Reiki: The Essential Guide to the Ancient Healing Art Review

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(More customer reviews)The information in this book is absolutely fantastic. It has 14 chapters which cover: 1) What is Reiki?, 2) The History of the Usui System of Reiki, 3) How Reiki differs from other healing methods, 4) Reiki for personal healing, 5) Reiki Treatments, 6) Combining Reiki with other methods of healing, 7) Other ways of using Reiki, 8) Reiki with chronic illness, 9) Reiki for self-development and spiritual growth, 10) The First Degree class, 11) The Second Degree class, 12) The Third Degree or Master's Training, 13) How to find a Reiki Master 14) Becoming a Reiki Practitioner.
My favorite parts of this book is the best quality and largest photo of Dr. Usui which gives true meaning to the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words." The section about when not to use Reiki (don't give after a pre-operative anaesthetic has been administered or during an operation. And much more info I'll need to know as a nurse.) Also, I learned "If a person is suffering from a particularly severe complaint, it might be wiser to avoid the problem area completely for the time being, allowing the energy to flow through from the other areas and reabalance the system in that way." Unfortunately I learned this after the fact of touching the upper arm of my pastor who had rotator cuff surgery. I had to stop because he was so tense me getting anywhere near his shoulder. Also I should have asked first if I could do Reiki which I also learned in this book. There is just a world of information inside! My very favorite part I will write out as it is only a paragraph on page 72 but I've used it and it is so powerful I can hardly believe it!
"Using Reiki to Balance the Chakras: Sitting in a chair, place one hand on the forehead and one on the back of the neck. Then place both hands on the shoulders. After this, place one hand on the chest and one on the back. Next, place one hand on the solar plexus and one hand on the corresponding position on the back. Finally place one hand on the abdomen and one hand on the tailbone. This short treatment will balance the chakras effectively."
Note: I did this exercise [above] as a first level healer and it worked just as strong as where I am now at second level! It really works! Try it after having/viewing an attunement. A good attunement dvd I recommend is the Reiki: First level attunement by Steve Murray offered here at Amazon. o8E
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Reiki is a Japanese word meaning Universal Life Force Energy. Drawing on ancient practices, Reiki balances the energy in the body, renewing vitality and bringing about a powerful feeling of serenity and relaxation through the laying on of hands. Reiki can be used to relieve the problems associated with stress, tension, chronic illness and post-operative pain. In this revised and updated edition, Chris and Penny Parkes explain what to expect from a treatment, how it works and how it can be of benefit—and even show how you too can train to practice Reiki.

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Gastrointestinal Oncology Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a gastroenterologist practicing in Japan. In this country, the specific book such as "Gastrointestinal Oncology" is very rare. This book is very well written in the field of gastrointestinal cancer. I had learned and enjoyed it. The shortcoming is the references are a little bit old. I'm looking forward to the revised edition.

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Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication) Review

