Neuronal Control Of Locomotion

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What does the swimming leech have to do with the running human? The ability to move actively in space is essential to members of the animal kingdom, and the evolution of the nervous system relates to a large extent to the evolution of locomotion. The extreme importance of locomotion has stimulated many studies of the neural mechanisms underlying locomotion across a range of species. For the first time, a group of three leading neurobiologists have undertaken a comparative study of these mechanisms. Neuronal Control of Locomotion: From Mollusc to Man describes how the brains in very diverse and evolutionarily removed species control the animal's locomotion. In doing so, the authors reveal unifying principles of brain function, making it essential reading for students and researchers in neurobiology generally, and motor control in particular. "In my opinion, the authors have produced a masterful and highly readable exposition on the neural control of locomotion. It is timely and relevant to avant- garde neuroscience. It will have a major impact on the field, and is sure to be referenced well into the second half of the next century." Douglas Stuart, University of Arizona College of Medicine

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A book for the 'neuronally inclined'.......2001-01-04

A well structured book. Can act as a good ready reference, for studying some of the major concepts that has shaped today's understanding of the spinal organisation for locomotion. The language is not at its best, but it does not cause one to not understand the matter. Worth a read for both the scientist and those with some background in this field.

Written for everyone!.......2001-01-03

Well, written for anyone with an interest in the neural organisation of the locomotor circuits. It presents the major developments that have taken place in the field and its influence on ideas, about how the Spinal cord and other parts of the CNS produce the complex pattern or act of Locotion.

Neuronal Control of Locomotion : From Mollusc to Man

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Neuronal Control of Locomotion : From Mollusc to Man
G. N. Orlovsky
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKR7P2

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Following on the runaway success of This is New York, Universe is thrilled to reissue two more titles from M. Sasek's beloved children's travel series: This is London and This is Paris.
Like This is New York and This is San Francisco, This is London and This is Paris are facsimile editions of Sasek's original titles. His brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved and remain true to his vision. With the passing of time facts have been updated where applicable in the back of each book. Perfect souvenirs with timely and nostalgic appeal, the books have an elegant, classic look and delightful narrative that will charm both children and their parents, many of whom will remember them from their own childhood.

This is London, first published in 1959, presents impressions of London with its beautiful buildings, historic monuments, bridges, parks, shops and Piccadilly Circus, black cabs, Horse Guards, and famed Underground.

This is Paris, first published in 1959, brings Paris, one of the most exciting cities in the world, to life. There are famous buildings, beautiful gardens, cafés, and the Parisians-artists, concierges, flower girls, and even thousands of cats. Take a tour along the banks of the Seine, through the galleries of the Louvre, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

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beautiful.......2007-07-05

Exclamations come to mind: beautiful design and drawings, comprehensive and to the point guide! And this goes for all his city guides Paris, Rome, Venice and Hong Kong. You might argue it is a bit old fashioned, but I think you are confusing it with "it s one of the Classics". And when something is called a Classic, it is timeless and a Must-Have! Trust me, it is worth your while and money!

Great travel guide for kids.......2007-01-10

My son (7-year-old now) has been reding this series since age 4 every time we visited a new city. We have London, Paris and San Francisco books. They are all brilliant to read pre-trip and post-trip. Although cities have chnaged over the years, the books give a very good feel of the cities. They also give footnotes of updates. Not only my son enjoys them enormously, but my husband and myself learned a lot from the series. Highly recommended.

very pleased.......2006-07-06

Great book in great condition. Well packaged and received quickly.
Thank you.

A Quick Trip to London.......2005-02-02

Originally, I read about this series in National Geographic Travel. I bought the London book as a gift for a seven year old who is a certified Harry Potter fan and, as a result, becoming quite the junior anglophile. While this may not be an up-to-date trip to London (some of the landmarks mentioned are no longer there), it sparks the imagination and whets the young traveler's appetite. The illustrations are fun and it doesn't stay on the shelf long at our house.

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Mister God, This is Anna-not inspirational writing about God
A Childhood Memory I Shall Never, Ever Forget!
Holding Hands with Mister God
From the mouths of babes
A little girl with a spiritual mind ,, almost not of this world.

Mister God, This Is Anna
Fynn
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0345327225
Release Date: 1985-04-12

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From the moment Anna and Fynn locked eyes, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. In her completely frank and honest way, Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and answer--life's largest questions, and to feel the purpose of being. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mr. God.
"Extraordinarily moving!"
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Mister God, This is Anna-not inspirational writing about God.......2007-09-28

This story was written in 1944, and published in 1975
by William Collins Publishers in London. The author
who had written is anonymous. The author had a nervous
breakdown.

