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This best-selling atlas contains over 900 images and illustrations to help you learn and review the microstructure of human tissues. The book starts with a section on general cell structure and replication. Basic tissue types are covered in the following section, and the third section presents the microstructures of each of the major body systems. The highest -quality color light micrographs and electron micrograph images are accompanied by concise text and captions which explain the appearance, function, and clinical significance of each image. The accompanying website lets you view all the images from the atlas with a "virtual microscope", allowing you to view the image at a variety of pre...
Centers arranged geographically by states. Each entry gives center name, address, contact person, and telephone number, as well as codes indicating operation status, poverty area designation, and kind of grant. No index.
Born to a mother who did not want him and a father who humiliated him during his upbringing, Ingmar Bergman somehow endured his dysfunctional family to become one of the great artists of the twentieth century. However, the scars left from his early agony affected him both physically and emotionally. He suffered with a disabling psychosomatic gastrointestinal illness and serious problems in his interpersonal relationships. In The Persona of Ingmar Bergman: Conquering Demons through Film, Barbara Young looks at how the director’s personal life shaped his creative output. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Young probes Bergman’s relationships with his parents, his wives, his child...
PICTURE TESTS IN HISTOLOGY is a collection of approximately 120 color photomicrographs and electronmicrographs that complement the images in Wheater's FUNCTIONAL HISTOLOGY. The photographs are accompanied by questions and are arranged in five tests with full explanatory answers given at the end of each test. With a variety of anatomic and histologic images presented, this book allows the student to prepare for examinations.
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This fascinating book quotes over 200 little-known scriptures to prove that the Old and New Testaments made caring for marginalized groups a national, collective responsibility, not merely a matter for private charity or churches. Inspired by Matthew 25, the authors call both political parties to take inspiration from the Bible for reforming health care, immigration, welfare, and prisons. A must-read for progressives and non-Christians alike to speak the language of the Bible to help evangelical Christians resist the call of social Darwinism, which has long dominated Republican social and economic policies.
Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery. Because their husbands' wills and dower law often gave women authority over entire households, widowhood expanded both their domestic mandate and their public profile. They wielded direct power not only over slaves and children but also over white...
Previously published in hardcover: New York: Free Press, 2012.