Wellness Nutrition Counter

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The Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition.......2000-08-09

This is a wonderful reference book. It has *everything* you need to know about nutrition and in the foods section each food is followed by some ways you can use it. I refer to it all the time and when my granddaughter is on her own I am definitely going to buy it for her.

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The Wellness Nutrition Counter -
M.D. - Sheldon Margen
Manufacturer: Rebus Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QS8DGE

The Wellness Nutrition Counter (The Essential Guide to Complete Nutritional Information for over 6,000 Foods & Products)

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The Wellness Nutrition Counter (The Essential Guide to Complete Nutritional Information for over 6,000 Foods & Products)

Manufacturer: Rebus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000CS3E44

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This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They explore war coverage, propaganda techniques, public opinion, and the effects of media globalization on human affairs and communication, as well as the cultural-political implications for the United States and other countries around the world.

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This is a fascinating account of a little known ethnic minority in Iraq. Although the Assyrians, like many minorities in Iraq, lived across many modern national boundaries, they were an unusually well-off group. After the end of the British mandate in Iraq in 1932, however, it was revealed that Moslems were persecuting them. The survivors of the Assyrian people and the remnants of a once great Christian Church lived in the mountains by and large in the north part of Iraq, sometimes straddling the Turkish border.

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This book describes an invariant, l, of oriented rational homology 3-spheres which is a generalization of work of Andrew Casson in the integer homology sphere case. Let R(X) denote the space of conjugacy classes of representations of p(X) into SU(2). Let (W,W,F) be a Heegaard splitting of a rational homology sphere M. Then l(M) is declared to be an appropriately defined intersection number of R(W) and R(W) inside R(F). The definition of this intersection number is a delicate task, as the spaces involved have singularities. A formula describing how l transforms under Dehn surgery is proved. The formula involves Alexander polynomials and Dedekind sums, and can be used to give a rather elementary proof of the existence of l. It is also shown that when M is a Z-homology sphere, l(M) determines the Rochlin invariant of M.

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Good place to start for recent results.......2001-04-29

This book is an overview of work done by the author in extending the Casson invariant of integer homology 3-spheres to the rational homology case. The proofs given are very detailed and they bring out how difficult it is to show isotopy invariance via an example of a Heegard splitting of genus 2. The author does a good job of detailing the background needed in the chapter on representation spaces, and discusses effectively the properties of the invariant, such as its invariance under a reversal of orientation, and how it transforms under a Dehn surgery.

The Casson-Walker invariant was generalized to all 3-manifolds by Christine Lescop and is now called the Casson-Walker-Lescop invariant. In addition, a modified version of the Seiberg-Witten invariant and the Casson-Walker invariant for rational homology 3-spheres have been shown to be related, and there are also interesting connections of the invariant to formulas in topological quantum field theory and knot theory.

The book serves well as introduction to these results and should be of interest to students or mathematicians who desire to know more about this exciting field.

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Dr. Drew Pinsky is best known as the cohost of the long-running radio advice program Loveline. But his workday is spent at a major Southern California clinic, treating the severest cases of drug dependency and psychiatric breakdown. In this riveting book, Pinsky reveals the intimate and often shocking stories of his patients as they struggle with emotional trauma, sexual abuse, and a host of chemical nemeses: alcohol, marijuana, Ecstasy, heroin, speed, cocaine, and prescription drugs. At the center of these stories is Pinsky himself, who immerses himself passionately, almost obsessively, in his work. From the sexually compulsive model to the BMW-driving soccer mom, Cracked exposes, in fast-moving, powerful vignettes, the true scope and severity of addiction, a nationwide epidemic.

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One of the better books.......2007-04-17

This is an excellent book on addiction. It is written for the lay person to understand. It goes beyond the physical aspect of addiction and explains the pychological aspect.

A closer look at the Dr........2007-01-14

I've been listening to Dr. Drew on Loveline off and on for about 10 years now. At first I was skeptical about his book, afraid that it would be a rehash of everything he says on the air. While he certainly discusses many of the same topics as the show deals with, he goes into greater depth and reveals a lot more about himself than he does during the show. Although Dr. Pinsky won't be winning any Nobel Prizes for literature, he has written a very accessible book, which will help the book reach a wider audience than it would if it had been written in a more elevated or hoity-toity style. It is certainly obvious than he is a very well-educated, knowledgable doctor, but he never rubs it in the reader's face. He is open, honest, and down to earth in this book, which will hopefully create awareness and help some people.

Fabulous..........2007-01-10

Dr. Drew is awesome - compassionate, knowledgeable, and this book is a wonderful narrative of the devastation of drugs on human life.

Pretty Solid.......2007-01-05

I've listen to Dr. Drew for years. The stories were fascinating and extremely sad. There are segments of society that have a tough time and Dr. Drew helps them every day.

Excellent!.......2006-09-12

Having been with someone with several addictions - I got into reading self help books - this one I rate VERY highly - it explains well the trouble in recovery from addiction - covers drugs, alcohol and other addictions. Drew Pinsky is brilliant making it into a story of his life in treating patients with various problems.

Can't recommend it highly enough if you really can't see how addiction can take over your life - and keep returning.

