E-book Best Practice Guide for Positive Parenting

Our conception of what parenting should look like has changed considerably in our society. This is due not only to the large variety of family structures and the diversity of cultures that currently co-exist in our society, but also to a shift in mindset that touches the very heart of the parenting task. This can be expressed as the need to replace the concept of parental authority, which focu…

E-book Animal Husbandry Regained The Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agr…

The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that we should eat less meat and pay more attention to environmental protection, animal welfare and human health and well-being. The aim of this book is to identify and explain the causes and contr…

E-book Stretching Anatomy

How much stretching should the average person do every day? Most people tend to overlook this important fitness routine altogether. Those who do stretch tend to perform a very brief routine that concentrates mainly on the lower-body muscle groups. In fact, it would be generous to suggest that people stretch any particular muscle group for more than 15 seconds. The total time spent in a stretchi…

E-book Physical Therapy of the Shoulder

The leading reference on shoulder rehabilitation, Physical Therapy of the Shoulder, 5th Edition provides complete information on the functional anatomy of the shoulder, the mechanics of movement, and the evaluation and treatment of shoulder disorders. It promotes current, evidence-based practice with coverage of the latest rehabilitation and surgical techniques. Case studies show the clinical a…

E-book Orthopaedic Neurology: A Diagnostic Guide to Neurologic Levels, 2nd Ed…

A classic monograph that serves as a diagnostic guide to neurologic levels for residents in both orthopedics and neurology.

E-book Ground Anchors : Tension Force—Vibratory Analysis

The book presents a non-destructive vibration analysis method for calculating theinternal tension force of the tie rods tested.This method was formalized in 2003, and after 2 years of investigation waspatented, our patent which expires in 2025.The aim of this book is therefore to present this method, based on numerousconcrete examples.The theory and principles of instrumentation are explained. …

E-book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me A…

Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clingi…

E-book Basics of Space Flight

Newton's first law describes how, once in motion, planets remain in motion. What it does not do is explain how the planets are observed to move in nearly circular orbits rather than straight lines. Enter the second law. To move in a curved path, a planet must have an acceleration toward the center of the circle. This is called centripetal acceleration and is supplied by the mutual gravitational…

E-book Astronautics: The Physics of Space Flight

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics. As a crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University of Munich, Ulrich Walter is an acknowledged expert in the field. This book is based on his ex…

E-book Aeronautics and Astronautics

In its first centennial, aerospace has matured from a pioneering activity to an indispensable enabler of our daily life activities. In the next twenty to thirty years, aerospace will face a tremendous challenge - the development of flying objects that do not depend on fossil fuels. The twenty-three chapters in this book capture some of the new technologies and methods that are currently being d…

E-book Ageing as Future : A Study by the Volkswagen Foundation

Like many other countries in the world, Germany is ageing. By now, no one can escape this insight. For decades, the Federal Republic of Germany was marked by a remarkable abstinence from population policy, both discursively and operationally. The bon mot handed down by the former German Chancellor Adenauer from 1949 to 1963, “People always have children,” is not only …

E-book Surgery in and around the Orbit : Cross Roads

Already in 1920, in a report to the UK Minister of Health, the concept of team-based care was con-ceived [1]. Now, PubMed shows no less than 61,496 hits when one searches for “multidisci-plinary.” This short chapter is certainly not a plea to approach each and every medical problem by a team of specialists, but in cross-disciplinary case-load, today interdisciplinary care …

E-book Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Soc…

On a Wednesday morning the primary healthcare clinic in a small rural South African town is busy.1 A line of caregivers, mostly women, wait with babies and small children for routine check-ups and immunisations. In the adjacent waiting room patients sit or stand outside a door marked ‘Chronic Clinic’. A nurse is taking blood pressure readings and recording the numbe…

E-book Advanced Digital Auditing : Theory and Practice of Auditing Complex In…

Complex technology has been around ever since the start of computers. MaxwellNewman’sfirst programmable computer Colossus in 1943 cracking World War IIcryptography was a truly complex system at that time (Haigh & Ceruzzi,2021). In1965 Gordon Moore posited that the number of transistors on microchips doublesevery 2 years, implying that the technical developments underlying our increasinglycomp…

E-book Bayesian Filter Design for Computational Medicine : A State-Space Esti…

The human body is an intricate network of multiple functioning sub-systems. Many unobserved processes quietly keep running within the body even while we remain largely unconscious of them. For decades, scientists have sought to understand how different physiological systems work and how they can be mathematically modeled. Mathematical models of biol…

E-book Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena : The …

Questions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and q…

E-book Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings : An Assessment of Health R…

