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Calcium and the heart : proceedings of the meeting of the European Section of the International Study Group for Research in Cardiac Metabolism held at the Institute of Cardiology, London, on 6 September, 1970
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Abstract: Useful for research workers and postgraduate students in cardiology and cardiovascular physiology and for biochemists, the Proceedings contains six papers each surveying a subject and presenting recent work. Together they are an up-to-date review of calcium metabolism in the heart. Titles are: Introduction; Cellular Exchange of Calcium; Calcium and the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum; Calcium and the Mitochondria; Calcium and the Cardiac Contractile Proteins; and Specific Inhibitors and Promotors of Calcium Action in the Excitation-Contraction Coupling of Heart Muscle and their Role in the Prevention or Production of Myocardial Lesions.
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Nora N. Larsen family papers
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This material includes letters, documents, clippings, and photographs (HM 83753-83772) related to the employment of Nora N. Larsen in the San Marino, California estate household of the Huntington family, dating from 1910 to 1957. The letters and documents, dating from 1913 to 1920, detail the working lives and responsibilities of the staff, including material related to Carrie M. Campbell, Arabella Huntington's long-time companion. Also included is Larsen family material written between 1886 and 1958, much of it from Wisconsin, in the form of letters, documents, and ephemera.
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Artists and scientists
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"Since the 1960s, Kunié Sugiura has created works that challenge the conventions of traditional photography and synthesize elements of Japanese and Western aesthetics. Artists and Scientists presents work from two recent series, 'The Artist Papers' and 'The Scientist Papers', both of which consist of life-sized photograms depicting characteristic gestures, performances and actions by a variety of artists and scientists. Here Sugiura emphasizes the inherent temporal qualities of the photogram to capture events that are, as Bill Arning wrote in the catalogue for a recent survey of the artist's work, 'here/not-here and now/not-now'. For Sugiura, the photogram provides the means to capture 'identity through action' and to objectify a virtual realm in which the past is recorded through the reversal of shadows"--Publisher's description.
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The erotic traveler
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"Burton the sexual anthropologist is the chief concern of 'The Erotic Traveler,' though his adventurous life is also sketched in by Edward Leigh, who, in the form of a continuing narrative, presents Burton's writings on strange rites and sex customs around the world. The remarkable shape of women's breasts in Sind, the various methods of creating eunuchs, and the devices employed in the East to prolong the act of love were all of absorbing interest to Burton. He wrote with authority about the anatomical anomalies of Somali prostitutes in Aden or of pederasty in the male brothels of Karachi. This fascinating book, like its central figure, moves from India and Africa to North and South America, and reveals one of the more intriguing facets of a multifaceted yet singular man"--dust jacket.
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Datus C. Smith letters
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Three letters to Datus C. Smith from political reformer Henry Ware Allen, Senator Gerald P. Nye, who was on the Committee of Public Lands, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the letters, they discuss recent farm aid legislation and government advisor Bernard Baruch.
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Illegal Aliens
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Approx. 12 items: cover letters and 9-pp. paper prepared by Coalition of Mexicanos / Latinos against Defamation, which states that (p. 1) "Chicanos wonder about the objectivity of the Los Angeles Times..." ; a selection of LAT stories from 1977 and 1978 on the illegal alien issue in California and nationwide.
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