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This book shares the latest research and practice-oriented findings in medical sciences with a wide audience. It addresses a range of contemporary issues, often unresolved or contentious, across various medical fields, including advances in the management of hemorrhagic brain stroke. It also...

La caractéristique du système de cultures primitif traditionnel dans les régions intertropicales est le déplacement des aires cultivées à travers la forêt à un rythme rapide : agriculture nomade-itinérante, aussi baptisée "shifting cultivation" en anglais. Cet ouvrage, réédition...

« Il faut transporter la philosophie dans la médecine et la médecine dans la philosophie », lit-on dans un traité de la collection hippocratique. Transporter la philosophie dans la médecine signifie faire sortir la médecine de l’empirisme, la rendre rationnelle et scientifique. Transporter...

Can you really lose weight by consuming nothing but ice cream and beer? How does the latest blockbuster movie get squeezed onto a disk, and how do they make the pictures seem 3D? How much does a selfie weigh? What's the science behind forensic investigations, body scans, and the dating of ancient...

(A5, 144 P.) - Almost every human being, to achieve its called age of reason, in the meeting of social life with other men and/or even simply for having been launched in the world without request and/or without knowing the reason, nor the because, at a given moment of its existence (in some cases...

David Stevenson’s new book links the meteorology of the Earth to that of other planets, stars, and clusters of galaxies, showing the similarities and differences between terrestrial weather and that of weather on other worlds. Because Earth is not unique in having weather, there is much to learn...

(a5, 108 p.) - The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) once wrote that “The hell are the other”. The life, however, has made me think  otherwise or different, i.e., that  “The hell or heaven is ourselves”....

(A5, 156 P.) - While Descartes, at its full "I think, therefore I am", advocated, as Plato before had done, the supremacy of the Spirit (IDEA) on the field, Bacon, on the other hand, argued that, in the pursuit of knowledge, we needed to worry about getting rid of idols, false concepts and/or ideas...

This book has been a long time in the making. Other issues have taken me away from it from time to extended time. But I kept coming back to the problem of other minds. It has remained a great issue, it is much contested still, and it is, after all, elose to us all. I like believing that the time taken...

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...

General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America. Thomas Jefferson...

This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle . This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain...

The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life...

"Sparkling…an extraordinary true-adventure story, complete with trials, tribulations and moments of exultation." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas...