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Breast Cancer: The Facts is a concise and accessible guide to breast cancer for        patients and their families, general health practitioners, nurses and medical and        allied health students.For those newly diagnosed with breast cancer, this book will        provide essential background information on the disease and will assist them...

The hidden history of animal lifeDarwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier        describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's Lost World, the discovery of its        strange creatures, and what drove the sudden flurry of evolution called the Cambrian        Explosion, amid tales told with relish of...

Eugenics, American Racism, and German National SocialismWhen Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933,...

Television Dramatic Dialogue investigates dramatized dialogue and how it affects unscripted performances in the way people argue, confide, threaten, and otherwise engage each other....

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed historical coverage from the Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire....