of one's own.
Rationale Software engineering aims to develop software by using approaches which en able large and complex program suites to be developed in a systematic way. However, it is well known that it is difficult to obtain the level of assurance of correctness required for safety critical software using old fashioned program ming techniques. The level of safety required becomes particularly high in software which is to function without a break for...
In "A Democracy of Despots" correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, showing how both men used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible. The story tells of the emerging democratic government is one of ambitious men and women who optimistically launched their experiment in democracy only to find themselves a...
