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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Vii, 307 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $3.00, Wear, Small Losses At Corners, 2 3/4" X 1 1//2" Deep V-Chip At Top Of Rear Panel. Interesting Commentaries, Revealing About What Prominent Americans Thought Civilization Was (In 1930). However, The Beard Studies Omit Any Response From Any In The Great Masses Of The World Who Do Not Invent Or Manufacture, Nor Own Or Manage, The Technological Enterprises Which Are The Essence Of Technological Development, Which Is The Primary Concern Of These Respondents; Nor Has Any Study In The Succeeding 90 Years Attempted To Explore The Meaning Of Culture So Except In The Most Superficially Journalistic And Condescending Manner. But What Could Go Wrong? Aren't The Elites, After All, Elite? It Isn't Like Unprincipled Demagogues, Secure With All The Advantages Of Modern Technology, Would Incite Violence Amongst The Vast Majority, With Relatively Ever-Declining Options Ever-Declining Self-Esteem And Relatively Ever-Declining Standards Of Living. Why Bother Talking To Them To See Anything More Than Whether They Agree Or Not? And Who Will Ever Want To Read Ordinary People's Opinions When The Questions They're Asked Are Always Stupidly Closed-Ended And Never Followed Up By Why Etc.. Headpieces And Jacket By E. E. Thurston (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. First Printing [stated]. Quarto, xiii, [1], 287, [3] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Figures. Charts. References. Tables. Index. Boards slightly scratched/scuffed. Sticker residue on front board. The Textbook of Military Medicine (TMM) is a series of volumes on military medicine published since 1989 by the Office of The Surgeon General, of the United States Department of the Army. It constitutes a comprehensive, multi-volume treatise on the art and science of military medicine, as practiced by the United States armed forces. The books integrate lessons learned in past wars with current principles and practices of military medical doctrine. The spectrum of topics is broad, ranging from wound ballistics to medical ethics, and from considerations of harsh environments to applied biomedicine. The TMM series is intended to be tri-service in scope, although the majority of contributors are affiliated with the U.S. Army. The first line of medical defense in wartime is the combat medic. This work was supported by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute and Defense Nuclear Agency. Textbook of Military Medicine Series on Combat Casualty Care, Part I: Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty, Volume 2. Topics covered include nuclear events and their consequences, acute radiation syndrome in humans, triage and treatment of radiation-injured mass casualties, treatment of internal radionuclide contamination, infectious complications of radiation injury, biological assessment of radiation damage, behavioral and neurophysical changes with exposure to ionizing radiation, psychological factors in nuclear warfare, long-term and low-level effects of ionizing radiation, radiological considerations in medical operations, and prospects for radioprotection.…