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1991-2008This book describes the premier organization for the performance and funding of biomedical research in the United States. By articulating events that occurred at the National Institutes of Health from 1991-2008, this volume also examines the leadership of directors Bernadine Healy, Harold Varmus and Elias Zerhouni. To conduct his research,...

What happened to the chop suey restaurants of New York's Chinatown? Asking that simple question led author and food historian Andrew Coe on a research odyssey that resulted in this first authoritative history of the American experience of Chinese food. In his book, Coe investigates the complex ways we relate to alien cultures through the medium of...

This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks closely at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas, who flourished at the turn of the 19th century, and the changing economic context of...

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The book provides a step by step construction of the framework of relativistic        quantum field theory, starting from a minimal set of basic foundational postulates.          The emphasis is on a careful and detailed description of the conceptual subtleties        of modern field theory, many of which are glossed over in other texts....