Seashore & Nautical Patterns for the Scroll Saw: More Than 50 Patterns
William Hofferth is a woodworker who was named one of the top 200 craftsmen in the country by Early American Life magazine. His designs have appeared in Better Homes & Gardens. He lives in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Emerging Cancer Therapy: Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological Tools
Explores current and emerging applications of microbes as cancer-fighting agents. Today, treatment options for cancer patients typically include surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy. While these therapies have saved lives and reduced pain and suffering, cancer still takes millions of lives every year around the world. In recent years, researchers have been working on a new strategy: developing microbes and microbial products that specifically attack cancer cells.
Added by: willkei | Karma: 79.89 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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Joanna Russ The Female Man
The Female Man is a feminist science fiction novel written by Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975. The book was re-released in 2000. Russ is an avid feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her novels, short stories, and nonfiction works. The novel follows the lives of four women living in parallel worlds that differ in time and place. When they cross over to each others’ worlds, their different views on gender roles startle each others’ preexisting notions of womanhood.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 6 September 2010
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The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Grade 7-10-Sophomore Virginia Shreves lives in Manhattan and attends a prestigious private school. She lives by her Fat Girl Code of Conduct. She has a budding romance with Froggy the Fourth, but she doesn't want his wandering hands to feel her fat. Her baggy clothing helps her to "hide." Her mother, Dr. Phyllis Shreves, is an adolescent psychologist obsessed with her imperfect daughter's weight, and her father is rarely around. Her older sister joined the Peace Corps to escape mom, and brother ...
No Fear highlights two challenges we face in the workplace, and in our daily lives. Firstly, how to free ourselves from fear and secondly, how to avoid managing through fear. This extraordinary book is a journey through fear, and how to dispel it, that will help the reader recognize the emotion in the workplace as well as in their own lives.
