By Patricia A. Deuster, et al. Prepared for the Navy's SEAL (Sea-Air-Land team) community. Designed to provide nutritional information for SEALs. Includes nutritional considerations for endurance activities, strength training, and exposure to heat and cold.
This book explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion - and consequently culture - is 'remade in the USA'. Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this informative book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration - and discrimination - for ...
Includes extra coverage on the northern areas of Pakistan. Expert authors have written the History and Politics, and Culture chapters to get on top of the country's diversity.
This guide is ideal for travellers who want to understand Australia's 50,000-year-old cultural tradition. More than 60 Indigenous people have contributed to this guide, together with some of Lonely Planet's most experienced guidebook researchers. Includes an introduction to Indigenous languages.
NGOs today, as part of civil society, have come to play a prominent role in South Asia in the context of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This book examines the theory and practice of NGO-driven CBNRM within the framework of emerging critiques of dominant discourses of development, the micro-politics of decentralisation and the ...
Sampat P Singh provides a conceptual understanding of the relevance and significance of the discourse on leadership, drawing from an intensive content research which is based on literature as its principal subject. Interspersed with examples and anecdotes, "Leading" presents an alternative way of looking at leadership and will be of relevance not ...
Revealing simple yogic techniques that can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of age or physical ability, the poems and accompanying photos in this book can help yoga practitioners experience the flow of energy that exists in everyone.
"The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing" analyzes a broad array of technologies and concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by recognized experts address the key challenges facing Internet users, designers, integrators, and policymakers. In addition to discussing major applications, it ...
Over the years, different therapists in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, particularly neurotic disorders have evolved therapeutic strategies. This book is a comprehensive guide to these strategies in the treatment of patients suffering from anxiety disorders. The first chapter provides an overview of anxiety disorders, which includes ...
With a page for each day, containing a Scripture reading, saints' feast days, a list of births and deaths, and an account of the curious events and people connected with that day, Summons Compendium of Days adds whimsy and entertainment to a powerful worship tool. It is an essential digest of curious characters, amazing connections, hidden history ...
Taking a conceptual approach to the subject, "Concepts in Quantum Mechanics" provides complete coverage of both basic and advanced topics. Following in the footsteps of Dirac's classic work "Principles of Quantum Mechanics", it explains all themes from first principles. The authors present alternative ways of representing the state of a physical ...
ATL Server: High Performance C++ on .NET is the only book on the market written by the same people who created the ATL Server library. Crivat, Grewal, Kumar and Lee--all members of the ATL Server team--provide a comprehensive look at the ATL Server library, which was designed for building high-end web applications and web services. You won't find ...
India is endowed with varied topographical features, such as high mountains, extensive plateaus, and wide plains traversed by mighty rivers. Water is an important input in the socio-economic development of a nation. In India, this dependence is even more apparent, as 70% of her population is dependent on agriculture. Divided into four sections the ...
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is "remade in the U.S.A." Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this informative book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration- ...
BEA WebLogic Server Unleashed is the definitive reference work for the WebLogic developer, offering an in-depth look at the capabilities provided by WebLogic Server and illustrating the best development practices. The book covers WebLogic's role in every aspect of a J2EE application: from working with Servlets, JavaServer Pages and Enterprise ...
This text provides a compendium of cultural sites in and around Varanasi. It covers a very wide range of places and subjects and contains a huge quantity of information, being a veritable small encyclopaedia of the Banaras region. The first section looks at the setting, historical background, religious landscape, cosmogony, festivities and ...
Oracle's adoption of a completely J2EE-compliant programming environment means that the doors of the database are now open to the programmer, allowing them to take advantage of the portability and productivity of the J2EE platform, alongside their scalable and robust Oracle software. This affects Oracle database administrators and developers alike ...
Molecular Methods in Plant Pathology covers methods in phytopathology at the molecular level, including PCR techniques, electron microscopy, tissue culturing, and the cloning of disease-resistant genes. Phytopathologists, botanists, horticulturists, and anyone working in agriculture will find this a useful reference on biophysical, biochemical, ...
This study examines the foundations of the European modernity in relation to the Hermetic tradition and its cosmological approach to life and knowledge. The symmetry of Dante, medicine of Paracelsus and science of Goethe form the background for this investigation of the modernist regime - its truth and method, pure and applied, its science of ...
This compact guide to the evaluation and treatment is destined to become a bestseller with internists and neurologists alike. The most attractive features for the neurology newcomer are the extensive discussions of localization strategies as well as guidance for practical admission order writing for neurological conditions. The Handbook excels in ...
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