A 19 year old man finds an abused and beaten 4 year old girl
and takes her home to his family. He lives with his mother
and other orphans that he has taken in. Although he is said
to have a kind and maternal mother, and young girls in the
house, the little girl sleeps with him, which would be considered
abnormal for a man and a non family member to sleep with a child. If the
little girl needed comforting then she would be in the mom's room or in the other children's room.

The 19 year old man also takes her out at night to visit the street and
homeless people.

I don't see this as a harmless little book about God. I see it
as story of child abuse. The little girl lived until the age
of seven, and died of a fall. It's tragic and questionable.

It is not inspirational writing about God. If you are looking
for inspirational writing then read the lives of the saints.

A Childhood Memory I Shall Never, Ever Forget!.......2007-09-15

My goodness! I have thought about this book so often since first reading it in 6th grade 24 years ago. It just popped in my head a moment ago, and I rushed to the computer to look it up. HERE it is! I remember distinctly reading it practically all the way through in one sitting. This book was indeed one of the initial (with many to follow)spiritual steps on my ladder to getting to know God. In fact, I just told my 12-year-old daughter that I will soon be buying it for her to read and always have as a keepsake. I'm ecstatic!

Carrie Lynn Jones
Author of It All Began... When Jesus Gave Me Sneakers

Holding Hands with Mister God.......2007-06-14

I really enjoyed reading this novel of a little girl's understanding of Mister God, partially because of how it delved into personal spiritual development and fellowship, and largely because it tried to approach quandaries about faith with a scalpel and wizened simplicity. Sometimes it succeeded; other times it failed. Regardless of the misses, the entire book is a wonderful eye-opener that will inspire you to take your own inventories, conduct your own experiments, and perhaps check your insides and outsides for Mister God daily.

A friend recommended the book to me when I needed guidance on how to approach prayer; believe me, it helped tremendously.

From the mouths of babes.......2007-03-09

Mister God would entirely approve of this charming little book by someone with the wit and wisdom to express the most profound ideas in the simplest English we can all understand and appreciate.

A little girl with a spiritual mind ,, almost not of this world........2007-01-09

This is a journey to a place in time when a small child, Anna, leads a young man to heights of knowledge of "Mister God", that are far beyond the knowledge of this small child. She perceives the spiritual things, that only an angel would know. This is a true story. It will touch your heart, and give you a hunger for more. "A little child shall lead them".

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THIS IS LONDON (Witnesses to War)
Edward R. Murrow
Manufacturer: Schocken
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0805208828
Release Date: 1989-07-22

This Is A Modern Life: The 1980s London Mod Scene (Mod Chronicles)

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This Is A Modern Life: The 1980s London Mod Scene (Mod Chronicles)
Des Mannay
Manufacturer: Helter Skelter Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1900924773

Book Description

In 1979, catalysed by the movie Quadrophenia and the Ska revival, Mod, the ultimate youth culture, was reborn. This Is a Modern Life draws on interviews with the key mod faces, musicians, DJs and promoters of the era to document 10 years of Mod life in London and is also lavishly illustrated with photos, fliers, posters and record sleeves.

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This Time of Dying: three weeks in 1918

This Time of Dying
Reina James
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 031236444X
Release Date: 2007-04-17

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It is October 1918, and England is gathering its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered bodies of young men sent home from the front has become a grimly familiar duty. But then a country already reeling from war faces an unexpected shock: an epidemic. The Spanish influenza will kill more people than World War I, and more people than the fourteenth-century bubonic plague. There is no cure, no help from the government, not even a clear sense of what is happening---but more and more people keep getting sick, and strangely enough, it is often the young and healthy ones who die.

Henry sees the dangers much sooner than most, especially when he finds a letter left behind by a dying doctor, who begs health officials to start closing ports and setting up quarantines before it is too late. Unable to get a government minister to listen to him, Henry turns to a local schoolteacher, Allen Thompson, a woman who would usually be above his station. But as the flu continues to claim its victims and there are no more grand coffins in which to bury even the wealthiest dead, the old social order begins to crumble. Henry and Allen find themselves imagining a new life together---if only they can survive themselves.

Inspired by the deaths of the author’s grandparents in the Spanish flu epidemic, This Time of Dying is a powerfully imagined story of love and redemption in a world where nothing can be taken for granted anymore.

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This Time of Dying: three weeks in 1918.......2007-07-21

The Great War is drawing to a close when the influenza epidemic of 1918 takes its hold. Set in London during a three week period, this novel conveys the horror of the war and, with the end of the war almost within reach, the emergence of the deadly influenza pandemic which killed millions around the world.

