Author: Nathaniel Bishop Harman
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blindness, preventable
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 0559828179
ISBN-13: 9780559828171
Publisher: Baillière, Tindall and Cox Publication date: 1907 Subjects: Conjunctivitis, Infantile Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: mellitus, diabetes, blindness, prevention
Number of Pages: 39
Published: 2006-10
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 924154712X
ISBN-13: 9789241547123
Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem worldwide, and more than 75% of patients who have had diabetes mellitus for more than 20 years will have some sort of retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy correlates with the duration of diabetes; thus with increasing life expectancy, diabetic retinopathy and the ensuing blindness will tend to increase. In view of the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus and diabetic retinopathy throughout most of the world, a consultation on prevention of blindness from diabetes mellitus was convened by the World Health Organization to review t
Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Harvest Books
Keywords: book, harvest, blindness
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-10-04
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0156007754
ISBN-13: 9780156007757
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept
Author: James Hinshelwood
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blindness, mind, word, letter
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $18.75
ISBN-10: 055440415X
ISBN-13: 9780554404158
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ence6’8-11’17’84 tends to prove that the centre in which are stored the visual memories of letters and words includes the supra-marginal and angular convolutions, both of which belong to the inferior part of the parietal lobe. Pathological experience also shows that the more important part of the centre is situated in the angular convolution, which is bounded posteriorly by the occipital lobe.
Author: James Hinshelwood
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blindness, mind, word, letter
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $18.75
ISBN-10: 0554404095
ISBN-13: 9780554404097
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ence6’8-11’17’84 tends to prove that the centre in which are stored the visual memories of letters and words includes the supra-marginal and angular convolutions, both of which belong to the inferior part of the parietal lobe. Pathological experience also shows that the more important part of the centre is situated in the angular convolution, which is bounded posteriorly by the occipital lobe.
Author: Andrew C. Mccarthy
Publisher: Encounter Books
Keywords: jihad, memoir, blindness, willful
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594032130
ISBN-13: 9781594032134
Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic terror.
Author: Henry Green
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: series, literature, british, blindness
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 1564782654
ISBN-13: 9781564782656
