The foods and beverages that people consume have a profound impact on their health. The scientific connection between food and health has been well documented for many decades, with substantial and increasingly robust evidence showing that a healthy lifestyle—including following a healthy dietary pattern— can help people achieve and maintain good health and reduce the risk of chronic…
As the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his importance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comes from the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability of which has been questioned by Western scholars.…
The impacts of natural hazards on human societies can be acute, far reaching and attimes surprising. As much as the products of hazards arising entirely by natural means,however, the disastrous circumstances created by such events are socially-createdphenomena. Not only are natural hazards themselves the product of a complex web ofEarth-system processes, their effect on human society is the res…
At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focus…
Over the past two decades, Canadian international history has slipped its traditional North Atlantic moorings. Studies of Canada’s postwar relation-ships with a waning United Kingdom or an ascendant United States have faded in popularity, replaced with a stream of publications on relations with the decolonized states of Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, countries whose citizens increasingly co…
A few years ago, Shauna found herself exhausted and isolated, her soul and body sick. She was tired of being tired and burned out on busy. It seemed like almost everyone she talked to was in the same boat: longing for connection, meaning, and depth, but settling for busy. But then something changed. She decided to trade the hustle and bustle for grace, love, stillness, and play, and it chang…
Complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by exploring the myriad ways in which food affects our lives.
Benson's Microbiological Applications has been the gold standard of microbiology laboratory manuals for over 30 years. The 77 self-contained, clearly-illustrated exercises, and four-color format with a wealth of added photographs makes this the ideal lab manual. Appropriate for either a majors or non-majors lab course, this manual assumes no prior organic chemistry course has been taken.
In the contemporary context of social rights and activist movements such as those associated with combatting sexual harassment, gun and knife crime or climate change, we can observe a typical pattern of public responses. These movements offer voices to those who are marginalised, and indeed provide the confidence needed for many people to stand up for specific issues. This, …
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative has the potential to set the direction for a future world that works for everyone. The SDGs were approved by 193 United Nations member countries in September 2016 to help guide global and national development policies in the period to 2030. The 17 goals build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, while also includin…
Zaytun’s True Wealth Marco Polo was impressed by Zaytun’s gems, pearls, porcelain, and silk, but he overlooked the true wealth of this mythic port—the place and the people! Zaytun was blessed with an unparalleled natural wealth and beauty that the enlightened inhabitants maintained as meticulously as their miniature landscapes, which have been…
The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders? Inevitably, the answers are provocative and partial; leadership is a hugely important topic of debate. There are constant calls for 'greater' or 'stronger' leadership, but what this actually means, how we can …
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Scotland is your in-depth guide to this unique country. Explore all that Scotland has to offer, from the streets of Edinburgh to the wind-swept highlands and lochs, from golf trips and whiskey tours to impromptu ceilidhs in cozy pubs.
Trabecular meshwork (TM) MIGS procedures and devices are numerous. They aim to eliminate trabecular meshwork resistance in the normal physiological outflow pathway in patients with mild-to-moderate glaucoma and ocular hypertension (OHT). They are indicated in combination with cataract surgery. In patients with chronic primary angle closure, the TM outflow system h…
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time immemorial, have written down their values and ideologies, this study effectively demonstrates how these writings record the principles and values that motivated a community.
From making fire to building the gadgets of the 21st century, uncover the stories behind the remarkable ideas and devices that have shaped our world in 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries. This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. Innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language are cove…
Yet Brown’s family lived in Kirkhale, in Northumberland, a fairly typical small rural community, over 300 miles to the north, far from the glittering metropolitan world. His father, who died in 1720 when Brown was only four, was a farmer and land agent to the local lord, Sir William Loraine, yet the young Brown was educated at the local school in Cambo – possibly through the good offices of…
Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.
Over the last thirty years literally hundreds of studies on African elephants (Loxodonta africana) have been carried out across the continent. We have learned more about elephants than, perhaps, any other large undomesticated African mammal, and yet we are just beginning to understand their complex lives. Elephants have captured man’s imagination and respect for thousands of years. In some wa…
The study is intended to inform developing EU-level waste policy, in terms of climate change impacts only. Climate change impacts are only one of a number of environmental impacts that derive from solid waste management options. Other impacts include health effects attributable to air pollutants such as NOx , SO2 , dioxins and fine particles, emissions of ozonedepleting substances, contaminatio…
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological te…
Snowboarding is addictive! If youre reading this, its highly likely that you're aware of this already and know first-hand how addictive snowboarding can be. You may even be an addict yourself. For many, the addiction to snowboarding begins the first time they slide down a snow-covered hill sideways, linking their first turns. This can occur within hours of picking up a snowboard, or it can take…
