The Epilepsies: Etiologies and Prevention

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Tremendous advances in our understanding of epilepsy have occurred in the last two decades. Techniques such as electroencephalography, neuroimaging, neurosurgery and neuropsychology are giving us a better understanding of the pathogenesis of epilepsy. Additionally major breakthroughs are taking place in the laboratories of scientists studying genetics, embryogenesis, neuropathology, neurochemistry and pharmacology. These advances provide a much better understanding of why patients develop epilepsy, reshaping the way in which the epileptic patient is cared for. This book presents the most current information on the various etiologies of epilepsy, their treatments, and their possible prevention. Kotagal and Lüders have assembled 80 internationally known experts to compile this authoritative, comprehensive, and well-rounded work.
The Epilepsies is a one-of-a-kind reference that will be of interest to specialists and basic scientists involved in the study of epilepsy, adult and pediatric neurologists, neurosurgeons, residents and fellows in these areas, and pediatricians who frequently encounter children with neurological problems. This major work brings together the most up-to-date research on the causes of epilepsy and other associated diseases which cause seizures. It presents data on infections, trauma, mesial temporal sclerosis, cerebral dysgenesis, brain tumors, vascular lesions, stroke, as well as genetic, metabolic and toxic causes of epilepsy. The book also looks at drug treatment and new surgical techniques that have proven useful in alleviating epileptic and other related seizures.

Key Features
* More than 65 chapters are organized into the following sections:
* Cerebral Dysgenesis
* Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
* Postinfectious Epilepsy
* Posttraumatic Epilepsy
* Neoplastic Causes of Epilepsy
* Vascular Causes of Epilepsy
* Non-Heriditary Myoclonic Epilepsy
* Metabolic and Toxic Causes of Epilepsy
* Etiologies of Neonatal Seizures
* Psychogenic Seizures
* Genetic Causes of Epilepsy

The Epilepsies: Etiologies and Prevention

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The Epilepsies: Etiologies and Prevention
Prakash Kotagal
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBQNBC

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Gas Chromatographic Headspace Analysis
H. Hachenberg , and A.P. Schmidt
Manufacturer: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Genetics | Evolution | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0471257532

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best refrigeration book ever.......2007-01-07

This is the best refrigeration book in the market, highly technical but still easy to understand, come with a very good explanation about food preservation methods and spoilage factors, the refrigeration aspect are deep, slightly conceptual but mostly practical, a most have for anyone that want to gain true understanding of refrigeration and thermodynamics.

Great Review for all Refrigeration Technicians........2006-09-14

A great reference book for all HVAC technicians,interested in the entery-level refrigeration repair area .Relates the basics,in full detail.An excellent review of refrigeration hardware and applied principles.Rather than guessing at the chapter questions ,it does have an answer-checker,to verify your homework.Although,I don't think you would want to carry this around,in your trunk.It's a good library study-guide and for trouble-shooting residential refrigetaion non-operations.

A refrigeration Techs Must Have.......2000-08-08

This book covers all the details! I use this book everyday as refrence material. It covers everything from the basics, but also gets into complicated 2 stage design, and other design areas. From A-Z this book has it. If you are a refrigeration Engineer/ Operator this is a must for the text collection.

In depth basics to complicated analysis of refrigation cycle.......1998-12-10

In understanding the refrigeration cycle, Roy Dossat had 25 years in the field before teaching at the University of Houston. I was fortunate to attend the course taught by him in the 70's. It showed the man had much to offer even to the less experienced technician who needed to start on the basics. This book is easy to understand and a nice read for those who need answers to the complicated use of refrigerant and applications that drive the business. Refrigerant application is in constant change as environmental demands alter our lives. This book is a fundamental foundation and should be on the reference shelf of all engineers and technicians that want a straight foward understanding of the refrigeration cycle. debien@flash.net

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C. Thomas Olivo
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Air Conditioning Systems: Principles, Equipment, and Service

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Air Conditioning Systems: Principles, Equipment, and Service
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Principles of refrigeration
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Dossat: Principles of Refrigeration 2ed Si Version

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Dossat: Principles of Refrigeration 2ed Si Version
Roy Joseph Dossat
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The absorption refrigerating machine, elementary theory and practice,: A complete practical elementary treatise on the absorption system of refrigeration, ... general fundamental principles of operation

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The absorption refrigerating machine, elementary theory and practice,: A complete practical elementary treatise on the absorption system of refrigeration, ... general fundamental principles of operation
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Applied Electricity A General Reference Work on Electrical Principles, Storage Batteries, Meters, Electromagnets and Coils, Direct and Alternating Current Machinery, Controllers, Armature Winding, Household Appliances, Refrigeration....10 Volume Set

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Applied Electricity A General Reference Work on Electrical Principles, Storage Batteries, Meters, Electromagnets and Coils, Direct and Alternating Current Machinery, Controllers, Armature Winding, Household Appliances, Refrigeration....10 Volume Set
Francis B., and others Crocker
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Audels refrigeration and air conditioning guide for engineers, servicemen, shop men & users;: A practical treatise covering the basic principles, servicing, ... (Audels helping hand books for mechanics)
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Calvino at his most accessible

at the margins of the resistance: funny, sad, chaotic

Picaresque, prescient, pithy

while the city is still visible

Nice First Try

The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060956585
Release Date: 2000-05-30

Book Description

Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story. Updated to include changes from Calvino's definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface--in which Calvino brilliantly critiques and places into historical context his own youthful work--The Path to the Spiders' Nests is animated by the formidable imagination that has made Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of our time.

