Author: Caplan/Hurst/cH
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: clinical, cardiology, neurocardiology, fundamental
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $299.95
ISBN-10: 0824719913
ISBN-13: 9780824719913

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Practical, clinical, and concise text on neurological and cardiological abnormalities. For cardiologists, internists, and neurologists. Halftone illustrations. Extensive references.

Authors:Frank Caplan, Theresa Caplan,
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: old, year, years, childhood
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1984-10-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553269674
ISBN-13: 9780553269673

Authors:Arthur L. Caplan, Arthur L. Caplan, Daniel H. Coelho
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: contemporary, issues, debate, current, organ, transplants, ethics
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-03
List price: $23.98
ISBN-10: 1573922242
ISBN-13: 9781573922241

With more than 30 of the most important, influential, and up-to-date articles from leaders in ethics, medicine, philosophy, law, and politics, "The Ethics of Organ Transplants" examines the numerous and tangled issues that surround organ procurement and distribution.

Authors:Jane L. Hurst, Jane L. Hurst, Robert J. Beynon, S. Cr
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: vertebrates, signals, chemical
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-11-29
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387739440
ISBN-13: 9780387739441

This volume presents the proceedings of "Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11", hosted by the University of Liverpool and held July 25 - 28, 2006 at the University of Chester in the United Kingdom. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11 contains the latest research on chemical communication relevant to vertebrates, particularly focusing on new research since the last meeting in 2003. Topics covered include chemical ecology, biochemistry, behavior and neurobiology of both the main olfactory and vomeronasal systems of vertebrates, from amphibia to mammals including humans. A broad range of taxonomic g

Authors:Carol Otis Hurst, Carol Hurst,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: lock
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0618030360
ISBN-13: 9780618030361

Etta and her brother and sister, wards of the state of Massachusetts in 1840, have been parceled off to separate foster homes. Determined to gather her family back together and create a secure home for herself and her siblings, Etta has run away from the last in a long string of foster homes, resolved to find a place where they can live as a family. In her search, she encounters Walter, a young runaway who is hiding out from his alcoholic father in a cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal. Before she can get her own family together, Etta gets caught up in Walter"s problems, which inclu

Author: Jay Caplan
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: theory, history, literature, beholder, genealogy, narratives, diderot, framed
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1985-11
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0816614059
ISBN-13: 9780816614059

Framed Narratives was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The work of French philosophe Denis Diderot (1713-1784) has inspired conflicting reactions in those who encounter him. Diderot has been admired and despised; he has moved his readers and irritated them - often at the same time. His work continually shifts between mutually exclusive positions - neither of which provides an entirely satisfactory answer to the qu

Author: Bryan Caplan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: choose, policies, democracies, voter, rational, myth
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691129428
ISBN-13: 9780691129426

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan’s sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precis