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(More customer reviews)Because this is a collection of papers by different authors, quality and style vary from chapter to chapter, but there are few wasted words, and hardly a sentence without a kernel idea worth taking the time to understand. On the other hand, it is a difficult and demanding book to read cover to cover, and most readers will probably prefer to focus on areas of particular personal interest rather than tackling the whole volume at one go.
Chapter 1, entitled "The origin of coarticulation", discusses what causes coarticulation, a history of the investigation of coarticulation, and how coarticulation develops in children¡¦s speech. A series of coarticulatory models is reviewed, including Lindblom's 'target undershoot' model of the 1960s (p. 16), Oehman's observation that two vowels interact with each other across intervening stops (p. 17), Wickelgren's idea that we store not phonemes in our brains but collections of context-sensitive allophones (p. 18), up to Keating's 'window' model of the 1980s (p. 21), in which every feature of a segment is associated with a range of values rather than an absolute target.
Part II is entitled "Research results: components of the motor system for speech". Each chapter features a key articulatory organ or organ complex: the velopharyngeal complex, the tongue, the larynx, the lips, and the lips and jaws.
Part III provides a home, under the catch-all classification of "Wider perspectives", for two chapters that did not quite fit elsewhere, "Cross-language studies on articulation" and "Implications for phonological theory".
The chapters of part IV, "Instrumental Techniques", report on the state of the art of various specialized methods and instruments for performing articulatory and acoustic measurements. The methods presented are: palatography, X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, electromagnetic articulography (EMMA), electromyography, transducers for investigating velopharyngeal function (including aerometry, electromyography, various acoustic methods, radiography, endoscopy, photodetection, various mechanical devices, ultrasound, MRI, and EMMA), and techniques for investigating laryngeal articulation (including fibreoptic endoscopy, transillumination, electromyography, pulse-echo ultrasound, acoustic analysis with inverse filtering, glottography, and the Sondhi tube).
The final chapter of the book addresses use of the spectrograph and other acoustic tools in studying coarticulatory phenomena. This chapter gives examples of how to do acoustic analysis of formant transitions, the stable portion of a vowel, stop release, fricative noise, nasals, liquids and glides, voicing and tone, and duration and intensity. This is a laudable beginning, but there is room for much more to be done in this area.
While this book is overall very tight in structure and rich in content, it is not by any means the do-all, end-all work on coarticulation. There are a number of areas not covered in this book that I would like to have seen, and hope to see in future works, such as: what really happens between *words* in running discourse?
This book is a good beginning of more serious and concentrated work on coarticulatory phenomena than has previously been seen. Hopefully many more such studies will follow.

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Coarticulation means the overlapping gestures that occur during the pronunciation of any sequence of speech sounds. This topic in the science of phonetics provides a challenge to speech production theory as well as to various projects in the field of speech technology, including that of building a natural sounding speech synthesizer. The eighteen chapters in this book cover the experimental techniques used for investigating the phenomenon, the experimental findings to date, and the theoretical background.

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Language in the Brain Review

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(More customer reviews)Language and the Brain demonstrates that locating the organization of language in narrow areas of the brain's cortex is wrong. Language isn't merely articulation and hearing of sounds. Organization of meaning, understanding, cognition, feeling and reasonable action are particularly important especially concerning the understanding of other people's feeling and knowledge.
The book emphasizes the contrast of neural and formal structure analysis. According to Helmut Schnelle as a consequence, interdisciplinary research cannot be avoided.

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Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

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Maternal Effects As Adaptations Review

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(More customer reviews)A momentus conceptually driven volume packed with profound works from the undisputed leaders in this groundbreaking area of research.
The chapter authors and volume editors must have all had very special mothers...

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Mothers have the ability to profoundly affect the quality of their offspring--from the size and quality of their eggs to where, when, and how eggs and young are placed, and from providing for and protecting developing young to choosing a mate. In many instances, these maternal effects may be the single most important contributor to variation in offspring fitness. This book explores the wide variety of maternal effects that have evolved in plants and animals as mechanisms of adaptation to temporally and spatially heterogeneous environments. Topics range from the evolutionary implications of maternal effects to the assessment and measurement of maternal effects. Four detailed case studies are also included. This book represents the first synthesis of the current state of knowledge concerning the evolution of maternal effects and their adaptive significance.

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Fluorescein and Indocyanine Green Angiography: Technique and Interpretation (Ophthalmology Monographs) Review

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(More customer reviews)As I have an interest in retina, I wanted a little more information on angiography than is present in the basic science series published by the american academy of ophthalmology. There a number of texts out there, but as this one was relatively inexpensive, and not terribly long so that I could get through it in a reasonable amount of time, I gave it a try.
I would recommend this book. It starts out relatively basic, repeating some of the information in the academy's basic science series, which is fine because some may not have read those books already. After that I found that it went into the appropriate amount of detail without getting bogged down in study results, physics, or other minutia. However, for a book focused on angiography, some may miss the minutia and detail. Most of the book is dedicated to angiogram findings in various disease states. The text is very readable with good summaries at the end of each chapter. At times though, the text is rather bland. The pictures are also of reasonable quality but a little small. While there is discussion of ICG angiography, fluorescein angiography is definitely covered in greater detail. I would recommend this book for those wishing to increase their knowledge of angiography and interpreting angiograms. It is at the very least, an excellent starting point, and is a bargain for the money (paid $36 for it).
There are now other books available by Agarwal and another by Shelly. My personal favorite is the one by Yanuzzi and G. Richard.

