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  • Cyrenius Chapin

    Buffalo’s First Physician and War of 1812 Hero

    by Thomas C. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    America's geographic and ideological frontier as lived by Buffalo's first physician, renegade militia officer, and founding citizen.Cyrenius Chapin tells the story of life in the young American republic through the experiences of a local physician, land speculator, and patriotic citizen. Chapin arrived in Buffalo in 1803 blessed with a forceful personality, infuriating gall, and a caring nature. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Bloodletting and Germs

    A Doctor in Nineteenth Century Rural New York

    by Thomas Rosenthal ...
    Bloodletting and Germs will change the way you think about medical practice. Imagine you are a patient in 1840. You're sick and your village doctor has little more to offer than letting blood and purging your bowels. Or think of being the doctor, repeatedly staring at death, seeking cures, and holding the hand of a feverish child. On his way to America's frontier in 1834 the newly graduated doctor ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving Hypoxia

    Mechanisms of Control and Adaptation

    by Peter W. Hochachka, Peter L. Lutz, Thomas J. Sick, Myron Rosenthal ...
    Surviving Hypoxia: Mechanisms of Control and Adaptation is a synthesis of findings and thoughts concerning hypoxia. The thermodynamics of hypoxia are discussed in detail, including acid-base balance and self-pollution resulting from the accumulation of anaerobic end-products. The book focuses on descriptions and discussions of common facets, contrasting solutions in a variety of physiological ... Read more

    $580.00 USD

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    by Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew P. Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Dan Janzen, Catherine Laughlin, Tom Mays, Robert McCaleb, Katy Moran, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey, John H. Vandermeer ...
    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

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  • Jefferson's America

    The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

    by Julie M. Fenster ...
    The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration—and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation.At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Eighth Edition

    by Curtis D. Klaassen ...
    The most trusted all-in-one overview of the biomedical and environmental aspects of toxicology--NOW more complete, up-to-date, and in full colorThe world's leading and most authoritative textbook on poisons has more to offer students,toxicologists, and pharmacologists than ever before. Now in full color, and thoroughly revised, the eighth edition of Casarett & Doull's TOXICOLOGY: The Basic Science ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Ohio Frontier

    Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    "A vivid panorama of the transitional years when Ohio evolved from a raw frontier territory to an established province of an ever-expanding nation." — BooklistNowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than on the Ohio frontier. First settled by migrating Native Americans about 1720 and later by white settlers, Ohio became the crucible which set indigenous and military ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution Song

    The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

    by Russell Shorto ...
    “An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago TribuneAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fish Physiology: Hypoxia

    Edited by Jeffrey G. Richards, Colin Brauner, Anthony P. Farrell ...
    Series Book 27 - Fish Physiology
    Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding, stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes (e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not surprising ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier

    by Timothy J. Shannon ...
    The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American ConfederacyMore than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce warriors, the Iroquois were just as reliant on political prowess and sophisticated diplomacy to maintain ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Simon Girty

    Wilderness Warrior

    by Edward Butts ...
    Series Book 29 - Quest Biography
    During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against ... Read more

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