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A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variationover the centuries people have defined homosexuality in all of these ways. Since the word homosexual was coined in 1869, many scientists in a variety of fields have sought to understand same-sex intimacy. Drawing on recent insights in biology and genetics, ......
Awarded the Dexter Prize for Best Book in the History of Technology ''This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the history of technology. The story of steel is important in its own right, and Thomas Misa writes with remarkable clarity and succinctness . . . The emphasis upon user-producer interactions allows Misa to focus on the ......
Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would 'never' or 'never again' become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater than the level of popular involvement in the market during the Roaring 1920s. A Nation of ......
The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much-anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles ......
The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much-anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles ......
Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera
Pandemic cholera reached Iran for the first of many times in 1821, assisted by Britain's territorial expansion and growing commercial pursuits. The revival of Iran's trade arteries after six decades of intermittent civil war, fractured rule, and isolation allowed the epidemic to spread inland and assume national proportions. In A Modern ......
Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life
Approximately two-thirds of deaths in the United States involve a doctor's partnership with an individual, whether it be for the administration of pain relief or sedation or for the act of discontinuing or not beginning life-sustaining treatment. In A Midwife through the Dying Process, Timothy Quill, M.D., explores that partnership and the complex ......
Although most medical school faculty members are required to teach, the standard medical school curriculum doesn't tell them how to do it well. This book does.An award-winning clinician-teacher, Helen M. Shields has spent her career training future doctors, researchers, and medical school instructors. Here she shares classroom-tested methods for ......
As they reach middle age, most men begin looking forward to ''what's next.'' They gear up to experience renewed productivity and purpose and are more conscious of their health. A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging is an authoritative resource for middle aged and older men. The authors-a medical sociologist and a gerontologist and social worker-in ......
