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The book considers biology in parallel with philosophical structuralism in order to argue that notions of form in the organism are analogous to similar ideas in structuralist philosophy and literary theory. This analogy is then used to shed light on debates among biological scientists from the turn of the 19th century to the present day, including Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Dawkins, Crick, Goodwin, Rosen and West-Eberhard. The book critiq...

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The most out-of-this-world vacations ever!It's not just astronauts who get to travel into space anymore. Forward-thinking entrepreneurs have made space flight a reality for adventure-seekers of all kinds. This travel guide for kids helps them plan their own journeys, covering pre-trip preparations (such as training to withstand extreme g-forces), accommodations (a thick radiation shield is a must on Mars), dining (hot dogs in zero gravity, any...

Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer is a powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contrast mechanism with unique features. This is the first authoritative textbook covering all aspects of CEST imaging. The rapid expansion that CEST imaging has seen over the past 16 years since the seminal Ward and Balaban paper in 2000 has created a need for a graduate-level handbook that describes the wide assortment of issues that come in to play when try...

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvards new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. There, he and his wife, Ise, hosted a festive reunion of Bauhaus masters and students who had recently emigrated from Europe.

The authors share observations drawn form over 25 years of working together on issues of prayer and psychology. They outline how psychologist Abraham Maslow uncovered why different people need to pray in different ways.

The history of Rancho San Justo and Hollister began in 1839 when Gov. Juan Alvarado gave the land grant to Jose Castro. Castro sold the land to Francisco Pacheco, who, in turn, sold the land grant to William Hollister and his partners Llwellyn Bixby and Thomas and Benjamin Flint. In 1861, the men agreed to split the property. The site for the town was surveyed in 1868 with plans to divide the site into 50 homestead lots. Colonel Hollister sold...

Studien zeigen, dass es zwischen Männern und Frauen hinsichtlich der Empfänglichkeit für Stress-verursachte Krankheiten Unterschiede gibt. Da angenommen wird, dass Stress-bedingte Krankheiten teilweise durch bestimmte Verhaltensweisen hervorgerufen werden, stellt sich die Frage, ob Männer und Frauen Unterschiede in Stressbewältigung aufzeigen. Die Erkenntnis, dass eine maskuline bzw. feminine Identität oft für den Ausdruck einer bestimmten Ver...

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