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- The old man and the sea / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.;
Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin.- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Allegories.; Fishers; Older men; Male friendship; Metaphorical tales.; Coming of age;
- © 2003., Scribner,
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- Reading the rocks : the autobiography of the earth / by Bjornerud, Marcia.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.Acknowledgments -- Prologue : Stone Crazy. No place with no past -- The accidental diarist -- The Tao of Earth. The department of redundancy department, Inertia and spare parts -- Equals and opposites -- Going home to Mother Earth -- Everything old is new again -- The Earth fugue -- Reading rocks: a primer. Meeting rocks on common ground -- A rock by any other name -- Grammar and syntax of the three rock languages -- Mind the gap, what rocks don't tell us -- Putting everything in order -- Getting a date -- Peering into the primordial mists -- The great and the small. Geo-metry: Sizing up the Earth -- A sense of scale -- The importance of being erroneous -- Making retroactive measurements -- Tiny bubbles -- Stretchy coastlines and imperial microbes -- Lawmakers or outlaws? -- Measure for measure -- Mixing and sorting. Stars of rock and heavy metal -- Density is destiny -- Whither the water -- Mixed drinks and metaphors -- The mantle of power -- Waste management -- Mal de mer -- Only connect -- Innovation and conservation. You say you want a revolution -- The paradox of oxygen -- Coming out of the cold -- Swimming with the (not-yet-evolved) sharks -- An arthropod eat arthropod world -- The many legs of the arms race -- Communes and junkyards -- Something old, something new, everything borrowed -- Strength and weakness. Earth before geology -- Naming names and making maps -- A mechanical Earth -- The incredible shrinking Earth -- Earth unbound -- Epilogue: The once and future Earth -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.This armchair guide to the making of the geologic record shows how to understand messages written in stone. To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history--but to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Bjornerud takes the reader along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining what we see and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living thing with lessons to teach. She shows how our planet has long maintained a delicate balance, and how the global give-and-take has sustained life on Earth through numerous upheavals.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Geology.;
- © c2005., Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
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- Heart : a history / by Jauhar, Sandeep,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.Prologue : CT scan -- Introduction : the engine of life -- Part I. Metaphor. A small heart -- Prime mover -- Part II. Machine. Clutch -- Dynamo -- Pump -- Nut -- Stress fractures -- Pipes -- Wires -- Generator -- Replacement parts -- Part III. Mystery. Vulnerable heart -- A mother's heart -- Compensatory pause.For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker--by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself. --Publisher- Subjects: Heart.; Heart; Cardiology.; Heart.;
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