The term“built environment”refers to all aspects of the human-made surroundingsthat provide the setting for human activity: the human-made space in which peoplelive, work, and create on a day-to-day basis (Roof and Oleru2008). It ranges inscale from indoor to outdoor active spaces, and it extends in four-dimensional space(i.e., length-x, width-y, depth-z, time-t), so the boundaries among th…

E-book Well-Being and Mental Health in the Gig Economy : Policy Perspectives …

The expansion of the so-called gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs, is causing numerous issues. The UK Government’s inquiry into Employment Practices in the Modern Economy is a much-neededinitiative in response to this trend: the number of self-employedworkers in Britain has increased by 1 million between …

E-book Static Palace

The writing collected here is bookended by rupture. I began writing these essays because my body gave out in November 2016, at a time that was eerily aligned with the moment when my last thread of faith in American democracy also gave out. Or gave in, or gave way. The first time I wrote about chronic pain and politics was for an anthology curated by E…

E-book The Wages Crisis in Australia : What it is and what to do about it

Central bankers are supposed to be a rather dour lot. They are charged, after all, with maintaining the monetary and financial integrity of the whole economy. They cultivate a public reputation as prudent, cautious guardians of price stability — an independent, reliable force, ready to pounce at the first signs of economic overheating and inflationary pressure. They are the ones wh…

E-book Diesel and Gasoline Engines

The internal combustion engine was invented around 1790 by various scientists and engineers worldwide. Since then the engines have gone through many modifications and improvements. Today, different applications of engines form a significant technological importance in our everyday lives, leading to the evolution of our modern civilization. The invention of diesel and gasoline engines has defini…

E-book What Works in Conservation 2021

This book is for people who have to make decisions about how best to support or conserve biodiversity. These include land managers, conservationists in the public or private sector, farmers, campaigners, advisors or consultants, policymakers, researchers or people taking action to protect local wildlife. What Works in Conservation and the associated synopses summari…

E-book Hydraulics in Civil Engineering : A Course with Experiments and Open-S…

According to the equations of the general theory of relativity, the universe is either ex-panding or contracting [17]. In order to circumvent the unthinkable, Einstein introduceda factor to keep the size constant. Some 20 years later, however, Hubble, who gave hisname to the telescope, discovered that the universe is actually expanding. He did thisby proving that the color spectrums of far star…

E-book Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet

In the next decade, NASA, by itself and in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is planning a minimum of four separate missions to Mars. Clearly, exciting times are ahead for Mars exploration. This is an insider's look into the amazing projects now being developed here and abroad to visit the legendary red planet. Drawing on his contacts at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the a…

E-book Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies : Theoretical Foundations and Prac…

The research landscape in the area of forecasting and assessing working conditionshas become increasingly difficult to understand. There are plenty of identifiedreasons, drivers and catchwords to describe a systemic transformation. Individual-and subject-specific approaches to describe and understand the changes to work arebeing developed in almost every scientific discipline, as well as by (ec…

E-book Zero Distance : Management in the Quantum Age

Writing inThe New York Timesduring the midst of the Covid-19 crisis,Thomas Friedman said that, from the time the Coronavirus appearedonward, “There is the world B.C.—Before Corona—and the worldA.C.—After Corona.” This is definitely an After Corona book, and I amcertain there will be many others. Most thinking people recognize theCovid-19 crisis as a turning point in our human affairs,…

E-book A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

Since the Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth century, there have been tremendous increases in both production and population growth. In the 1960s, the society began to consider the relationship between industrial development, environmental degradation, and the costs it imposed on everyone in one way or another. The United Nations (UN) initiated the World Co…

E-book Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value

What is the company’s social responsibility? Following Milton Friedman’s state-ment that “the business of business is business”, shareholders have been playing an increasingly dominant role in business since the 1980s. Shareholders have the primary objective of maximising the financial value (F) of the company. But corporate models that adopt …

E-book Pro-ecological Restructuring of Companies : Case Studies

Business-driven pro-environmental measures were the inspiration behind col-lating practical examples from both within and outside the EU into one book. Another impulse to conduct a case-study type analysis was research carried out within the 7th Framework Program of the EU on “Proecological restructur-ing for jobs”. Three countries participated in the research: Poland as the leade…

E-book The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry : Self-governance, Servic…

But what many people are no longer aware of today is that predicting this devel-opment 70 years ago would have been a risky bet. To understand this better, let ustake a moment to look back at the country’s situation in 1949. After 12 years(1933–1945) of the totalitarian, criminal and aggressive Nazi dictatorship, Germanywas literally in ruins at the end of the Second World War. Not only had…

E-book Eyewitness Books: Food

Complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by exploring the myriad ways in which food affects our lives.

