SALMAN RUSHDIE

After drinking an elixir that bestows him with immortality, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next 700 years sailing the seas with the burden of living forever. Eventually he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own...

Origins, Effects, and TreatmentPresbyopia: Origins, Effects, and Treatment takes a complex and common condition-the aging eye-and summarizes the current views on the optics and physiology of accommodation and the age-dependant changes that lead to presbyopia.  Drs. Ioannis G. Pallikaris, Sotiris Plainis, and W. Neil Charman are joined by more...

In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.From the Trade Paperback edition....

Pharmaceutical Medicine provides an accessible, user-friendly and up-to-date guide for those involved in clinical trials or marketing of new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry....