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Our species is evolving in preparation for the new world on the horizon • Explains how the increase in intuitive, creative, and abstract-thinking abilities of children as well as incidences of ADHD, dyslexia, and autism signal evolutionary changes at work in humanity--the emergence of the...

IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer   Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+...

Winner of a 2013 Nautilus Gold Award, this book introduces safe and effective complementary treatments for managing ADD/ADHD. The prolific use of drugs to treat ADHD stirs heated debate in therapy and parenting circles today. Is this medication really going to improve my son’s symptoms? How...

An outstanding title from the popular Case Review Series, Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound provides 119 case histories, with over 300 corresponding images, questions, answers, commentary, references, and more, to enhance your imaging interpretation skills in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound....

A groundbreaking study of the lifelong effects of near-death experiences in the newly born, babies, toddlers, and children up to age five • Draws on interviews with nearly 400 childhood experiencers, both fully matured and young, as well as more than 40 years of NDE research involving over...

Ideal for cardiologists who need to keep abreast of rapidly changing scientific foundations, clinical research results, and evidence-based medicine, Braunwald’s Heart Disease is your indispensable source for definitive, state-of-the-art answers on every aspect of contemporary cardiology, helping...

This textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical origin and explains how these relate to each other with special focus on epidemic spread on networks. The content of the book is at the interface...

Bioarchaeology is the analysis of human remains within an interpretative framework that includes contextual information. This comprehensive and much-needed manual provides both a starting point and a reference for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and others working in this integrative field. The...

This textbook starts with a review of the principles of operation, modeling and control of common solar energy and wind-power generation systems before moving on to discuss grid compatibility, power quality issues and hybrid models of Solar PV and Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). MATLAB/SIMULINK...

A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to women's studies! All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework, birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a women's studies textbook...

Zakim and Boyer’s Hepatology—the defining work in hepatology—presents comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinically relevant developments so you can provide the best possible patient care. Drs. Thomas Boyer, Michael Manns, and Arun Sanyal have reorganized and updated the contents...

The new edition of Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease helps you identify a full range of common and rare systemic diseases early on so they can be managed as effectively as possible. Formerly titled Dermatological Signs of Internal Disease, it takes an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and...

Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on...

用哲學讀懂人生和這個世界 哲學始於思考，並於生活中實踐， 讓哲學教學經驗超過二十五年的作者， 陪你一起走過這門什麼都不奇怪的哲學課， 輕鬆理解深奧難懂的哲學思維和理論， 學會獨立思考，享受自在人生。 人人必讀的哲學入門！ 在作者的課堂上，學生不再只是坐著聆聽老師講述哲學家的思想與理論，而是一起從事各種有趣的活動： 她讓學生畫樹、模仿樹、移動桌椅想像成一座森林，去思考「我是誰」以及自己和環境的關係，就像進入笛卡兒的「我思故我在」；她藉由一條普通的彩繩，探討盧梭的社會契約論；一支手電筒和一間陰暗的教室，帶領學生進入柏拉圖著名的洞穴；一個謎樣的紅色行李箱為起點，前往烏托邦的旅程；又或者和學生一起挽起袖子建造一座花園，身體力行尼采的「鐵錘風哲學」；以及跟著馬基維利的狐智之道進入「拼碎紙活動」一同探討工作各種層面的意義…… 作者的教學，真正體現了羅馬哲學家塞內卡的名言：「哲學的教育不是通過語言，而是行為。」 閱讀本書就像上了十七堂有趣的哲學課，讓你大呼過癮，欲罷不能！ 【名人推薦】（依姓氏筆劃序） 吳豐維...