This handbook describes the principles of positron emission tomography (PET), providing detailed view of its application in clinical practice. The text explains the physical & biochemical basis for PET & covers topics like instrumentation, image reconstruction, & radiopharmaceuticals production. ...

Offers the tools of physics & chemistry to the aid of biological researchers & clinicians who are bridging the fields of inquiry, ranging from clinical to basic science. This book is suitable for nuclear physicists & clinicians interested in the basic science of PET. ...

Mario Van Peebles' story of ex-slave Jesse Lee who was conscripted into the Spanish American War in 1892 & who, along with his squadron of black conscripts, was ordered by Colonel Graham (Billy Zane) to ambush a supply column that happens to be laden with gold. However, Lee & his men realise that once they have stolen the gold Graham plans to kill them
- so they decide to keep the booty. But Graham catches up with them in New Orleans. The 'posse' flee to Lee's hometown, Freemanville, but even here the men cannot escape trouble as local strife rises to a head, & Graham is hot on their trail.
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The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country, & some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan realized, his fellow lawman Floyd Aragon had no intention of actually capturing the badmen. ...

A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color violet. This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. ...

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets & the parallel relationship of their two biographers &

Includes:: passages of " Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary & biographical treasure hunt.

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A novel that tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals & poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit & tragedy, & their quest becomes a battle against time. ...