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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50pm CET
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-02-08
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0816638772
ISBN-13: 9780816638772
Geography On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. In the twenty years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theatre, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He sugg...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:45pm CET
Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Number of Pages: 0
Published: 2004-01-16
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0072935154
ISBN-13: 9780072935158
Renowned for her effective learning systems, respected author Sylvia Mader has helped thousands of entry-level students understand and enjoy the principles of human anatomy and physiology. Mader expertly weaves up-to-date informative content with effective learning systems, piecing together the facts and fascination of human anatomy and physiology. With the fifth edition of Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology, your introductory, one-semester students have the opportunity to experience an effective blend of up-to-date, informational content with several new features and an extensively en...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:42pm CET
Threesomes: For Couples Who Want to Know More
Publisher: Quiver
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1592332714
ISBN-13: 9781592332717
Exploring the Erotic World of Threesomes!Threesomes offers the reader the tools and knowledge to have a thrilling, safe, and unforgettable sexual adventure. You’ll get engaging and energentic answers to questions such as:What kinds of people participate and why? What are the different types of threesomes?How do you initiate the talk of a threesome?and What are the advantages and disadvantages of having one?Along the way, titillating 4-color photographs of a threesome in action show various positions and techniques. The book also discusses the issue of oWhere to Find a Third?,oe the possi...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:41pm CET
Eclipses: Predicting World Events & Personal Transformation (Special Topics in Astrology)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738707716
ISBN-13: 9780738707716
Eclipses play a crucial role in the fates of nations and the lives of individuals. Nationally known astrologer Celeste Teal draws on nearly thirty years of astrological experience to explain and illustrate how eclipses act as cosmic telegrams about the current state of our world, our personal lives, and our relationships with others. Eclipses illustrates how recent and historical events can be linked directly to eclipses, and provides predictions for their effects on world events in the next decade and beyond. Readers will explore the effects of prenatal eclipses on the natal chart, as we...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:36pm CET
Principles of Finance with Excel: Includes CD
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2006-01-05
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0195301501
ISBN-13: 9780195301502
Principles of Finance with Excel is the first textbook that comprehensively integrates Excel into the teaching and practice of finance. This book provides exceptional resources to the instructor and student, combining classroom-tested pedagogy with the full potential of excel’s powerful functions. In today’s business world, that computation is done almost wholly in Excel. Excel’s ability to combine graphics with computation and perform complex sensitivity analysis with ease provides potent insights into financial problems. Despite this, most finance texts rely heavily on...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:36pm CET
Introducing Chaos, New Edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-01-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840465816
ISBN-13: 9781840465815
This book explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:35pm CET
Introducing Fractal Geometry, 3rd Edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840467134
ISBN-13: 9781840467130
Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world. It mirrors the uneven but real shapes of nature, the world as we actually experience it. Introducing Fractal Geometry traces the development of this revolutionary new discipline....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:31pm CET
Civilization and Its Discontents
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1989-07
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0393301583
ISBN-13: 9780393301588
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn’t you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society’s greatest dangers; ’civilised’ sexual morality. After all, doesn’t rep...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:31pm CET
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140296476
ISBN-13: 9780140296471
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thoughtThe Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological apocalypse. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity’s twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.In Zero science journalist Charles Seife follows this inno...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:25pm CET
Financial Modeling, 3rd Edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number of Pages: 1168
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0262026287
ISBN-13: 9780262026284
Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard text maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the first and second editions so popular. It also offers significant new mat...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:25pm CET
Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0471784508
ISBN-13: 9780471784500
A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains t...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:50am CET
Eclipse Of Reason (Continuum Impacts)
Publisher: Continuum
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826477933
ISBN-13: 9780826477934
In this book, Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:50am CET
Counterrevolution and Revolt
Publisher: Beacon Press
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1989-01-25
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0807015334
ISBN-13: 9780807015339
Dialectal stories and poems by New York City black and Spanish-speaking children edited from tape recordings taken in the classroom....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:49am CET
Portrait Photographer’s Handbook
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 158428207X
ISBN-13: 9781584282075
Combining time-tested practices with contemporary methods, this guidebook details the fine art of capturing formal and casual posed images. With advice and guidance from the finest and most decorated portrait and wedding photographers in the country, this instructional discusses subjects such as lighting in the studio and on location, improving improvisational shooting techniques, and how to retouch images in the post-production process to create truly flawless looks. A chapter addressing the common problems in taking portraitures—from working with subjects with glasses to subjects that ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:48am CET
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060841958
ISBN-13: 9780060841959
In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has—a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language bo...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:48am CET
Guide to Management Ideas, Second Edition (The Economist Series)
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 186197423X
ISBN-13: 9781861974235
The definitive guide to the most influential 100 management ideas of the past 100 years. A lot has changed in the way businesses have been managed in the last hundred years. This lively and authoritative guide explores the hundred ideas that have most influenced approaches to business management during the past 100 years—and which are likely to continue to do so long into this century. From the balanced scorecard and benchmarking through matrix management and mentoring all the way to vision and zero-base budgeting, each idea is covered in a standard comprehensive way, with an explanati...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:47am CET
Maestro : Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-06
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743205626
ISBN-13: 9780743205627
Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan’s thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping narrative, a remarkable portrait of a man who has become the symbol of American economic preeminence....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:47am CET
The Essential Kama Sutra
Publisher: Erotic Print Society
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2004-06
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1898998671
ISBN-13: 9781898998679
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:46am CET
The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 433
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312156960
ISBN-13: 9780312156961