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The increasing use of indocyanine green angiography in recent years makes this book a valuable resource.Provides a detailed introduction to ICG angiography, covering its unique vocabulary and methodology.Also describes normal choroidal filling phases as they occur in two healthysubjects.

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Indoor Air Quality Issues Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an easy read and a good guide to the indoor environment and how it effects a building's occupants. The book includes a helpful section on pro-active prevention steps.

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Examines problems such as microbial contamination, building design, ventilation systems and psychological effects.It uses a multi-disciplined approach in examining the causes and effects of the interactions between occupants and non-industrial environments. The text also provides the reader with a tool for diagnosing IAQ problems and effectively reducing them.

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The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension (Language, Speech, and Communication) Review

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(More customer reviews)"THE ORIGINS OF GRAMMAR presents a synthesis of work done by the authors, using ... the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as thirteen months of age. In addition to drawing together their ground-breaking empirical work, the authors use these results to describe a theory of language learning that emphasizes the role of multiple cues and forces in development. They show how infants shift their reliance on different aspects of linguistic input, moving from a bias to attend to prosodic information to a reliance on semantic information, and finally to a reliance on the syntax itself."

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How do children achieve adult grammatical competence? How do they inducesyntactical rules from the bewildering linguistic input that surrounds them? Themajor debates in language acquisition theory today focus not on whether there aresome sensitivities to syntactic information but rather which sensitivities areavailable to children and how they might be translated into the organizingprinciples that get syntactic learning off the ground.The Origins of Grammarpresents a synthesis of work done by the authors, who have pioneered one of the mostimportant methodological advances in language learning in the past decade: theintermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical andsyntactic knowledge in children as young as 13 months. In addition to drawingtogether their groundbreaking empirical work, the authors use these results todescribe a theory of language learning that emphasizes the role of multiple cues andforces in development. They show how infants shift their reliance on differentaspects of the linguistic input, moving from a bias to attend to prosodicinformation to a reliance on semantic information, and finally to a reliance on thesyntax itself.Viewing language acquisition as the product of a biased learner whotakes advantage of the information available from a variety of sources in his or herenvironment, The Origins of Grammar provides a new way of thinking about the processof language comprehension. The analysis borrows insights from theories about thedevelopment of mental models, models of early cognitive development and systemstheory, and is presented in a way that will be accessible to cognitive anddevelopmental psychologists.

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Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature Review

