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  • The School of Anecdotal Medicine
    Jacob M. Appel
    A baboon rescued from medical experimentation leads to a quandry for one of Darwin’s descendants. A public health officer falls in love with a Christian Scientist. A man whose wife has disappeared attends a support group for widowers. A locksmith has an ulterior motive for giving his all to a community cause. Again and again in these stories, the road to self-discovery is paved...
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    24,37 €

  • The Biology of Luck
    Jacob M. Appel
    It’s Wednesday, June 16, 2004-the 100th Bloomsday-in New York City. Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of the last underground members of the Weathermen and the heir to a lawn chair magnate, both of whom...
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    24,47 €

  • The View from the Curb
    Jacob M Appel
    The View from the Curb, Jacob M. Appel’s second collection of poems, draws upon the author’s experiences as a psychiatrist, ethicist and historian, to offer a nuanced reflection on a suburban childhood under the shadow of his grandfather’s youth in pre-war Europe. Drawing on comedic devices to cope with tragic events, Appel blends formal meter with novel structures to create a ...
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    14,81 €

  • Capacity, Informed Consent and Third-Party Decision-Making
    Jacob M. Appel
    This Element examines three related topics in the field of bioethics that arise frequently both in clinical care and in medico-legal settings: capacity, informed consent and third-party decision-making. It discusses recent innovations and proposals for reform that shapes these subjects in the future in response to changes in societal priorities. ...
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    27,38 €

  • Winter Honeymoon
    Jacob M Appel
    Another title for Jacob Appel’s engrossing new story collection could be what one character calls ’a conspiracy of fantasies.’ Characters imagine rekindling romances from the distant past, pursue prestigious apprenticeships and dramatic deaths, even attend the funerals of movie stars in order to avoid or infuse meaning into their own ordinary losses and suffering. Appel portray...
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    18,63 €

  • Surrendering Appomattox
    Jacob M. Appel / Jacob MAppel
    Twenty-eight year old Horace Edgecomb, a mild-mannered and popular high school history teacher in suburban Laurendale, New Jersey, prides himself on his ability to connect with students of all backgrounds and ideologies. Yet when one of those students, Sally Royster, turns out to be the daughter of the nation’s most prominent Civil War denier, Edgecomb finds himself pressured b...
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    25,33 €

  • The Cynic in Extremis
    Jacob M. Appel / Jacob MAppel
    Eclectic characters in everyday scenarios populate Jacob M. Appel’s The Cynic in Extremis. We attend a sister’s second wedding with a “hand-me-down groom”; trick-or-treat with a young son; encounter a former teacher long retired, still critical; relive difficult ancestral memories of the Holocaust. These poems present—often unapologetically—uncomfortable truths gleaned from clo...
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    14,32 €

  • The Amazing Mr. Morality
    Jacob M Appel
    The Amazing Mr. Morality features tenacious men and women whose determination to buck middle-class social convention draws them toward unforeseen challenges. A failed television producer insists upon having a woodchuck relocated from his lawn, only to receive desperate letters in which the woodchuck begs to return. An overconfident ne'er-do-well obtains a lucrative lecture ...
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    16,65 €

  • Scouting for the Reaper
    Jacob M Appel / Jacob M Appel
    Named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2014. Each of the characters in SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, and selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout. These stories explore the domestic and professional adventures of pe...
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    15,81 €

  • Canine Distemper Virus
    J. H. Gillespie / M. J. G. Appel / R. Siegert
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    66,91 €

  • Topics in Cognitive Development
    M. Appel
    Professor Piaget, who at this writing is in his eightieth year, has dedicated his life to the exploration and explanation of the genesis of knowledge. The Piagetian model rests on both a philosophical and a biological foundation, with psychol­ ogy as the link between these two disciplines. This volume, the first in a series that will record the offici...
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    66,53 €