Provides a theoretical basis for understanding microwave acid sampling requiring elemental or chemical analysis. Describes techniques and equipment found most effective. Gives direct practical applications of the methods to a variety of sample types. Covers most aspects of closed vessel microwave di[...]
Feng Shui is the ancient oriental art of enhancing and harmonizing the flow of energy in your surroundings. Over the last twenty years, Karen Kingston has pioneered the study of a specialized branch of Feng Shui called Space Clearing. In this fascinating and easy-to-follow guide she shows how you c[...]
Presents a different approach, from the applied engineering point of view, to radiometry, optical devices, sources, and receivers. This text provides physical concepts together with numerous data for sources and systems and offers basic analytical tools for a host of practical applications.[...]
In her singular voice--both humble and brave, touching and humorous--Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer frien[...]
'A brilliant memoir ...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it ...Maxine H[...]
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting[...]
A clear and concise up-to-date overview of the scientific research literature related to the biology of multiple sclerosis.[...]
A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, and confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese ghosts of the present[...]
Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.[...]
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang[...]
When Holmes and Watson are visited at Baker Street by a frightened figure in a stovepipe hat, their interest is immediately piqued. The bizarre man turns out to be the reclusive Prince Alexander, the only son of the King of the Netherlands. In despair, he relays his suspicions to them about a plot t[...]
This is an introductory text designed to give an understanding and awareness of the function of the main joints in the body. Students of physiotherapy, osteopathy and other subjects related to orthopaedics and manual medicine will find the clarity of the book helpful.[...]
This new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding and remembering the functional anatomy of muscles. The book has a practical approach with an easy to read style and an interactive approach to learning about muscle function.[...]
Feng Shui is the ancient oriental art of enhancing and harmonising the flow of energy in our surroundings. For more than thirty years, Karen Kingston has pioneered the study of a specialised branch of Feng Shui which she called Space Clearing. In this fascinating and easy-to-follow guide she shows h[...]
Clearing clutter can radically transform your life. Drawing on her wealth of experience as a feng shui, space clearing and clutter clearing consultant, Karen Kingston explains how clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching physical, mental, emotional and spiritual effects. This book will motivate[...]
An organizational guide to making efficient use of space incorporates the ancient art of feng shui to reveal the far-reaching physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effects that clutter has on us. Original. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.[...]
Collects poignant and inspirational firsthand accounts of war and its aftermath as provided by veterans, survivors, conscientious objectors, and abuse survivors who endured a range of circumstances, from growing up in a military family or struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder to being rende[...]
The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown.Fully updated to include a detailed assessment [...]
The book is divided into three parts. In the first the authors lay out the case that deeper learning (the term they use to describe the marriage between performance assessment and project-based learning) is not only a Common Core mandate, it is also the right thing to do for our kids. In the second [...]