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Calvino at his most accessible.......2005-01-15

Calvino's first novel is loosely based on his experiences as a young partisan during WWII. The overriding purpose seems to be to explode the myth behind the all-too-human countrymen who fought in the resistance. Rather than glamorize them as heroes, as had been done in countless books and tales of the period, Calvino takes great pains to show just how foolish, short-sighted and pathetic many of these men really were. Even harsher is his portrayal of the windbags in the barroom, who are quick to egg others on to action, but prove unwilling to take any such risks themselves. Of course he saves what is perhaps the very harshest criticism for his fictional sister - who is literally in bed with the enemy - and himself - in the person of the lonely street urchin Pin, who like the sister, is desperate to fit in anywhere with anyone at any price.

While this all may sound rather heavy and depressing, the viewpoint of the young lad gives it all a fresh and essentially non-judgmental veneer. Think of "The Wonder Years", only focusing on a homeless boy growing up under fascist rule. The characters are skillfully sketched, although hardly people one would care to know, and while the plot is not overburdened with action for a war novel, things move along a fair pace.

Calvino is best known for his technical fireworks, and while there are one or two spots where we see him developing these skills, for the most part the story is told in a very straightforward, chronological fashion. So Calvino's fans, who likely start each of his novels expecting a book unlike any they've ever read, may be disappointed at how pedestrian an approach the master takes to telling this story. On the other hand, readers who find Calvino's novels "too bizarre" may find this one surprisingly palatable, or at least comprehensible.

at the margins of the resistance: funny, sad, chaotic.......2004-02-11

This is an absolutely wonderful novel about a boy who wanders into the Italian resistance during WWII. There, he finds a hilarious panoplie of characters, from lice-infested peasant marxists to the hyper-intellectual young co-leader. Each person is rendered so vividly - and if you have ever lived in Italy you recognise the types - that the novel is extremely dense and pleasureful.

The plot is fairly simple: a young boy from a chaotic household has to flee after being arrested for stealing a pistol from his sister's German "client." (He was trying to impress the ineffectual drunks in his usual hangout, a smoky and dilapidated bar, and then gets caught up in the resistance.) All the time, he is lonely and desperately seeking a special companion, someone to love and take care of him. It is not a heroic tale, but one about what it was really like in the resistance: more about the pauses and boredom, the bad food and promiscuity, the strange thoughts by men risking their lives for murky as well as clear-cut causes - the socialist revolution or to rid their countryside of the Germans who steal their cows. This is a new and fascinating view, told with great wit and style. This is the first novel I read in Italian, and its vocabulary is difficult but wonderfully succinct and clear.

Warmly recommended.

Picaresque, prescient, pithy.......2004-01-19

A fascinating tale of compassion and dispair in the postwar picaresque tradition of writers like Gunther Grass.
Told from the perspective of the boy, Pin, Calvino's vision is fresh and imaginative. The tale invites us to understand the resistance movement as one not only of bravery, but of anxious restlessness and chaos. Through the commander Kim, we see war--on either side--as the defense of the humiliated against their aggressors. No one is spared. In this, we see a bit of ourselves and the current political arena in Washington and Iraq.

while the city is still visible.......2001-08-31

I looked for this book for years after reading about it in a Gore Vidal essay I believe. Finally I noticed it was in print again and so I at last read it. This may not be Calvino's best to Calvino fans but to those of us who aren't particular fans of the Calvino style this is his first book and so the style isn't altogether there yet. To me that is a good thing. As artists become masters of their craft they begin to control their material to such an extent that nothing is left to chance. The charm of this book is that Calvino is not in complete command and so the book has a kind of raw innocence very suitable to its subject matter(WWII Italy) and lead character(a child). This is a very earthy book and that word does not apply to later Calvino. All the stuff is here that will later appear in more perfect form, but for this material he is in just the right form.

Nice First Try.......1999-03-26

Experimental, historical, cynical, considerably meditative, innocently gloomy, and yet, as the author indicated, exaggerated, distorted.

It is a hightly sophisticated first try, but as most first novels do, its narrative style lacks the harmony and refinement that the author has worked on in his later career.

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A child's view of the trauma of WWII torn Italy

Calvino: Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Italian | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0880011890

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A child's view of the trauma of WWII torn Italy.......1996-05-14

Italo Calvino is an artist in many different meanings of that word. But his first book, _The Path to the Nest of Spiders_, brings another view to the author. Told from the perspective of the child, Calvino is able to use his fantastic style, as well as his earthy analysis of the situations that arise. The Characters are both real and symbols, from the Sister who shares her bed each night, to the cook that is both an anarchist and a father to the boy. Calvino is truly a master at his craft, and this book shows where he came from, and how he is able to see the world and write about it

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The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo CALVINO
Manufacturer: Cape
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000ILJXHW

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The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E43GAS

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His first book to be translated into English.

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The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo CALVINO
Manufacturer: Collins
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Italian | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0000CJH35

Path To the Nest of Spiders 1ST Edition Us

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Path To the Nest of Spiders 1ST Edition Us
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: BEACON PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VVWPCE

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The path to the nest of spiders.
Italo Calvino
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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The Path to the Spiders' Nests.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
David Ian Paddy
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Path to the Spiders' Nests.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: David Ian Paddy
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Page: 190

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The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Ecco Press
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Italian | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000NCY0N8

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Path To the Nest of Spiders 1ST Edition Us
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: BEACON PRESS
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