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In riveting and dramatic fashion, Greenfeld takes readers to the front lines of the SARS crisis and raises disturbing questions about when--and how--the world will face the next deadly (and inevitable) viral mutation.

A legendary American photographer, composer, filmmaker, and author of both fiction and nonfiction reflects upon his amazing achievements, both personal and professional.

The updated edition of the wickedly funny and insightful bestseller filled with "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior, and haute cuisine, " now includes three new chapters about the author's adventures since the book was originally published.

Kernowek Kemyn, a form of spelling currently promoted by the Cornish Language Board, has been subject to sustained criticism for nearly two decades since its inception. The form and content of the Cornish Language Board's publications continue to invite criticism and have inspired this volume. The essays begin with Michael Everson's review of recent Cornish Language Board typography, includ­ing the second edition of Ken George's "Gerlyver Kres...

Addiction and Grace offers an inspiring and hope-filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also details the various addictions from which we can suffer, not only to substances like alcohol and drugs, but to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and inti...

Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008 offers comprehensive, accurate, and impartial information on more than 1, 500 prominent and significant figures in Lebanon. The biographies are accessible through an index of persons arranged by profession. The biographies in the first part include date and place of birth, career highlights, awards, academic education and special contributions to the public interest or economic progress which were instrumental in...

Ocaso Rojo: La Muerte de Fidel Castro es un libro documentado con hechos reales revelados por primera vez y vividos por el autor quien fue un agente secreto amordazado por los servicios de inteligencia para que esperara mas de 40 años antes de revelar secretos no publicados sobre la lucha clandestina de patriotas Cubanos dentro y fuera de Cuba. Además de los relatos sobre el inicio de la lucha clandestina, las persecuciones, cárcel y fusilamie...

This book explores new scientific theories of the Multi Dimensional Universe, including the author's personal journey through a life-time of study and spiritual discovery.

Written by experts in different areas, this book presents an up-to-date account of the behavioral biology of dogs. Split in three parts, the book addresses the specific aspects of behavioral biology. The first part deals with the evolution and development of the dog, whereas the next part deals with basic aspects of dog behavior. The final part emphasizes on the behavioral problems, their prevention and cure.

This volume describes the elaborate surveillance systems and various DNA repair mechanisms that ensure accurate passage of genetic information onto daughter cells. In particular, it narrates how the cell cycle checkpoint and DNA repair machineries detect and restore DNA damages that are embedded in millions to billions of normal base pairs. The scope of the book ranges from biochemical analyses and structural details of DNA repair proteins, to...

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Public Men offers an introduction to an exciting new field: the history of masculinities in the political domain. By building upon new work on gender and political culture, these new case studies explore the gendering of the political domain and the masculinities of the men who have historically dominated it.

The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional contexts.

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This concise book is for library programmers who want to learn to use MARC4J to process bibliographic data. MARC4J is an open source software library for working with MARC, MARCXML and related bibliographic standards in Java. The library is designed to bridge the gap between MARC and XML. Crosswalking provides useful information for both developers learning about MARC4J for the first time and developers returning for reference and more advance...

Zack Starr is an action and adventure packed, fast paced, children's novel which is the first book in a multi-part series.

Evelyn Becker McCune was born in the walled city of Pyongyang, Korea, in 1907. She was the first child of Methodist educational missionaries, Arthur and Louise Becker. This is the story of Evelyn Becker McCune, Arthur L. Becker, her father and George McAfee McCune, her husband.

The Secrets of Yoga and Christianity' is a gift of two faithful souls, one a born Christian who practices Yoga, and two, a born Yogi who also knows Christianity. Together, they, Rasa Von Werder and Ashankah Yogi, explain what they know about the Source of our being, presenting the theology of each discipline in their creative wisdom. Ashankah, who is dedicated to a Universal application of religion and purports that Yoga is not a religion but ...

Perhaps the most universally sought after expression and simultaneously least understood in our world today, Unconditional Love, is the first of book of its kind to unfold this awareness in a way that everyone will quickly comprehend. A true contemporary visionary, Harold W. Becker masterfully shares the deeper practical meaning behind this dynamic energy and illustrates how unconditional love operates on every level of life. Simply defined as...

This critical study discusses the ways in which speculative fiction reflects societal fears and analyzes how such cautionary tales contribute to society's efforts to avoid the realization of these fears. Beginning with a discussion of the nature of speculative fiction, it takes a look at the characteristics of the cautionary tale. The core of the book is the concept of the ?Nightmares Model, ? which examines and categorizes the repetition of s...