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It is estimated that 7.2 million people in the United States have mental retardation or associated impairments - a spectrum now referred to as "e;intellectual disability."e; This book provides professionals with the latest and most reliable information on these disabilities. It utilizes a developmental perspective and reviews the various...

The Global History of Paleopathology is the first comprehensive global compendium        on the history of paleopathology, an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that        focuses on the study of ancient disease. Offering perspectives from regions that        have traditionally had long histories of paleopathology, such as the United...

Avian Flight covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of thinking about bird flight, aerodynamics, functional morphology, evolution, kinematics, physiology, energetics and the cost of flight. The subject is complex and still not yet fully understood, and the author argues a convincing case for...

The Inside Story of the StasiThe Firm will be the first book to trace the history of the Stasi at a district level, the level closest to the population. Based on previously inaccessible secret police files and interviews with former members of the East German security apparatus, it provides an unparalleled picture of life in a totalitarian state....