The Third edition of this successful Atlas of Osteoporosis is designed to provide a wide range of physicians with a pictorial guide to this important disease. The illustrations are an excellent teaching resource and the text provides a concise overview to osteoporosis. For the first time, text and illustrations are fully integrated.The book contains details of skeletal biology and the pathophysiology

Antioxidants Effects in Health: The Bright and the Dark Side examines the role that antioxidants play in a variety of health and disease situations. The book discusses antioxidants\' historical evolution, their oxidative stress, and contains a detailed approach of 1) endogenous antioxidants, including endogenous sources, mechanisms of action, beneficial and detrimental effects on health, in vitro evidence,

High school can be hell. Literally.A demonic detective novel best devoured in a single sitting--from acclaimed TV writer Stephen Lloyd. Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he\'s seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D nerds, grills steroid-raging

You don\'t need to be a math whiz to enjoy a great sudoku puzzle Sharpen your mind and have some fun with this great collection of sudokus, including over 540 challenges across four difficulty levels (Warm-Up, Challenging, Tough, and the ultimate Samurai Sudoku ) A must-have for all Sudoku enthusiasts. OVER 500 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy VARIETY OF LEVELS: From

Written around 400 B.C. by Kautilya, the \'Indian Machiavelli\', THE ARTHASHASTRA was thought lost for more than a thousand years. It was rediscovered in 1905, when scholar Rudrapatnam Shamashastry was asked to catalogue an unpromising pile of palm leaf manuscripts - and suddenly found himself holding a complete copy of the long-lost masterpiece. Shamashastry published an English translation in 1915

Now in paperback, A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion. Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn\'t be better--a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends--until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same

Delight children and adults alike by creating a whole host of fun and fabulous knitted characters from this latest book by best-selling author, Sarah Keen. Inside you\'ll find 50 knitted dolls in costume and work attire, including graduates, a doctor, fire-fighter, painter and decorator, ballerina, bride and groom, spaceman, snowman, fitness enthusiast and hiker, to name just a few. All the projects

Stunning images of mandalas as they appear in our universe illustrate the story of unity, making this book an uplifting visual treat that reveals our connection to the world and to one another. The mandala is an archetypal symbol of wholeness that is replicated on a cosmic scale, not only in art, architecture, and religion, but throughout the universe. The concepts and primal patterns it represents

Read Shakespeare\'s sonnets in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means Don\'t be intimidated by Shakespeare These popular guides make the Bard\'s sonnets accessible and enjoyable. This No Fear guide contains: The complete original textA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languagePlenty of helpful

The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, and even though now she was over 2,300 years old, she was still rather beautiful - and desirable. Which is why Lord Francis Powerscourt finds himself summoned

Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local \'maphia\' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach - delivering violet warning letters to her

This book gathers together some of the most up-to-date thinking in the growing field of innovation in services and more particularly, in financial services. It explores the peculiarities of innovation in financial services firms and surrounding market players, discusses the open nature of the innovation process, and analyses its success factors and its interplay with strategy and performance. This

Three very different sisters discover that life doesn\'t always turn out as one would expect in this powerful romantic drama. Heart\'s Ease is the loveliest house anyone knows and home to the fortunate Blyth family. Siblings Felicity, Charity, Honor and Bruno enjoy a blissfully happy childhood there before life pulls them in very different directions. Beautiful Felicity gains her handsome husband,

*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to

Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them. An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the evolution of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage. All the major arms through the ages including

In A Theory of Environmental Leadership, Mark Manolopoulos draws on his original model of leading outlined in his cutting-edge book Following Reason to derive and develop the first properly systematic model of eco-leadership.Suppose humanity\'s relation with the Earth may be described in terms of leadership \"stages\" or modalities: once upon a time, the Earth led or ruled humanity, and now we humans

A life-changing memoir of the power of mindfulness and how it helped a boy without hope to find a new future. Now a leading neurosurgeon, Dr James Doty shares practical tips for meditation and visualisation techniques in this inspiring true story of the woman who taught him to think

A meteorite harbouring an alien lifeform crashes to Earth with horrifying consequences in this gruesome and gripping tale from master of creepy sci-fi Dan

THE SHADOW OF A STALKER Ever since he was selected to beta test the mysteriously realistic game, \"The Village of Fate,\" Yoshio\'s slowly been putting his life back together. Helping save the villagers was the catalyst he needed to help himself. Yet there\'s one big scar that Yoshio hasn\'t addressed: The convicted stalker who tormented his sister and wounded him with a knife. When the stalker reappears,

Behavioural Economics and Terrorism can be used as a guide to help us think about thinking and, in doing so, to appreciate the deep quirkiness of human behaviour. Each day, people draw on their understanding of human behaviour. This takes place subconsciously for the most part but as situations become more complex it becomes necessary to think more deliberately about how people make their decisions.