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Product Description: Hopsi Hoppel ist ein ganz besonderer kleiner Hase: er ist ein Zauberhase, der sprechen kann. Andi ist natürlich sofort begeistert von dem sprechenden Häschen und nimmt es mit zu sich nach Hause. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass Hopsi über eine zweite Zaubergabe verfügt: er kann sich unsichtbar machen...read more

Product Description: Focusing on gut health in animals, this accessible study provides an overview of the potential benefits of phytogenic substances and plant-based feed additives to animal nutrition. This up-to-date and well-researched exploration calls upon the latest scientific knowledge regarding these additives and their potential use as flavoring agents and growth promoters in different animals worldwide—from pigs and poultry to ruminant mammals and aquatic species...read more

Product Description: PDQ Epidemiology is an exceptionally clear and highly irreverent review of the important concepts of medical statistics and their impact on public health policy. As the authors note in their preface: "...the role of Epidemiology these days fills the gaping chasm between the scientific wisdom of the wet laboratory and the clinical wisdom of the ward...read more

Product Description: Dr. Nicholas Steiner is a Park Avenue internist in his mid-forties. He has a successful medical practice, a stable marriage with a home in the suburbs and enjoys good health. But when he develops melanoma, a potentially fatal type of cancer, everything ch

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