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Leisure and Tourism Landscapes
Social and Cultural Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies.
Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation...
by Lacey L Schmidt PHD, Kathryn E Keeton PHD, William S O'Keefe M.S
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
This book exists to help you work more wisely. We, at Minerva Work Solutions, recognize the investment we all make in our jobs and we know we can do more to help ourselves and our communities by promoting humane and effective work practices.
In the interest of putting something into your hands to...
Methadone Maintenance Treatment in the U.S.
A Practical Question and Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The abuse of heroin and other opiates is a serious and growing public health problem. According to the 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 166,000 Americans use heroin. In addition, 4.4 million use opiate pain relievers (including Vicodin, Percodan, Percocet, and OxyContin) without...
Regulating Health Foods
Policy Challenges and Consumer Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that...
by Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., C.E.M
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The goal of this book is to bring to the forefront the huge benefits to energy and facility managers of the emergence and continuing development of technologies and applications in the area of energy information and control systems. This wave of information technology (IT) and web-based energy information...
Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...
Virtual Space
Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Containing the edited research papers resulting from an ambitious, cross-disciplinary research project, this volume examines the spatiality of virtual inhabited 3D worlds - virtual reality and cyberspace. (Three other volumes look at Interaction, Staging and Methodology.) It is about the communication...
by E. Gaigneaux, D.E. De Vos, P.A. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
It has become a tradition that every four years, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven jointly organize a symposium devoted to the scientific bases for the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts. These meetings bring together researchers from academia and industry...
by K.R. Hornbrook, E. Patterson, S.L. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since 1975, the Oklahoma Notes have been among the most widely used reviews for medical students preparing for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Completely revised and updated, these new editions of the Notes feature: More self- assessment questions, geared to the current...
by Barbara J. Hoogenboom, Michael L. Voight, William E. Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The definitive guide to designing and implementing evidence-based rehabilitation programs using therapeutic exercise -- updated in full color
Musculoskeletal Interventions, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the system considerations, design, implementation, and progression of rehabilitation...
Engineering Physiology
Bases of Human Factors Engineering/ Ergonomics
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The book explains energy extraction from food and drink, what efforts the body is capable of, and how our efforts depend on the coordination among the respiratory,...
by E A Rewald, G J Massengale
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Forbidden! Forbidden! The words play over and over in Sariel’s mind as he kisses Amelia deeply. Sariel’s job as the Angel of Death is to witness and judge souls, helping them move to the afterlife. It’s not to fall in love with a human.Amelia had been trying to put her life back together...
Oil Spill Risk Management
Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This book is designed to help scientifically astute non-specialists understand basic geophysical and computational fluid dynamics concepts relating to oil spill simulations, and related modeling issues and challenges. A valuable asset to the engineer or manager working off-shore in the oil and gas...
Quality Control in Endoscopy
Report of an International Forum held in May 1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For the first time four crucial aspects of gastrointestinal endoscopy are combined in a single text. Drugs for sedation and monitoring of the patient are addressed with particular reference to safety issues and comfort and acceptability for the patient. Resource management and health economic techniques...