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Winston Churchill's afternoon nap: a wide-awake inquiry into the human nature of time
By Jeremy Campbell. 1986
Windows 7 for dummies
By Andy Rathbone. 2009
Whether you're new to computers or just eager to start using the newest version of Windows, this book will walk…
you step by step through the most common Windows 7 tasks, including managing files, applications, media, and Internet access. It also shows you how to navigate the interface, customize the desktop, and work with the file system. 2009.Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything
By Don Tapscott, Anthony D Williams. 2006
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands…
or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, others feel they can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success. 2006.Who goes first?: the story of self-experimentation in medicine
By Lawrence K Altman. 1987
Well of lies: the Walkerton water tragedy
By Colin N Perkel. 2002
Over a period of a week in May 2000, hundreds of people in Walkerton, Ontario, were afflicted by a deadly…
strain of E. coli bacteria. Combining interviews and original research with testimony given to the Walkerton Inquiry, Perkel reconstructs the events leading up to the tragedy. He shows how a system has failed utterly, at almost every level, and how the virtues of a small town have contributed to the disaster. 2002.Web accessibility for people with disabilities
By Michael G Paciello. 2000
Advocates making the World Wide Web fully accessible for people with disabilities and provides instructions for designing and building web…
sites with the use of assistive technology. Describes tools and utilities currently available, outlines legal issues, and discusses problem solving resources. 2000.Veiled threat: the hidden power of the women of Afghanistan
By Sally Armstrong. 2002
Denied schooling, employment and adequate health care and confined to their homes unless accompanied by a male relative, the women…
of Afghanistan struggled to survive under the Taliban regime. The author describes the ways these women and girls rebelled against the Taliban. 2002.Understanding arthritis: What It Is, How To Treat It, How To Cope With It
By Irving Kushner, Ann Forer, Ann B McGuire. 1984
Describes the most common rheumatic diseases and the currently accepted medical treatment. Dispels some of the folklore concerning the diseases…
and explains that most medical research has not substantiated many of the "home remedies". 1984.Un miracle de l'amour: la renaissance d'un enfant autistique
By Barry Neil Kaufman, Luc Bernard Lalanne, Marie-Thérèse Kerzoncuf-Kolakowski. 1985
"Votre fils est autistique. C'est irrécupérable!" Barry et Suzi décident de percer, seuls, sans aucune aide professionnelle, le mur de…
cette forteresse qui coupe leur fils du monde. 1985. Titre uniforme: Son rise.Un choc de religions: la longue guerre de l'islam et de la chrétienté, 622-2007
By Jean-Paul Roux. 2007
Bataille de Poitiers, croisades, prise de Constantinople, guerre d'Algérie: il y a ce conflit armé qui a commencé en l'année…
632. Il n'y a pas d'année, pas de semaine peut-être sans que du sang soit versé par des chrétiens ou par des musulmans. Ne vaut-il pas la peine de le rappeler, de montrer à nos contemporains que les événements qui occupent l'actualité, qui les bouleversent, s'inscrivent dans une longue série de 1375 ans d'événements tout aussi spectaculaires ; que de plus petits faits dont on ne parle guère qu'un jour ou deux ont eu, tous les jours, leurs équivalents pendant 1375 ans ? 2007.Un anthropologue sur Mars: sept histoires paradoxales
By Oliver W Sacks, Christian Cler. 1996
Sept récits consacrés à des personnages atteints de troubles neurologiques aussi divers que le syndrome de La Tourette, l'autisme, l'amnésie…
et la cécité totale aux couleurs. À travers chacun d'eux, l'auteur, un neurologue, démontre que les troubles neurologiques ne sont pas seulement des maladies, ils ouvrent des mondes nouveaux grâce aux merveilleuses capacités de reconstruction et d'adaptation que l'humain possède. 1996.Twitter power: how to dominate your market one tweet at a time (Your coach in a box)
By Anthony Robbins, Joel Comm, Ken Burge. 2009
If you don't know what Twitter is, or how to use it, this is the audiobook for you. In this…
insightful volume, Comm shows listeners how to use one of the Internet's hottest social networking tools to keep customers and business partners "in the know" in real time. The best businesses of today and tomorrow are using this high-tech, low-cost, and low-hassle technology to gain real advantages over their competitors. Don't get left behind! 2009.They all laughed at Christopher Columbus: tales of medicine and the art of discovery
By Gerald Weissmann. 1987
Essays on a wide range of subjects, such as literature, philosophy, politics and psychology, which show the disparity between the…
scientific progress of the last few decades and the increasing social disintegration. 1987.The way of the Sufi
By Idries Shah. 1980
The virus that ate cannibals
By Carol Eron. 1981
Biographical, intellectual, and historical backgrounds are blended into sprightly accounts of scientists labouring to defeat viral diseases, including yellow fever,…
polio, and kuru, a bizarre neurological disease in New Guinea. c1981.The truth about the drug companies: how they deceive us and what to do about it
By Marcia Angell. 2004
Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, presents an indictment of "big pharma" as corrupting Congress, the…
FDA, and members of the medical profession. The cost of marketing, both to physicians and consumers, far outweighs expenditures on research and development, though drug makers invoke R&D as the reason drug prices are so high. Angell also offers specific suggestions for reform of this essential industry. 2004.The transformed cell: unlocking the mysteries of cancer
By Steven A Rosenberg, John M Barry. 1992
Dr Rossenberg provides a glimpse inside the workings of the scientific process. His quest began in 1968 when he encountered…
a patient whose cancer had mysteriously disappeared. Could the body itself have mounted a massive immune response to the cancer? He set out to see if immunotherapy, and later gene therapy, could succeed where surgery, chemotherapy and radiation had failed. 1992.The trouble with Islam: a wake-up call for honesty and change
By Irshad Manji. 2003
Irshad Manji considers herself a Muslim, but is at issue with many of its cornerstones: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and…
an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, superior, manifesto of God. In an open letter to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, she asks pointed questions such as: "Who is the real colonizer of Muslims -- America or Arabia? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God's creation?" Manji offers a vision of how Islam can undergo a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas, reviving Islam's lost tradition of independent thought. 2003.The trembling mountain: a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease
By Robert Klitzman. 1998
Recounts the author's experiences in Papua New Guinea in 1981 studying kuru, an illness caused by essentially the same infectious…
agent as in Mad Cow disease. Documents his encounters with the Stone Age Fore group that practices cannibalism. Discusses the difficulties and triumphs of conducting field work in epidemiology and medical anthropology. 1998.The thorn in the starfish: how the human immune system works
By Robert S Desowitz. 1987
A parasitologist explains discoveries about the human immune system, including those by Pasteur, Metchnikoff and Ehrlich. Includes a discussion on…
AIDS and of the difficulties in developing an AIDS vaccine. c1987.