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Sweets & Chocolates + Dulces y bombones
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Anne Wilson, "Sweets & Chocolates + Dulces y bombones" Pages:67+ 32x2 | JPG | Language: English | 8.92 MB
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:42
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Medicinal Plant Biotechnology: From Basic Research to Industrial Applications (2007)
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Medicinal Plant Biotechnology: From Basic Research to Industrial Applications
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | English | ISBN: 3527314431 | 576 pages | 2007 | PDF | 7 Mb
Description: This unique overview of plants and transgenic techniques of great scientific, medicinal and economic value for both industry and academia covers the whole spectrum from cell culture techniques, via genetic engineering and secondary product metabolism right up to the use of transgenic plants for the production of bioactive compounds. Practical examples are given throughout, including the production of cancer therapeutics, functional food, and flavor compounds in plants.
Of particular interest to the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries, as well as medicinal chemists, biochemists, and molecular biologists.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:49
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DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants (2008)
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DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | English | ISBN: 0470258187 | 432 pages | 2008 | PDF | 4 Mb
Description:A broad overview of the interaction of DNA with surfactants and polymers
Due to the potential benefits of biotechnology, interest in the interaction between DNA and surfactants and polymers has become increasingly significant. Now, DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of the subject, giving readers a basis for understanding the factors leading to complexation between DNA and different cosolutes, including metal ions, polyelectrolytes, spermine, spermidine, surfactants and lipids, and proteins.
Topical coverage includes:
Polyelectrolytes, physico-chemical aspects and biological significance
Solution behavior of nucleic acids
Single DNA molecules: compaction and decompaction
Interaction of DNA with surfactants and cationic polymers
Interactions of histones with DNA
DNA-DNA interactions
The hydration of DNA-amphiphile complexes
DNA-surfactant/lipid complexes at liquid interfaces
DNA and DNA-surfactant complexes at solid surfaces
The role of correlation forces for DNA-cosolute interactions
Simulations of polyions
Cross-linked DNA gels and gel particles
DNA as an amphiphilic polymer
Lipid-DNA interactions
Covering both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants is an ideal resource for chemists and biochemists working in gene and DNA delivery research in industry and academia, as well as for cell biologists, chemical engineers, molecular biologists, and development biologists in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:51
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Fundamentals of Biomechanics SE Edition
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Duane Knudson " Fundamentals of Biomechanics SE Edition "
Springer | 2007 | ISBN: 0387493115 | 356 pages | PDF | 6.2 Mb
"Fundamentals of Biomechanics is an exceptionally well written and structured introductory text on the biomechanics of movement. It integrates mechanical and biological concepts in a way that enhances understanding of what students often find is a difficult area of study!!! Many students will be stimulated by the book while all will find it easy to read as [Dr. Knudson] has integrated the topics covered into a coherent unit."
(Bruce Elliott, Professor of Biomechanics, The University of Western Australia, Australia)
"Fundamentals of Biomechanics delivers everything it promises, and more. The challenge of teaching and learning biomechanics is understanding the two distinct fields that it comprises - biology and mechanics. In my experience, some students enter biomechanics with aptitude and interest in one of these fields and reluctance to the other. As a leader in biomechanics, Dr. Knudson seems to realize this and does an expert job of teaching these two fields in separate parts of the textbook. The text is clearly written, and includes many helpful illustrations and examples."
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:52
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Garden Lighting
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John Raine “Garden Lighting"
Hamlyn; New Ed edition (April 15, 2005) | ISBN: 0600612856 | 128 pages | Djvu | 13 Mb
This resource shows the reader how to achieve the effects to highlight and optimize outdoor spaces. Considerations from aesthetics to functionality are presented for all areas outdoors -- the garden, a dining area, a conservatory, or terrace -- with seasonal variations and suggestions for achieving a wide range of lighting effects. Garden enthusiasts will learn how to highlight outdoor masterpieces and how to use accent lighting, silhouettes, shadows, and spread lighting to maximize their beauty and optimize functionality. The experts will be inspired to try new ways of showing off their pond lighting and rose arches.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:53
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Food Safety Handbook
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Ronald H. Schmidt " Food Safety Handbook " Wiley | Pages: 864 | 2002-06-15 | ISBN: 0471210641 | PDF | 38 Mb
Product Description:
As with the beginning of the twentieth century, when food safety standards and the therapeutic benefits of certain foods and supplements first caught the public’s attention, the dawn of the twenty-first century finds a great social priority placed on the science of food safety. Ronald Schmidt and Gary Rodrick’s Food Safety Handbook provides a single, comprehensive reference on all major food safety issues. This expansive volume covers current United States and international regulatory information, food safety in biotechnology, myriad food hazards, food safety surveillance, and risk prevention.
Approaching food safety from retail, commercial, and institutional angles, this authoritative resource analyzes every step of the food production process, from processing and packaging to handling and distribution. The Handbook categorizes and defines real and perceived safety issues surrounding food, providing scientifically non-biased perspectives on issues for professional and general readers. Each part is divided into chapters, which are then organized into the following structure: Introduction and Definition of Issues; Background and Historical Significance; Scientific Basis and Implications; Regulatory, Industrial, and International Implications; and Current and Future Implications. Topics covered include:
* Risk assessment and epidemiology
* Biological, chemical, and physical hazards
* Control systems and intervention strategies for reducing risk or preventing food hazards, such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
* Diet, health, and safety issues, with emphasis on food fortification, dietary supplements, and functional foods
* Worldwide food safety issues, including European Union perspectives on genetic modification
Food and beverage processors, manufacturers, transporters, and government regulators will find the Food Safety Handbook to be the premier reference in its field.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:55
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Body Language: How to Read Others Thoughts by Their Gestures
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Allan Pease , Peter Cox “Body Language: How to Read Others Thoughts by Their Gestures "
Sheldon Press (November 1992) | ISBN: 0859696537 | 152 pages | PDF | 3,4 Mb
Allan Pease: "As a young boy, I was always aware that what people said was not always what they meant or were feeling and that it was..."
Everybody knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and, within minutes, give an accurate description about the relationships and feelings those people are experiencing. This ability to read a person’s attitudes and thoughts by their behaviour was the original communication system used by humans before spoken language evolved.
The original book was intended as a working manual for sales people, managers, negotiators and executives and has sold 5 million copies worldwide. The Definitive Book of Body Language is the result of over 30 years of involvement in this field and has been expanded in such a way that any person, regardless of his or her vocation or position in life, can use it to obtain a better understanding of life’s most complex event – a face-to-face encounter with another person.
About the Author: Allan Pease is the worlds foremost expert on body language and relationships. His acclaimed book Body Language has sold over 4 million copies, while his top rated TV series on the same subject has been seen by over 100 million people worldwide. He travels the world lecturing on human communication.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:56
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Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Second Edition
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Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Second Edition
Taylor & Francis | 2002-03-01 | ISBN: 0750307625 | English | 420 pages | PDF | 10.9 MB
There has always been a close connection between physics and music. From the great days of ancient Greek science, ideas and speculations have passed backward and forward between natural philosophers (physicists) and musical theorists. Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Second Edition explores the story of that relationship in an entertaining and user-friendly way. The book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the physics involved in every stage of the music making process: from the very earliest experiments on vibrating strings and primitive sound makers to the latest concerns of digital sound recording, MP3 files, and information theory. At the same time, it examines the story of our developing concept of the universe we live in: from the ancient visions of a cosmos regulated by the music of the spheres to our current understanding of an expanding universe controlled by the laws of quantum mechanics and string theory. Running through all this is one recurring question - the so-called puzzle of consonance. Why do humans respond to music and musical sounds the way they do? It is the attempts by musicians and scientists through the ages to apply new knowledge to answer this question that gives this story its fascination. Measured Tones should provide rewarding reading for any physics teacher or student who would like to know more about music and where it impinges on their subject as well as for anyone who is musically inclined.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:57
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Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language
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Sherwin Cody “Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language"
Evergreen Review, Inc. (September 27, 2007) | ASIN: B000WMILHU | 131 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb
If there is a subject of really universal interest and utility, it is the art of writing and speaking one's own language effectively. It is the basis of culture, as we all know; but it is infinitely more than that: it is the basis of business. No salesman can sell anything unless he can explain the merits of his goods in effective English (among our people), or can write an advertisement equally effective, or present his ideas, and the facts, in a letter. Indeed, the way we talk, and write letters, largely determines our success in life.
Now it is well for us to face at once the counter-statement that the most ignorant and uncultivated men often succeed best in business, and that misspelled, ungrammatical advertisements have brought in millions of dollars. It is an acknowledged fact that our business circulars and letters are far inferior in correctness to those of Great Britain; yet they are more effective in getting business. As far as spelling is concerned, we know that some of the masters of literature have been atrocious spellers and many suppose that when one can sin in such company, sinning is, as we might say, a "beauty spot", a defect in which we can even take pride.
