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 Animal Rights/Advocacy


 Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,  (2002) (Lantern Books) by Charles Patterson  (Volume 2, Number 1, January - June 2003[Featured Book]


 Astronomy


 The Transits of Venus,  (2004) (Prometheus Books), by William Sheehan and John Westfall  (Volume 5, Number 2, July - December 2006)


 Biographies

 Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford,  (1999, Paperback edition 2001) (Sutton Publishing Limited)  by G.I. Brown  (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003)

 Wheels and Wings: An Autobiography,  (2005) (B.I. Publications)  by K.C.G. Verghese  (Volume 6, Number 2, July - December 2007)


 Controversies

 AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Never Admitted - Is AIDS really caused by a virus, 3rd Edition, 2003, (New Century Press), by Lawrence Broxmeyer (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004)

 Parkinson's- another look - Is Parkinson's disease caused by a bacteria, 3rd Edition, 2002, (New Century Press), by Lawrence Broxmeyer (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 The Making Of Bigfoot: The Inside Story, 2004, (Prometheus Books), by Greg Long (Volume 4, Number 2, July - December 2005)


 Dictionaries

 A Dictionary of Entomology (2003), (CABI Publishing,)   (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Dictionary of Science and Creationism (1990), (Prometheus Books,)   (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005)


 Engineering

 Chemical Engineering
 Chemical Reaction Engineering,  (1998) (John Wiley & Sons)  by Octave Levenspiel  (Volume 4, Number 2, July - December 2005)


 Environment

 Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago,  (2002) (The MIT Press)  by David Naguib Pellow  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)


 Fiction

 Crime Fiction

 Buried evidence,  (2000) (Hyperion)  by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

 Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard,  (New York Review of Books)  (2001) by Arthur Conan Doyle  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

 Fault Line,  (St. Martin's Minotaur)  (2002) by Sarah Andrews  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

 Murder on the Minnesota,  (St. Martin's Minotaur)  (2002) by Conrad Allen  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

 Murder on the Mauretania,  (St. Martin's Minotaur)  (2000) by Conrad Allen  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

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 Fiction, General

 David Midgett,  (2009) (Publisher: Mark Raney) by Mark Raney  (Volume 13, Number 2, July - December 2014)

 Last Rites,  (2007) (BookLocker) by Charles Patterson  (Volume 8, Number 1, January - June 2009[Featured Book]

 Marshwrack,  (2010) (Publisher: Mark Raney) by Mark Raney  (Volume 14, Number 1, January-June 2015)

 Nine Days to Evil,  (2004) (BookLocker) by Nancy Glass West  (Volume 4, Number 2, July - December 2005[Featured Book]

 The Da Vinci Code,  (2003)  (Doubleday)  by Dan Brown (Volume 5, Number 1, January - June 2006)

 The Jewess,  (2008) (Publisher: Movie Advisor Publishing) by Jerome Parks  (Volume 14, Number 2, July - December 2015)

 The Second Highest World War - The Rama Theatre,  (2002) (Authors Choice Press, an imprint of iUniverse) by Anoop Chandola  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002[Featured Book]


 General

 A Handbook For Book Lovers - A Survey of Collectible Authors, Books and Values,  (1988) (Prometheus Books)  by Joesph Raymond LeFontaine  (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things,  (2007) (Prometheus Books)  by Madeleine L. Van Hecke  (Volume 10, Number 1, January - June 2011)

 Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, And The Beauty That Causes Havoc,  (2001) (Basic Books)  by Arthur I. Miller  (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004)

 The Anatomy of Melancholy,  By Robert Burton (2001)  (New York Review of Books)  (Volume 7, Number 1, January - June 2008)

 The Book of Victorian Heroes,  (2001) (Sutton Publishing Limited)  by Adam Hart-Davis & Paul Bader  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002)

 Women In Medicine : Career & Life Management, 3rd Edition (2002) (Springer-Verlag), GmbH & Co.KG  by Marjorie A Bowman, MD, MPA, Erica Frank, MD, MPH and Deborah I Allen, MD  (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004)


 History

 The Erotic History of Advertising,  (2003) (Prometheus Books) by Tom Reichert  (Volume 6, Number 1, January - June 2007)


 Life Sciences


 Acute Respiratory Infection (2001), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003) [Multimedia/CD]

 Behavioural Endocrinology, 2nd edition, 2002, (The MIT Press), edited by Jill B. Becker, S. Marc Breedlove, David Crews, & Margaret M. McCarthy (Volume 8, Number 1, January - June 2009)

 Dengue (2005), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 8, Number 2, July - December 2009) [Multimedia/CD]

 Foundations of Systems Biology,  (2001) (The MIT Press) edited by Hiroaki Kitano  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)

 HIV/AIDS (2001), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 6, Number 1, January - June 2007) [Multimedia/CD]

