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• 0226132315
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• University Of Chicago Press

Americans are living longer—and staying healthier longer—than ever before. Despite the rapid disappearance of pensions and health care benefits for retirees, older people are healthier and better off than they were twenty years ago. In Health at Older Ages , a distinguished team of economists analyzes the foundations of disability decline, quantifies this phenomenon in economic terms, and proposes what might be done to accelerate future...

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• ISBN:
• 0749453109
• Publisher:
• Kogan Page
• Authors:
• Esther Cameron, Mike Green

Written for students and professionals alike, Making Sense of Change Management is a classic text in the field of change management. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than a dreaded concept. It offers considered insights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change and helps the reader apply the right approach to each...

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• 0849373158
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• CRC

In the twenty-first century, we are just beginning to understand more clearly the enormous diversity and complexity of signaling processes in the retina. Integrating advances in the biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, and physics of phototransduction, Signal Transduction in the Retina presents the methodologies and experimental approaches that yield key information on the mechanisms underlying normal retinal physiology. This in-depth work...

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• ISBN:
• 0879751916
• Publisher:
• Prometheus Books

Sidney Hook is considered by many to be America's most influential philosopher. An earlier defender of Marxism, he became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey's pragmatism, Sidney Hook has written extensively about most of the live moral, social and political issues of the day. He has known and debated many of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, such as...

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• ISBN:
• 0896036111
• Publisher:
• Humana Press

Univ. of Dundee, UK. Covers detection and assay of stress-reduced damage, activation of wide range of signal transduction pathways by cellular stress, stress-induced gene expression, and stress protein function. For scientists working to understand how cells and tissues respond during physiological stress and in human disease.