The Continual Condition

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006177121X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Continual Condition written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women in an authentic voice that is, like the work of the Beats, iconoclastic and even dangerous. Edited by his longtime publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press, and now in paperback, The Continual Condition includes more of this legend’s never-before-collected poems.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Continual Condition written by Charles Bukowski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janet R. Gilsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190677333
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continual Raving written by Janet R. Gilsdorf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it's least expected. Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease's origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer observed and isolated bacteria ultimately shown to cause meningitis in children -- and concluded that those bacteria cause influenza. Haemophilus influenzae, as thee meningitis-causing bacteria have been erroneously named ever since, continued their strange journey to discovery in the decades that followed. Continual Raving traces the disease's strange encounters with science, including: · Heinrich Quincke, the German internist who first used a needle to draw spinal fluid from between a patient's back bones · Simon Flexner's management of American meningitis epidemics using immune serum from a horse · American bacteriologist Margaret Pittman's discovery (during the Great Depression, no less) of a sugar overcoat that protects the bacteria from white blood cells · Pediatrician Ashley Weech, who gave the first antibiotic used in America (based on instructions written in German) to a young patient sick with meningitis · Microbiologist Hattie Alexander, who learned why these antibiotics sometimes fail in such patients · Four scientists, in two teams, as they vied to be the first to create the right vaccine to prevent meningitis in infants In each of these deeply human stories, variables of chance, circumstance, and incorrect assumptions intervene to shape not just the arc of the scientists' lives, but the trajectory of how humans have come to understand one of our most pernicious diseases. Continual Raving is a mosaic tale of how science conquered meningitis -- and a larger story of the sometimes winding road to discovery.

Author : Ying Kuen Cheung
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420091522
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dose Finding by the Continual Reassessment Method written by Ying Kuen Cheung and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the continual reassessment method (CRM) as a tool for dose-finding studies. With a focus on the implementation and practice of the CRM and its variations, it explains how the CRM may be calibrated and extended to suit common clinical settings. The book includes examples of real clinical trials data to illustrate the calibration techniques and shows how R can be used to carry out the techniques. It reviews the literature, related methodology, and theoretical properties of the CRM. It also explores alternatives for situations where the CRM fails.

Author : Jan Karon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200995
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Continual Feast written by Jan Karon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jan Karon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford series comes a collection of Father Tim's favorite words of wisdom and spiritual inspiration... For years, Mitford’s Father Tim Kavanagh has transcribed into his dog-eared journals words of wisdom, faith, and encouragement. Written in his own hand or typed on his idiosyncratic Royal typewriter, A Continual Feast contains the lively ideas, common sense, profound wisdom, and plain good humor he has gleaned from the likes of C. S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Helen Keller, G. K. Chesterton, and Will Rogers, to name just a few. Together with its successful companion volume, Patches of Godlight, Father Tim’s latest quote journal is sure proof of the truth of an entry from Lord Byron: "A small drop of ink produces that which makes thousands think." This entertaining and useful handbook is for all those who relish a good “Aha!,” including authors, clergy, speechmakers, dog lovers, and anyone who enjoys provocative insight into everything from the righteous to the ridiculous.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002050
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times. With characteristic discernment and eloquence, Helen Vendler traces Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume, The Spirit Level (1996). In sections entitled "Second Thoughts," she considers an often neglected but crucial part of Heaney's evolving talent: self-revision. Here we see how later poems return to the themes or genres of the earlier volumes, and reconceive them in light of the poet's later attitudes or techniques. Vendler surveys all of Heaney's efforts in the classical forms--genre scene, elegy, sonnet, parable, confessional poem, poem of perception--and brings to light his aesthetic and moral attitudes. Seamus Heaney's development as a poet is inextricably connected to the violent struggle that has racked Northern Ireland. Vendler shows how, from one volume to the next, Heaney has maintained vigilant attention toward finding a language for his time--"symbols adequate for our predicament," as he has said. The worldwide response to those discovered symbols suggests that their relevance extends far beyond this moment.

Author : Donald J. Wheeler
Publisher : Spc Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945320586
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Continual Improvement written by Donald J. Wheeler and published by Spc Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061871435
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bone Palace Ballet written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.

Author : Margaret Schell Frazier
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323712681
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions - E-Book written by Margaret Schell Frazier and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhance your patient care with a basic knowledge of pathology and disease! Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition is an invaluable handbook for healthcare providers in any healthcare setting. It profiles hundreds of diseases and disorders in a way that is easy to understand and easy to use, following the progression of a patient’s experience from signs and symptoms to screening, diagnosis, treatment options, and patient education. This edition adds new coverage of the opioid crisis, cancer treatment, and other emerging issues. From noted educators Margaret Schell Frazier and Tracie Fuqua, this reference prepares you for success in the classroom, on board exams, and as a medical assistant or health professional. More than 500 vibrant illustrations and detailed photos clarify difficult concepts and depict medical conditions. Critical thinking and real-life application is promoted through Challenge scenarios with questions, Critical Thinking questions (in the print book and on the Evolve website), and Enrichment boxes. Student workbook includes a wealth of exercises to reinforce your understanding of important concepts from the text. Available separately. ICD-10 codes with each disease are included for practice in locating the appropriate insurance codes. Clear, approachable writing style makes it easier to learn and understand the material. Alert boxes provide clinical tips, including safety precautions and best practices. Concise, consistent monograph-style presentation describes hundreds of medical diseases and conditions. NEW content keeps you current with the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. NEW clinical photos and updated illustrations show concepts, processes, and medical conditions. UPDATED case studies provide additional opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. NEW chapter quiz questions prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.

Author : Pam Duthie
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1883052238
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuous Bloom written by Pam Duthie and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using full-color photos, the author shows you 272 perennials -- arranged according to month of bloom -- to grow in your garden so you can have wonderful color and texture from March through November -- and even winter interest throughout the coldest months of the year.