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- 25 million Americans suffer from compulsive eating: Dr. Danowski was among the 60 percent of overweight Americans. The connections between food and emotions have long been discussed--these are connections Danowski knows well. Once weighting in at more than 300 pounds, she learned to overcome her own emotional eating compulsions. Her book offers the tips that helped her lose more than 160 pounds--and keep them off for the past seventeen years...

From its beginnings around 1880, Gardena was noted for its cultural mix. Its Spanish rancho-era name perfectly described the community's regionally famous vegetable and strawberry fields, which were primarily tended by settlers of Japanese descent, in Los Angeles County's South Bay area. The city of Gardena, incorporated in 1930, remains one of the nation's most ethnically balanced communities, drawing visitors worldwide to its diverse cultura...

From 1923, when it was known as the Glendale Airport, to the World War II era, when the military took it over, Grand Central Air Terminal was the main commercial airport serving Southern California and the ancestral home of what became Convair (General Dynamics) and Hughes Aircraft. The first scheduled transcontinental passenger service was flown out of Grand Central by Charles Lindbergh, with Amelia Earhart among the passengers. Grand Central...

Complete Guide to CISM Certification describes the tasks performed by information security managers and offers the necessary knowledge to manage, design, and oversee an information security program. The author explains each task and related knowledge statement, as well as applicable information security management principles, practices, and strategies. The book also covers the areas of information security governance, risk management, informat...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Atmosphärisch bedingte Korrosionsvorgänge an Werkstoffoberflächen haben eine große volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung. Insbesondere die Verwitterung mineralischer Baustoffe stellt Firmen, Privatpersonen und vor allem die öffentliche Hand vor immer stärker wachsende Probleme. Umwelteinwirkungen führen jedoch nicht nur zu finanziellen Schäden, vor allem bei wertvollen Baudenkmälern entsteht ein unwiederbringlicher Verlust ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Bereits in der griechischen und römischen Mythologie wurde dem Wetter besondere Bedeutung geschenkt. Sowohl der römische Gott Jupiter als auch der griechische Gott Zeus galten als ¿Wettergötter¿. Sie sandten Regen und Stürme, schickten Blitze und Donner. Opfergaben waren damals die beste Lösung, um die Götter friedlich zu stimmen. Was sich die Griechen und Römer von Opfergaben erhofften, können heutzutage sog. Wetter...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Ziel dieser Arbeit soll die Offenlegung von Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten in Bezug auf die Qualität bei der Fertigung von PKW-Eingußzylinderlaufbuchsen sein. Diese werden fast ausschließlich in Großserien gefertigt und die Produktion läuft über einen langen Zeitraum. Auf Anmerkung von Herrn Mustermann (Koordinator für Qualität, Mustermann GmbH) beschränkt sich diese Arbeit auf den Fertigungsprozess der konventionellen...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Interne Kontrollsystem ist schon seit vielen Jahren in den Blickpunkt der internationalen Gesetzgebung geraten, meist als Folge von wirtschaftlichen Zusammenbrüchen und Unternehmensschieflagen. Bereits 1933, kurz nach der Gründung der ¿Securities und Exchange Commission¿ (SEC) in den USA, wurde der ¿Securities Act of 1933¿ und anschließend der ¿Securities Exchange Act of 1934¿ erlassen. Diese Gesetze wurden nach ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Nachfrage nach Stahl ist ungebrochen, die Werke sind ausgelastet und die Preise steigen wieder ¿ kurz gesagt, die Stahlbranche kocht. Oder kocht sie sogar schon wieder über? ¿Stahl war lange Zeit alles andere als eine Industrie, die die Fantasie von Anlegern beflügelte. Früher hätten wir für Stahl eher einen Malus bekommen, zurzeit würden wir einen Bonus kriegen, und in drei Jahren wird das alles wieder ganz and...

Gaining greater levels of spiritual awareness and experience is a step-by-step procedure. You must learn to walk in spiritual consciousness before you can fly. This comprehensive book addresses the many tools and techniques you can follow, in a progressive lock-step manner, which will take you into greater and greater levels of expanded spiritual consciousness. By accessing your own unique inner soul powers, you can start bringing miracles int...

Describes both diagnostic and therapeutic optical methods in medicine. This work covers the history of optics theory and the basic science behind light-tissue interactions. It looks at light-tissue interactions and their applications in different medical areas, such as wound healing and tissue welding.

Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful topics, such as love (as both noun and verb), psychological intimacy, sexual desire, and infidelity, both in background concepts and clinical guidelines.

Fiona M. Kay is an associate professor in theDepartment of Sociology at Queen¿s University. RichardJohnston is a professor of political science and researchdirector of the National Annenberg Election Survey at the University ofPennsylvania.

This book is about a major figure of the 20th century. Included is an English translation of a play originally written in German.While not well known outside of Germany before World War II, Baeck became famous after the war because of his faith, service to others and endurance while a prisoner in the "model" concentration camp Theresienstadt. Rabbi Leo Baeck, the compassionate survivor of Nazi atrocities will not remain unknown for readers of ...

Alan grew up in the Maritime Provinces of Canada and received his B.A. from Acadia University. He did his theological training at Pine Hill Divinity School in Nova Scotia and graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California. Now a retired minister of the United Church living in Richmond, B.C., he is also the author of Readi...

Grandpa's Letters is a collection of letters written by Wang Rumei (Youdan) to his youngest son Wang Xuan (Shaozhou) between 1932 and 1936. An accomplished Confucian scholar in retirement after a political career lasting more than two decades, Youdan belongs to the gentry class and the intellectuals of an older generation. Yet like most people in China at that time, his life and that of his family were severely affected by the political turmoi...

Saving Private Ryan" and "Mission Impossible" combined. The daring World War II, true to life rescue of American, Australian and British civilians from a Japanese prison camp by U.S. Army paratroopers and Filipino guerillas.

This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished lectures and notes, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke. Burke's interpretations of Shakespeare have influenced important lines of contemporary scholarship, playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations, and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections of what makes a pla...

Tony Hemingweird, the underclass citizen of an America gone awry, is an antiwar author who translates the personal vendetta in Iraq into a version worse than the Vietnam nightmare: Iraq invasion instead of pursuit of alQaeda network means opportunity once in a lifetime the Triple E (exploitive elected elite) can do to achieve their personal gain. In fact, personal gain has made communism the worst ideology beyond Carl Marx's and Ho Chi Minh's ...

Library Daylight is an eclectic collection of 36 articles about libraries and librarianship published between 1874 and 1922. These items, most of which will be new even to those most well-versed in American library history, cover topics that are hotly discussed today: library education, women's issues, library technology, the image of librarians, copyright, the tension between libraries as educational institutions and libraries as popular cent...