Authors:Terry Southern, Nile Southern, Josh Alan Friedman,
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: southern, terry, writings, unspeakable, dig
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-04-08
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802138942
ISBN-13: 9780802138941

Acclaimed novelist, Beat godfather, prolific screenwriter, and one of the founders of New Journalism, as well as the only guy to wear shades on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s cover, Terry Southern was an audacious original. Now Dig This is a journey through Terry Southern’s America, from the buttoned-down ’50s through the sexual revolution, rock ’n’ roll, and independent cinema (which he helped inaugurate by cowriting and producing Easy Rider), up to his death in 1995. It spans Southern’s stellar career, from early short stories and a Paris Review intervie

Authors:Josh Leibner, Gershon Mader, Alan Weiss Ph.D.,
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: total, alignment, engagement, results, extraordinary, strategic, commitment, achieving, power
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-05-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0814413749
ISBN-13: 9780814413746

Even the most well-thought-out initiatives will fail without true employee ownership, accountability, and engagement. Yet most managers and executives don’t have a clear system for ensuring the support they need from those around them. "The Power of Strategic Commitment" helps readers improve their strategic processes by enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors, and others. The book outlines the key factors that determine commitment, providing powerful ways to build commitment that cost nothing. This book provides practical methods for getting everyone b

Author: Alan Warren Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: enterprise, modernist, death, fictional
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 1995-02-24
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521442613
ISBN-13: 9780521442619

Death and dying once seemed definitive, public, and appropriate; but the Industrial Revolution, the Great War, and the reenvisioning of reality by scientists and philosophers destabilized cultural norms. In Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise Friedman traces the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history, and culture. He describes how modernist writers either elided rituals of dying, or, rediscovering the body, transformed Victorian "aesthetic death" into modern "dirty death." And he shows how, through postmodern fiction and AIDS narratives, death has once agai

Authors:Alan F. Friedman, Richard Lewak, David S. Nichols, Ja
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: mmpi, assessment, psychological
Number of Pages: 728
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0805838694
ISBN-13: 9780805838695

User-friendly yet sophisticated, Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 will be welcomed by practicing psychologists, researchers, and students alike. This long-awaited second edition constitutes the single most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook of MMPI-2 interpretation. Completely rewritten to address the changes to the original instrument that resulted in the MMPI-2 in l989, it describes in detail all the MMPI-2 scales--clinical, supplementary, and content--and offers empirically-grounded and clinically-tested recommendations for their use. The last decade has seen an explosion of rese

Authors:Herman Friedman, Thomas W. Klein, Andrea L. Friedman
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: infection, stress, psychoneuroimmunology
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-10-20
List price: $309.95
ISBN-10: 0849376386
ISBN-13: 9780849376382

Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones.The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the immune system in general and also the relationship between neurological events which influence susceptibility and/or resistance to infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, as well as parasites. Prominent re

Authors:Avner Friedman, B. Aguda, M. Chaplain, A. Friedman, M.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: biosciences, mathematical, lecture, notes, subseries, cancer, mathematics, cycle, iii, cell, tutorials, proliferation
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 3540291628
ISBN-13: 9783540291626

This volume introduces some basic mathematical models for cell cycle, proliferation, cancer, and cancer therapy. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the modeling of the cell division cycle. Chapter 2 describes how tumor secretes growth factors to form new blood vessels in its vicinity, which provide it with nutrients it needs in order to grow. Chapter 3 explores the process that enables the tumor to invade the neighboring tissue. Chapter 4 models the interaction between a tumor and the immune system. Chapter 5 is concerned with chemotherapy; it uses concepts from control theory to minimize obstacle

Authors:James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman,
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: medical, agonizing, mystery, struggle, family, advice, one
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0316024759
ISBN-13: 9780316024754

Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman’s life was a living hell.AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE is the true story of