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(More customer reviews)Only Connect is a well chosen group of essays that represent most of the facets of children's literature, from picture books to young adults, from the authors' impressions to the literary critics.
Since there isn't a lot of information on this site about this book, I'll go into detail. The first section "Books and Children" includes a variety of general essays ranging from the importance of literature to children to specific archetypes/motifs that show up in children's writing. The plums of this section are John Daniel Stahl's "The imaginitive Uses of Secrecy in Children's Literature" and Tim Wynne-Jones "An Eye for Thresholds." You won't look at setting the same way again after reading these.
This is followed by 3 sections "Myth and Folklore," "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction." P.L. Travers "Unknown Childhood" is a very mythic essay that will get you thinking about what all those fairy tales actually do for the listener. Margaret Mahy's essay reveals in brief how she develops ideas. Tamora Pierce's essay on "Fantasy: Why kids read it, Why Kids Need it" describes the special quality of YA readers to a T. This essay breaths life into the genre. Terry Pratchett's "Let there be dragons" is a good overview on science fiction, and a good laugh too.
Then there is a section on Poetry, including an essay by the widely acclaimed XJ Kennedy, a section on Picture Books which ranges from Uri Shulevits' "What is a Picture Book" to David Lewis's "The Constructedness of Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive." Ha ha! Take that you post-modernists! Children's books have had characters popping out of the pages and ripping through their own illustrations for years.
Then there are three essays on Gender Relations. Brian Attebery's "Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy" is definitely food for thought to anyone trying to plot a modern young adult book. Next is you guessed it, a section on YA literature. The Adolescent Novel of Ideas" by Peter Hollindale which talks both about realistic fiction and speculative fiction. Here's a quote to think on "The adolescent novel of ideas is marked at its best by the logic, spaciousness, and lack of compromise of its 'what if's'."
Then the book concludes with "Recent Trends and Overviews" which includes a healthy debate on the use of children's literature for certain agendas, censorship and the publishing industry. Katherine Patterson's essay is very candid, and covers both the creative process and what it is to write historical fiction. It is followed by a very sweet and short piece by Margaret Atwood.
So, if you are interested in Children's Literature, there's enough variety here I'm sure you can find something that interests you.

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First published in 1969, Only Connect is widely accepted as an essential volume for everyone concerned with children's and young adults' literature. This new edition offers a new selection of more than 40 essays and brief studies on history and criticism, literary standards, changing tastes, science fiction, young adult literature, fantasy, the problem novel, racism, and sexism. None of the articles have been featured in either of the previous two editions. Among the essayists are Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy, P.L. Travers, Perry Nodelman, Brian Attebery, John Rowe Townsend, Myra Cohn Livingston, Peter Hunt, and Jane Yolen. Its assembled learning, common sense, and wit are certain to help librarians, authors, critics, and parents "connect" with children's literature, and thus with the children themselves.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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GIS Means Business Volume 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this website for anyone that is interested in looking for a GIS job. It's called GISCrossing. It's a great place to look for a job because it has jobs only from employer websites and far more jobs than you will find on other job boards. This makes it a lot more reliable place to find a job. Here's a link to their website : http://www.Giscrossing.com


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Written for both business managers and GIS professionals, this guide reveals the ways that GIS can revolutionize the effectiveness of the 21st-century business enterprise. Demonstrating how a wide variety of businesses and business-related organizations such as chambers of commerce and commerce-friendly cities are using GIS to bolster the bottom line, detailed case studies analyze companies that overcame obstacles to profitability and efficiency by using the geographic and spatial analysis provided by GIS technology. As the technology has expanded, so have the number and diversity of companies that demand GIS capabilities. Such industries include real estate firms, insurance companies, food distributors, and casinos -- all applying GIS solutions to logistics, marketing programs, and supply chain issues.

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Fats and Oils: Formulating and Processing for Applications, Second Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)Margarine, fats and oils formulation and processing. Application in industrial scale.

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Numerous nutritional findings and extensive evidence on the health benefits of diet and exercise have emerged since the publication of the successful first edition. Recent concerns about trans isomers acting like saturated fatty acids have encouraged formulation changes that require fats and oils processors to revise their preparation techniques. Understanding the functions and properties of these raw materials and the effects of their purification and modification processes are essential for creating functional fats and oils products in the interest of consumer health.This comprehensive reference to the fats and oils used in commercial food products provides detailed coverage of raw material sources, processing, formulation, quality control, and finished products. The second edition has been revised and updated to include GMO raw ingredients and extraction procedures, an extensive review on the nutritional aspects of fats and oils, and an expanded troubleshooting section. The text also features up-to-date processing procedures and formulation techniques, and the effects of new ingredients, processing and formulation on applications. All product categories are examined, including different types of shortenings, margarines, and liquid oils. Building upon the practical aspects of the first edition and featuring the most current information, this complete reference is an ideal source for personnel and students of the fats and oils industry and the food processing industry.

