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Have you struggled for years without managing to lose those all-important last few pounds? This pocket-sized book offers you a guide to the effective ways of losing weight, from the importance of a low-carb, high-protein diet that is low in saturated fat, to explanations of nutritional concepts such as the Glycaemic Index and Glycaemic Load.

Suzhou ist das Paradies auf Erden. Zu Zeiten des Kaiserreichs war dies ein geflügeltes Wort. Noch heute finden sich in der schönen Stadt am Tai-See zahlreiche Hinweise auf die glorreiche Vergangenheit. Doch das Paradies hat auch seine Schattenseiten. Im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der Stadt im Einzugsgebiet von Shanghai entstand in Suzhou nach Jahren der Ausmerzung durch die Kommunistische Partei wieder ein Rotlicht-Milieu. In einer ...

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of three international workshops organized by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held in Tokyo, Japan in June 2006 during the 20th Annual Conference JSAI 2006. The volume starts with eight award winning papers of the JSAI 2006 main conference that are presented along with the 21 revised full workshop papers, carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSVIS 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in July 2006. The 19 revised full papers presented together with one keynote paper, and two working group reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of two joint RECOMB 2005 satellite events: the First Annual Workshop on Systems Biology, RSB 2005 and the Second Annual Workshop on Regulatory Genomics, RRG 2005, held in San Diego, CA, USA in December 2005. It contains 21 revised full papers that address a broad variety of topics in systems biology and regulatory genomics.

Offering a theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, this book provides readers with a critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood. It challenges the law's response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy, gender and women's reproductive freedom.

Aimed at students studying nineteenth century British history and sociologists, this work covers a range of themes such as: the forms of behavior, institutions and strategies that contributed to the formation of trust, the circumstances that could lead to its rise or fall, the presence of distrust, and the relationship between trust and power.

Policy Transfer in European Union Governance" will be of great interest to students and scholars of European Union politics and policy, comparative public policy and political economy.

James Robertson is the author of The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, and The Professor of Truth. Hamish Hamilton published his most recent novel, To Be Continued. Joseph Knight won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and And the Land Lay Still won the Saltire Society ...

First full-length study and edition of the acts of the Court of Arches, the most important medieval English ecclesiastical court.

Der internationale Spitzensport ist längst zu einem Wirtschaftszweig geworden, einem Wirtschaftszweig, auf dem jedes Jahr Milliarden von EURO und Dollar umgesetzt werden. Der Sport und seine Sportler sind heute als beliebte und prominente Werbe- und Unterhaltungsträger nicht mehr wegzudenken: Der Spitzensport ist kommerzialisiert, der Sportler zu einem selbständigen Unternehmer geworden. Mit begeisternd inszenierten Sportveranstaltungen wie e...

institutional analysis of the organizational foundations of Japanese economic development in the modern period.

Examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building. This book also analyzes how the relationships between trade, empire and foreign policy were perceived abroad and how this contributed to an analysis of Britain as a distinctive state, and with what consequences.

Evidence-Based Reading Practices for Response to Intervention is the key to helping struggling students before they fall behind. More than 30 expert contributors reveal what the latest research says about the books Three-Tier Approach: the core reading program for all students, supplementary instruction for children with early reading difficulties, and intensive intervention for children who still struggle. With this book, educators will pinpo...

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A fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellectual roots of Al Queda.

For every Sunday in the three-year Sunday Lectionary cycle the book offers little reflections and stimuli to prayer for either one, two or three of the readings set. These can be used by people preparing sermons or intercessions, by individuals preparing for communion or added to the notice sheet each week.

Based on an astonishing true story, THE WINTER MANTLE reaches from the turbulent reign of William the Conqueror to the high drama of the crusades... Fresh from his defeat of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William of Normandy has returned home in triumph, accompanied by the English nobles he cannot trust to leave behind. For Waltheof of Huntingdon, however, rebellion is not at the forefront of his thoughts. From the moment he catches si...

A history of Manchester in the 1970s