If there's anyone who can prevent a bar or restaurant from going belly up, it's Jon Taffer. Widely considered the greatest authority in the food and beverage, hotel, and hospitality industries, he runs the biggest trade show in the business and has turned around nearly 1,000 bars and at least that m[...]

"The link between our biomes, gut bacteria and our overall health is the final frontier of medicine that we must now embrace if we are ever to advance as a profession ...[...]

Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.[...]

Part I of Heavy Ion Reactions deals with elastic and inelastic processes and is taken from the original version of this text. Part II is all-new material, and it discusses transfer reactions, events which play a central role in heavy ion collisions. Special attention is given to processes involving [...]

Adverse reactions to medicines continue to present a considerable burden on healthcare, causing considerable morbidity and mortality. As well as knowing about the benefits of medicines, healthcare professionals need to understand the problem of adverse drug reactions and be aware of how they can be [...]

"Blurb & Contents" "Marvelous reading, with few problems of the interaction between science/technology and society left untouched. One need not always agree, but one cannot come away without a better education....I found the parts on scientific administration and on the interaction of science and so[...]

MCRs have become a rapidly evolving field of research and have attracted the attention of both academic and industrial scientists. Addressing one of the hottest and rapidly expanding areas of organic chemistry, Multicomponent Reactions: Concepts and Applications for Design and Synthesis describes [...]

Providing insight into the use of copper in cross-coupling reactions as a cost-efficient alternative to palladium, Copper-Mediated Cross Coupling Reactions provides a complete up-to-date collection of the available catalytic systems and processes.[...]