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An Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering

Edited by Rory A. Cooper, Hisaichi Ohnabe, Rosemarie Cooper ...

Series series Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
In response to the growing demand for a foundational resource in rehabilitation engineering, Dr. Cooper – renowned innovator and leader in the field – joins a team of knowledgeable contributors to present the fully updated Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering, Second Edition. This comprehensive guide introduces both foundational principles and real-world applications of rehabilitation ... Read more

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In response to the growing demand for a foundational resource in rehabilitation engineering, Dr. Cooper – renowned innovator and leader in the field – joins a team of knowledgeable contributors to present the fully updated Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering, Second Edition. This comprehensive guide introduces both foundational principles and real-world applications of rehabilitation
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Warrior Transition Leader: Medical Rehabilitation Handbook

Medical Rehabilitation Handbook

Edited by Defense Dept., Office of the Surgeon General, Rory A. Cooper, Col. Paul F. Pasquina, M.D., Col. Ron Drach, Army Medical Department Center and School (U.S.), The Borden Institute, U.S. Army Medical Department ...

PRINT FORMAT ONLY NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price This book is targeted toward helping Army leaders of all levels to assist wounded, injured, and ill soldiers and their families while undergoing medical rehabilitation or interacting with essential healthcare and community reintegration services. Many facets are involved in the ... Read more

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PRINT FORMAT ONLY NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price This book is targeted toward helping Army leaders of all levels to assist wounded, injured, and ill soldiers and their families while undergoing medical rehabilitation or interacting with essential healthcare and community reintegration services. Many facets are involved in the
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune

How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

by Rory Muir ...

Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

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11 hours 52 min

A history of younger sons in Regency England and how these "spares" supported themselves: "Illuminates the hard facts with vignettes of actual lives lived." —The SpectatorIn Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything—while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living?Historian Rory Muir ... Read more

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A history of younger sons in Regency England and how these "spares" supported themselves: "Illuminates the hard facts with vignettes of actual lives lived." —The SpectatorIn Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything—while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living?Historian Rory Muir
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Origins of the Universe

The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity

by Keith Cooper ...

Narrated by Rory Barnett ...

Series series Hot Science
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5 hours 5 min

Nearly sixty years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their astronomical observations. In it, they had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe. That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000 ... Read more

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Nearly sixty years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their astronomical observations. In it, they had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe. That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000
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Hot Protestants

A History of Puritanism in England and America

by Michael P. Winship ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

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15 hours 37 min

On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.Begun in the mid–sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking ... Read more

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On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.Begun in the mid–sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking
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Einstein on the Run

How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist

by Andrew Robinson ...

Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

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9 hours 24 min

The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein’s life—first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the NazisIn autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to ... Read more

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The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein’s life—first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the NazisIn autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to
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The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

The Mathematics of Christmas

by Thomas Oléron Evans, Hannah Fry ...

Narrated by Mary Jane Wells ...

Unabridged

3 hours 3 min

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and milk in billions of houses across the world?In The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, distinguished ... Read more

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How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and milk in billions of houses across the world?In The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, distinguished
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Secret Agenda

Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

by Jim Hougan ...

Narrated by Al Kessel ...

Unabridged

15 hours 7 min

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one who got away" when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim ... Read more

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Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one who got away" when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim
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Mussolini and Hitler

The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

by Christian Goeschel ...

Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 27 min

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and ... Read more

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From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and
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The World in Flames

A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

by Jerald Walker ...

Narrated by C.S. Treadway ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions ... Read more

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A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions
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The Last Days of Stalin

by Joshua Rubenstein ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

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8 hours 46 min

A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin’s last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet ... Read more

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A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin’s last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet
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A Peculiar Indifference

The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

by Elliott Currie ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... Read more

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a
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