Cracked - Putting Broken Lives Together Again - A Doctor's Story

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Cracked - Putting Broken Lives Together Again - A Doctor's Story
Dr. Drew; Gold, Todd Pinsky
Manufacturer: Harper-collins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O621WA

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Cracked : Putting Broken Lives Together Again
Drew Pinsky
Manufacturer: Regan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA6X34

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Cracked : Putting Broken Lives Together Again a Doctors Story
Drew; Gold, Todd Pinsky
Manufacturer: Regan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA6WXU

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 502 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fiction as Fact: the Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory.(Book Review)
Author: Court Carney
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Page: 192(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Despite the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s the 20th century, and the United States. Since the 1960s, there has rarely been a year with out a bubble somewhere. Today we see bubbles in China, nano-technology, real estate, and many more are on the way.Through an in-depth analysis and interviews with over 100 of the world's most influential venture capitalists, Fortune 500 CEOs and Wall Street's multi-billion dollar portfolio managers, Frenzy reveals the unexpected driving forces of bubbles. Frenzy provides critical insights and lessons for today's business professionals, investors and policy makers to manage the bubbles of the future.

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Disappointing.......2006-12-26

I had high expectations from this book, based on the positive reviews here. Instead, the book turned out to be a strenuous regurgitation of all things that are well-known and understood about the bubbles. There is also a bit of false advertising, since the book claims to talk about bubbles in general, but instead dwells heavily on the ".com" bubble. The attempts to draw parallels between previous bubbles (such as a RailRoad bubble) and the ".com" frenzy are weak and unconvincing. The author fails to point out substantial differences between different types of bubbles such as a stock market and the real estate. The only valuable information are comments on hystorical bubbles of the past.

Exhaustive information in an exhausting presentation.......2005-07-29

Perhaps the author's job as an economic advisor in the Clinton Administration to give detailed economic analysis (copied from the book) had rooted in him a thesis writing style that must get itself fully manifested on his book. You simply can tell so by your frequent encounter in one single page of more than ten quotations from figureheads of large banks or federal agencies to support just one minor argument, and the large number of big names the author needed to thank and quote on his book) Somebody may credit that as evidence of serious work but to me it's just so tedious and exhausting. I must say that the points raised by the author are definitely valid. However, a better balance should be struck that the interest and ability of the mass public readers/investors should be taken care of, if it's packaged and marketed as an investment book like what it's. "Devil take the hindmost by Edward Chancellor" is an excellent example of such, though it hadnt covered the Internet Bubble. However, for learning and avoiding "bubbles", the later is a much better choice. At least, you wont feel get drown in a sea of data (both qualitative and quantitative wise).

THE BEST BOOK ON BUBBLES AVAILABLE !!.......2005-06-22

This book is terrific. It is both a fascinating read and insightful on a broad range of issues. Anyone interested in the inner workings of business trends or financial markets should find it illiminating.

It is both easy to read without sacrificing solid and grounded research and a compelling model to help readers identify the driving forces of bubbles.

For a general audience a great companion book is:
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor

For a more academic audience a great companion book is:
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez

A must read!.......2005-04-07

Even though I was a first-hand participant in the tech bubble, I never felt that I had entirely understood what my friends, coworkers and I had been through, other than with an anecdote here or a story of financial ruin there. But "Frenzy" systematically breaks down the principles of bubble economics, so successfully that, for the first time, I really feel as if I understood the essential nature of that crazy euphoria that swept up everyone from the individual investor to the CEO of the most venerable of brick-and-mortar companies. It's a frenzy that's bound to happen again -- if not already in biotech or China investment -- and I feel far better situated now to join the minority who can profit from the next one.

If you're in banking, finance or law, Frenzy is required reading.

Title: Engrossing and Insightful.......2005-03-29

This is a really great book filled with nuggets of deep insight which have changed my way of looking at markets and the economy.

I always thought bubbles were rare "defects" in a generally efficient market. Haacke clearly shows that rational decisions by intelligent people naturally lead to bubbles in many different environments. After reading the book, I see bubbles of different kinds all over the place. Haacke provides, in plain, easy to understand language, a guide book to spotting and even predicting market frenzies. I am already working on my start up for the home Robotics bubble to come!

Unlike your typical worthless "how to pick the next hot stock" book - if you read frenzy and use it - you could make real money,

Mark Cuban money.

Buy the book and read it.

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A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry: With Notes, Glossary, and Vocabulary
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Fishing | Hunting & Fishing | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1421272091
Release Date: 2005-11-30

Product Description

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Bernard Quaritch, London.

Bibliotheca accipitraria,: A catalogue of books ancient and modern relating to falconry,

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Bibliotheca accipitraria,: A catalogue of books ancient and modern relating to falconry,
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: C.T. Branford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00087U1DG

Bibliotheca Accipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry with Notes, Glossary, and Vocabulary

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Bibliotheca Accipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry with Notes, Glossary, and Vocabulary
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: SeeDescription
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WW8OGS

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Bibliotheca accipitraria;: A catalogue of books ancient and modern relating to falconry, with notes, glossary, and vocabulary;
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: C.T. Branford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007FJH0C

Bibliotheca Accipitriana: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry

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Bibliotheca Accipitriana: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: SeeDescription
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WW4XUE

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A Catalogue Of Books Ancient And Modern Relating To Falconry
James Harting
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Birdwatching | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1432617249

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A Catalogue Of Books Ancient And Modern Relating To Falconry With Notes, Glossary And Vocabulary.

Bibliotheca accipitraria: A catalogue of books ancient & modern relating to falconry

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Bibliotheca accipitraria: A catalogue of books ancient & modern relating to falconry
James Edmund Harting
Manufacturer: The Holland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007JAJDW

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