101 Simple Things to Grow Your Business

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Useful and inexpensive ideas to enhance your organization's image and improve sales.

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Fun and easy - from the author.......2000-01-07

Lilly@Walters-Intl.com Each page of "101 Simple Things .... is filled with quick ideas, lighthearted cartoons and wit. Selected from the strategies you need to succeed, delivered with a handful of sugar.

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50 Ways to Mutual Fund Profits provides explanations of 50 of the best mutual fund strategies. These strategies, ranging from very conservative to very aggressive, cover virtually every approach to mutual fund investing. Each strategy is subject to an unbiased historic test so readers can compare past performance to their chance for success in the future. Lavine includes a primer on mutual funds; an insightful analysis of mutual fund reporting services, including ratings pro ided by major magazines; and a mutual fund glossary. Specific topics include: Momentum investing approaches; Mutual fund switching tactics; Contrarian opinion approaches; Asset allocation with mutual funds; Using mutual funds to save for retirement.

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Dispute Process : ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making
Michael Palmer , and Simon Roberts
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 052160740X

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The mechanism by which ribosomal RNA is synthesized has been a topic of intensive research for nearly 30 years. In 1981 the first in vitro transcription system for ribosomal RNA from a eukaryote - mouse ascites cells - was reported, followed rapidly by similar systems in a variety of other eukaryotes, all revealed by a relatively small number of research groups. This monograph is the first to bring together the results and opinions of all these groups. Though it unavoidably emphasizes the common features of ribosomal RNA transcription between species, the species specificity of the process and nucleolar dominance and its possible mechanism(s) are also discussed.

Transcription of Eukaryotic Ribosomal Rna Genes by Rna Polymerases I (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit Series)

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Transcription of Eukaryotic Ribosomal Rna Genes by Rna Polymerases I (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit Series)
Paule
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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Carbon based pi-conjugated materials offer a broad range of applications, going from molecular electronics and single molecule devices to nanotechnology, plastic electronics and optoelectronics.
The proper physical description of such materials is in between that of molecular solids and that of low-dimensional covalent semiconductors. This book is a comprehensive review of their elementary excitations processes and dynamics, which merges the two viewpoints, sometimes very different if not contrasting.
In each chapter, a broad tutorial introduction provides a solid physical background to the topic, which is further discussed based on recent experimental results obtained via state-of-the-art techniques. Both the molecular, intra-chain character and the solid state, inter-molecular physics is addressed.
Reports on single molecule and single polymer chain spectroscopy introduce the on-site phenomena. Several chapters are dedicated to nano-probes, steady state and transient spectroscopies. The highly ordered state, occurring in single crystals, is also discussed thoroughly. Finally, less conventional tools such as THz spectroscopy are discussed in detail.
The book provides a useful introduction to the field for newcomers, and a valid reference for experienced researchers in the field.

Photophysics of Molecular Materials - From Single Molecules to Single Crystals

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Photophysics of Molecular Materials - From Single Molecules to Single Crystals
GUGLIELMO LANZANI
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5AI40

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Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet.
The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys's original as possible.

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Honest, vivid account of 17th Century London.......2001-07-09

Samuel Pepys must certainly be the most candid of diarists, and the most aware of his time and place. He makes no effort to hide his flaws, nor his accomplishments. We learn about court intrigue, food, household management, plays, the foibles of kings, taverns, music, the navy, architecture, preachers, marriage, family relationships...the man was open to the world around him in an unbelievable way, and conveys it all with zest. It is absolutely enthralling.

This is the definitive edition of Pepys' Diary!.......1999-09-24

This is the best edition of Samuel Pepy's Diary and is hugely enjoyable to read. It takes you into the world of a 17th century yuppie par excellance with all his faults and virtues. The scholarship is first rate, meticulous and rigorous and the footnotes add enormously to the interest of the diary. The introductory essays are also first rate and I want the whole set of all 12 volumes!