At the same time as conventional society is crumbling through the combined impacts of war and influenza, class distinctions remain important. Henry Speake, the undertaker, is the central character in this novel. His friendship with a widow, Mrs Allen Thompson, causes them both considerable social grief because of class differences.

This is not a light read but, once started, I found it very hard to put down. This is Ms James's first novel, and it is beautifully presented. Amongst the pain and suffering are some wonderful examples of humanity and the glimmerings of hope for a better future.

Highly recommended.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

Lose This Skin (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)

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Inside action
Top rate first novel
fascinating private investigative
Good and real
A real page-turner ....

Lose This Skin (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
Jerry Sykes
Manufacturer: Five Star (ME)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1594145377

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Inside action.......2007-03-06

Jerry Sykes makes an auspicious, character-drive debut with LOSE THIS SKIN, introducing us to Frank Roscoe, a detective with a lot of things in his past, and a lot on his mind. Just as strong as Sykes' characters are his London locales (particularly Camdentown), which shimmer grittily at the turn of every page. Highly recommended.

Top rate first novel.......2007-02-27

According to the book jacket, Jerry Sykes is a two-time winner of the British Crime Writers' Association's Short Story Dagger award. The only other author to have achieved this feat is Ian Rankin. And while this debut novel may not quite be up there with Rankin, Sykes more than hits the ground running and shows that he has lost none of his storytelling skills in the move from the mile to the marathon.

Detective Frank Roscoe is not dealing well with the aftermath of a drive-by shooting that left him with a shattered foot. So when an old friend asks him to look into the death of her son he reluctantly agrees. The boy had been killed under the wheels of a police car and the official line is that it was an accident but his mother thinks differently.

Meanwhile another mother is questioning her role in the death of her son from a drugs overdose as she tries to keep her other son on the straight and narrow. She had been a recreational user as her son was growing up and she is convinced that this contributed to his death somehow.

The two strands eventually intertwine in a finale that is as heartbreaking as it is unexpected.

Readers of a certain age may also take great delight in the many references to The Clash in the book. The story is set in their old stomping ground in North London and reminders of their ongoing influence are littered throughout.

fascinating private investigative .......2007-02-23

In Camdentown, England Detective Inspector Frank Roscoe still seeks the drive by gunman who shattered his left heel seven months ago. Several days a week, Roscoe returns to the Echo Barn bar, the scene of the crime hoping to find a witness, but so far nothing. Physically he is nearly back to what he was, but mentally the wounds remain festering.

Family friend Rhiannon Burns pleads with Roscoe to investigate the death of her ten years old son Karl in a domestic violence incident in which a police car hit the child. She thinks the cops were trying to hit someone else, but a push sent her son into the path of the vehicle. Roscoe assumes this is a grieving mother looking for a purpose to her child's tragic death, but to mollify her he agrees to investigate the incident. He quickly reassesses his first opinion of a tragic accident as it begins to appear the driver, a cop, purposely targeted someone in the crowd. Motivated for the first time since his incident, Frank digs deeper into what happened.

LOSE THIS SKIN is a fascinating private investigative tale starring a cop on medical leave haunted by a personal incident that he cannot let go of until the grieving mother hooks him into making inquiries into her son's wrongful death accident. Readers will initially agree with Frank and the police department that Karl's death was a tragedy and his mom cannot let go, but will begin to change their minds (like Frank does) as the injured detective begins to uncover disparities. Tragic accident or murder of the wrong person, fans will want to know as Jerry Sykes writes a wonderful mystery.

Good and real.......2007-02-22

Two women who have lost sons in tragic circumstances are at the center of this impressive debut mystery. And the book is as much about their ongoing stories as it is about Detective Frank Roscoe, the nominal main character, as he helps out one of the women, an old family friend, when much to her sorrow and disbelief the death of her son under the wheels of a police cruiser responding to a domestic incident is dubbed a tragic accident.

While the pace and the pull of the plot are strong, it is the veracity of the characters, with all their shortcomings and their small human surprises, that makes this book so good. Roscoe, on medical leave following a drive-by shooting by a gunman still out there in the night, is a particular delight, full of his own foibles and flaws, especially in his burgeoning relationship with a new female colleague.

Like all the best mystery writers, Sykes understands that if you make it real, the readers will come.

A real page-turner ...........2007-02-18

A great crime novel, if you like British author Ian Rankin you'll love this...