E-book Laporan Informasi Intelijen Bisnis 2019 : Vegetable Oil HS 1516

Penggunaan kelompok animal and vegetable fats and oils (HS 1516) sangat beragam seperti sebagai bahan pembuatan sabun hingga untuk produksi bahan makanan. Namun demikian, salah satu penggunaan utama dari kelompok produk ini adalah sebagai bahan baku untuk produksi makanan olahan. Lemak dan minyak yang didapatkan dari binatang dan tumbuhan merupakan komponen yang sangat penting untuk menjag…

E-book Become a Barista

Cofee is grown typically between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where conditions are ideal for the species. There are two main branches of the cofee varietal, Robust and Arabica. Robusta is less favoursome, high yielding with high pest tolerance. Hence, it is great for cheaper, low-quality instant cofees. Arabica makes up the majority of the cofee grown in the world and is wha…

E-book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, 3rd Edition

The definitive book on Warren Buffett's views on everything from investing to management, this is the classic curated collection of his famous shareholder letters, masterfully arranged according to topic by long-time Buffett expert, Lawrence Cunningham.

E-book The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of…

Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs lik…

E-book The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Mi…

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Programme at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, including chemical…

E-book Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications : 1…

The effects of neurodegenerative diseases on speech are well known. Phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency are speech characteristics strongly affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD) [1]. On the other hand, it is also well known that neuroacustical stimulation based on binaural beats may modify the brain activity measured in the cortex by…

E-book Lithium-ion Batteries : Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices

In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology. It is the invention of lithium-ion battery (LIB). The energy density of LIB with high discharge voltage (3.6 V) is nearly twice that of Ni-Cd batteries, and excellent cycle life and higher level of intrinsic safety have been …

E-book The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones…

Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Gen…

E-book Technopharmacology

The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated ongoing transactions between twenty-first-century biomedical and informational technologies. The sight of hundreds of millions worldwide submitting their bodies to experimental vaccines suggests that the modes of human security laid out by Michel Foucault in his Collège de France lectures may in fact have moved into a new ti…

E-book Benson's Microbiological Applications Short Version: Laboratory Manual…

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.

E-book Paniker’s Textbook of Medical Parasitology

• Written as per the latest curriculum of MBBS and MD (Microbiology) • Rearranges all the chapters in as sequential format and thoroughly updated and expanded to include new data • Adds the recent advances in each topic such as vaccine trials in Leishmania and Malaria, drug resistance in malaria. The new and fresh look reinvigorates the reading experience • Includes many new ph…

E-book Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

eterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tenth Edition is a fully updated and revised version of the gold-standard reference on the use of drug therapy in all major veterinary species. Provides current, detailed information on using drug therapies in all major domestic animal species Organized logically by drug class and treatment indication, with exhaustive information on the rational us…

E-book Saunders Handbook of Veterinary Drugs: Small and Large Animal, 4th Edi…

Saunders Handbook of Veterinary Drugs, 4th Edition includes entries for 550 drugs, with convenient appendices summarizing clinically relevant information at a glance. New to this edition are 25 new drug monographs and easy access to drug content on any mobile device. Written by clinical pharmacology expert Mark Papich, this handy reference includes a companion website containing more than 150 c…

E-book Error-Correction Coding and Decoding : Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analys…

The sphere packing bound by Shannon [18] provides a lower bound to the frameerror rate (FER) achievable by an(n,k,d)code but is not directly applicable tobinary codes. Gallager [4] presented his coding theorem for the average FER forthe ensemble of all random binary(n,k,d)codes. There are 2npossible binarycombinations for each codeword which in terms of then-dimensional signal spacehyp…

E-book Carbon Pricing in Japan

The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 sets out the trend toward decar-bonization, which calls for net zero GHG emissions by the latter half of this century.Along with this trend not a few countries have set ambitious emission reductiontargets to address it, and among them Japan officially set an 80% reduction target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 in the Plan for Global Warmin…

E-book Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination : Energy consumption in p…

Fresh water is essential for human life [1, 2]. Securing fresh water is one of the most important issues for humankind. However, human population has increased steadily, and millions of people are concentrated in metropolitan cities [3, 4]. The amount of natural freshwater is insufficient to meet the demands of the population [5]. Thus, fresh wate…

E-book Network Based High Speed Product Development

The chapter will describe the studies which the book project has finallyfeatured and how the analysis and thesis forming part of the book havebeen arranged. The chapter will describe and show how the thoroughstudy of the subject –High Speed Product Development Processes andModels Based on Networks (NB HS PD)– together with the explo-rative analysis of the product development system of gener…

E-book Human Body Encyclopedia

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E-book Understanding Public Debates : What Literary Studies Can Do

This book makes the case that literary studies can play a key role in un-derstanding public debates in present-day pluralist democracies1 – by his-toricizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts. The debates I discuss include those on different conceptions of liberty (as they arose, say, during the COVID pandemic), on identity politics an…