Let us examine the facts in the case more closely. First of all, language is no more than a medium; it is like air to the creatures of the land or water to fishes. If it is perfectly clear and pure, we do not notice it any more than we notice pure air when the sun is shining in a clear sky, or the taste of pure cool water when we drink a glass on a hot day. Unless the sun is shining, there is no brightness; unless the water is cool, there is no refreshment. The source of all our joy in the landscape, of the luxuriance of fertile nature, is the sun and not the air. Nature would be more prodigal in Mexico than in Greenland, even if the air in Mexico were as full of soot and smoke as the air of Pittsburg{h}, or loaded with the acid from a chemical factory. So it is with language. Language is merely a medium for thoughts, emotions, the intelligence of a finely wrought brain, and a good mind will make far more out of a bad medium than a poor mind will make out of the best. A great violinist will draw such music from the cheapest violin that the world is astonished. However is that any reason why the great violinist should choose to play on a poor violin; or should one say nothing of the smoke nuisance in Chicago because more light and heat penetrate its murky atmosphere than are to be found in cities only a few miles farther north? The truth is, we must regard the bad spelling nuisance, the bad grammar nuisance, the in?rtistic and rambling language nuisance, precisely as we would the smoke nuisance, the sewer-gas nuisance, the stock-yards' smell nuisance. Some dainty people prefer pure air and correct language; but we now recognize that purity is something more than an esthetic fad, that it is essential to our health and well-being, and therefore it becomes a matter of universal public interest, in language as well as in air.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 15:58
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The Time Machine - H.G.Wells
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H.G.Wells"The Time Machine"
PDF | ISBN not applicable | Year 1895 | 90 pages | English | 1.1MB
Considered by many to be one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, this novella is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:00
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English Pronunciation in Use
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Mark Hancock “English Pronunciation in Use"
Cambridge University Press (September 29, 2003) | ISBN: 0521001854 | 200 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD or cassette. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs. The CD-ROM provides a wide variety of additional interactive activities to reinforce the pronunciation covered in the book, as well as tests, progress checks, games and animated diagrams of the mouth showing learners how to produce individual sounds. Students can also record themselves and compare their pronunciation with one of the many models provided.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:03
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How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years
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Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies, M. B. DeBevoise “How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years"
The MIT Press; Ill edition (February 19, 2001) | ISBN: 0262541254 | 290 pages | PDF | 6,7 Mb
Some say that children should be seen and not heard, but it turns out that might not be for the best. Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies, director of research in the Experimental Psychology Laboratory at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, goes beyond folk wisdom to tell the real story in How Language Comes to Children. Her 20 years of experience conducting research on young children's language acquisition shine through on each page, as her writing (and Malcolm DeBevoise's expert translation) perfectly captures the essence of the data and why it should be important to caretakers.
Did you know that a fetus in the womb can differentiate sounds and voices with delicate sensitivity? That cultural differences strongly influence how--and whether--mothers hear their children's first words? Modern linguistic theory tells us that we are all born with the pre-programmed capacity to learn language, but that our early experiences fill in the details of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. How we get from wailing at 2 a.m. to gossiping over coffee at 10 a.m. is all the more intriguing for the wildly different (but parallel) paths we all take to get there. How Language Comes to Children is a fantastically engaging field guide to everyone's first journey.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:04
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Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: Expert Consult: Online and Print (Textbook of Surgery)
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Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: Expert Consult: Online and Print (Textbook of Surgery)
Publisher: Saunders | Pages: 2384 | 2007-11-01 | ISBN: 141603675X | CHM | 179 MB
This distinguished reference carries on a 70-year legacy as the world's most thorough, useful, readable, and understandable text on the principles and techniques of surgery. Its peerless contributors deliver all the well-rounded, state-of-the-art knowledge you need to richly grasp the pathophysiology and optimal management of every surgical conditionso you can make the best clinical decisions, avoid complications, manage unusual situations, and achieve the best possible outcomes. It is an absolute requisite for the American Board of Surgery exam, and an indispensable source of guidance on overcoming the challenges that arise in everyday practice.As an Expert Consult title, this thoroughly updated 18th edition comes with access to the complete contents online, fully searchableenabling you to consult it rapidly from any computer with an Internet connection.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:06
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Teaching Art to Young Children (2nd Edition)
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Teaching Art to Young Children (2nd Edition)
RoutledgeFalmer | 2002-06-21 | ISBN: 0415254744| 244 pages | PDF | 42,8 Mb
This book blends practical ideas with sound principles of art education. For the teacher or trainee-teacher looking for ideas, there are plenty of tested classroom examples. For those looking for firm principles of art teaching and 'best practice', this book presents many important issues in art education with clarity and insight. Based on first-hand experience of teaching children, the book uses many examples from the school situation. Essential topics, such as developing skills through using media, how children draw, producing original artwork, developing ideas and Art and the digital image are tackled with realism and imagination.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:07
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press | 1999-01-28 | ISBN: 0192838970 | 432 pages | PDF | 2,8 Mb
Nothing of Leonardo DAVinci's sketchbooks were published until the 20th century. These are some of the most important documents of the Renaissance, and they did not become known until the 20th century. There are still people who do not know how important this work was. His anatomical studies were a watershed moment, because they introduced visual diagrams as the standard for communicating knowledge of the body and self. This was no more and no less than the conviction that the true knowledge of the shape of any body could only be arrived at by seeing it from different aspects. The truth of the body, the truth of the human being can only be discovered by looking at the body from multiple aspects, like; level, motion, perspective, transformation and growth. He opened up the body, it had always been closed, now its open. Now, what goes on inside the body is going to give us the essence of what it means to be human. It is the internal struggle, the self with the self, within .you. When you look at his sketchbooks, you see just one place where the whole world opens up.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 19, 2008 // 16:08
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