Search

Much like the nervous system, the endocrine system relays important communication signals throughout the body. The endocrine system uses chemical signals known as hormones, which are produced and stored in special glands in the body. Different glands produce specialized hormones and release them into the bloodstream. From there, these hormones can travel directly to the tissues and organs and help regulate bodily functions. In The Endocrine System, Third Edition, learn how this chemical messaging system is vital to the body’s growth, metabolism, and sexual development. Packed with full-color photographs and illustrations, this absorbing book provides students with sufficient background information through references, websites, and a bibliography.

Much like the nervous system, the endocrine system relays important communication signals throughout the body. The endocrine system uses chemical signals known as hormones, which are produced and stored in special glands in the body. Different glands produce specialized hormones and release them into the bloodstream. From there, these hormones can travel directly to the tissues and organs and help regulate bodily functions. In The Endocrine System, Third Edition, learn how this chemical messaging system is vital to the body's growth, metabolism, and sexual development. Packed with full-color photographs and illustrations, this absorbing book provides students with sufficient background information through references, websites, and a bibliography.

Although there is controversy among economists about whether the U.S. economy is really functioning in a new way in the last decade, there is widespread agreement on one feature of the so-called "New Economy": Physical assets, such as land, natural resources, office space, factories, and machines, are becoming commodities. Today, new wealth and competitive advantage largely come from non-physical assets or "intangibles," including ideas, human capital, corporate competence, and, importantly for this article, intellectual property rights. The authors of this article recently participated in a special Task Force, organized under the auspices of the Brookings Institution, to consider the policy implications of the growing importance of intangibles in the U.S. economy. (Prof. Blair co-chaired the Task Force with Steven M.H. Wallman and drafted the final report, issued recently by Brookings as Unseen Wealth: Report of the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles; Mr. Hoffman served as chair of the intellectual property rights subgroup on the Task Force.) In this chapter, we summarize and discuss the findings of the report, especially as they relate to proposed reforms of the intellectual property rights laws and institutions in the U.S. and in the international community. The Task Force proposals are intended to increase the certainty, though not necessarily the scope of property right protection over intellectual assets such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

A factory worker is kidnapped to help an elf reforge a broken spear, in this trilogy opener by the bestselling author of the Legend of Drizzt series. Gary Leger is desperate for adventure. Daydreaming is all that keeps him from going nuts while working a dead-end job in a plastics factory. The next best thing is burying himself in a good fantasy novel, and he spends much of his free time reading in the woods behind his house. That’s when adventure finds him. Or rather, that’s when he’s hit with a tranquilizer arrow . . . When Gary comes to, he’s still in the woods—but in a world inhabited by creatures from his favorite novels, like a pixie and a leprechaun. There’s also an elf on a dangerous life-quest who requires Gary’s assistance. As soon as Gary finishes helping him, he can go home. He simply needs to complete the task . . . while surviving encounters with trolls, an ice-hag, a dragon, and a sorceress bent on stopping them at all costs. This first novel in the Spearwielder’s Tale trilogy is a great choice for fans of Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger books and Terry Brooks’s Shannara series. Praise for The Woods Out Back “Written as a light-hearted adventure, the book works because the reader sees the world of Faerie through Gary’s eyes and Faerie is just as new to him as it is to the reader. . . . The book’s fast-paced, good-humored nature draws the reader in and makes the world of Faerie a fine place to visit—good thing there are two more installments!” —SF Site

A comic based on Salvatore's The DemonWars Saga and focuses on the elven trained barbarian ranger Andacanavar.

Favorite characters and locales from R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy return in a story that chronicles a devastating civil war that threatens the drow civilization.

A prelude to an upcoming trilogy set after the Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Legacy ties together those series and the Dark Elf Trilogy. The beleagured dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden thinks he has all his problems solved . . . until the Spider Queen, Lloth, vows to poison his life with vengeance.

New York Times-bestselling author: Classic short stories that expand the epic Legend of Drizzt, perfect for new and long-time collectors For years, the Legend of Drizzt has included short stories published in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons anthologies and Dragon™ magazine. Collected here for the first time are all the classic stories—and one all new tale—by fantasy legend R.A. Salvatore, including: • “The First Notch” • “Dark Mirror” • “The Third Level” • “Guenhwyvar” • “That Curious Sword” • “Wickless in the Nether” • “The Dowery” • “Comrades at Odds” • “If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair” • “Bones and Stones” • “Iruladoon” • “To Legend He Goes” From the startling origin of Drizzt’s panther companion, to the tale of Jarlaxle and Entreri’s first encounter with the dragon sisters, the tales in The Collected Stories enrich this epic and beloved series.