Carl A Elliott

Introductory Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemi)

A Practical, Up-to-Date Introduction to Applied Thermodynamics, Including Coverage of Process Simulation Models and an Introduction to Biological Systems Introductory Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Second Edition, helps readers master the fundamentals of applied thermodynamics as practiced...

Maritime Northwest Garden Guide

In order to keep the Maritime Northwest Garden Guide an accurate resource for Northwest organic gardeners, the book has been updated for its third printing. Areas updated include the seed houses, compost & gardening resources, and reference book lists, with websites added as appropriate. A section o...

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collectio...

Silent Cry: The Dirty Version

Life is hard in the Beardsley Terrace housing projects of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and seventeen-year-old Jesse Westbrook has built a dangerous reputation for himself by necessity. His family offers a calming, supportive environment, even if his stepfather has questionable mob connections. However, ...

Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."―American Scientist Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the lat...

Yellow Mill River: a Novel

Yellow Mill River is a 40 year saga about the rise and fall of an African-American Crime Family headed by a man named, Maurice "Mo" Lomax. At the age of 15, young Mo is forced to leave Alabama and move to the Yellow Mill Village Projects in the Industrial City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. As a youngs...

White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine

By New Yorker and Atlantic writer Carl Elliott, a readable and even funny account of the serious business of medicine.A tongue-in-cheek account of the changes that have transformed medicine into big business. Physician and medical ethicist Carl Elliott tracks the new world of commercialized medicine...

Cost of Courage, The

An influential Alabama congressman and ardent champion of civil rights and education tells how his spirit and career were crushed by racist reactionaries who came to power in the South in the 50s and 60s.

Prozac As a Way of Life

Prozac As a Way of Life

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender

The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender