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How are our bodies made? And what is our relationship to the rest of the natural world? These are big questions, but discoveries made over the past 40 years have shed considerable light over them. The author takes the reader through what he sees as the major steps in these discoveries. At first sight it is not obvious how animals such as fruit-flies, worms and sea squirts can possibly be constructed in the same way as humans. However, while overall anatomies may be very different, the same core set of Hox genes expressed in embryos dictate where structures are formed in their developing bodies. These mechanisms, conserved for over 500 million years of evolution, offer a new sense of our belonging and unity with the natural world.
An attempt to build a family history, what to do and what not to do.
No other quick reference comes close in covering the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of diseases in dogs and cats. Etienne Cote's Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Dogs and Cats, 2nd Edition is like six books in one -- with concise topics within sections on diseases and disorders, procedures and techniques, differential diagnosis, laboratory tests, clinical algorithms, and a drug formulary. Revised from cover to cover, this edition includes dozens of new topics. It also includes free access to a fully searchable companion website featuring an electronic version of the text, all of the book's images, a searchable drug formulary, and 150 Client Education Sheets in both English and Spanish. Sect...
The long-awaited Sixth Edition of Schalm’s Veterinary Hematology has been revised and reorganized to increase accessibility and cohesiveness of the text. Topics are grouped within established disciplines in hematology, and outlines are now included at the beginning of each chapter. The book features new sections on Hematotoxicity and Quality Control and Laboratory Techniques, and includes expanded sections on Laboratory Animal Hematology, Species Specific Hematology, and Hematologic Neoplasia. With in-depth coverage on all aspects of the field, this comprehensive reference is an essential purchase for veterinary clinical hematologists, internists, and students.
Career of an American Catholic priest, from his first assignment to a poor parish in Boston to his appointment as cardinal, participating in the election of a pope in 1939.
The conflicts of faith and sin, passion and love, God and Mammon play strong roles in this sweeping novel set at a Catholic girls' school and concerning a girl who is torn between religious vows and worldly success.