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While sales of dietary supplements have skyrocketed in recent years, information about their safety and efficacy in humans is generally sparse in comparison with what is available for prescription drugs. Dietary Supplements: Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology presents, in both comprehensive and summary formats, a wealth of objective information for a selection of significant nonherbal dietary supplements. The supplements detailed were chosen...

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem arises. Your answer is the Essential System Administration Pocket Reference, the only system administration reference that fits in your pocket. Concise and easy-to-use, this little book is the portab...

Touted by its 1885 publisher as "the most amazing story ever written, ” King Solomon's Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard's thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen...

What Is plagiarism? How was it understood and judged in early modern England? This interdisciplinary study sets out at once to theorize and historicise plagiarism. The first part launches a vigorous debate about the ethical, philosophical, artistic, and legal implications of plagiarism. Individual essays in part two provide historical case studies. Variously centred on translations of the Bible, historiography, drama, poetry, dance treatises, ...

In Cultivating Citizens Dwight Allman and Michael Beaty bring together some of America's leading social and political thinkers to address the question of civic vitality in contemporary American society. The resulting volume is a serious reflection on the history of civil society and a rich and rewarding conversation about the future American civic order.

It has been said that if you want to know what God is like, then look at the creation. This intriguing thesis will be examined. The numerous discoveries of science are like a picture puzzle scattered far and wide. Yet, if the physical, social, and philosophical sciences are considered in overview, the puzzle pieces are seen to interlock with wonderful clarity. From the smallest to the largest components, relationships, and concepts, they are r...

Die Extensible Markup Language (XML) hat sich in Untemehmen zu einem richtungweisenden Technologie-Standard entwickelt. Kenntnisse beztiglich XML stellen daher kein Spezialwissen mehr da, sondem sind beim Umgang von Entscheidem und IT-Spezialisten mit modemer Informationstechnologie unent­ behrlich. Unabhangig von in Untemehmen eingesetzten IT-Systemen bietet XML ein weites Spektrum an Anwendungsmoglichkeiten. Geschaftsprozesse konnen mittels ...

Criminal offenders with serious mental health problems pose a difficult problem for courts and the law enforcement industry. The contributors to this collection explore the key issues of the problem and discuss radical solutions like new community-based approaches for serving offenders.

In clear and accessible language, Robbins describes acting techniques that actors having been using for centuries and explains--using real-life examples and easy-to-follow exercises--how each can be used by ordinary people to make difficult everyday situations easier to handle.

This text incorporates perspectives from the areas of coastal sciences, economics, public policy and land-use planning in creating a systematic plan for coastal management and protection. It provides an evaluation of the New Jersey state shore protection plan a decade after its implementation.

Das Projekt Österreichische Retrospektive Bibliographie (ORBI) der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek vereinigt bibliographische Daten zu ca. 30.000 österreichischen Drucken des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Titel rekrutieren sich sowohl aus dem Bestand der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek wie auch aus Bibliothekskatalogen, Bibliographien, Datenbanken etc. In Reihe 3 der Österreichischen Retrospektiven Bibliographie werden die österreichis...

The West and China Since 1500 surveys Western relations with and attitudes towards China since sustained contact and desirable trading began with the great alternative culture in the sixteenth century. The experiences of traders, diplomats and missionaries are surveyed and illustrated by frequent quotations from contemporary sources. In addition the book explores the flow of cultural influences in both directions, and changes in Western opinio...

In the aftermath of World War Two, approximately three million Sudeten-Germans were expelled from their homes in the former Czechoslovakia because of their part in the dismemberment of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1938-39. For many years their representatives, the Sudeten-German Association, attempted in vain to redress the wrong done to their people. However, the end of the Cold War has given a new impetus to their campaign. C...

The book reads very well and does a wonderful job of unfolding and disentangling Kant's dense and very complex arguments. In addition to philosophers, it will be of interest to those working in literary criticism, art theory, and political theory." --Dennis Schmidt, Villanova University

This is the first book to apply liberal political philosophy to commercial life as a whole.

The Palm theory and the Loynes theory of stationary systems are the two pillars of the modern approach to queuing. This book, presenting the mathematical foundations of the theory of stationary queuing systems, contains a thorough treatment of both of these. This approach helps to clarify the picture, in that it separates the task of obtaining the key system formulas from that of proving convergence to a stationary state and computing its law....

From Amazon.com to virtual communities, the Encyclopedia of New Media presents more than 250 entries that place new communication technology, multimedia, entertainment and e-commerce within their social context. Each subject is examined in depth in a single, coherent article and the Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive, A-Z reference on the ongoing revolution in communications. The Encyclopedia is edited by Steve Jones, one of the most ren...

China's growing economy and military power may allow it to challenge US influence in East and Southeast Asia. Wayne Bert examines the likelihood of this and the impact it would have on Southeast Asian security. The approach taken by both the US and China will affect the outcome of this struggle and both the Southeast Asian commitment to economic growth and the development of regional institutions will encourage peaceful evolution and a power t...

Das Symposium am 2. Oktober 2001 anläßlich der Emeritierung von Herrn Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Herfarth, dessen Beiträge hier in Form eines Buches und einer CD-ROM zusammengefaßt sind, hatte die zukünftige Positionierung der Chirurgie angesichts der Änderungen des wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umfeldes zum Thema.

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