Chemosensitivity testing is an ex vivo means of determining or enhancing the cytotoxic and/or cytostatic, or apoptosis-inducing effects of anticancer drugs. In Chemosensitivity, leading researchers and physicians working in academia and biotech companies describe state-of-the-art laboratory methods for assessing chemosensitivity in vitro and in vivo, and for assessing the parameters that modulate chemosensitivity in individual tumors. Volume 1...
Media and Violence pays equal attention to the production, content and reception involved in any representation of violence.
This book offers a framework for understanding how violence is represented and consumed.
It examines:
- The relationship of media, gender and real-world violence
- Representations of violence in screen entertainment
- The effects of violent media on consumers
- The ethics and gender politics of the production processes...
Recital's easy-to-understand, bite-sized poems lend a fresh voice to life's daily joys and struggles. Whether it's rainy a Paris boulevard, Ireland's Connemara, or the windswept dunes of Long Island's Hamptons, from one page to the next Recital carries you away with depth and spirit. The richly varied program features poems that span the full range of emotions and ask the questions often closest to our hearts... Where do all the years go? How ...
While international security has radically changed since 1989, nuclear weapons remain a subject of debate and contention. This paper provides an analytical framework for understanding post-Cold War Europe's strategic debates. It offers insights into Europe's national nuclear policies and perspectives.
The Masonic Order is one of the most powerful Fraternal Orders in the world. Have you ever wondered why? Why did this order restrict membership to men of European descent? In this book Zachary Gremillion, Founder of the Imperial Society answers the following questions: What do these fraternal orders of Masonry have to do with African people? How did this order originate in Europe, and why were Black men in early America not allowed into member...
Lyle suddenly felt panicked as he saw the strange man approaching Hannah, a man who had been following the kids at a distance. Lyle quickly hung up the phone and made his way down to the main floor of the grocery store as the man reached for the young girl.
This is a story of how a small group of people made a transformation from Jew to Jewish American to American Jews. It is not unlike the transformation and Americanization of other peoples. How it differs is from the very fact that a religion, a set of beliefs transformed into a nationality. It is about a period of time in one woman's life, my mother who was a blend of Europe and America. She was a mixture of ethnicity, culture, religion and Am...
Historically batch control systems were designed individually to match a specific arrangement of plant equipment. They lacked the ability to convert to new products without having to modify the control systems, and did not lend themselves to integration with manufacturing management systems. Practical Batch Management Systems explains how to utilize the building blocks and arrange the structures of modern batch management systems to produce fl...
In Sin rumbo Cambaceres portraits scenes of the Argentine upper class at the turn of the XIX Century. Detailed and realistic the author defines with literary uniqueness the atmosphere with the initial clash during the sheep shearing scene. Then come the noon horseback ride to the peasant woman's shack, the forced seduction down to complete surrender in body and soul, and the whim of a night spent together with the sensations that assault and r...
Here is a step-by-step guide to writing historical skits, plays, or monologues for all ages from true life stories, genealogy records, oral history, DNA-driven anthropology, social issues, current events, and personal history of early colonial era settlers. Put direct experience in a small package and launch it worldwide. You could emphasize the early New England 17th century settlers and their diaries of family life, food, clothing, marriage,...
There is a great need for transformation in the youth of America today. It can be done by conscientiously educating our young people with a program like Gracian de Paul, Transforming America's Youth. This program was created to entice Gracian de Paul students to take a closer look at themselves, their behaviors and the world around them. Throughout this conceptual study they will learn the importance of etiquette, valuable social skills and de...
In September of 1937, Eagle Scout Tom Larson put a packsack on his back and set out to see the world. After two years at the University of Minnesota, he hitchhiked westward from his hometown of Aitkin, Minnesota. Eight months later as a seaman on a west coast oil tanker, he'd saved $250 dollars. After riding on freight cars and hitchhiking, he arrived in New York City. Luckily he was able to work passage on a Danish freighter to Antwerp, Belgi...
Alone, in the dark cave of an ancient mountain, something sinister sits and waits for all eternity for the arrival of Robert Crum... Enter into the Land of Wonder and Enchantment, a mythological world inhabited by witches and goblins, knights and fairies where Robert Crum, aided by the mysterious Lady of the Forest, is forced to travel a painful, terrifying road through places of beauty and danger to finally face his own, worst nightmare. This...
Bernd Ulrich schildert anschaulich und kenntnisreich Vorgeschichte und Verlauf der Schlacht von Stalingrad. Deutlich wird so ihre Bedeutung in einem Vernichtungskrieg, in dem sich zwei totalitäre Systeme gegenüberstanden. Der "Schicksalskampf an der Wolga" war indessen weder kriegsentscheidend noch die verlustreichste Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Gerade deswegen stellt sich die Frage, wie "Stalingrad" zum Inbegriff einer Katastrophe und zu...
Dieter Rexroth bietet eine knappe Einführung in Werke und Wirkungen des symphonischen Schaffens von Ludwig van Beethoven. Er erläutert Begriff und Geschichte der Symphonie im allgemeinen und ordnet Beethovens Symphonien in den Kontext der Wiener Klassik ein. Im Hauptteil des Bandes werden die einzelnen Symphonien vorgestellt - ihre Bedeutung heute und Überlegungen zu ihrer Interpretation bilden den Abschluß des Bandes.
Weltweit verbreitet, kommen Pilze in den unterschiedlichsten Lebensformen vor, als mikroskopisch kleine Zelle oder als gigantisches Pilzgeflecht, das kilometerweit den Boden durchzieht. In diesem Buch erklärt ein ausgewiesener Fachmann die eigentümliche Lebenswelt der Pilze, beschreibt ihre besondere Stellung in der Natur und erläutert, wie der Mensch bis heute die „magischen Kräfte" der Pilze zunutzen sucht.
