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  • Disorders of the Anorectum and Pelvic Floor, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics

    by David J. Maron, Steven D. Wexner ...
    Series Book Volume 42-4 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue provides important updates on the management of disorders of the anorectum and pelvic floor. Expert authors provide information on hemorrhoidal issues, anorectal anatomy and imaging techniques, fissure and anal stenosis, rectal prolapse, and anal abscess and fistula. Other articles are devoted to sexually transmitted and infectious diseases, treatment of radiation proctitis, and ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Soil Carbon

    Science, Management and Policy for Multiple Benefits

    by Dave Abson, Christiano Ballabio, Francesca Bampa, Andre Bationo, Niels Batjes, Martial Bernoux, Tapas Bhattacharyya, Daniel Buschiazzo, Carlos Eduardo Cerri, Rich Conant, Heitor L.C. Coutinho, Chris Duffy, Christian Feller, Roger Funk, Patrick Gicheru, Marty Goldhaber, Hans Joosten, Pierre-Alain Maron, Luca Montanarella, Generose Nziguheba, Genxing Pan, Unai Pascual, David Powlson, Pete Smith, Meine van Noordwijk, Bas van Wesemael, David Werner, Yongcun Zhao ...
    This book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining Earth's life support system for humanity. Covering the science and policy background for this important natural resource, it describes land management options that improve soil carbon status and therefore increase the benefits that humans derive from the ... Read more

    $58.19 USD

  • Flight of Ashes

    by Monika Maron ...
    Translated by David N. Marinelli ...
    MONIKA MARON, today one of Germany's greatest living writers, created Flight of Ashes and the wonderfully feisty Josepha Nadler when she herself was struggling to leave East Germany, a struggle that involved her élite communist family, the STASI, her future career, and her own conscience.The young journalist's visit to the filthy industrial town of B - Bitterfeld in the center of the GDR - ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Silent Close No.6

    by Monika Maron ...
    Translated by David N. Marinelli ...
    In this extraordinary, prizewinning novel, Monika Maron says farewell to the East Germany where she grew up as the stepchild of an élite communist official not unlike retired Professor Beerenbaum, who hires disaffected writer Rosalind Polkowski to transcribe his memoirs.Maron's sharp feminist vision, intellectual power and honesty remain essential to understand the Germany of today, where old ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Defector

    by Monika Maron ...
    Translated by David N. Marinelli ...
    Monika Maron, the great German writer still today at the forefront of her creative generation, saw her country East Germany disappear in civil unrest, departures and finally the fall of the Berlin Wall.Ever conscious of the theatre of the mind and the powerful forces East and West that would limit a writer's imagination, Maron in this novel looks inside Rosalind Polkowski, her semi ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Annotated Lolita

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  • The Broken House

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  • The Inventory

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