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In Alcohol and Hormones, leading researchers concisely review what is known about each human hormone system and how these systems are affected by alcohol use, to a lesser extent, other drugs of abuse. The contributors show clearly just how the body is regulated and how its normal functioning can be changed by alcohol. Major topics covered range from alcohol-stress interactions and the effects of alcohol on vitamin A metabolism (fetal alcohol ...

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This book explores the fascinating field of high-temperature superconductivity. Basic concepts¿including experimental techniques and theoretical issues¿are discussed in a clear, systematic manner. In addition, the most recent research results in the measurements, materials synthesis and processing, and characterization of physical properties of high-temperature superconductors are presented. Researchers and students alike can use this book as ...

This study explores the alternatives to freedom. It discusses the arguments of the following debates: freedom versus Parliament, freedom versus the national interest, freedom versus responsibility, freedom versus accountability, freedom versus equality and freedom versus the moral community.

This pack of 21 double-sided cards is part of a two-level kindergarten course for young learners of English. The course uses illustrations, songs, stories and active learning, and introduces the child to reading and handwriting, progressing from alphabet shapes to complete words.

This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span, expert mingling of political, social and economic history, and Dr Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads of his account from tangling as he weaves them into the broad regional picture that is his main concern. Here he tackles the contrasting experiences of Europe's northern periphery -- affluence a...

Provides the reader with memory fundamentals as well as directions for future research. Examines memory history, current memory technology and offers a glimpse at the future of memories. Topics include memory market trends and their importance to both industry and government applications requirements which determine the direction of memory development and technical aspects of memories. Descriptions and usage of the various types of memories in...

Presents biomedical, environmental, physical and basic sciences research laboratory programming, planning and design criteria based upon the author's many years of experience in master planning and programming. Considers the many factors that have significant impact on the design of laboratory facilities including architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing standards. Contains an extensive list of codes, regulations, guideli...

A compilation of concepts, biological relationships and procedures used to organize forested landscapes for combinations of goods, services and effects.

From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as "professional." In this important historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.

Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social contex...

In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society. Helg argues that despite Cuba's abolition of slavery in 1886 and its winning of independence in 1902, Afro-Cubans remained marginalized in a...

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The Constitution Besieged" offers a compelling reinterpretation of one of the most notorious periods in American constitutional history. In the decades following the Civil War, federal and state judges struck down as unconstitutional a great deal of innovative social and economic legislation. Scholars have traditionally viewed this as the work of a conservative judiciary more interested in promoting laissez-faire economics than in interpreting...

This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought.

Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and includes substantive discussions of institutional development and of the o...

A thoughtful and wide-ranging contribution to the social and economic history of the High Medieval urban milieu.” - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, "Interesting and comprehensive.... A major accomplishment.” - Journal of Economic History

Alcohol and other drugs of abuse cause significant physi­ ological changes, especially during development. The effects on the infant and child range from severe mental retardation to mild changes in activity and neurological functions. Although the level of intake needed to cause fetal damage is not clear, the magnitude of the problem is significant, with many long-term sequelae. As a result, it becomes critical to better diagnose and manage d...