Party London and Paris (Now This Is Life)

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Party London and Paris (Now This Is Life)
PartyEarth LLC
Manufacturer: PartyEarth, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976112027

Product Description

The perfect supplement to traditional guidebooks, Party London and Paris' pages are packed with reviews of fun and social, day and night activities. The unique manner in which it is written enables young travelers to customize reviews to match their own definition of fun in order to maximize every moment of their time abroad.

Riding the Next Wave: Why This Century Will Be a Golden Age for Workers, the Environment, and Developing Countries

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Riding the Next Wave: Why This Century Will Be a Golden Age for Workers, the Environment, and Developing Countries

Manufacturer: Hudson Institute
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155813090X

Book Description

Riding the Next Wave continues Hudson Institute's analytical tradition of exploring the future through the lenses of social science and history. Featuring the independent work of Hudson researchers (and those associated with the institute), Riding the Next Wave presents an overview of the possible contours of the world in the twenty-first century by exploring the probability and scope of change in demographics, national defense, biotechnology, urban development, space exploration, and much more. This collaborative effort projects a century of success and tremendous growth spreading throughout the globe, benefiting workers and developing countries in ways previously thought unattainable outside the industrialized world. The book also identifies several potential threats to future growth, exploring ways to overcome these obstacles. Riding the Next Wave will both stimulate discussion and help shape the future that it describes.

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An Enigma

This House Is Haunted
Guy Lyon Playfair
Manufacturer: Stein & Day Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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THE WALL: A horrifying true story of a haunting

ASIN: 0812827325

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An Enigma.......2006-11-14

This book follows the case of the Enfield Poltergeist,a fascinating haunting which asks many questions but which unfortunately provides few answers, In 1977,a working class family in England became the focus of an apparent haunting. It began with banging noises and the movement of objects and developed into one of the most controversial cases in psychical research. Guy Playfair and the late Maurice Grosse spent years with the family documenting events and watching as a parade of skeptics,mediums and fellow psychic investigators passed through the small apartment. This book doesn't "prove" the existence of ghosts or even demonstrate that this case was based on real paranormal events- Grosse and Playfair both were unsure of the nature of the events they were witnessing. This book is sometimes tedious,but is an important document and should be read by anyone seriously interested in hauntings and poltergeists. Was it the result of trickery or mental illness? Ultimately Playfair and Grosse committed to the paranormal nature of most of what they documented.

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Two many loose threads
Swearing spoiled it
Elegant Craftsmanship
Powerful, moving, beautiful
Pointless

In the Middle of All This
Fred G. Leebron
Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0151008345

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Martin Kreutzel and his ill sister, Elizabeth, are as close as grown siblings can be-they have an essential connection. However, she lives with her husband outside of London and he lives with his wife and two children in a small Pennsylvania college town where he and his wife are both professors. Neither one of them likes the atmosphere there but they both have tenure track positions and can raise their two children in a safe neighborhood, in a house they can own. As Elizabeth's cancer worsens, Martin's love for her cripples his abilities at work and at home. When Elizabeth's husband, Richard, disappears for a few days, and one of Martin's students hangs herself, Martin finds himself torn between serving his sister and being a good husband, father, and professor. After Martin makes a trip to London to be with his sister, the situation gets stranger, alarming even, when Richard returns and whisks his wife off for the day, disappearing again, except this time he takes Elizabeth with him.
Leebron's compelling third novel brings us into the world of domestic unease as two couples and their joined families wrestle with empathy's limitations in the uncompromising teeth of mortality.

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Two many loose threads.......2003-06-26

This read more like a collection of connected stories than a novel. The voices of the three narrators are compelling, but the book suffers from a lack of focus. The central conflict, involving the sister's illness, is marred by her disappearance, leaving the main character to meditate about the issues of mortality, love and family, stalling the story's momentum. The anecdotes from academic life, though entertaining, are distracting, because the minor characters arouse more curiosity than the main players.

Swearing spoiled it.......2003-02-02

Why does a man think that to be a man he has to use the "f" word constantly? In all its parts of speech. That was a major turnoff about this book, plus I thought it rather...I hate to say it...dumb!

Elegant Craftsmanship.......2002-10-01

One of the characters in this uncompromising book remarks that life always takes place "in the middle of all this," and it certainly does. This is a long journey in a short book and each page is fresh, beautifully conceived and wonderfully well-written. What a pleasure!

Powerful, moving, beautiful.......2002-09-18

There's going to be a wide disparity of opinions about this book, since it deals with a hot-button, emotional subject: a sibling dying of cancer. For my money, the book and especially the writing are on the mark. For all its seriousness, it's also brutally funny, as we follow Martin self-destructing as he tries to give solace to his sister.

Pointless.......2002-09-13

Was there a plot here? Oh, I must have missed it.

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