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Description not available.A pediatric geneticist captures the intellectual and emotional transformation from medical student to practicing physician, following the experiences of three pediatric interns and their advisor. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Robert Marion
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold by Adrian Havill
Description not available.Explores the case of Robert Hanssen, a middle-level FBI agent and devout Catholic, who for two decades sold American defense and intelligence secrets to the Soviets and Russians for money, thrills, and his mystical beliefs. Reprint. AUTHOR: Adrian Havill
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ramones by Jim Bessman, Ramones, The
The authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n roll high school, the royal avatars of rock, raunch, and rebellion. 60 photographs and illustrations. AUTHOR: Jim Bessman, Ramones, The
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Andrew Skinner, D. D. Raphael, Edwin Cannan, Laurence Dickey
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith's Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing & the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade & other government policies that affect economic behavior. Throughout he offers seminal arguments for free trade, free markets & limited government. Criticizing mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations' supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation's wealth should be measured by the well-being of its people. Prosperity in turn requires voluntary exchange of goods in a peaceful, well-ordered market. How to establish & maintain such markets? For Smith the answer lay in man's social instincts, which government may encourage by upholding social standards of decency, honesty & virtue, but which government undermines when it unduly interferes with the intrinsically private functions of production & exchange. Social & economic order arise from the natural desires to better one's (& one's family's) lot & to gain the praise & avoid the censure of one's neighbors & business associates. Individuals behave decently & honestly because it gives them a clear conscience as well as the good reputation necessary for public approbation & sustained, profitable business relations. This is a member of the set titled The Glasgow Edition of the Works & Correspondence of Adam Smith. AUTHOR: Adam Smith, Andrew Skinner, D. D. Raphael, Edwin Cannan, Laurence Dickey
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, J. W. Burrow, Patricia Horan
Voyage with Darwin as he gathers the raw material that ushered in the greatest intellectual revolution in nearly 2,000 years. AUTHOR: Charles Darwin, J. W. Burrow, Patricia Horan
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Twilight of the Habsburgs by Alan Palmer
No ruler in modern times reigned in full sovereignty for as long as Francis Joseph emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia. Titular master of central Europe from 1848 until 1916, he was center stage in Europe throughout the dramatic era in which Italy and Germany emerged as united nation states. His personal decisions were vital both to the outcome of the Crimean War and to the onset of World War l, sixty years later. Although he was an autocrat who believed ill the Habsburg dynastic mission to provide eleven distinct nationalities with a cohesive unity, he was also a family man of simple tastes; and in his old age he was revered in his Austrian heartland, much as Queen Victoria was within her empire. Francis Joseph suffered a succession of personal disasters: his brother, Maximilian, was executed by Mexican republicans; his only son, Rudolf, shot himself and his mistress at Mayerling; his empress-queen Elizabeth, died from stab wounds in Geneva; his nephew and heir, Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated at Sarajevo. These episodes are examined anew by Alan Palmer in a biography of revelation, reassessment, and restoration. Too often the emperor is represented as a lonely, humorless bureaucrat, lacking in human warmth, artistic sensitivity, or political perception. Alan Palmer believes that this is a false impression. From a reading of hundreds of the emperor's letters, as well as his mother's diaries and other papers in the Vienna archives, Alan Palmer presents a more rounded and sympathetic portrait of Francis Joseph as the head of an empire and the head of a family. He has also used Elizabeth's curious verse journal, only recently made public,and the extensive writings of the controversial Crown Prince Rudolf in a reappraisal of the conflicting emotions that troubled the oldest of dynasties at a time of immense social, cultural, and political change for European society. Finally, Alan Palmer examines the durability of the Fr AUTHOR: Alan Palmer
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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