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A disease that attacks the central nervous system, fooling it into calcifying the bodily tissue, eventually turning the victim into a pile of rocks. More commonly known as cobbles. Cyberbrain sclerosis Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: A disease characterized by a hardening of the brain tissues precipitated by the cyberization process.
Diseases, both real and fictional, play a significant role in fiction, with certain diseases like Huntington's disease and tuberculosis appearing in many books and films. Pandemic plagues threatening all human life, such as The Andromeda Strain, are among the many fictional diseases described in literature and film.
Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Their first book was Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (1957), whose title character appears in the brand's logo.
The book was an immediate international success because of the idea that single or double author medical books was outmoded, "since the scope of medical knowledge was far surpassing the capacity of any single individual to encompass". Since that time, this has been the standard. Examples are: Cecil Textbook of Medicine [5]
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...
List of Batman children's books; List of Beechwood Bunny Tales books; List of Berenstain Bears books; List of Bluey books; List of British children's and young adults' literature titles (1900–1949) List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of 18th-century British children's literature illustrators
The Children of Cthulhu - edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams (2002) The Children of England: the Heirs of King Henry VIII - Alison Weir (1996) The Children of Gebelaawi - Naguib Mahfouz ; The Children of Men - P.D. James ; Children of the Atom - Wilmar H. Shiras ; Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card; Children of the Wolf - Alfred Duggan