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Written by experts in the field and filled with the latest research data, this comprehensive work presents important information on the nutritional properties of fish oils for human health and the analysis of fatty acids. Included is information on the breakdown, production and refining of fatty acids, as well as the newest methods of analysis and fractionation of fish oil fatty acids. This book should be of interest to seafood industry person...

-- The essential study guide to Arabic grammar-- A true classic in the field.In addition to Qur'an selections, fables, stories, newspaper extracts, letters, and excerpts from classical and modern Arabic writings are included. The book contains 52 chapters with a vocabulary of over 4, 000 words.It will serve as a basis for further and deeper study of this classical language and its literature, at the same time it will help to form a good founda...

America's bestselling humorist introduces his readers to the the irascible Goombaw, Crazy Eddie Muldoon's grandmother...and other old and infamous friends in this volume that could only be by Patrick McManus.

This unique diary, written by one of the thirty thousand Hessian troops whose services were sold to George III to suppress the American Revolution, is the most complete and informative primary account of the Revolution from the common soldier's point of view. Johann Conrad Döhla describes not just military activities but also events leading up to the Revolution, American customs, the cities and regions that he visited, and incidents in other p...

A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper. And "G" is for good: very, very good, indeed.

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative--the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of Americ...