Author: Stewart Keith Eltringham
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780856611315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A personable, affectionate discussion of the many aspects of the biology and ecology of both the common or river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis), written by a zoologist but perfectly understandable to general readers who may be curious about this disarming yet formidable creature. Interesting bandw photos and drawings. Distributed by Academic Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Hippos
Author: Stewart Keith Eltringham
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780856611315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A personable, affectionate discussion of the many aspects of the biology and ecology of both the common or river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis), written by a zoologist but perfectly understandable to general readers who may be curious about this disarming yet formidable creature. Interesting bandw photos and drawings. Distributed by Academic Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780856611315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A personable, affectionate discussion of the many aspects of the biology and ecology of both the common or river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis), written by a zoologist but perfectly understandable to general readers who may be curious about this disarming yet formidable creature. Interesting bandw photos and drawings. Distributed by Academic Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ancient History pamphlets
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Colonial Lexicon
Author: Nancy Rose Hunt
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu’s Zaire. Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote British Baptist mission struggling to survive under the successive regimes of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, the hyper-hygienic, pronatalist Belgian Congo, and Mobutu’s Zaire. After exploring the roots of social reproduction in rituals of manhood, she shows how the arrival of the fast and modern ushered in novel productions of gender, seen equally in the forced labor of road construction and the medicalization of childbirth. Hunt focuses on a specifically interwar modernity, where the speed of airplanes and bicycles correlated with a new, mobile medicine aimed at curbing epidemics and enumerating colonial subjects. Fascinating stories about imperial masculinities, Christmas rituals, evangelical humor, colonial terror, and European cannibalism demonstrate that everyday life in the mission, on plantations, and under a strongly Catholic colonial state was never quite what it seemed. In a world where everyone was living in translation, privileged access to new objects and technologies allowed a class of “colonial middle figures”—particularly teachers, nurses, and midwives—to mediate the evolving hybridity of Congolese society. Successfully blurring conventional distinctions between precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial situations, Hunt moves on to discuss the unexpected presence of colonial fragments in the vibrant world of today’s postcolonial Africa. With its close attention to semiotics as well as sociology, A Colonial Lexiconwill interest specialists in anthropology, African history, obstetrics and gynecology, medical history, religion, and women’s and cultural studies.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu’s Zaire. Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote British Baptist mission struggling to survive under the successive regimes of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, the hyper-hygienic, pronatalist Belgian Congo, and Mobutu’s Zaire. After exploring the roots of social reproduction in rituals of manhood, she shows how the arrival of the fast and modern ushered in novel productions of gender, seen equally in the forced labor of road construction and the medicalization of childbirth. Hunt focuses on a specifically interwar modernity, where the speed of airplanes and bicycles correlated with a new, mobile medicine aimed at curbing epidemics and enumerating colonial subjects. Fascinating stories about imperial masculinities, Christmas rituals, evangelical humor, colonial terror, and European cannibalism demonstrate that everyday life in the mission, on plantations, and under a strongly Catholic colonial state was never quite what it seemed. In a world where everyone was living in translation, privileged access to new objects and technologies allowed a class of “colonial middle figures”—particularly teachers, nurses, and midwives—to mediate the evolving hybridity of Congolese society. Successfully blurring conventional distinctions between precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial situations, Hunt moves on to discuss the unexpected presence of colonial fragments in the vibrant world of today’s postcolonial Africa. With its close attention to semiotics as well as sociology, A Colonial Lexiconwill interest specialists in anthropology, African history, obstetrics and gynecology, medical history, religion, and women’s and cultural studies.
Hippo Regius From the Earliest Times to the Arab Conquest--
Author: Holmes van Mater Dennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hippo (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hippo (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Handy Mr. Hippo
Author: Chae, InSeon
Publisher: Norwood House Press
ISBN: 1599536528
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Handy Mr. Hippo gets a call from the mean Hairy Giant who needs quite a few things fixed at his house. Mr. Hippo helps the giant repair his house and teaches him how to properly treat other people. Social and emotional learning concepts include being helpful, politeness, and being friends. Book includes a note to caregivers and story coaching activities. A Reader’s Theater version is available online so that children can benefit from dramatic interpretation.
Publisher: Norwood House Press
ISBN: 1599536528
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Handy Mr. Hippo gets a call from the mean Hairy Giant who needs quite a few things fixed at his house. Mr. Hippo helps the giant repair his house and teaches him how to properly treat other people. Social and emotional learning concepts include being helpful, politeness, and being friends. Book includes a note to caregivers and story coaching activities. A Reader’s Theater version is available online so that children can benefit from dramatic interpretation.
