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The Oregon Trail (Dover Value Editions)
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
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The Battle for North America
Originally published in 1889 in 13 volumes, this brilliant, unequalled work by the most famous American historian of the age has now been skillfully edited into a single edition The wonderfully readable result retains its sharp focus and wonderfully graceful style, while eliminating repetitions and archaic phrases. Playing out in the dramatic account is the struggle for a continent, and the brilliant men who dominated the conflict: Champlain, La Salle, Washington, Howe, and others. By ousting the French from the land, the British unwittingly set the stage for their own later defeat. .
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Modern Library Exploration)
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The Clinician's Guide to Acid/Peptic Disorders and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract (The Clinician's Guide to GI Series)
Acid/peptic disorders and motility disorders of the gastrointestinal tract are among the most common disorders affecting the general population. The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract is a practical guide that offers access to the advances made in recent years in acute treatment and maintenance therapy.
Drs. Henry Parkman and Robert Fisher have compiled a unique reference for the management of patients with these gastrointestinal disorders. Comprehensive and user-friendly, the topics covered in the treatment of acid/peptic disorders and motility disorders range from daily medication and on-demand regimens to gastric electrical stimulators. The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract will highlight clinical advances made in the care of patients, including a focus on symptoms, causes, evaluation, and treatment.
As part of The Clinician’s Guide to GI Series, this text serves as a concise reference that allows clinicians to quickly access and evaluate the necessary information for treating and managing patients with acid/peptic and motility disorders.
Topics Include:
• Discussions of management of common acid-related GI problems, such as heartburn from GERD and abdominal pain from ulcer disease.
• Management of and new treatments for patients with classic motility disorders, such as achalasia and gastroparesis.
• Insight into the management of patients with functional GI disorders, such as functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome.
• A focus on the new promotility compounds and agents to treat irritable bowel syndrome, whether it be associated with predominant diarrhea or predominant constipation.
• The relationship of the bacterial population of the gastrointestinal tract to acid/peptic and motility disorders.
Including images, tables, and algorithms, The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract is the ideal reference for internists, gastroenterologists, surgeons, and oncologists looking to keep pace with the latest treatment options available today.Â
The Clinician’s Guide to GI Series
This exciting series of books is created specifically for those professionals who manage patients with gastrointestinal problems. Some additional topics include IBD, liver disease, and gastrointestinal oncology. Comprehensive, concise, and user-friendly, these books are written in a uniform format and include images, tables, and algorithms.
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Price: $65.01
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Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin
Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant. That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and that rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis. This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times." To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history. .
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Musket & Tomahawk: a Military History of the French & Indian War, 1753-1760
Francis Parkman's history Montcalm and Wolfe, originally published in two volumes is, possibly, the finest history book to come out of America and is the definitive account of the Seven Years War in the New World. It sets the conflict in an historical context and includes both biographies of its principal characters and much about its political consequences. This book, Musket and Tomahawk, has been adapted from Parkman's more expansive work by the Leonaur Editors, especially for those students of military history-both serious and casual-who are primarily concerned with the war itself. This was a war fought under blazing suns and driving snows. It was fought in the deep forests, on lakes and rivers and on the slopes of mountains. It was a war of ambuscade, sieges, massacres and the storming of palisades and burning blockhouses. It brought collisions in full battle between the regular troops of Britain and France, but it also embraced militias drawn from the settlers of both sides including famous backwoodsmen and scouts who became the Rangers. Not least of those embroiled were the deadly indigenous people of the land-the Indian tribes of the Eastern Woodlands-who fought according to their individual loyalties to each side and who brought a colour and savagery which was unique to this frontier conflict. Musket and Tomahawk is a riveting story of a war that has always fascinated students of military history because of its very diversity..
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