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Available as part of the five-volume set Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727 or as a single volume, this reprint of the 1926 reissue of the eighteenth-century work, A Complete History of the Highwaymen (5th edition), a famous compilation of accounts and confessions drawn from the criminals themselves as they awaited their fate at the gallows.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street robberies, coining or other offences. Collected from original papers and authentic memoirs: Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the (Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld)

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Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street robberies, coining or other offences. Collected from original papers and authentic memoirs: Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the (Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld)
Arthur L. Hayward
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0415286808

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Available as part of the five-volume set Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727 or as a single volume, this work reprints Hayward's 1927 edition of this immensely popular eighteenth-century series on the lives, crimes, and executions of well-known lawbreakers.

The worlds of John Aubrey: Being a further selection of Brief Lives togeather with excerpts from his writings on antiquities, science and folklore

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The worlds of John Aubrey: Being a further selection of Brief Lives togeather with excerpts from his writings on antiquities, science and folklore
John Aubery
Manufacturer: The Folio Society
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007C6SO8

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One of the nation's most intriguing and controversial Christian thinkers writes a history of 20th Century culture--where we've been and where we are going--and holds it up to the standard of God's eternal Truth.

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Idiosyncratic!.......2005-10-27

The writer, in his own view, depicts how art is used through ages to portray the sociological, philosophical, political and economical trends of those particular ages. However, the author fails to see how also art is used in a mercantilist way, without a single clue to express the trendy message of the time, but to become the next big-new thing in the market. Finally, the author sees to much into art to look for reasons and reactions to socio-economic trends here in the US and the world, while in the mind of many artist, their aim to produce a piece that will produce a more comfortable and secure financial present and why not future, is not addressed in this book! I have to add, the research on every artist and piece of art addressed here is thoroughly done, accurate and very well documented. My two stars are actually for his research but not the theme of the book.

What's the point?.......2001-08-20

He says that "we seem to be at the end of a long experiment..." This book is a collection of ridiculous historical observations with an astonishing lack of depth from a constitutional lawyer, and the author rolls over every possible historical event like a steamroller. The book presents itself as history, but it's really the author lamenting the loss of Christian values and how technology has been bad for society. Strange.

A moving synthesis of art, politics, and philosophy . . ........2001-06-13

Constitutional lawyer John Whitehead displays a flexible intellect as he explores the intellectual and social movements in art, music, film, literature, politics, and philosophy over the past century. The book is extremely readable and provides an interesting way to survey vast amounts of accumulated thought. Readers will be hard pressed to reconcile the fact that Paula Jones' attorney and the writer of this book are the same man.

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A Must-Have Text for TCM & Acupuncture Students
A window on the Chinese understanding of the Acupoints
Good info, but accuracy veries with each point

Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Title)
Andrew Ellis , Nigel Wiseman , and Ken Boss
Manufacturer: Paradigm Publications (MA)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0912111194

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Point names, the traditional means for identifying acupoints, have meanings that are, like the wind, hard to grasp. Yet enfolded in these often poetic words is a utility that involves the complex associations derived from the evolution of the Chinese language and the vast array of therapeutic nalogies found in traditional medical works.

In discussing the point names, the authors examine the meaning, context, and significance of each acupuncture point to promote understanding of the point's use in acupuncture practice. Guidelines for understanding the nature and structure of the Chinese language are offered, along with discussions of the Chinese rationale for naming points and point groupings. The reasoning for selecting the English names is offered so that readers may adapt the names for their own use. Each of the 363 points covered is listed according to the system currently used in China. Descriptions include the name in Chinese characters, in Pinyin, and in English. The classical location according to major Chinese texts, the associated point groupings, an explanation of point functions, and classical energetic associations are also noted. Further detail is provided by inclusion of channel relationships, five-phase relationships, and qi functions. Additional notes detail linguistic and practical considerations that have accrued to the point over time. Alternate names for the point are given, again in Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Indexes provide stroke order listings, point group names, and point lists for each character. A glossary of all the characters used in point names provides a definition for each Chinese character. This book provides much valuable theoretical and therapeutic information.

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A Must-Have Text for TCM & Acupuncture Students.......2004-11-28

While there may be differing opinions on the etiological accuracy of the linguistic terminology in this text, it is important to note that it was co-written by Nigel Wiseman, whose Chinese medical terminology is commonly accepted as the standard in Traditional Chinese Medicine in the West. If you practice TCM in the West, this really should not present a problem.

