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Warburg had the key to understanding Cancer and how to defeat it The book is easy to read and anyone can have the prime cause of cancer explained and action items available This biography of Otto Warburg by Sir Hans Krebs, one of Otto Warburg's proteges, and a fellow Nobel laureate, is far more an extended festschrift than a real biography. If you're looking for a short biography this book is for you.

Slaughterhouse-Five is part autobiographical, part science-fiction, part sarcastic master work by Kurt Vonnegut. It is often assigned by college and high school reading and writing classes, especially when our President wants us to go out and kill somebody. Slaughterhouse-Five came out in 1969 near the height of the War in Vietnam. At that time, our President told us the Vietnam War was a war we had to fight to protect the freedom loving peopl...

This book discusses in dialogue form the basic principles of mathematics and its applications including the question: What is mathematics? What does its specific method consist of? What is its relation to the sciences and humanities? What can it offer to specialists in different fields? How can it be applied in practice and in discovering the laws of nature? Dramatized by the dialogue form and shown in the historical movements in which they or...

Otto Heinrich Warburg war Gründer (und bis 1967 Direktor, ab 1953 Max-Planck-Institut für Zellphysiologie) des 1930 eingerichteten Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituts für Zellphysiologie in Berlin-Dahlem. Als 1939 der Druck der Nazis auf ihn spürbar wurde, versuchte Warburg als „Mischling 1. Grades" eingestuft zu werden. Tatsächlich gelang es ihm, bis zum Kriegsende in seiner Position zu verbleiben, angeblich durch Beziehungen zu hochrangigen Personen. 1...

Hawaii is not only a truly great story but a notable literary achievement. It is a work of fiction, yet so true to the spirit and the history of the islands that it can properly be called the first major chronicle of the land and its people - a monumental tribute that will stand indefinitely.The volcanic process by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and they remained, undiscovered and untouched by man...

This book offers the first extensive introduction to mutational mechanisms, one of the most rapidly progressing and fruitful areas of molecular biology. It presents a broad outline of present knowledge while emphasizing many of the doubtful areas. The discussion is primarily concerned with mutation in prokaryotic microorganisms, because most of the early conceptual advances in molecular genetics arose from studies on these forums. Great emphas...

This was the first biography of Donald Trump. By age thirty-eight, Donald Trump had emerged as one of the most powerful, daring and controversial figures on the American scene. Here, in this revealing biography, the first book about one of America's genuinely influential movers and shakers, is a full fledged portrait of the flamboyant real estate baron: master negotiator, super-salesman, a man who dares to think big and far ahead, a man who un...

Immunogenetics or immungenetics is the branch of medical research that explores the relationship between the immune system and genetics. Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, are complex genetic traits which result from defects in the immune system. Identification of genes defining the immune defects may identify new target genes for therapeutic approaches.Immunogenetics or immungenetics is the branch of medical genetics that explores ...

One of America's outstanding masters, I. A. Horowitz, and famed analyst Hans Kmoch have joined forces to give you a thrilling round by round report of the greatest event in chess history - the First World Championship Tourney.The book contains biographies (with full match and tournament records) of the players, pictures, cartoons, and - a special feature - a survey of opening play from Anderssen , the first world champion, to Botvinnik. Partic...

Breakfast at Tiffany's tells the improbable story of a young woman who attracts men the way that moths are attracted to a flame. What is the attraction of this woman?Today she is regarded at the epitome of elegance and style.

Counter Intelligence" the author says "is the art of catching spies, " and he proceeds to tell us how the American Army did it, beginning from scratch but winding up more than a match for the dreaded Gestapo. He tells of encounters with Vichy agents in Africa, the death of Darlan, of adventures in Naples, Marseilles, Belgium and Bremen and concludes with the authentic story of the capture and "not very strange" death of Heinrich Himmler. Along...

This book was required for classes taught by Shiv K. Gupta and John M. Cozzolino at The Wharton School, the school that Donald Trump says he attended. Shiv K. Gupta wrote or contributed to five other books, "American business challenge : a simulation game : a game of strategy", Business challenge : a simulation game, Economic and cultural impact study of the amusement park and attraction industry, prepared for the International Association of ...

There were many controversies concerning this event that are still debated and discussed today. It was a matter of prestige for the Soviet Union that a Soviet player win to prove the superiority of the Soviet system. However, Stalin decided that the match was to be decided by having the best player win and rejected proposals to fix the matches. Reshevsky was leading at some point and they were seriously concerned that an American and moreover ...

Looking for Fassbinder and Finding Divine is an intriguing survey of film festivals in the last quarter of the 20th century, ending with the crash of the Twin Towers at the turn of the millennium. Prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died of an overdose at age 37, and midnight-movies star drag queen Divine, known for the trash classic Pink Flamingos, were both cult figures with devoted followings. The lively style of writing ...

The Electoral System is in a crisis. This is not the first time a crisis has arisen.In 1888, Grover Cleveland became the third of only five candidates to win the popular vote but lose their respective presidential elections (Andrew Jackson in 1824, Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Al Gore in 2000, and Hillary Clinton in 2016 were the others).This book is essential reading for any United States citizen who wants to understand our present system of cho...

David Levy and Donald Goldsmith met and began their professional collaboration at the University of California at Los Angeles during the 1963-1964 academic year. This book is one result. This exciting and highly readable book presents the most interesting aspects of astronomy and modern physics in a way that can be understood by readers with little or no scientific orientation or motivation. Shunning the mass of confusing detail that character...

Eight Men Out is Eliot Asinof's 1963 book depicting Major League Baseball's Black Sox scandal of 1919. The full title of the book is Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. The facts of this episode in sports history have often been wrongly reported. So many people had vested interest in hiding the truth. Conflicting stories abound. Asinof took great care in his factual research and his results are accurate.What occurred was, e...

This is the follow-up volume to the Original "Guys and Dolls" by Damon Runyon, published in 1931, ISBN 9784871879477, with 34 more stories.Since then, there have been many "Guys and Dolls", including Broadway Plays named Guys and Dolls that get revived from time to time.Damon Runyon was primarily a newspaper reporter. He wrote these stories as a sideline. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York Cit...

At age 97, Yuri Averkakh is the World's Oldest still living chess grandmaster and is still active in chess. In the ending, the advantage of a single "insignificant" pawn can frequently prove decisive, as that pawn inexorably pushes forward and is finally able to reach the last rank and is able to transform itself into a queen.

It has been established that the earliest humans alive today are the San Bushmen from the Kalahari Desert in Batswana.