A practical "how to" guide for multiple methods in metabolism, with a critical and objective discussion of strengths, limitations, and appropriate applications of the described methods.

Edited by the winner of the Oskar-Minkowski Prize of the EASD in 2006

Clinical trials in populations at risk of or with overt diabetes mellitus are being performed all around the world to test novel drugs and approaches to managing these diseases. During the last decade, new methods and techniques have been introduced - and are being developed further - that facilitate monitoring of...

This book begins with an experience of love that seemed to the author both deeply personal and broadly universal. He indicates he was prone to melancholy and negative and overly-critical thinking, but this experience of total love snapped him right out of that. He uses nature imagery, romantic imagery and spiritual imagery to describe the experience, and then shows throughout the book how these are all integrated and held together by the experience itself. As the book goes on, there is reflection on the experience and what ramifications it has for his philosophy of life, of relationship, and...

The basic ideas of the Bible can be viewed as psychological in nature. Knowing our inner psychology is key to understanding them, according to author Michael Roden, who has studied both psychology and theology. They are meant to be personally experienced-not just thought about but rather to become part of oneself. In fact, they are natural to us, ready and able to be realized, but our theology has tended to block them from our awareness. This is the provocative idea behind this book, which systematically, explains the conceptual and spiritual elements of the Bible-from the original creation...

Vision is one of the great unheralded themes of A Course in Miracles. As a major theme, it serves to integrate all other themes, allowing us to step back and view the Course's teaching as a unified whole. Yet vision in the Course has rarely been the subject of extensive study. This book will help the Course student to better understand the Course as a whole by understanding the nature of vision, the benefits it brings, and how it is acquired. Vision is said to lead to an experience of Oneness and the certainty of spiritual knowledge. Vision is the way to happiness, according to the Course. It...