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Christopher Hobbs and Elson Haas … take a complicated field and … make sense of it." — Ron Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Council on Natural Nutrition Praise for Vitamins For Dummies® " Vitamins are the traffic lights of your life. They must be synchronized, not too many or too few, to see you through your journey. Vitamins For Dummies shows you how to have green lights all the way." — Walter M. Bortz, M.D. Features supplement programs for n...

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Anhand einer Kulturgeschichte der weiblichen Brust und der diversen Techniken ihrer Verhüllung und Enthüllung versucht er nachzuweisen, daß die Vorstellung, die modernen Menschen hätten ihre animalische Natur auf bessere Weise gezähmt als die vormodernen, auf einem falschen Bild sowohl der heutigen westlichen als auch der traditionellen Gesellschaften beruht.

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This handbook covers how to acquire a healthy flock, carry out routine procedures to keep them healthy, recognise common diseases, identify problems and deal with them, and when to consult the vet. It is written by two veterinary surgeons who both have experience of running their own flocks.

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Presents eight papers that were presented at the 1998 U. of Oklahoma Libraries Conference, Challenges of Collection Development: Digital Information, Internet and Print Materials. Papers discuss such topics as the leading role of libraries in promoting technological development in academia, the ethical dilemmas of library collection development,

This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship, drawing together specialists from social and labour history, legal history, social, anthropology and historical geography who examine the developing utilisation of the conce...

This report attempts to put the Caspian Basin and Central Asia into a comprehensive strategic perspective at a time when NATO is increasingly concerned with challenges on its periphery. The authors examine NATO's interests, capabilities, and constraints as well as th e salient trends and factors shaping the regional security environment. In spite of the region's potential energy riches and the jockeying for influence among major powers and oil...

Weymouth, ein kleiner Ort an der englischen Küste, irgendwann in den zwanziger Jahren. Adam Skald muß sich entscheiden zwischen einem Rachevorhaben, das ihn vollkommen beherrscht, und der Liebe seines Lebens. Perdita Wane, die Frau, die er liebt, versucht, an ihren Verlusten und Enttäuschungen nicht zugrunde zu gehen. Der berühmte Clown Jerry Cobbold findet endlich den Mut, seine psychisch gestörte Ehefrau zu verlassen, sein Bruder Sylvanus, e...

Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa to compel recalcitrant regimes and warlords to stop repression, abandon weapons programs, permit humanitarian relief, and otherwise modify their actions. Yet despite its overwhelming military might, the United States often fail...

Taking the provocative standpoint that television violence has been misinterpreted, rather than undermining the social order, television supports it by providing a safe outlet for aggressive impulses, Fowles: demonstrates that the scientific literature does not say what many believe, asks readers to question their viewing habits, explains that the anti-violence critique is best understood as the key issue in the conflict between high and popul...

This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and space examining 'sacrifice', 'food-sharing', and 'gift giving' as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of 'traditional' society rely. The historical invention of hospitality is c...

This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized - issues which have become central to the emergence of `queer' as a new form...

The dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century are investigated in this fascinating and accessible book. At the beginning of this century these relationships were dominated by human needs and interests, modernization was a project which was attached to the goal of progress and animals were merely resources to be used on the path towards human fulfilment. These relationships are increasingly being su...

This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized - issues which have become central to the emergence of `queer' as a new form...

Written while Gao was with the World Bank, this volume offers an insider's view of China's market reforms beginning in 1978 and the obstacles encountered in "crossing the river while feeling the stones". Covers achievements and experiences, the establishment of market systems, major ongoing reform areas, the impact of the recent Asian financial crisis, and China's new relationship with Hong Kong. A 155-page chronology of the major events of 19...

What It Takes to be a Leader in Hospitality Sales-Principles and Techniques for Success What's the key to success in today's competitive hospitality industry? Sales-the art and science of telling potential customers that you have the product they need, when they need it, and where, at a price that's right for them. Hospitality Sales: A Marketing Approach provides in-depth instruction based on the strategies of leading hospitality organizations...