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Somewhere between tales and polemics, these funny, ribald, and inventive pieces show Voltaire doing what he does best: brilliantly challenging received wisdom, religious intolerance, and naïve optimism. Traveling through strange environments, Voltaire's protagonists are educated, often by surprise, into the complexities and contradictions of their world. Arriving on Earth from the star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromégas discovers a dimin...

From Bench to Pilot Plant: Process Research in the Pharmaceutical Industry examines the bridges between research, product development and manufacturing. The volume examines the transfer of small scale research results to a marketable product through stages of scale up and discusses how to alleviate the problems of high cost, environmental concerns, and safety. Chapters include advances in technology of product development, and transferring mod...

Richard Evans was the key expert witness in the David Irving trial in which the judge branded Irving a racist and anti-Semite. Evans explains here how he revealed Irving's methods of historical falsification and demonstrates Irving's connections with far-right Holocaust deniers in the United States

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Responding to growing interest in the presence and image of blacks and blackness in classical antiquity, this examines the blacks as seen by early Christian writers.

Recent years have seen a growth in the numbers of studies of substance abuse and dependence in adolescence, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, course and outcome. At the same time, numerous prevention and intervention strategies have been developed. In this book, an eminent group of international researchers and clinicians, summarize the most recent empirical findings and state-of-the-art knowledge on substance abuse and depend...

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Nine-year-old Toby Ames is a boy desperately in need of a heart transplant. His salvation comes in the form of Brooke Hunter, a young girl who died with her father in a motorcycle accident. Eight months later, Toby, his parents, Nick and Susannah, and Brooke's mother, Linsey, are left to face the demands of family, love, passion, and loss.Nerves of the Heart is a remarkable portrait of individuals nursing old and new loves and the little boy w...

In October 1973 two crises ¿ one economic, one political ¿ intersected, with dramatic and long term consequences for international relations. On 6 October, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel, and within a few days the major Arab oil producers announced their support by use of the ¿oil weapon¿, including a boycott of supplies for countries friendly to Israel and a programme of production cuts. This was followed by the unilateral decla...

Martin presents philosophy in a witty, lively, and engaged manner, the reader gets the rewarding sensation of a discipline in motion, an ongoing conversation between past, present, and future." -- Edrie Sobstyl, University of Texas at Dallas

This is a wonderful textbook for anyone teaching an undergraduate course in contemporary epistemology!" -- Ram Neta, University of Utah

The book discusses the successes and failures of the mixed economy of health care in the inter-war period, including a consideration of the nature of public-private partnerships.

What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and responsibilities for making human rights real? Why have some criticized the human rights perspective? And how can those supportive of human rights best respond? These and other conceptual issues are discussed in full in the first part of this book. The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be...

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Recent years have seen a growth in the numbers of studies of substance abuse and dependence in adolescence, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, course and outcome. At the same time, numerous prevention and intervention strategies have been developed. In this book, an eminent group of international researchers and clinicians, summarize the most recent empirical findings and state-of-the-art knowledge on substance abuse and depend...

Case Studies in Psychopharmacology is an authoritative text written by pharmacists for pharmacists, doctors and nurses working in psychiatry. The contributors, all respected experts in their field, use case studies drawn from their own extensive expertise to illustrate the decisions made in treating patients suffering from a wide range of psychiatric disorders. These vignettes raise important questions concerning management. The chapter author...