This part locates the research enterprise in several contexts. It commences with positivist and scientific contexts of research and then proceeds to show the strengths and weaknesses of such traditions for educational research. As an alternative paradigm, the cluster of approaches that can loosely be termed interpretive, naturalistic, phenomenological, interactionist and ethnographic are broug…
There is a well-known productivity gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England of £4 perperson-per-hour. There is also a substantial health gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England, with average life expectancy 2 years lower in the North. Given that both health and productivity are lower in the Northern Powerhouse, the NHSA commissioned this report from six …
The story of human activity in the land now known as Egypt streches back some five hundred thousand years to an early stage of present, or so-called Quaternary, era in the history of the earth's surface. As elsewhere on that surface this scarcely conceivable span of time covers only a minute fraction of the story of the land itself, the more recent chapters of which take us back approximately s…
On May 19, 1798 a French fleet under the command of the young general Napoleon Bonaparte sailed from Toulon in order to challenge the power of England in Egypt. He hoped by the conquet of the Nile to construct a French stronghold in the East from which to threaten British power and wealth in India. While the Nile Valley soon fell into French hands, confused political circumstances a home forced…
The primary goals of the American Bison Specialist Group (ABSG), and the intent of this document, are to contribute to the development of comprehensive and viable strategies and management actions to promote conservation and ecological restoration of bison as wildlife where feasible throughout the original range of the species. Conservation and ecological restoration of bison, as wildlife, at t…
Alexander von Humboldt starts his “Critical Inquiries” in 1852 withthe observation that the miscalculation of one authority has triggeredmany forms of human action in exploring the planet. It is for him theact of travelling that generates knowledge and ultimately drives forwardhuman intellectual progress, even if the travellers themselves might bemisguided. Human triggers and reasons for tr…
In 1864, when he was in his early 40s, the sceptical John Tyndall, physicist and emerging public intellectual, attended a séance. He wrote an amusing account of the episode in The Reader magazine, in which he reported that the spirits had dubbed him ‘The Poet of Science’.1 In this guise he preceded his friend Alfred Tennyson, who was not so described until after h…
Grape production in the United States is expanding rapidly as new growers are starting vineyards in all regions of the country. Commercial wine grape production in the Midwest, along with production in California, Oregon, and New York, has increased with the demand for high-quality wine. Commercial wine-grape production has a long history in the Midwestern states. Some of the earliest work with…
The history of early human advance is the history of harvesting prosperity from agricultural innovation. In India, the later Vedic texts (c. 3000–2500 BCE) make frequent references to agricultural technology and practices.Jia Sixie, drawing on over one thousand years of Chinese study in his Qimin Yaoshu, or Essential Techniques for the Common People (535 CE), asserts throughout his work the c…
f you choose not to read this and move straight on to In Homage to Darwin, we will not be offended. The story, however, of how two scientific dinosaurs came to cooperate in writing about their shared world view, gleaned from a combined total of more than 150 years of independent study of biology, needs, we feel, some explanation.Any two biologists can b…
With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands, a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does not amount to more than one in four of the slave population. T…
We who are Tiverton born, though false ambition may have ridden us to market, or the world's voice incited us to kindred clamoring, have a way of shutting our eyes, now and then, to present changes, and seeing things as they were once, as they are still, in a certain sleepy yet altogether individual corner of country life. And especially do we delight in one bit of fine mental tracery, etc…
Robert Langdon, profesor simbologi dan ikonologi agama Universitas Harvard, tiba di Museum Guggenheim yang supermodern untuk menghadiri pengumuman besar tentang penemuan yang “akan mengubah dunia sains.” Tuan rumah acara malam hari itu adalah Edmond Kirsch, seorang miliuner dan Futuris berusia empat puluh tahun. Kirsch adalah sosok yang terkenal di seluruh dunia, berkat penemuan-penemuan te…
Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan bagi mereka yang tetap bersikap neteral di saat krisis moral. Tengah malam, Robert Langdon terbangun di rumah sakit dan syok saat mendapati dirinya ada di Florence, Italia. Padahal, ingatan terakhirnya adalah berjalan pulang setelah memberi kuliah di Harvard. Belum sempat Langdon memahami keganjilan ini, dunianya meledak dalam kekacauan. Di depan mata, dok…
Prinsip Pembelajaran dan Pengajaran Bahasa adalah buku teks klasih pemerolehan bahasa kedua yang digunakan oleh program pendidikan guru di seluruh dunia. prinsip memperkenalkan konsep-konsep penting melalui denifisi istilah,pertanyaan yang menggelitik, tabel, dan bagan "Koneksi Kelas" yang baru mendorong murid mempertimbangkan implikasi penelitian untuk pedagogi ruang kelas. Daftar pustaka muta…
Peta merupakan cara untuk melukiskan atau sebagaian dari bumi pada sebuah permukaan datar, biasanya pada selembar kertas. Peta mirip dengan gambar foto yang diambil dari pesawat udara ataupun pesawat ruang angkasa. Akan tetapi, gambar foto itu memberikan sangat sedikit informasi dibandingkan dengan informasi yang dapat diberikan oleh peta. Sebagai contohnya, pembuatan peta menggunakan warna, la…
Peta merupakan cara untuk melukiskan atau sebagaian dari bumi pada sebuah permukaan datar, biasanya pada selembar kertas. Peta mirip dengan gambar foto yang diambil dari pesawat udara ataupun pesawat ruang angkasa. Akan tetapi, gambar foto itu memberikan sangat sedikit informasi dibandingkan dengan informasi yang dapat diberikan oleh peta. Sebagai contohnya, pembuatan peta menggunakan warna, la…
Peta merupakan cara untuk melukiskan atau sebagaian dari bumi pada sebuah permukaan datar, biasanya pada selembar kertas. Peta mirip dengan gambar foto yang diambil dari pesawat udara ataupun pesawat ruang angkasa. Akan tetapi, gambar foto itu memberikan sangat sedikit informasi dibandingkan dengan informasi yang dapat diberikan oleh peta. Sebagai contohnya, pembuatan peta menggunakan warna, la…