It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur.The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of h...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:45am CET
Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2002-08-16
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 047139906X
ISBN-13: 9780471399063
Power . . . Personality . . . Paradox When Alan Greenspan talks, Wall Street listens-as do bankers, investors, politicians, and economists throughout the world. He is the number one arbiter of U.S. monetary policy-credited, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with having simultaneously held inflation down and kept the economy growing throughout the longest and largest economic expansion in U.S. history. Yet, this Atlas of number crunchers, who owned and operated a highly successful Wall Street consulting firm, never amassed a personal fortune, was a member of the cultlike inner c...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:41am CET
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0735201811
ISBN-13: 9780735201811
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, 2nd Edition, provides an in-depth explanation of candlestick plotting and analysis, conveying to the reader, in easy-to-understand language, the author s years of practical experience in this increasingly popular and dynamic approach to market analysis. It includes hundreds of examples that span the equity, futures, fixed-income, and foreign exchange markets and shows how candlestick charting techniques can be used in almost any market. It has been thoroughly updated to include: * New techniques and strategies * The author s concept of the Converg...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:40am CET
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0316172324
ISBN-13: 9780316172325
How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can pro...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:04am CET
Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-06-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 158923247X
ISBN-13: 9781589232471
For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility. Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking" head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn specializ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:03am CET
Handbook of Alternative Assets (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 047198020X
ISBN-13: 9780471980209
Since the first edition of the Handbook of Alternative Assets was published, significant events-from the popping of the technology bubble and massive accounting scandals to recessions and bear markets-have shifted the financial landscape. These changes have provided author Mark J. P. Anson with an excellent opportunity to examine alternative assets during a different part of the economic cycle than previously observed in the first edition. Fully revised and updated to reflect today’s financial realities, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition covers the five major clas...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:02am CET
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691125260
ISBN-13: 9780691125268
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over four hundred proofs are known to exist, including ones by a twelve-year-old Einstein, a young blind girl, Leonardo da Vinci, and a future president of the United States. Here--perhaps for the first time in English--is the full story of this famous theorem.Although attributed to Pythagoras, the theorem was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years before him. He may have been the first to prove it, b...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:01am CET
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Publisher: Hay House
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1401904599
ISBN-13: 9781401904593
Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality - and you ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life.It s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good and this book will ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:59am CET
The Contest Problem: Book VIII (MAA Problem Book Series)
Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0883858258
ISBN-13: 9780883858257
For more than 50 years, the Mathematical Association of America has been engaged in the construction and administration of challenging contests for students in American and Canadian high schools. The problems on these contests are constructed in the hope that all high school students interested in mathematics will have the opportunity to participate in the contests and will find the experience mathematically enriching. These contests are intended for students at all levels, from the average student at a typical school who enjoys mathematics to the very best students at the most special school....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:55am CET
Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design (Power Electronics and Applications Series)
Publisher: CRC
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-12-20
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0849331544
ISBN-13: 9780849331541
Air quality is deteriorating, the globe is warming, and petroleum resources are decreasing. The most promising solutions for the future involve the development of effective and efficient drive train technologies. This comprehensive volume meets this challenge and opportunity by integrating the wealth of disparate information found in scattered papers and research. Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles focuses on the fundamentals, theory, and design of conventional cars with internal combustion engines (ICE), electric vehicles (EV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), and fuel...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:51am CET
The Ten-Day MBA 3rd Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America’s Top Business Schools
Publisher: Collins Business
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0060799072
ISBN-13: 9780060799076
Now totally revised -- the 3rd edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America’s top business schools, including leadership, corporate ethics and compliance, financial planning, and real estate. This internationally acclaimed guide (more than 200,000 copies sold in the United States and around the world) distills the material of the most popular business-school courses taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Virginia. Silbiger’s research comes straight from the notes of real ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
What the Best MBAs Know
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-02-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0071422757
ISBN-13: 9780071422758
Easy access to the essential knowledge and skills of a top-level M.B.A. program--without having to attend a lecture What the Best MBAs Know provides professionals who don’t have the coveted M.B.A. designation with the skills and knowledge taught in today’s finest programs. Professors from Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, and other influential programs contribute detailed chapters on broad-scope topics such as strategy, functional areas including accounting, and key disciplines from managerial economics to decision analysis. The resulting application-based book gives readers compl...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0596515057
ISBN-13: 9780596515058
They say that good things come in small packages, and it’s certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS effectively across all browsers. Inside, you’ll find: A short introduction to the key concepts of CSS A complete alphabetical reference to all CSS 2.1 selectors and properties A chart displaying detailed information about CSS support for every s...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071433198
ISBN-13: 9780071433198
IF IT’S RAINING IN BRAZIL, BUY STARBUCKS The hardcover edition of If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks first introduced investors to "macrotrading." Instead of just theorizing, the breakthrough investing strategy actually quantifies the impact of global economic forces on specific sectors of the stock market. This paperback edition delivers macrotrading to a new and wider audience, identifying which economic indicators are essential to follow, how to trade profitably in times of recession or inflation, subtle signals that indicate imminent turning points in the market, and muc...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:49am CET
Anatomy & Physiology (ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY (THIBODEAU))
Publisher: Mosby
Number of Pages: 1272
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0323037186
ISBN-13: 9780323037181
A thorough introductory text on human form and function, this text presents a large, complex body of scientific knowledge in an easily understood, conversational writing style. Focusing on concepts rather than descriptions, the text uses a "big picture" theme of body function and also explains the body s homeostatic regulation. For the first time, the textbook includes a downloadable e-book, which is a fully searchable, electronic version of the text plus learning resources from Anatomy & Physiology Online with animations by body system, images, an electronic coloring book, interactive exerc...
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