320 pages |
Birth, The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Creator: Tina Cassidy | Health & Fitness - 2007-08-14
A intricate social history of childbirth examines the physical, political, social, religious, and anthropological factors that on how women bring new life ...
Publisher: Grove Pr
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About this book
“Well-researched and likeable . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)” —Diversion Weekly“Wonderful. Packed full of information, a brilliant mixture of ancient wisdom and newfangled science.” —Kate Mosse, author of the New York Times best seller, Labyrinth“Birth is a power-full book. . . . A lively, engaging, and often witty read, a quirky, eye-opening account of one of soul’s most elemental experiences.” —The Boston Globe Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy’s tuned in, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in fifty years. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an highbrows, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we’re born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia but that’s about the only unfailing in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems... |
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772 pages |
Worst pills, best pills, a consumer's guide to avoiding drug-induced death or illness
Creator: Sidney M. Wolfe, Larry D. Sasich, Rose-Ellen Hope | Medical - 1999-02-01
An updated consumer's control to frequently prescribed medications offers valuable information on dangerous drugs, hundreds of safer substitute medications, the ...
Publisher: Pocket
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About this book
"More than 100,000 people a year die in American hospitals from adverse reactions to medication, making downer reactions one of the leading causes of death in this country, researchers are reporting today...." -- Minutes of the American Medical Association study, as quoted in The New York Times It is no longer a quiet that adverse drug reactions can be dangerous or even fatal, or that doctors often prescribe two relatively justifiable drugs -- which may cause a life-threatening interaction if taken together. THIS IS THE BOOK THAT TELLS YOU WHAT OTHER Medication BOOKS WON'T ABOUT YOUR MEDICATION! Top-selling drugs that are among the 160 Do Not Use Drugs discussed inside: Ultram Darvoset-N Lopid Desogen & OrthoCept Elavil Ativan Restoril Flexeril Valium Bentyl Entex LA Glucophage Macrobid Patients fill more than 80 million prescriptions a year for these drugs! Consumer uphold Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, has throughout revised and updated this accessible,... |
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337 pages |
The Birth Partner, Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth
Creator: Penny Simkin | Health & Fitness - 2001-06-25
Exhaustive guide for preparing to help a woman through childbirth, and the essential manual to have at hand during the occasion.
Publisher: Harvard Common Pr
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About this book
Through guide for preparing to help a woman through childbirth, and the essential manual to have at hand during the incident. |
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609 pages |
Birth, Conceiving, Nurturing and Giving Birth to Your Baby
Creator: Catherine Price, Sandra Robinson | Health & Fitness - 2010-02-01
Publisher: Macmillan
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About this book
Fully revised with up-to-the-transcript information, the bestselling and comprehensive Australian bible for expectant parents, Birth, provides everyday, up-to-date, accurate and research-based information, on everything relating to preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and first parenting. Co-written by a midwife and a childbirth educator, with over 35 years collective knowledge in working closely with women and their families, this invaluable resource is an essential for every prospective paterfamilias. Birth: The essential guide to conceiving, nurturing and giving birth to your baby, is reader-friendly, reassuring, unbiased and attainable to a wide readership. It presents medical treatments and natural therapies, the many physical changes of pregnancy, suffer and birth and possible variations from "the norm". It dispels myths and addresses all the common concerns and incessant worries of women, their partners and support people, as well as providing achievable support strategies. Many aspects of... |
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452 pages |
Optimal control theory, an introduction
Creator: Donald E. Kirk | 2004
Geared toward more elevated-level undergraduates, this text introduces three aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's least principle, and ...
Publisher: Dover Pubns
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About this book
Geared toward majuscule letters-level undergraduates, this text introduces three aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's least principle, and numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Numerous problems, which introduce additional topics and emblazon basic concepts, appear throughout the text. Solution guide available upon request. 131 figures. 14 tables. 1970 copy. |
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256 pages |
In control, no more snapping at your family, sulking at work, steaming in the grocery line, seething at meetings, stuffing your frustration
Creator: Redford B. Williams, Redford Williams, Virginia Parrott Williams | Self-Help - 2006-02-21
Publisher: Rodale Books
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About this book
For the last three decades, Dr. Redford Williams has been at the forefront of scrutinize in behavioral medicine. The New York Times has described him as an authority widely acknowledged as the guru of incense management. Drawing on his groundbreaking research, he and his wife and coauthor, Dr. Virginia Williams, wrote Infuriate Kills, the bestselling book that is regarded as the seminal work on the potent effects denying emotions have on the body. Now these renowned self-help experts have taken their strategies to a new true with this easy-to-follow program that teaches readers how to handle all types of situations, from tyrannical colleagues to a lack of communication at home to irritating situations like delayed flights. Remarkably, this books program works equally for hot reactors, who have a leaning to blow up when things dont go their way, and cool reactors, who are more likely to swallow their emotions. Hot reactors will learn to arrest and think before their anger explodes, and cool reactors... |
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894 pages |
Modern control engineering
Creator: Katsuhiko Ogata | Science - 2010
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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About this book
For superior or graduate-level students taking a first course in Control Theory (in departments of Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, and Chemical Engineering). A full, senior-level textbook for control engineering. Ogata's Modern Control Engineering, 5/e,offers the full coverage of continuous-time control systems that all senior students must have, including frequency feedback approach, root-locus approach, and state-space approach to analysis and plan of control systems. The text provides a gradual development of control theory, shows how to solve all computational problems with MATLAB, and avoids well mathematical arguments. A wealth of examples and worked problems are featured throughout the text. The new print run includes improved coverage of Root-Locus Analysis (Chapter 6) and Frequency-Return Analysis (Chapter 8). The author has also updated and revised many of the worked examples and end-of-chapter problems. This subject-matter is ideal for control systems engineers. |
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1018 pages |
Modern control systems
Creator: Richard C. Dorf, Robert H. Bishop | Technology & Engineering - 2008
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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About this book
Written to be equally gainful for all engineering disciplines, this book is organized around the concept of control systems theory as it has been developed in the frequency and ever domains. It provides coverage of classical control employing root locus design, frequency and comeback design using Bode and Nyquist plots. It also covers modern control methods based on state fickle models including pole placement design techniques with full-state feedback controllers and full-structure observers.The book covers several important topics including robust control systems and system sensitiveness, state variable models, controllability and observability, computer control systems, internal model control, healthy PID controllers, and computer-aided design and analysis.For all types of engineers who are interested in a solid introduction to control systems. |
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