Vasopressin, also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH), is a neurohypophysial hormone found in most mammals. In most species it contains arginine and is thus also called arginine vasopressin (AVP) or argipressin. Its two primary functions are to retain water in the body and to constrict blood vessels.
The Eagle Has Flown by Jack Higgins Published 1991 by Reader's Digest. Written in English.
In the end, Yeager becomes a personification of the many postwar test pilots and their right stuff.. The phrase itself may have originated in the Joseph Conrad story Youth, where it was used. The Right Stuff was published in 1979 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and became Wolfe's best selling book yet.It was praised by most critics, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.olfe wrote that the book was inspired by the desire to find out why the astronauts accepted the danger of space flight. He recounts the enormous risks that test pilots were already taking, and the mental and physical characteristicsâthe titular right stuffârequired for and reinforced by their jobs.