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    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The impact of basic science radiobiological research is now being recognized of significant importance in clinical radiation oncology. Observations made in the laboratory using animals as'well as tissue culture have led to a better biologic understanding of techniques for altered fractionation, techniques for measuring tumor cell proliferation, the possi bilities and limitations of methods for ... Read more

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  • The Cremator

    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    “The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.”—Giovanni PapiniIt is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II. As a gay man living in a totalitarian, patriarchal society, noted Czech writer Ladislav Fuks identified with the tragic fate of his Jewish countrymen during the ... Read more

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  • Resistance

    by Julián Fuks ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    *My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categorical condition, a single essential attribute...*A young couple, involved in the struggle against the military dictatorship in 1970s Argentina, must flee the country. The brutality and terror of ... Read more

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  • A Quantum Mechanics Primer with Solved Exercises

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum mechanics, supported by numerous solved exercises. Aiming to be both exhaustive and educational, it minimises overly formal aspects by presenting the wave mechanical approach to quantum mechanics. The book simplifies and rigorously covers a large set of fundamental topics such as potential wells and barriers, wave packets, harmonic ... Read more

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  • Occupation

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    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    "This is one beautiful book."—Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance , Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go ... Read more

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  • The Language of Medicine

    by Abraham Fuks ...
    Language exercises a powerful impact on medical care as the words that physicians use with patients have the power to heal or harm. The practice of medicine is shaped by the potent metaphors that are prevalent in clinical care, especially military metaphors and the words of war that bring with them unfortunate consequences for patients and physicians alike. Physicians who fight disease turn the ... Read more

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  • Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures to Help Teachers Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book goes through the changing pattern of various stages of teacher education development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, and then analyses the factors bearing on them. It presents a multifaceted approach in understanding the subject, as well as providing the current practice of teacher development for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This book suggests a system of professional ... Read more

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  • Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

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  • Of Mice and Mooshaber

    by Ladislav Fuks ...
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    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Ladislav Fuks (1923–94) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is best known for his works of short fiction set during the Holocaust, specifically “The Cremator,” a story—later made into a film—about a worker in a crematorium, who, under the influence of Nazi propaganda, murders ... Read more

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  • Pediatric Endodontics

    Current Concepts in Pulp Therapy for Primary and Young Permanent Teeth

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  • Solvable Cellular Automata

    Methods and Applications

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The main focus of the book is solvability of cellular automata, that is, expressing the state of a given cell after a given number of steps by an explicit formula. The author considers solutions of two types of initial value problems for cellular automata, the deterministic one and the probabilistic one. In the first chapter the basic concepts of cellular automata theory are introduced. ... Read more

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  • The Ancestral Constitution (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 25)

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    Originally published in 1953. The return to the "ancestral constitution" was a major issue in Athenian politics in the period of the revolution of 411 and 404 B.C. This book examines the scope and import of the question of the "ancestral constitution". Chapter 1 is a study of Kleitophon’s Rider nd the tradition of Solon and Kleisthenes. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the concept of patrios politeia ... Read more

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