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Palliative Care in Neurology (Contemporary Neurology) Review

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(More customer reviews)I think it is a very useful book for neurologists and palliative care doctors. It covers several neurological issues regarding pallaitive care. Helpful in yhe daily practice.

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Patients with degenerative neurological disorders are among the most handicapped patients in medicine.Many of these diseases are incurable.Expert palliative care is the duty of every neurologist: however, to date, this has not been a standard feature of neurological practice or training. This book helps define a new field, namely palliative care in neurology.It brings together all necessary information for neurologists caring for a patient with advance disease.Palliative care is an approach to the management of patients with life-threatening illness that attempts to enhance comfort, relieve psychosocial and spiritual distress, assure respect for decision making, provide support for the family, and prepare the patient and family for the end of life.This unique book covers each of the many dimensions of palliative care as they relate to patients with advanced neurological disorders.Basic principles of palliative care and specific ethical issues (such as euthanasia, food and hydration and advance directives) are covered.The needs of populations with specific neurological disorders are described and the management of symptoms that are common to all is explored in detail.Each chapter introduces its topic using a case report which may be used directly for teaching purposes.The authors have put together an invaluable resource, which lays the foundation for further research in the field.

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Food Safety 1994 Review

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(More customer reviews)Can ANYONE EXPLAIN to me WHY this book would COST $239?????Is this a missprint???? WHY is this book so expensive? NO book is worth this much.

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This work covers the latest developments in food safety and foodborne illness, organizing information to provide easy access to hundreds of topics, both general and specific. Comprehensive summaries of the most important advances in food science, complied from over 580 sources worldwide, are included. Health and safety, including extensive reviews of microbiology and medical subjects, is highlighted.

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The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art Review

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(More customer reviews)"The true artist lets himself go .... He rises to the light of every day like a giant leviathon of the deep ...." Bethune was a gifted writer as well as an artist and this book has ample evidence of both. It also shows his main strength was as a surgeon -- an innovative, battlefront, MASH surgeon. Imagine Hawkeye Pierce if he could write as well as he could gab and you have Bethune with the original Mobile Army Support Hospital.Who would not love this book? Anti-communists, anti-artists, anti-Maoists, and those who judge Bethune as more of a sinner than a saint. That would be a lot of people! But I come from Norman Bethune's hometown, I teach at Norman Bethune's high school, and I have been inspired by Bethune the artist and humanitarian. This book, The Politics Of Passion, gives great evidence of the Bethune we all love -- his writing and painting.This non-fiction book by Larry Hannant should serve as a good source for new artistic works inspired by the man who was the most famous whiteman in the world and who remains the most famous Canadian.Reading this book makes you want to do something for Bethune, to erect some kind of monument to his memory. They should name the high school in his old hometown after him!

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The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against Japanese invasion.

This book sheds light on the man, the artist, and the revolutionary.It uncovers new historical material relating to several controversies surrounding Bethune.A remarkable document obtained from the Communist International Archives in Moscow, for instance, discusses why Bethune was sent home in disgrace from the Spanish Civil War.It refers to a mysterious Swedish woman, Kajsa von Rothman, who was Bethune's lover and who was believed by left-wing Spanish authorities to be politically suspect.

This collection of Bethune's writings and art reveals that politics preoccupied him only during the last four years of his life.Earlier, his passionate nature found expression in medical and surgical innovation, as well as in painting, sketching, photography, writing- from poetry and short stories to letters, radio broadcasts, and plays - and public speaking. The Politics of Passion reveals the many sides of Bethune's identity, exploring not only the life of a revolutionary doctor, but of an intense and compassionate artist.

