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Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can
dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else,
but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these
passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that
these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a
small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book
presents the latest information about how the brain controls our
most basic drives. In a series of fascinating anecdotes, Young
tells the tale of how scientists have discovered the role of the
hypothalamus in our basic drives and in medical conditions in which
these drives are drastically altered. Covering our need for food,
water, sex, sleep, and other life essentials, he reveals the
brain's part in how we provide for each, and how in some cases,
those needs can swing wildly out of control resulting in problems
such as obesity, diabetes, insomnia, or narcolepsy. He shows how
regulating body temperature can affect the lifespan, how the aging
process affects sexual behavior, how empathy and love develop in
relationships with family members or with love interests, and how
all these functions and more can go awry. Like other science
writers before him, Young illuminates even the complex inner
workings of the brain in a way that anyone can understand, so that
readers are treated to a tour of a tiny part of the brain that is
responsible for so many fundamental aspects of life.
This book is intended to be an accessible introduction to the cell
biology of mammalian cells for junior or senior undergraduate
students who have already had an introduction to biological
sciences. This engaging and stimulating text focuses on current
controversies in cell biology. To solve these puzzles, the reader
will learn how to answer a number of fundamental yet hard-hitting
questions in the field. He or she is thus able to approach the
subject with the right scientific attitude and build a firm
foundation of understanding. Basic features of mammalian cells -
secretion, division, motility, cell-cell interactions - are
described using up-to-date references to the most current
scientific literature. The text is well illustrated with clearly
understandable diagrams and numerous micrographs of cells. This
text will enable non-specialists to acquire a better understanding
of current issues in mammalian cell biology.
This book is intended to be an accessible introduction to the cell
biology of mammalian cells for junior or senior undergraduate
students who have already had an introduction to biological
sciences. This engaging and stimulating text focuses on current
controversies in cell biology. To solve these puzzles, the reader
will learn how to answer a number of fundamental yet hard-hitting
questions in the field. He or she is thus able to approach the
subject with the right scientific attitude and build a firm
foundation of understanding. Basic features of mammalian cells -
secretion, division, motility, cell-cell interactions - are
described using up-to-date references to the most current
scientific literature. The text is well illustrated with clearly
understandable diagrams and numerous micrographs of cells. This
text will enable non-specialists to acquire a better understanding
of current issues in mammalian cell biology.
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A Careful Hunger - Poems (Paperback)
Judy Young; Edited by John K. Young; Foreword by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Susan Starr Richards
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Judy Young (1940--2015) was a gifted but private poet. Over the
years, she established provisional collections of her best work but
refrained from seeking publication due to her trepidation with
sharing her deeply personal poems with an audience. She found her
voice in a collective group of creatives that included Susan Starr
Richards, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, and the late Donna Boyd, Jane
Gentry, Audrey Robinson, and Carolyn Hisel. This illustrious circle
of friends met monthly for almost thirty years and gave her the
courage to share her work -- a lyrical medley of pain, beauty,
strength, and redemption. Revealed is the story of a woman's inner
life -- an intimate tale of abuse and personal struggle -- from a
traumatic childhood through marriage, parenthood, and lifelong
friendships. Based on the final manuscript that was drafted before
the author's death, this compilation traces the path of a woman
finding her poetic voice in middle age, returning to an
often-harrowing upbringing while closely observing the natural
world -- especially the populations of birds moving through the
space between her back porch and the lake below -- and meditating
on the nature of creativity. With a submerged narrative behind the
poems and several calls to nature through repeated motifs, the poet
shares seminal emotions and experiences. A Careful Hunger is the
last creative testament of this extraordinary artist -- her final
act of fearlessness in a troubled yet joyful life. In the words of
the poet: "I am alive and must say so / one way or another."
The Freemasons include some of the greatest minds in history, such
as Darwin and Churchill. They also stand accused of some of the
bloodiest acts humanity has ever seen. Many even believe that they
control the destinies of the nations. They are the Freemasons, the
longest lasting fraternal organisation in the world, shrouded by
mystery, myth and murder. "101 Things You Didn't Know About the
Freemasons" examines this society and dipels the rumours, uncovers
the truth, and brings to light such topics as: masonic symbols,
rites and rituals, famous freemasons and their contributions to
art, literature, and science, and much more. With "101 Things You
Didn't Know About the Freemasons", you'll unlock the secrets of
this fascinating, age-old organisation in no time!
Jean Toomer's "Cane" was advertised as "a book about Negroes by
a Negro," despite his request not to promote the book along such
racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of her second novel
from "Nig" to "Passing," because an editor felt the original title
"might be too inflammatory." In order to publish his first novel as
a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection Richard Wright deleted a
scene in "Native Son" depicting Bigger Thomas masturbating. Toni
Morrison changed the last word of "Beloved" at her editor's request
and switched the title of "Paradise" from "War" to allay her
publisher's marketing concerns.
Although many editors place demands on their authors, these
examples invite special scholarly attention given the power
imbalance between white editors and publishers and African American
authors. "Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in
Twentieth-Century African American Literature" examines the complex
negotiations behind the production of African American
literature.
In chapters on Larsen's "Passing," Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo,"
Gwendolyn Brooks's "Children Coming Home," Morrison's "Oprah's Book
Club" selections, and Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth," John K. Young
presents the first book-length application of editorial theory to
African American literature. Focusing on the manuscripts, drafts,
book covers, colophons, and advertisements that trace book
production, Young expands upon the concept of socialized authorship
and demonstrates how the study of publishing history and practice
and African American literary criticism enrich each other.
"You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it," Tim
O'Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the
most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet
Nam, O'Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in
narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and nonfictional
versions of the war's defining experiences, but also by rewriting
those stories again and again. Key moments of revision extend from
early drafts, to the initial appearance of selected chapters in
magazines, across typescripts and page proofs for first editions,
and through continuing post-publication variants in reprints. How
to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of
O'Brien's archival papers at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom
Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other
prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published
versions of O'Brien's works, John K. Young tells the untold stories
behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato,
The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods. By reading
not just the texts that have been published, but also the versions
they could have been, Young demonstrates the important choices
O'Brien and his editors have made about how to represent the
traumas of the war in Viet Nam. The result is a series of texts
that refuse to settle into a finished or stable form, just as the
stories they present insist on being told and retold in new and
changing ways. In their lack of textual stability, these variants
across different versions enact for O'Brien's readers the kinds of
narrative volatility that is key to the American literature
emerging from the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps in this case, you can
tell a true war story if you just keep on revising it.
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