This illustrated book describes how geniuses--from obvious choices such as Albert Einstein to less obvious figures like author Isabel Allende--have used specific mental skills that all individuals possess to create breakthrough ideas in the arts and sciences. The authors insist that all geniuses experience a slow process of intellectual evolution, ...
Many modern medical practices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels" investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by 20th-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity. This book calls upon the medical establishment to ...
"Discovering" is an experimental work. It attempts not merely to look at what scientists do but to get inside their minds to find out how, to see science as the imaginative endeavour of the people who do it. Using a fictional format, the author unveils the discovery process in action through the discussions of six characters who attend a ...
When basketball hero Magic Johnson recently announced that he had tested positive for HIV, the public naturally assumed it was only a matter of time before he developed full-blown AIDS. But is the link between HIV and AIDS really established? Most physicians now believe that HIV is tantamount to a death sentence. They also believe that AIDS is a ...
This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, ...
Description: LIKE NEW. USED "Rethinking AIDS the tragic cost of premature consensus; Free Press; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, New York: Toronto: New York, 1993. Hardback, Fine Fine, Robert S. Root-Bernstein, disease aids etiology infections viruses hiv. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, NY
Date Published: 1993
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Binding is clean, sound and unworn as are the DJ and contents. Fine / Fine.; First Printing, may be BCE. 512pp. Index. Glossary. Figures and Tables. Light tan cloth spine, black boards, red lettering. HEALTH. Reviews the entire existing corpus of AIDS research, strongly challenging the HIV hypothesis: shows that many people infected with HIV remain healthy; sexual transmission is difficult; female prostitutes rarely contract HIV unless they also use drugs; AIDS has not ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Free Presss, New York
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. This 6.5"x9.5" hard cover book has a purple dj with off white and orange lettering on the front and spine of the dj. There is a sticker remnant. A book about the tragic cost of premature consensus. 512 indexed pages. A clean and tight copy of the book. read more
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How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
