At the height of the O. J. frenzy in 1994, California-based criminologists self-published a short pamphlet trying to inform the media about DNA testing and typing. When they realized that mostly lawyers were buying it, they expanded it to include legal aspects. The 1997 first edition of the published volume was expanded again to gather forensic DNA analysts into the readership net. In the second edition, they acknowledge short tandem repeat (STR) typing as the current system of choice, and emphasize the growing importance of DNA databases. General readers should find here a better understanding of the process as well as some technical material they can skip. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Explains the unique path a water molecule takes from the ground into the atmosphere via evaporation or other means, and back to the ground.

From the reviews: 'This is a book of interest to any having to work with differential equations, either as a reference or as a book to learn from. The authors have taken trouble to make the treatment self-contained. It (is) suitable required reading for a PhD student.' --New Zealand Mathematical Society, 1985

Già Ippocrate, il padre della medicina scientifica, aveva parlato dei 'pilastri della salute', cioè il movimento, l'alimentazione, il rilassamento, la coscienza e la responsabilità nei confronti dell'ambiente. Ognuno di questi pilastri permette di migliorare la qualità della vita e tutti insieme producono l'effetto della salute 'contagiosa'. Con le sue numerose immagini, i molti esercizi - dai più facili ai più impegnativi - ed una gran quantità di incoraggiementi e consigli, questo libro rappresenta una guida per una vita su basi più sane.

Rüdiger Nehberg, pasticciere di Amburgo, insieme a due compagni di viaggio, Hinrich Fink e Michael Teichmann, decide di tentare l'impresa. Stufo della vita di città, delle vacanze da catalogo e di avventure da poltrona, sente la necessità di sperimentare spazi aperti, fuoco da campo, caccia, pesca, sole e stelle e pericoli sconosciuti. I tre uomini saranno i primi a vincere la sfida del Nilo Azzurro e a risalire, con una barca a remi costruita da loro, questo fiume insidioso, ammaliante, leggendario. Tra rapide impetuose e inquietanti gole, pericolosi indigeni e animali feroci, problemi e paure, gioie ed esperienze indimenticabili, Rüdiger Nehberg ci racconta con straordinaria partecipazione la sua grande avventura, il suo sogno diventato realtà.

Helps students become proficient in the pronunciation of French by systematically examining each sound of the French language in relation to its orthography and its phonological surroundings. Gives precise rules of pronunciation and many expression which exemplify those rules as well as their exceptions. Special emphasis is placed on those words which are often mispronounced by anglophone speakers. Designed for college phonetics courses and intermediate and advanced French language classes, for students who already have some knowledge of French and are familiar with the articulation of French sounds. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Grill Power is the first book devoted solely to cooking on indoor electric grills. Healthy, fast, delicious, and all-season, indoor electric grilling is a great and versatile way to cook.

Grill Power provides a wealth of information on the use and care of particular grills and more than fifty international menus totaling more than 125 healthy recipes. Each menu includes a step-by-step game plan that gets meals on the table fast, ingredient substitutions, recipe variations, timesaving tips, serving suggestions, a nutritional breakdown of each menu, and fascinating notes from the chef who wrote the book.

Painter, writer, teacher, and publisher: Peter Halley has been a widely influential figure in the international art world since his bold canvases were first shown in the early 1980s. Emerging from the East Village Neo-Geo scene, Halley soon became known for his aggressively colored Day-Glo paintings of square 'cells' and rectilinear 'conduits,' titled with references ranging from the erudite to the pop.
While his paintings may initially recall the abstractions of Newman, Mondrian, and Albers, Halley's work breaks with the modernist agenda by insisting on a figurative referent, and, as curator and critic Dan Cameron has noted, Halley 'effectively restate[s] the terms of abstraction in our time.' For Halley, geometry is a profoundly social fact and his paintings are diagrams of the experience of space and time in contemporary society, depictions of loneliness and of connection.

Dahlke, insieme alla moglie psicoterapeuta e al ginecologo Volke Zahn, propone un testo sistematicamente costruito sui significati psicologici delle malattie della donna. L'obiettivo è quello di introdurre nella ginecologia gli aspetti molteplici della femminilità, della sessualità femminile e dei modelli di vita della donna. Accanto agli archetipi femminili si trovano interpretazioni approfondite delle malattie più importanti, dei disturbi mestruali, della sterilità e dei problemi legati ai periodi di passaggio della vita, come la pubertà o la menopausa.

Il volume esamina l'importanza fondamentale della disintossicazione dell'organismo quale presupposto di un successo terapeutico duraturo. Gli autori suggeriscono rimedi che hanno origini in grandi tradizioni, come la Medicina Tradizionale Cinese e l'Ayurveda, e in alcune tradizioni occidentali, come Ildegarda di Bingen e Paracelso, integrandoli con le più note sostanze depurative appartenenti alla medicina alternativa.

The classic guide to mixtures, completely updated with new models, theories, examples, and data.

Efficient separation operations and many other chemical processes depend upon a thorough understanding of the properties of gaseous and liquid mixtures. Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria, Third Edition is a systematic, practical guide to interpreting, correlating, and predicting thermodynamic properties used in mixture-related phase-equilibrium calculations.

Completely updated, this edition reflects the growing maturity of techniques grounded in applied statistical thermodynamics and molecular simulation, while relying on classical thermodynamics, molecular physics, and physical chemistry wherever these fields offer superior solutions. Detailed new coverage includes:

• Techniques for improving separation processes and making them more environmentally friendly.
• Theoretical concepts enabling the description and interpretation of solution properties.
• New models, notably the lattice-fluid and statistical associated-fluid theories.
• Polymer solutions, including gas-polymer equilibria, polymer blends, membranes, and gels.
• Electrolyte solutions, including semi-empirical models for solutions containing salts or volatile electrolytes.

Coverage also includes: fundamentals of classical thermodynamics of phase equilibria; thermodynamic properties from volumetric data; intermolecular forces; fugacities in gas and liquid mixtures; solubilities of gases and solids in liquids; high-pressure phase equilibria; virial coefficients for quantum gases; and much more.

Throughout, Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria strikes a perfect balance between empirical techniques and theory, and is replete with useful examples and experimental data. More than ever, it is the essential resource for engineers, chemists, and other professionals working with mixtures and related processes.

Questo libro è dedicato all'approfondimento delle tecniche di sviluppo delle facoltà di autoguarigione, delle doti di introspezione e delle potenzialità personali. Propone un percorso guidato in dodici fasi, attraverso le quali occorre passare, rimuovendo ostacoli e condizionamenti, per avvicinarsi alla meta della scoperta di sé, e a quell'equilibrio che è anche un potente strumento di autoguarigione.