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Principles of Food Toxicology Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is written in simple understandable english and gives a good introduction to toxicology. I would recommend it to anyone starting to learn about this topic

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While food is an essential source of energy, nutrients, building materials, and even pleasure, it also contains compounds that can potentially evoke greater or lesser health disorders. Toxins can originate from the raw materials or invade during processing, transportation, and storage. They can be intentionally added in the form of "harmless" food preservatives or health-promoting functional ingredients that can become toxic in combination or under environmental stressors. The continuous physical and biochemical processes that food undergoes indicate that there is always the chance for toxicity in even the most innocuous foods. Skillfully combining theory and applications, Principles of Food Toxicology presents general and food-specific principles of toxicology with vivid examples of food-related poisons and poisonings from around the world. Beginning with an introduction to the principles of toxicology at the molecular, cellular, and organism level, the author uses highly detailed, yet accessible information, to emphasize the biochemical mechanisms of toxic effects. He explains the routes of absorption, metabolism, and elimination; toxic response; the determination of foreign substances; and the evaluation of toxicity and risk analysis. The second part is a systemic characterization of the most important food borne toxicants.The book divides a wealth of information into toxicants from plants and soils, environmental toxins, mycotoxins, marine and animal toxins, pesticide residues, food additives, and toxins that enter food during processing and storage, as well as digestion. The book also includes an extensive glossary.Drawing from the author's more than 30 years of experience researching and teaching biochemistry and toxicology, Principles of Food Toxicology provides a complete look at the mechanisms and sources of toxicity found in our food sources.

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Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is very clearly written. It provides detailed information about anaerobes and places it in the broader context of the evolution of life's cellular pathways. It serves as an excellent compliment to Zehnder's Biology of Anaerobic Microorganisms, which is a very difficult book to find.

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Anoxic conditions--the environments in which life began--still persist in many places on Earth, such as in lake sediments, the guts of ruminants, and the deep waters of some marine basins. Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds offers a current and unified natural history of oxygen-free environments and their microbial inhabitants. Drawing on evidence from a variety of scientific disciplines, the authors--two leading researchers in the field--describe the forces known to shape the structure, function, heterogeneity, and evolution of anaerobic communities.Topics range from the origin and maintenance of anoxic habitats throughout Earth's history to the origin of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and eukaryotic organelles to the development of microbial communities.Particular emphasis is placed on how energy-yielding pathways which have evolved in anaerobic microorganisms dictate the syntrophic and competitive interactions that shape anaerobic microbial community development.The ecological and evolutionary significance of the arrival of oxygen in the Proterozoic is discussed in detail.Splendidly readable, Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds brings an interdisciplinary topic of growing interest up-to-date. It will be sought after by students and researchers in ecology, microbiology, biochemistry, zoology, evolutionary biology, geology, marine biology, and oceanography.

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Fundamentals of Biofilm Research Review

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(More customer reviews)Has detail description of experimental tools and methods used in biofilm research. Easy to understand the fundamental concepts of electrochemistry that are required to understand the microsensors.

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The history of natural sciences demonstrates that major advances in the understanding of natural processes follow the development of relevant tools. The progress of biofilm research is no different. While individual areas have mushroomed in recent years, difficulties in reproducing results, communicating new findings, and reconciling differences in conceptual versus mathematical advances are holding back the true growth of the field.
Fundamentals of Biofilm Research offers a system of compatible tools and measurements that can be used to conduct biofilm studies and consistently interpret their results. After extensive testing and refinement in labs and classrooms over twenty years, the authors introduce a coherent system of conceptual, physical, computational, and virtual tools to help achieve reproducible results, align research specific parameters, ease difficulties in communication among disparate arenas, and implement consistent and reproducible procedures to interpret meaningful results. The authors reconcile the inability of computational methods to account for conceptual variables with the use of the stratified biofilm model. In this way researchers can combine the results of various measurements conducted within the space occupied by the biofilm.In addition to the wealth of information provided in the book, the authors also provide a CD with several software packages including extracting numerical parameters, computing nutrient concentration, calculating biokinetic parameters, controlling micropositioners, and measuring chemical concentration using microelectrodes.
Emphasizing process analysis, engineering systems, biofilm applications, and mathematical modeling, Fundamentals of Biofilm Research provides the tools to synergize and unify research and advance biofilm research as a whole.

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