 Leishmaniasis (2000), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 5, Number 1, January - June 2006) [Multimedia/CD]

 Malaria 2nd Edition (2002), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 2, Number 1, January - June 2003) [Multimedia/CD]

 Schistosomiasis (1998), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 9, Number 1, January - June 2010) [Multimedia/CD]

 The Human Nervous System - An Introduction, (Springer-Verlag, Electronic Media)  by Marion Hall, Gisela Olias and David Robinson  (Volume 1, Number 1, January - June 2002) [Multimedia/CD]

 Trachoma, 2nd edition (2005), (CABI Publishing, Electronic Media)   (Volume 5, Number 2, July - December 2006) [Multimedia/CD]

 Voyage Inside the Cell, (Sinauer Associates, Inc.),   Video Cassette, running time 14 minutes 30 seconds. Written by Christian Sardet, Laurent Larsonneur & Andreas Koch  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002) [Multimedia/Video Cassette]


 Medicine and Allied Subjects

 Abernathy’s Surgical secrets (The Secrets Series), 5th Edition, 2004, [Hanley & Belfus (An Imprint of Elsevier)], by Alden H Harken and Ernest E Moore (Volume 7, Number 2, July - December 2008)

 AIIMS Nov 2004 MD/MS Entrance Exams (with Explanatory Answers), 2005, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sumer K Sethi and Siddharth K Sethi [Review by Sonali Jhanjee and Akash Jhanjee] (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005)

 AIIMS Nov 2004 MD/MS Entrance Exams (with Explanatory Answers), 2005, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sumer K Sethi and Siddharth K Sethi [Review by Tapas Koley] (Volume 9, Number 2, July - December 2010)

 All India 2005 MD/MS Entrance exams (with explanatory answers), 2005, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sumer K Sethi and Siddharth K Sethi (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005)

 Clinical Anesthesiology, 2005, (McGraw-Hill Medical), 4th Ed by G. Edward Morgan, Jr., Maged S. Mikhail, Michael J. Murray [Review by Abhishek Bansal] (Volume 12, Number 1, January - June 2013)

 Emergency Medicine, 2nd edition, 2006, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by S N Chugh (Volume 9, Number 2, July - December 2010)

 Internal Medicine Medical Student, Pearls Of Wisdom, USMLE Parts II & III Board Review, 1998 (Boston Medical Publishing Corp)  by Michael Zevitz, Scott H. Plantz, Jonathan Adler  (Volume 10, Number 1, January - June 2011)

 Ophthalmology Pearls of Wisdom, 2001 (Boston Medical Publishing Corp)  by Richard R. Tamesis and Brian Mulrooney  (Volume 9, Number 1, January - June 2010)

 Review of Ophthalmology, 2006, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Ruchi Rai (Volume 8, Number 2, July - December 2009[Featured Book]

 Review of Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, 2009, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Ruchi Rai (Volume 9, Number 2, July - December 2010[Featured Book]

 Review of Radiology, 2nd Edition, 2005, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sumer K Sethi (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005[Featured Book]

 Review of Radiology, 3rd Edition, 2006, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sumer K Sethi (Volume 5, Number 2, July - December 2006)

 Thesis and Dissertation, 1st Edition, 2009, (Peepee Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.), by Sunil Chumber, Neerja Bhatla, Shyam S. Chauhan, Ravinder Kumar Batra, Manoj Singh, Pramod K. Bithal and Shashi Kant (Volume 9, Number 1, January - June 2010)


 Mystery

 Bizarre Beliefs,  (1995) (Prometheus Books) by Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson  (Volume 12, Number 2, July - December 2013)


 Pathology

 Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease,  8th ed (2010) (Saunders Elsevier) by Vinay Kumar, Abul K Abbas, Nelson Fausto, Jon C Aster  (Volume 13, Number 1, Jan - Jun 2014)


 Physics

 Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy!,  (2000) (Prometheus Books)  by Barry Parker  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)

 Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics,  (2004) (The MIT Press) edited by Jed Z Buchwald and Andrew Warwick  (Volume 5, Number 2, July - December 2006)


 Popular Science

 Advice For A Young Investigator - Santiago Ram?n y Cajal, 3rd edition,  2004 (The MIT Press), Translated by Neely Swanson and Larry W Swanson (Volume 5, Number 1, January - June 2006)

 Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend,  (2007) (Prometheus Books)  by Barbara Oakley  (Volume 8, Number 1, January - June 2009)

 Invisible Rays: A History Of Radioactivity,  (2002) (Sutton Publishing Limited)  by G.I.Brown  (Volume 2, Number 1, January - June 2003)

 Leonardo's Laptop - Human Needs And The New Computing Technology,  (2002) (The MIT Press) by Ben Shneiderman  (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks - The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry,  (2002) (Prometheus Books)  by Cathy Cobb  (Volume 5, Number 1, January - June 2006)

Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work,  1998 (Cambridge University Press), by Susan Aldridge  (Volume 6, Number 1, January - June 2007)

Retooling: A historian Confronts Technological Change,  2002 (The MIT Press), by Rosalind Williams  (Volume 6, Number 1, January - June 2007)

 The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia,  (2001) (Prometheus Books)  by George Thomas Kurian  (Volume 2, Number 1, January - June 2003)


 Psychiatry

 Cross-walks ICD-10 – DSM-IV-TR : A Synopsis of Classifications of Mental Disorders,  (2003) (Hogrefe & Huber Publishing)  edited by Michael Schulte-Markwort, Kathrin Marutt, Peter Riedesser. Spiral Bound  (Volume 11, Number 2, July - Dec 2012)

 The Meaning of Madness,  (2009) (Acheron Books)  by Neel Burton  (Volume 11, Number 1, Jan - Jun 2012)


 Science Fiction

 Sagramanda - A Novel of Near-Future India,  (2006) (Pyr) by Alan Dean Foster  (Volume 6, Number 2, July - December 2007)


 Sex Education

 Frequently asked questions on sex,  (2004) (PeePee Publishers and Distributors)  by Vijay Rikh  (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005)

 Marriage Intimacy: New Approaches,  (2003) (Gopal Krishna Publishing) by Gopal Krishna, Ph.D  (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004[Featured Book]

 The Wages of Sin - Sex and Disease, Past and Present,  (2002) (The University of Chicago Press)  by Peter Lewis Allen  (Volume 4, Number 1, January - June 2005)


 Technical Books

 Annual Review Of Biomedical Engineering, VOLUME 3, 2001 (Annual Reviews)  by Martin L. Yarmush (Editor), Kenneth R. Diller (Associate Editor) and Mehmet Toner (Associate Editor)  (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Annual Review Of Biomedical Phytopathology, VOLUME 40, 2002 (Annual Reviews)  by Robert K. Webster (Editor), Gregory Shaner (Associate Editor) and Neal K. Van Alfen (Associate Editor)  (Volume 9, Number 1, January - June 2010)

 Annual Review Of Public Health, VOLUME 19, 1998 (Annual Reviews)  by Jonathan E. Fielding, University of California at Los Angeles (Editor), Lester B. Lave, Carnegie Mellon University (Associate Editor), Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins University (Associate Editor)  (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003)

 Annual Review Of Public Health, VOLUME 20, 1999 (Annual Reviews)  by Jonathan E. Fielding, University of California at Los Angeles (Editor), Lester B. Lave, Carnegie Mellon University (Associate Editor), Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins University (Associate Editor)  (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004)

 Annual Review Of Public Health, VOLUME 21, 2000 (Annual Reviews)  by Jonathan E. Fielding, University of California at Los Angeles (Editor), Lester B. Lave, Carnegie Mellon University (Associate Editor), Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins University (Associate Editor)  (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Annual Review Of Public Health, VOLUME 22, 2001 (Annual Reviews)  by Jonathan E. Fielding, University of California at Los Angeles (Editor), Ross C. Brownson, Saint Louis University (Associate Editor), Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins University (Associate Editor)  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)

 Annual Review Of Public Health, VOLUME 23, 2002 (Annual Reviews)  by Jonathan E. Fielding, University of California at Los Angeles (Editor), Ross C. Brownson, Saint Louis University (Associate Editor), Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins University (Associate Editor)  (Volume 2, Number 1, January - June 2003)

 Current Topics in Computational Molecular Biology,  (2002) (The MIT Press) edited by Tao Jiang, Ying Xu, Michael Q. Zhang  (Volume 3, Number 1, January - June 2004)

 Exploratory Analysis and Data Modeling in Functional Neuroimaging,  (2003) (The MIT Press) edited by Friedrich T. Sommer and Andrzej Wichert (Foreword by Manfred Spitzer)  (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003)

 The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks,  (2003) (The MIT Press) edited by Michael A. Arbib  (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003)


 Travel

 Canadian Rockies including Banff and Jasper National Parks,  (2001) (Moon Handbooks, Avalon Travel Publishing)  by Andrew Hempstead  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)

 Laos, 4th Edition (2002), ( Lonely Planet)  by Joe Cummings  (Volume 3, Number 2, July - December 2004)

 Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, 8th Edition (2001), ( Lonely Planet)  by Chris Rowthorn, Sara Benson, Russell Kerr, Christine Niven  (Volume 10, Number 2, July - December 2011)

 Mexico, 8th Edition (2002), ( Lonely Planet)  by John Noble  (Volume 1, Number 2, July - December 2002)


 Westerns

 Silver Creek,  (2003) (Avalon Books) by A.H.Holt  (Volume 2, Number 2, July - December 2003[Featured Book]

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