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The Scandinavian Skincare Bible: the definitive guide to understanding your skin

Scribe Publications, 2021

We get goosebumps if someone strokes our skin gently. The reason for this is that a tiny hair-erector muscle — the arrector pili, located deep in each hair follicle — responds to nerve signals from the brain. Our hairs stand on end, and the layer of air they trap protects us against the cold. The skin, our...

Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2004

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of sensors in the non-visible bands. As a result, there is a need for existing computer vision methods and algorithms to be adapted for use with non-visible sensors, or for the development of completely new methods and systems. Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum is...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Better Skin

Alpha, 2004

From diet to peels—a complete picture.

A skin-care expert and a medical writer provide readers with a lifelong plan for good skin. With advice for everyone from teens to seniors, they cover such topics as the importance of diet, exercise, and water intake; which "cosmeceuticals" and pharmaceuticals...

Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists, 4e

Saunders, 2013

Familiarize yourself with the acute care environment with this essential guide to physical therapy practice in an acute care setting. Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists, 4th Edition helps you understand and interpret hospital protocol, safety, medical-surgical 'lingo', and the many aspects of patient are from the...

Autonomic Nervous System, Volume 117: Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Series editors: Aminoff, Boller, Swaab)

Elsevier Limited, 2013

Autonomic Nervous System provides an introduction to the latest science and detailed chapters on advances in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of autonomic system disorders.

The autonomic nervous system controls all involuntary actions within the human nervous system. Core body functions regulated by the autonomic system...

Think Skinny, Feel Fit: 7 Steps to Transform Your Emotional Weight and Have an Awesome Life

Atria, 2017

Before you can lose pounds, you must shed weight.

Alejandro Chabán suffered from being overweight as a child and from anorexia and bulimia as an adolescent, and desperately tried to have a healthy body. Then, after trying different diets and exercise regimens, he finally lost 150 pounds. But he discovered that even...

A Guide To The Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK Guides)

Project Management Institute, 2004

Whether you are a senior executive or a project manager, it’s your job to help your organization grow and increase its value to its stakeholders. Project management is the unique organizational competency that manages change and drives competitive advantage—with the outcome of delivering results in line with corporate strategy. A...

The Dying Process : Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

Routledge, 2000

A strong feature of the book... is the copius discussion of socila theory. This is a very good book, by an auhor who is never willing to take fashionable or politically correct statemnets for granted but attempts to assess these in light of knowledge gained through painful fieldwork experience. Clive Seale, University of London.

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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South America

Macmillan Technical, 1994

This volume addresses the cultures of South America south of Panama. As the fourth-largest continent and the southernmost part of the New World land masses, South America encompasses 17,814,435 square kilometers. The continent is politically divided into twelve sovereign republics-Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana,...

Biomedical Imaging (Principles and Applications in Engineering, 10)

CRC Press, 2003

Containing chapters carefully selected from CRC’s best-selling engineering handbooks, volumes in the Principles and Applications in Engineering series provide convenient, economical references sharply focused on particular engineering topics and subspecialties. Culled from the Biomedical Engineering Handbook,...

Craniofacial Muscles: A New Framework for Understanding the Effector Side of Craniofacial Muscle Control

Springer, 2012

Of the approximately 640 muscles in the human body, over 10% of them are found in the craniofacial region. The craniofacial muscles are involved in a number of crucial non-locomotor activities, and are critical to the most basic functions of life, including vision, taste, chewing and food manipulation, swallowing, respiration, speech, as...

Macroeconomics: Principles and Applications

South-Western College, 2007

Because issues of policy and real applications are critical to the principles of economics course, acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman have made the fourth edition of MACROECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS as current as today's headlines, giving students a real-world, up-to-the-minute overview that presents economics as a unified...

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