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This book is not about using gemstones for healing. The word gemmotherapy is derived from the Latin "gemma," (bud), and Greek "therapeia" (medical treatment). Gemmotherapy is a modern medical intervention focusing on the cause of...

This book is for patients and family members who find themselves in the often confusing confines of a hospital environment. With a clear and concise approach, this book tackles the major elements of a hospital visit, while helping to relieve uncertainty,...

This book provides a guided spinal stabilization program for rehabilitation of functional spinal instability, as seen in back pain patients. A tool for chiropractors, physical and occupational therapists, and other rehabilitation professionals.Book...

How IT Happened is a science-based odyssey from the beginning of the Universe through fourteen billion years of its history. With side-trips into the sciences behind, and scientific proofs of the relevant underlying theories, the reader is led through...

'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing,...

Vegetation dynamics is an important subject. A knowledge and under standing of it is central to the science of vegetation management-in grassland, range and nature reserve management, and in aspects of wildlife management, forestry and agricultural crop...

Pietro Gaietto, archaeologist, artist and essayist, recalled that happiness is repeated many times in people's lives. In his youth, happiness was a consequence of his important discoveries of bifacial anthropomorphic lithic sculpture of the ancient Stone...

The idea of this catalog came after an auspicious placement of these sculptures in museums of prehistoric archaeology in those regions of Italy where the sculptures were found. Their division into 12 types that were produced progressively over two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557693733Author Gerry StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Jean-Henri Fabre was a famous French entomologist whose observations of insects were praised - this examination of various beetles is characteristic of his meticulous yet engrossing descriptions. Fabre's greatest talent was rooted in his genuine passion...

The book covers the process of origination and development of the material world. Structure and properties of field forms in the Universe are shown. New models of elementary particles and atom structure are suggested based on empirical evidence and...

The industrial application of robots is growing steadily. This is reflected in the number of manufacturers now in volved in the field of robotics. Thanks to pioneers such as Joseph Engelberger of Unimation Inc, industry has seen their rapid deployment in...

This book is for senior undergraduate or postgraduate students who want an insight into some modern approaches to metamorphic petrology. Its aims are to explain, in reasonably simple, informal terms, the processes underlying (i) metamorphic reactions and...

This book began many years ago as course notes for students at the University of Bath, and later at the University of Kent. Students used draft versions of the chapters, which were consequently revised. Second and third year students, as well as those...

For many years now I have been required to give a series of elementary lectures on statistics to medical students about to undertake a postgraduate course in psychiatry. The declared aim of the course, for which very limited time was available, was to...

This book contains a rigorous coverage of those topics (and only those topics) that, in the author's judgement, are suitable for inclusion in a first course on Complex Functions. Roughly speaking, these can be summarized as being the things that can be...

In the last few years there has been a tremendous increase in the number of Pascal courses taught at various levels in schools and universities. Also with the advances made in electronics it is possible today for the majority of people to own or have...

Plants, in addition to their role as primary synthesizers of organic com pounds, have evolved as selective accumulators of inorganic nutrients from the earth's crust. This ability to mine the physical environment is restricted to green plants and some...

This volume discusses the mineral resources upon which modern civiliza tion is built. Take away these minerals and humanity will rapidly return to the stone age, with its greatest concern the depletion of flint (also a mineral). It would, of course,...

BY Sir Frederic Bolton, M.C. Chairman 0/ F. Bolton Group Ltd, Director 0/ Sealink Ltd and a past President o/the General Council 0/ British Shipping The shipping industry has always lacked a body which can confer professional status on would-be...

As time progresses, biology becomes more and more fragmented and specialized and it becomes increasingly difficult to see how all the dis- ! parate facts fit together. It is completely proper that biologists should have sought to reduce complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918287199Author Robert L PowersFormat HardbackImprint Adlerian Psychology AssociatesPublisher Adlerian Psychology AssociatesWeight(grams) 826g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731332Author Percy Williams BridgmanFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 703g

The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free-free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions. Yet the discipline of futures studies, this volume argues, has abandoned its goal of...

Best Science Writing features 12 award-winning and compelling examples of science journalism. Background and perspective for each of the selected articles is provided through the editor's commentary, which is based on interviews with the authors. This...

This study analyzes the relationship of professional employees to their professions, and the organizations for which they work.Book InformationISBN 9780313234910Author William KornhauserFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

This book explains the fundamental principles involved in hazardous materials management. It provides a thorough and readable explanation of the laws governing the management of hazardous materials and potential management responses, including both...

Catastrophes are part of Earth's real history. Its grim disasters, acting as a backdrop against which human dramas have been played out, have been recorded in many ancient writings. As Milne shows, doomsday catastrophism, once the prerogative of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645146905Author Malual Ayom DorFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 653g

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, Edmund Gosse...

The Return to Europe examines the ability of the Central and South-east European economies to withstand competitive pressures on entry to the EU. These economies are still experiencing major structural problems inherited from communism. A major gap still...

This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual,...

This book is directed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students-and their teachers-who are involved in those areas of cell biology which require a basic knowledge of cytoskeletal structure, parti cularly with respect to cell motility. It...

A course of eight lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1943. In his introduction Dr Raven suggests that science and religion, as the most formative influence in the educational and the intellectual life of the world, share responsibility for the outbreak...

Newton's mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696 to take up his duties at the Mint in London have three main centres of interest: methods of fluxions and series, classical pure geometry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578174686Author John L McLureFormat PaperbackImprint John L McLurePublisher John L McLureWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359995936Author Folasayo AyegbayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g

2012: Hoax or Shock? is written by the author of another bestseller "History of The Impossible: Earth before the Pyramids" and designed for general readers who won't need a special scientific degree to understand what is coming in 2012. Year...

Mammalian sociobiology is a rapidly advancing field which has made enormous strides in the last ten years. The last major monograph on the subject (Ewer, 1968) was published sixteen years ago, and there is a need for this information to be examined in...

Reviews the studies on the role of cell energetics in the mechanism of the stress response inductions, presenting a selection of facts, speculations, and hypotheses concerning the involvement of heat-shock proteins in protecting the cell during depletion...