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The Quick Writing ProcessMost writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with...

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A Very Short IntroductionThe book gives a non-technical account of how drugs work in the body. During the twentieth century the introduction of new medicines for the treatment of infections, heart disease, cancer, and mental illnesses and the oral contraceptive have altered all of our lives. Both legal (alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine) and illegal...

Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismDuring the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had...

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