Author: Luba Vikhanski
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: cord, spinal, regeneration, mystery, solving, lost, search
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0309074371
ISBN-13: 9780309074377
In Search of the Lost Cord is a scientific detective story, the stuff of science fiction en route to science fact. People trapped by the limitation of paralyzed limbs, rendered useless by devastating, catastrophic injuries to their spinal cords, may one day walk again. If the research is successful . . . if the scientists hit on the right strategy for approaching the problem, we may yet see miracles happen. In her new book, science journalist Luba Vikhanski profiles the rapidly developing field of spinal cord injury research. She explains the field’s greatest scientific challenges and int
Author: Committee on Spinal Cord InjuryCatharyn T. Liverm
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: promise, priorities, progress, injury, cord, spinal
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-07-29
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309095859
ISBN-13: 9780309095853
An estimated 11,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year in the United States and more than 200,000 Americans suffer from maladies associated with spinal cord injury. This includes paralysis, bowel and bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, respiratory impairment, temperature regulation problems, and chronic pain. During the last two decades, longstanding beliefs about the inability of the adult central nervous system to heal itself have been eroded by the flood of new information from research in the neurosciences and related fields. However, there are still no cures and the challenge of re
Author: R.J. Stewart
Publisher: R J Stewart Books
Keywords: cord, spirit
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 097914020X
ISBN-13: 9780979140204
THE SPIRIT CORD reveals many insights and practical methods of Cord meditation, empowered vision and spiritual magic using a physical cord in a set of simple and powerful practices. These practices, known as forms, range from the metaphysical and ancestral traditions of the ancient world to a unique set of contemporary methods for transforming consciousness. The contemporary forms are the result of more than thirty years of work by R.J. Stewart and have been developed and tested in ongoing groups in the USA and Britain. R.J. Stewart is a Scottish author and composer, published worldwide, wr
Author: Alistair Kinnon
Publisher: Bewrite Books
Keywords: cord, knotted
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2002-03
List price: $14.10
ISBN-10: 1904224121
ISBN-13: 9781904224129
Author: Michael Dorris
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: cord, broken
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1990-10-12
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060916826
ISBN-13: 9780060916824
The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation’s interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author: Klaus Cord-Landwehr
Publisher: B.G. Teubner Verlag
Keywords: abfallwirtschaft, einfhrung
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2002-10-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3519252465
ISBN-13: 9783519252467
In den letzten Jahren sind die verschiedenen Bereiche der Abfallwirtschaft komplexer geworden. Die hohen Erwartungen an die Vermeidung von Abfall sowie an eine nachhaltige Abfallwirtschaft konnten jedoch nur teilweise realisiert werden. Hinsichtlich dieser Zielsetzungen ist man sich in allen Gesellschaftsgruppen einig. Es wird aber heftig über steigende Kosten und deren Gründe gestritten und darüber, welche Wege zum Ziel führen.Die 3., überarbeitete und korrigierte Auflage dieser Einführung in die Abfallwirtschaft stellt in komprimierter Fassung den neuesten Wissensstand in der komplexen
Author: Diana Lynn Severance
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: strands, three, cord
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1594677441
ISBN-13: 9781594677441
In every age there have been exemplary marriages and betrothals held together by an indestructible bond. "A Cord of Three Strands" presents love letters of seven such couples spanning three centuries, written by people from three different continents in differing stations and occupations in life. Included are the letters of John Newton, pastor and hymn writer; John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts colony; "Stonewall" Jackson, soldier; Henry Martyn, missionary; Charles Spurgeon, preacher; and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian. Each entered into his relationship with the firm conviction t
