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Fear of Math: How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life!

Rutgers University Press, 1994

This book has a vast potential audience. It is addressed to all of you who have negative feelings about mathematics, whatever the reasons. My main motive for writing this book is to show you that you are not to blame for those negative feelings. Most likely you are a victim of the many conditions in our society that bring about fear and...

Green Planet: How Plants Keep the Earth Alive

Rutgers University Press, 2009

Plants are not just a pretty part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating the greenhouse effect, controlling floods, and producing all the food in the world. Plants also create natural...

Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)

Rutgers University Press, 2013

In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho...

In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie "the Boot" Boiardo (Rivergate Regionals Collection)

Rutgers University Press, 2013

In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld. The Boot cut his teeth battling the Jewish gang lord Abner Longy Zwillman on the streets of Newark during Prohibition and endured to become one of the East Coast’s...

Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss: A Guide to Prevention and Care

Rutgers University Press, 2006

In Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss, audiologist John Burkey shows readers how they can continue to enjoy youthful living, regardless of whether their hearing abilities are undiminished or severely compromised. In a reassuring and straightforward style, Burkey explains the typical causes of hearing loss, from genetic factors to...

History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Rutgers University Press, 2006

In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing...

Living With Cancer: A Practical Guide

Rutgers University Press, 2006

In this essential guide, Dave Visel draws on expertise hard-won during his wife’s battle with lymphoma. He provides an overview of the varieties of cancer and all the basic types of treatments available. Chapters dispel common myths associated with these treatments...

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