Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: maladies, interpreter
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 039592720X
ISBN-13: 9780395927205

Navigating between the Indian traditions they’ve inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of An

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: soul, maladies, new
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231099835
ISBN-13: 9780231099837

"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, Hailed by Peter Brooks in the as "a critic of great psychoanalytic insight," Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?

Author: Peter H. Dernoeden
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: weeds, selected, maladies, stresses, summer, bentgrass, management, creeping
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 157504143X
ISBN-13: 9781575041438

Creeping Bentgrass Management presents a difficult management problem throughout the summer season. This complex dilemma is related to numerous and often interrelated factors such as: extreme air and soil temperatures, drought or excessively wet soils, dense thatch or organic mats, mechanical and other physical stresses, improper management practices, the misuse of chemicals, and other physical stresses. The goal of this useful manual—complete with helpful color photographs—is to give golf course superintendents practical tools to better understand the many stress factors that contribute t

Author: Alan R. Rushton
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: royal, europe, houses, inherited, maladies, diseases
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-08-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1425168108
ISBN-13: 9781425168100

An intensive historical study of the hereditary diseases hemophilia and porphyria in the personal and political lives of the European royal families Part I Nineteenth century medical knowledge of hemophilia as a hereditary bleeding disorder will be considered. Hemophilia appeared in a son born to Queen Victoria in 1853. Hemophilia was transmitted through Victoria’s unaffected daughters to the ruling houses in Germany, Russia and Spain. The political consequences of a chronically ill male heir to the t

Authors:Eric Pichard, Jean Beytout, Jean Delmont, Bruno March
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
Keywords: afrique, pour, infectieuses, manuel, malintrop, maladies
Number of Pages: 589
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 274200372X
ISBN-13: 9782742003723

Les maladies infectieuses représentent la plus grande part de la pathologie en Afrique. Tous les personnels de santé y sont confrontés. Ce manuel pratique est un outil utilisable sur le terrain pour les prises de décisions aux différents niveaux de la pyramide sanitaire. L’utilisation d’arbres décisionnels et de schémas thérapeutiques standardisés faisant appel prioritairement aux techniques de laboratoires et aux médicaments essentiels s’inscrit dans les politiques recommandées par les programmes nationaux de lutte contre les maladies transmissibles. Le champ des infections a