An award-winning journalist takes readers inside one of the world's greatest hospitals and does for surgeons what Tracy Kidder did for computer engineers in Soul of a New Machine. Children's Hospital in Boston is the nation's premier pediatric medical center--a place where miracles occur daily, due in large part to world-renowned surgeon Hardy ...
This biography of America's most famous heart surgeon, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, chronicles the doctor's rambunctious youth, explains how he became involved in cardiac research, and documents his great achievements, including his co-development of the pacemaker and a heart-lung machine.
This book depicts a world where the whims of children make millionaires and topple titans, a world of influence, fantasy, and multimillion-dollar Hollywood deals.
The author spent a year in the garages and at the racetracks with one of NASCAR's most famous teams: the Roush Racing team, owned by Jack Roush. Team drivers Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, and Kurt Busch take the reader through the hairpin turns, the blazing oval track speeds, and the grease and grit of pit row that define one of America ...
An acclaimed journalist explores secrets teenagers hide from everyone but their peers in this warm, funny, and eye-opening account of two teens from a small New England town. "Offers a sympathetic and insightful portrait of high school life in the heartland".--Julie Salamon, author of Devil's Candy. Photos.
This book depicts a world where the whims of children make millionaires and topple titans, a world of influence, fantasy, and multimillion-dollar Hollywood deals.
This unprecedented inside-the-lab look at a promising but controversial frontier of medical research raises provocative questions about medical ethics, animal experimentation and the relationship between science and business Dr David H Sachs of the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital is not a household name, but within ...
The debut novel by a fascinating author of spine-tingling horror. The children of Morgantown have succumbed to a strange illness. Their dreams are haunted by terrifying creatures. Their hearts fill with dread as the final hours of daylight pass. For it is then the towering mountain called Thunder Rise casts its shadow over the town--and childhood ...
Interpreting Appalachia, Garry Barker observes, is a task that has too often fallen to outsiders, whether government missionaries, learned experts, or sensation mongers. Not surprisingly, he suggests, their accounts of the region have usually missed the essentials: "the subtle humor, quiet pain, intense pride, and bridled passion that are part of ...
This text offers a series of lessons that show students how to use the TI-81 or Casio 7700 graphing calculators for a wide variety of mathematical procedures. Each lesson contains instructions on using calculators, examples, brief problems, guided exploratory exercises and writing assignments.
This text offers a series of lessons that show students how to use the TI-81 or Casio 7700 graphing calculators for a wide variety of calculus procedures. Each lesson contains instructions on using calculators, examples, brief problems, guided exploratory exercises and writing assignments.
This text offers a series of lessons that show students how to use the TI-81 or Casio 7700 graphing calculators for a wide variety of calculus procedures. Each lesson contains instructions on using calculators, examples, brief problems, guided exploratory exercises and writing assignments.
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