The Liver
Author: Irwin M. Arias
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119436834
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 3296
Book Description
Bridging the gap between basic scientific advances and the understanding of liver disease — the extensively revised new edition of the premier text in the field. The latest edition of The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology remains a definitive volume in the field of hepatology, relating advances in biomedical sciences and engineering to understanding of liver structure, function, and disease pathology and treatment. Contributions from leading researchers examine the cell biology of the liver, the pathobiology of liver disease, the liver’s growth, regeneration, metabolic functions, and more. Now in its sixth edition, this classic text has been exhaustively revised to reflect new discoveries in biology and their influence on diagnosing, managing, and preventing liver disease. Seventy new chapters — including substantial original sections on liver cancer and groundbreaking advances that will have significant impact on hepatology — provide comprehensive, fully up-to-date coverage of both the current state and future direction of hepatology. Topics include liver RNA structure and function, gene editing, single-cell and single-molecule genomic analyses, the molecular biology of hepatitis, drug interactions and engineered drug design, and liver disease mechanisms and therapies. Edited by globally-recognized experts in the field, this authoritative volume: Relates molecular physiology to understanding disease pathology and treatment Links the science and pathology of the liver to practical clinical applications Features 16 new “Horizons” chapters that explore new and emerging science and technology Includes plentiful full-color illustrations and figures The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, Sixth Edition is an indispensable resource for practicing and trainee hepatologists, gastroenterologists, hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgeons, and researchers and scientists in areas including hepatology, cell and molecular biology, virology, and drug metabolism.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119436834
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 3296
Book Description
Bridging the gap between basic scientific advances and the understanding of liver disease — the extensively revised new edition of the premier text in the field. The latest edition of The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology remains a definitive volume in the field of hepatology, relating advances in biomedical sciences and engineering to understanding of liver structure, function, and disease pathology and treatment. Contributions from leading researchers examine the cell biology of the liver, the pathobiology of liver disease, the liver’s growth, regeneration, metabolic functions, and more. Now in its sixth edition, this classic text has been exhaustively revised to reflect new discoveries in biology and their influence on diagnosing, managing, and preventing liver disease. Seventy new chapters — including substantial original sections on liver cancer and groundbreaking advances that will have significant impact on hepatology — provide comprehensive, fully up-to-date coverage of both the current state and future direction of hepatology. Topics include liver RNA structure and function, gene editing, single-cell and single-molecule genomic analyses, the molecular biology of hepatitis, drug interactions and engineered drug design, and liver disease mechanisms and therapies. Edited by globally-recognized experts in the field, this authoritative volume: Relates molecular physiology to understanding disease pathology and treatment Links the science and pathology of the liver to practical clinical applications Features 16 new “Horizons” chapters that explore new and emerging science and technology Includes plentiful full-color illustrations and figures The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, Sixth Edition is an indispensable resource for practicing and trainee hepatologists, gastroenterologists, hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgeons, and researchers and scientists in areas including hepatology, cell and molecular biology, virology, and drug metabolism.
Australian Children's Books: 1973-1988
Author: Marcie Muir
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included
Placentation in Mammals
Author: Rodney D. Geisert
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030773604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The present volume of the book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology brings together current reviews from leading experts to address the diversity of placentation by which species establish and maintain pregnancy. Development of viviparity and placentation in rodents, dogs, pigs, cattle, horses, marsupials, primates and elephants are discussed. The development of viviparity in mammals, including some invertebrate species, required the adaptation of the placenta to serve as a functional conduit for interplay between the semiallograftic fetus with the maternal uterus. Although the ‘placenta’ protects the fetus from maternal immune rejection and provides oxygen and nutrient flow to support it to term across all the species, structural differentiation of this fetal-maternal interface can vary from simple to very complex. E.C. Amoroso contributed greatly to our early understanding and knowledge of placentation across a great variety of species. His work on placentation provides numerous illustrations and histological sections which are used for teaching and stimulating research today. With this book, we want to pay tribute to his lifetime contributions to the field by reviewing our current understanding of the development of viviparity and placentation in different species. The book is written for researchers, physicians and medical students working in the field of reproductive science or with an interest in placentation and viviparity.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030773604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The present volume of the book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology brings together current reviews from leading experts to address the diversity of placentation by which species establish and maintain pregnancy. Development of viviparity and placentation in rodents, dogs, pigs, cattle, horses, marsupials, primates and elephants are discussed. The development of viviparity in mammals, including some invertebrate species, required the adaptation of the placenta to serve as a functional conduit for interplay between the semiallograftic fetus with the maternal uterus. Although the ‘placenta’ protects the fetus from maternal immune rejection and provides oxygen and nutrient flow to support it to term across all the species, structural differentiation of this fetal-maternal interface can vary from simple to very complex. E.C. Amoroso contributed greatly to our early understanding and knowledge of placentation across a great variety of species. His work on placentation provides numerous illustrations and histological sections which are used for teaching and stimulating research today. With this book, we want to pay tribute to his lifetime contributions to the field by reviewing our current understanding of the development of viviparity and placentation in different species. The book is written for researchers, physicians and medical students working in the field of reproductive science or with an interest in placentation and viviparity.
The Dublin Journal of Medical Science
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Byways in British Archaeology
Author: Walter Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description