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This is a collection of favorite poems, written over a 20 year period. They are quips, quotes and anecdotes that were born in the spirit of pure poetry.

Role of Potassium in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine: Information related to this question has accumulated for nearly a hundred years, from work in cellular physiology, experimental studies in animals, clinical trials, and from population and epidemiological investigations. Because of the importance of integration of this diverse body of information, the most significant findings are brought together in this book. This body of information...

En esta obra se estudian las ideas evolutivas y las transformaciones que ha sufrido el concepto de evolución. Cuenta cómo los avances han ido surgiendo en el intento de dar explicación a tres hechos fundamentales: la diversidad entre los seres vivos, las adaptaciones a sus modos de vida, y la existencia de diferentes formas de vida. Libro muy valioso para quien se interese por la historia de la biología y de la geología, y para curiosos y estu...

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David S. Young approaches the need for renewal with a spiritual thrust and an active servant leader style. He gives systematic help in how to be a healthy church with an urgent mission. This manual helps a church cultivate its spiritual life, train leaders, and focus efforts in ministries which express its identity and call. Rather than the pastor working solo, a renewal team is trained that gets the entire congregation involved. The team wor...

Tuberculosis remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases resulting in excess of one million deaths annually. Additionally, up to two billion people are carriers of TB. Because of emerging antibiotic resistance, high incidence in the third world , and co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus , tuberculosis is once again off increasing importance globally. Consequently it is timely for a new comprehensive reference work to be p...

Young investigators discover for themselves how humans learn, as they delve into the mysteries of their shared DNA. Figure out a little brother or sister by analyzing what a very young child can see…learn about relationships through activities that analyze birth order and how siblings resolve conflict. As with all the books in our Science Fair Winners series, this refreshing volume promises creative and irresistible experiments that will awake...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

A career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language. David Young's settings are at once local and universal—an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and ...

A soulful and sage calendar of monthly associations - "things of place seen in time" - from poet Young. Northern Ohio is Young's patch, and he has assumed the poet's ancient obligation to mediate between its citizenry and the sacredness of their landscape, to feed a spiritual hunger, taste the land in its bounty - wheat to wine - serve it forth in words and the occasional well-turned recipe. Young appreciates that any place can ripen in the fu...

According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in "The Modern Olympics, " David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics.Based on thirteen years of research in previously neglected documents, Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown history o...

From the days of hot-air balloons to the jumbo jet age, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation. The Windy City's geographic location and its fame as a railroad center made it the premier aviation hub of America since the dawn of flight. This richly illustrated history portrays the airplanes and the aviators who conquered the skies and maintained Chicago's reputation as the crossroads of the nation.

From the author of "Glenn" and "Inexpressible Island" comes this scathing satiric play about sex, power and the Canadian newspaper industry. Lionel K. Biggar, newspaper baron, aspiring English Lord and megalo-maniac, and Trent, a burnt-out liberal journalist formerly in Biggar's employ, are kidnapped from a shareholder's meeting by Eve, shape-shifting terrorist and nemesis. Chained back to back in a dungeon cell, the two men find themselves in...

Using examples from churches that have experienced renewal by following his plan, Young has created a sensible resource that will aid local congregations in planning their own experiences of renewal. His emphasis on a servant style of leadership and the role of the Holy Spirit makes this a practical and timely resource for local churches seeking to find new life.

Contradictory and provocative pathways crisscross the terrain of gender among contemporary psychologists and psychoanalysts. Clearing a path through this terrain, Polly Young-Eisendrath describes and illustrates issues of gender and desire among women and men. Young-Eisendrath introduces three world views: premodern, modern, and postmodern. Then, she calls our attention to how we shape reality and clearly explains how a lived postmodern philos...