That said, this is a very useful text for any student of TCM and/or Acupuncture who needs to learn acu points. It breaks down the Chinese name of each point, and gives a memorable English name for each (based on the Chinese name), that makes recollection of point location MUCH easier.

For example, ST-39 is "xia ju xu." The author breaks down these Chinese words as: xia (lower), ju (great, large), and xu (hollow, deficiency or vacancy). The English name for this point is given as "Lower Great Hollow," and its location is given as: "One inch below the Ribbon Opening (ST-38) in the depression (hollow) below the sinew and bone."

Along with Deadman's "A Manual of Acupuncture," which is now a required text for the California acupuncture licensing exam (and the best text on the subject, in my opinion), "Grasping the Wind" is a very useful text for learning a somewhat illusive subject (acupuncture points) and should be in every TCM student's library.

A window on the Chinese understanding of the Acupoints.......2003-11-02

First of all, if you want to know the location, indications, contraindications and prescriptions for all the 400+ acupoints, please see _A Manual of Acupuncture_ by Peter Deadman, Mazin Al-Khafaji with Kevin Baker. But if you want more than a two or three word translation of the point's Chinese name, turn to _Grasping the Wind_.

After the introduction, You have several essays: Influences on the Development of Point Names, Point Name Taxonomy, A Brief Discussion of Chinese Characters, Radicals, And Character Categories; these are followed by the entries on each point.

They are listed in meridan order, with the meridians in horary order, and the first thing that you see is the name of the point in Chinese - in a font size that a Westerner can easily see and appreciate. Then comes the translation, followed by the alphanumeric point designation, and the pinyin with tone marks. Each word is then translated, and alternate names for the point are given. A classical description of the location is then given, which I find quite picturesque, and a paragraph or two explaining the point name. Points listed are on all 14 of the regular meridians (the 12 Zangfu plus the Du and Ren meridians).

Now, it could be that this book isn't as accurate as someone with a complete background in Chinese would like it to be - but for someone with an abiding love for TCM, it is a gift to be digested.

Good info, but accuracy veries with each point.......2003-03-06

I found this book to be very helpful in my understanding of acupuncture points. However, I have spoke with some older, veteran chinese acupuncturists who warn that even though some of the information in this book is correct, much of it is not. How are you going to know which is which? I see many students using this book and I fear that modern practitoners are going to lose the accuracy of this body of knowledge. And, furthermore, we run the risk of ending a very important lineage.

Grasping for the Wind Shelftalker with Poster

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Grasping for the Wind Shelftalker with Poster
John W. Whitehead
Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0310238439

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"Â… this book is the first to describe, in detail, the art and science of coral reef restoration. It is to be hoped that the information that can be gleaned within the pages of this book will set a path towards continued preservation of this valuable underwater treasure to be used, appreciated, and experienced for future generations." -- Senator Bob Graham (retired), Miami Lakes, Florida, from the Foreword Most of what we know about the rehabilitation of coral reef systems stems from efforts to repair reefs injured by vessels that have run aground. To date, however, there is a paucity of published literature regarding the efficacy and/or failure of coral reef restoration techniques. While most of the literature that is available comes from meeting abstracts, workshops and technical memoranda, these papers and reports have forged a scientific framework that can help guide future efforts. The Coral Reef Restoration Handbook is the first published volume devoted to the science of coral reef restoration. It offers a scientific, conceptual framework along with practical strategies for reef assessment and restoration. Contributors from a variety of disciplines discuss engineering, geological, biological, and socioeconomic factors to create a text that is designed to guide scientists and resource managers in the decision-making process from initial assessment of the injury through conceptual restoration design, implementation, and monitoring. An excellent selection of relevant case studies is utilized to illustrate concepts and challenges inherent in the process of restoration. This volume gives reef scientists and managers the opportunity to glean significant information from previous efforts. It provides them with the opportunity to build on the lessons learned and develop successful restoration efforts into the future.

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Coral Reef Restoration Handbook
William F. Precht
Manufacturer: CRC PRESS INC @
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Coral Reef Restoration Handbook
William F. Precht
Manufacturer: 01/28/2006
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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