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The greater Pittsburgh area
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Year: 1984 Publisher: Salford : University of Salford, department of geography,

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Splendeur et déclin de Pittsburgh : une brève chronique

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Forts, floods, and periglacial features : exploring the Pittsburgh Low Plateau and Upper Youghiogheny Basin
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Geological Society of America

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Pittsburg dispatch.
ISSN: 27684687 Year: 1880 Publisher: Pittsburg [Pa.] : Rook, O'Neil & Co.

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Zajedničar = : Fraternalist.
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Year: 1894 Publisher: Allegheny, Pa. : Narod. Hrv. Zajednica

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Links between air quality and economic growth : implications for Pittsburgh
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ISBN: 0833083996 083308402X 0833084003 9780833084026 9780833084002 9780833084019 0833084011 9780833083999 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND,

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This report assesses the evidence that exists for the ways in which local air quality could influence local economic growth through health and workforce issues, quality-of-life issues, or air-quality regulations and business operations. It then extrapolates some of the existing results to the Pittsburgh region.


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Improving school leadership through support, evaluation, and incentives : the Pittsburgh principal incentive program
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ISBN: 0833076337 0833076345 0833076175 9780833076335 9780833076342 9780833076328 0833076329 9780833076175 9780833076175 Year: 2012 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND,


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Głos polek.
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Year: 1902 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Pittsburgh, Pa. : Chicago, Ill. : Park Ridge, Ill. : Women's Voice Pub. Co. Women's Voice Pub. Co. Women's Voice Pub. Co. Women's Voice Pub. Co.

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The puzzle people : memoirs of a transplant surgeon
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ISBN: 0822972522 9780822972525 082293714X 9780822937142 Year: 1992 Publisher: Pittsburgh London : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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There are many heroes in the story of transplantation, and many "puzzle people," the patients who, as one journalist suggested, might one day be made entirely of various transplanted parts. They are old and young, obscure and world famous. Some have been taken into the hearts of America, like Stormie Jones, the brave and beautiful child from Texas. Every patient who receives someone else's organ - and Starzl remembers each one - is a puzzle. "It was not just the acquisition of a new part," he writes. "The rest of the body had to change in many ways before the gift could be accepted. It was necessary for the mind to see the world in a different way." The surgeons and physicians who pioneered transplantation were also changed: they too became puzzle people. "Some were corroded or destroyed by the experience, some were sublimated, and none remained the same." Until the age of thirty-three, Starzl says, "I felt like a missile looking for a trajectory." His work with liver transplantation gave him a course for life and, despite initial setbacks and failures, he has pursued it relentlessly, eventually achieving stunning success. Throughout his career, first at the University of Colorado and then at the University of Pittsburgh, he has aroused both worldwide admiration and controversy. His technical innovations and medical genius have revolutionized the field, but Starzl has not hesitated to address the moral and ethical issues raised by transplantation. In this book he clearly states his position on many hotly debated issues including brain death, randomized trials for experimental drugs, the costs of transplant operations, and the system for selecting organ recipients from among scores of desperately ill patients Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should have written a spellbinding, and heart-wrenching, autobiography. Thomas Starzl grew up in LeMars, Iowa, the son of a newspaper publisher and a nurse. His father also wrote science fiction and was acquainted with the writer Ray Bradbury. Starzl left the family business to enter Northwestern University Medical School where he earned both an M.D. and a Ph. D. While he was a student, and later during his surgical internship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he began the series of animal experiments that led eventually to the world's first transplantation of the human liver in 1963.


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Annals of Carnegie Museum.
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ISSN: 19436300 Year: 1901 Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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