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With contributions from clinicians and scientists Hormones and Women's Health examines the latest research and its application in clinical and basic science. It presents topics of current interest in women's health including puberty, the transition to womanhood, ovarian and uterine function, pregnancy, parturition, steroidal contraception and menstruation. The scope is broadly inclusive of the effect of hormones on non-reproductive tissues and the health issues that affect women internationally. Presenting an in-depth look at new strategies for disciplines such as endocrinology, gynaecology and general practice, Hormones and Women's Health provides relevant research on this rapidly expanding field.
This book will interest a wide audience concerned with women's health from the viewpoint of endocrinology, gynaecology and general practice and will provide graduate students and practising clinicians in these disciplines with a valuable reference tool. Furthermore, it will alertbasic s ... Read more

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Superior Book--Genre Busting...
An incredible look at teen life. Amazingly honest and frank. This is how it is. It is not like the babysitters club! The English setting is universal. This is being made into an ABC series--should be interesting. Still, read this book. Your age does not matter.

Richies Picks: DOING IT
Last year many of us got to read the highly publicized and highly charged essay in The Guardian by British author Anne Fine about the new Melvin Burgess novel DOING IT. (If you haven't read the essay, Google "Guardian Anne Fine Doing It" and you'll find a link.) To put it mildly, Anne Fine was unable to find the appeal in DOING IT.

Reading Fine's attack, along with statements by other writers about Burgess's proported attempts to "push the envelope" by having the male, high school characters so candidly discussing issues of male sexuality, left me somewhat squeemish about the prospect of reading the book. I'd heard lots of "Wows," but not any "Really great story!"

DOING IT is, in fact, a really great story about three male high school friends and their obsessions about and relationships with females. It is well-written and compelling, fun and honest and occasionally heartwarming. Those three high school boys are a self conscious, vulnerable, and sensitive lot. And while I cannot necessarily see myself as any one of those three characters, I had friends in high school who were dead ringers.

To argue that normal high school boys don't spend a lot of time thinking about girls and girls' bodies would make my high school experience abnormal. (It could be argued that Richie's Picks began in the late 1960s when I kept a secret, hidden list, updated weekly, of the ten girls at school I'd most like to be with.) To argue that boys aren't fearful about their adequacy, that they don't worry about whether their bodies are normal, or that they don't say truly gross stuff on a regular basis is, of course, ridiculous. And to argue that boys won't go crazy over this book is something that even Ms. Fine didn't even have the...um...nerve to claim.

My point is this: DOING IT is a primo Growing Up Male book. High school and public YA librarians absolutely need to forget about Anne Fine's fears of DOING IT. Instead they need to read DOING IT and need to buy it for their collections whether or not it is their cup of T (as in testosterone).

I'm recommending this book for all high school and public library YA collections.

This Book Did IT
What can I say? Basically this book captures the teenage mind at it's best......and worst for matter!I has everythin' a teenage boy and possibly some girls want from a book. It's all about hormones and well SEX and is a must read for teenagers and young adult readers! ... Read more

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Sex-Steroid Interactions with Growth Hormone presents the proceedings of an international symposium held from October 22-25 in Naples, Florida. The proceedings provide new insights and concepts gained by molecular, cellular and neuroendocrine research into mechanistic interactions of the reproductive and somatotrophic axes. Chapters include discussions of the impact of sex steroids on growth hormone secretion in both children and adults; sex steroids, growth hormone releasing factor, and somatostatin; how sex steroids modulate growth hormone action on target issues; and differential effects of growth hormone secretagogues in men and women. This volume is designed for physicians, scientists and other health professionals interested or trained in clinical and basic endocrinology, growth or reproduction. ... Read more

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