This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. The second edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe;[...]

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering approximately 40% (52 million km^2) of the Earth's land surface. They are dominated by members of the Poaceae - the fourth largest plant family with over 7,500 species, and also the most widespread. Grasslands consti[...]

What's wrong with foreign aid? Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called into question its ability to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, or promote social development. At the macro level, only tenuous links between development aid and improved living conditions have [...]

Examines the role and utilization of workplace 'space': how it is organized; how it can reflect organizational values; how it can affect employee identities; and the many ways in which the physical environment can influence and affect organizational goals, especially in areas such as commitment, cre[...]

Megan has a mission. But must she sacrifice herself to save a world? Pilot Megan Jacinth has three goals, and they all seem unattainable. She must find her friend Bash, who she'd left for dead to save her own life. Then she needs Bash's unique skill-set to locate an ancient space-faring entity. Last[...]

When your life is based on lies, how do you hunt down the truth? Jerry Beche should be dead. Instead, he's rescued from a desolate Earth where he was the last man alive. He's then trained for the toughest conditions imaginable and placed with a crack team of specialists on an isolated island. Every[...]

"Virtual Light" - a gripping techno-thriller from William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Audacious, witty and passionate. A wonderful read". ("Observer"). "A stunner ...a terrifically stylish burst of kick-butt imagination". ("Entertainment Weekly"). San Francisco, the nearish future:[...]

"Idoru" - a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Fast, witty and cleverly politicized". ("Guardian"). Tokyo, post-event: After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his w[...]

"Spook Country" - a gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Among our most fascinating novelists ...unmissable". ("Daily Telegraph"). What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysteri[...]

Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the [...]

Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an indivi[...]

Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments,[...]