E-book Snow in the Tropics : A History of the Independent Reefer Operators

he supermarket presents us with a cornucopia of fruit, fish, and meat from near and far. Usually we haven’t thought too much about how it all got there and the fact that we can enjoy fruit from the tropics all year round is something that we usually take for granted. But we are constantly reminded of the perish-ability of these refrigerated and frozen foods. Bananas, for example, …

E-book Architects of Buddhist Leisure

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E-book The Pancreas : Biology and Physiology

The mandate for this chapter is to review the anatomy and histology of the pancreas. The pancreas (meaning all flesh) lies in the upper abdomen behind the stomach. The pancreas is a part of the gastrointestinal system that makes and secretes digestive enzymes into the intestine and also an endocrine organ that makes and secretes hormones into the blood to control energy metabolism and storage t…

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n the Aristotelian view of the generic, species is defined as a distinct, classificatory term, while generic form is distinguished as a “preliminary step” to a “specific form.” This includes, for instance, the “perceptive faculty” as a “generic form” of human beings. It makes us into the tasting, smelling, hearing, seeing, and feeling be-ings that are generated in these percepti…

E-book Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Th e distribution of wealth is one of today’s most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, as Karl Marx believed in the nineteenth century? Or do the balancing forces of growth, competition, and technological …

E-book 1 2 3 (One, Two, Three) Magic : Effective Discipline for Childern Ages…

1-2-3 Magic is a program to help parents, teachers and caregivers manage the behaviors of children ages 2-12 years old. This strategy follows a few simple rules that put the parents back in charge without shouting, arguing or hitting. (i) The 1-2-3 Magic program helps kids become emotionally competent, self-disciplined adults. Parenting will be one of the most important and rewarding, yet frust…

Voice and speech processing

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xiii + 383 hal; 17.5 x 25 cm

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E-book The Jesuit missions

esent narrative, see 'The Founder of New France' in this Series.] Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders. But out in the great land, in every direction from the rude dwellings that housed the pioneers of Canada, roamed savage tribes, living, said Champlain, 'like brute beasts.' It was Champlain's ardent desire to …

E-book A changed man and other tales

The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below 'Top o' Town' (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could be obtained a raking view of the High Street, west and east, the former including Laura's dwelling, the end of the Town A…

E-book In the Sargasso sea

Captain Luke Chilton counted over the five-dollar notes with a greater care than I thought was necessary, considering that there were only ten of them; and cautiously examined each separate one, as though he feared that I might be trying to pay for my passage in bad money. His show of distrust set my back up, and I came near to damning him right out for his impudence--until I reflected tha…