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Informative and full of hope, Getting Old Without GettingAnxious assists older people and their caregivers in overcoming one of the more crippling and misunderstood human afflictions: anxiety. Geriatric psychiatrist and bestselling author of The 36-Hour Day Dr. Peter V. Rabins explains how the many changes that occur as a person ages can trigger severe andlife-altering anxiety, often destroying lives. This valuable guide will help readers to:-...

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At 19, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was in charge, under his father, of an engineering work that is the wonder of Europe: the Thames tunnel, completed in 1843. As well as his interest in canals he also turned his attention to neglcted railways and set up the first organisation to save and run a railway with a mainly volunteer workforce.

This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest ? a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser's colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner of ?ADM? fame, contribute insighted article. Ranging from lower dimensional gravity theories all the way to supergravity in eleven dimensions and M-theory, the papers highlight the wide impact that Deser has had in the field.

Jump start your kids' education in French Award-winning language-learning innovator Ana Lomba transforms "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" into a way to introduce kids ages two to seven to French. It includes vivid illustrations, a mini "pictionary, " and frequent dialogs that model everyday communication. Accompanying the book is a 45-minute audio CD that features a lively reading of the story, in French and English, helpful pronunciation basi...

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal(1)s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War. Not for him the privileged bohemian world of Chelsea a few hundred yards away.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Master the fundamentals of satellite communicationsHighly regarded for more than a decade as both a teaching text and professional tutorial, this classic guide to satellite communications has been revised, updated, and expanded to cover global wireless a...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.For decades, this manual has been the most widely respected guide to designing, constructing, and maintaining low-slope roofing systems.

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism" is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century.Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Follesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc MarionHighlights the area of overlap between the two movementsFeatures longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented...

More than 100 important innovations in ceramics in the last 100 years are individually described. These include such major advances as the float glass process, continuous glass fibers and glass wool, the zirconia oxygen sensor, honeycomb ceramics, tape casting and multilayer ceramics, advances in tunnel kilns, low loss optical fiber, dental ceramics, basic oxygen steelmaking refractories, and uranium dioxide as a nuclear fuel. In addition, a s...

A noted Jungian analyst, professor, therapist and author explains the developmental and psychological tasks people face in the second half of life, showing that the mid-life crisis is a "summons of the soul" to really, finally, grow up.

In May 2004, eight former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe acceded to the European Union. This new book examines the Eastern expansion of the EU through a tripartite structure, developing an empirical, conceptual and institutional analysis to provide a rounded and substantive account of EU enlargement, with new theoretical insights. The foreword is by written by Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament. John O'Brenn...

Indifference to behavioral needs of the young caused Mouse Utopia to self-destruct. Can Human Utopia avoid a similar fate? Yes. How? By confronting the Sorcerer. Will we? In time?

The second edition of this text surveys the entire field of the modern economics of the household including current economic explanations of demand and expenditures, consumption and saving, how and why people spend their time the way they do working in the market, in the home and in leisure activities, their investments in education and health, fertility behavior including our-of-wedlock births, marriage and divorce. While the focus is plainly...

Provides nature's treatments for ills, ranging from cold and 'flu to muscle cramps and migraine. This work includes an introduction to herbal medicine, with an account of its benefits and advice on how to use herbs for self-treatment. It profiles 50 medicinal herbs ranging from Aloe Vera to Wild Oats, showing how to use them and what they can do.

Die beiden Palästinenser Khaled und Said sind seit ihrer Kindheit gute Freunde. Doch jetzt ist ihre Bestimmung, als Selbstmordattentäter zu göttlichen Ehren zu gelangen. Ohne ein Wort über ihre Mission zu verlieren, verbringen die beiden die letzte Nacht noch einmal im Kreise ihrer Lieben. Am nächsten Morgen, die Bomben unsichtbar an ihren Körpern versteckt, werden die Freunde zu ihrem Zielort in Tel Aviv gebracht. Doch die Operation läuft nic...

Analysing the law of the talion - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of pay back. Millers unique theory of justice offers redemption through retaliation, espousing the view that revenge requires a deep commitment to balance in order to get even in a strict but fair manner. Looking at concepts such as Shylocks pound of flesh bargain, blood oaths, and other societies and cul...

A clear, concise, and clinically relevant guide to treating substance use disorders in everyday practice, this book is specifically designed for clinicians who are not addictions specialists. Includes detailed descriptions of assessment and treatment techniques as well as hands-on resources.

Die Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre richtet sich vor allem an Bachelor-Studenten unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen. Die grundlegenden Inhalte werden - sowohl für Ökonomen als auch Nicht-Ökonomen - verständlich, kompakt und übersichtlich von kompetenten Fachautoren erläutert. Das Buch eignet sich hervorragend zur begleitenden Lektüre einer Einführungsveranstaltung, die gerade in das ökonomische Denken und in die relevanten Handlungsfe...

A cardiologist's revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weightThe glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn't take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson's breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step for...