Involving avid travelers father jaguar and the cub, and a supersmart kid Evan Messenger, this book is packed with descriptions of the rare pediatric diseases that are poorly attended due to the health insurance constraints: Batten disease, Carpenter syndrome, Ellis van Creveld syndrome, Fucosidosis, Gaucher disease, Krabbe disease, Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and Prune Belly syndrome. An awareness raising brochure, it is dedicated to the Global Health Humanitarian Summit that takes place each year at Emory University, Atlanta, GA."

"Four things in life are the older the better: wine, cheese, rug, and friendship." Cheese is more than a rich food, an iconic or cultural object. Cheese is information, an authentic element of heritage that brings people together. What's in the air, water and soil of a particular region, influences the flavor of cheese. Touching our palates cheese informs us about the place it was made, about people mastering it, and about the grass the cattle has consumed. The business of judging a crumb of cheese has been taken with a great seriousness over the centuries. The 'abracadabra' of a...

"And it was then that all these kinds of things thus established received their shapes from the Ordering One, through the action of Ideas of Numbers" (Plato: in Timaeus). Indeed, the Hamilton's 'Principle of Least Action' is a mathematical discrimination between inorganic and organic systems. The geometrical progression of organic life has the property of producing by simple addition, a succession of numbers or similar shapes making the homothetic (gnomonic) growth-work by 'imbibition' (from inside outwards). Whereas, inorganic matters (crystals, snowflakes, rocks) grow by 'agglutination'...

Dedicated to the National Holiday of Monaco celebrated each year on November 19th, this travel-guide is for those who want to know the Principality inside and out. Get a glimpse of Cote d'Azur (Monaco), the place where the outrageously wealthy live a lifestyle beyond imagination. From the Oscar winning Grace Kelly, the Grimaldi family, Ferrari races of 1960's, to the modern reality of Monaco, including state-of-art gambling at Monte Carlo, landing on Palais Princier in a helicopter, taking a race with Formula-One, lodging at Metropol or Hotel De Paris, meeting the holy expert "Nose" at...

Nestling in the south of Germany and surrounded with Alpine ring, Bavaria is a blessed land of picture-book scenery. The skies over Bavaria so often resemble the Bavarian flag - a symphony of blue and white, bathing the state in sunshine even when the clouds cover the rest of the country. This is due to the Foehn, a downwind from the Alps that blows away even the caravan of the thickest clouds. Enchanting medieval towns with postcard houses, the world's favorite Neuschwanstein Castle that upstages the Nature itself, sophisticated art and craft of making signature violins, endearing Bavarian...

Bound not for the connoisseurs or 'rockhounds, ' this book is for children. Through illustrated gem-mining adventure of the two exotic animals (patas monkey and matamata turtle), it explains the chemical compositions and physical properties (hardness, refraction, flaw, saturation, asterism, hue) of 18 popular gemstones, their mining locations, mastery of the cut, valuing criteria, as well as their popularity among the pop and cardinal clientele. Running the history of the worlds biggest ten signature diamonds (Cullinan, Orloff, Centenary, Regent, Kohi-i-Noor, Idols Eye, Taylor-Burton, Sancy,...

This travel guide leads you straight to the core of the bounteous allure Berlin has to offer. With the fresh knowledge about this truly fascinating city, cultural and intellectual Powerhouse, you'll find what every visitor needs to explore and to revere. With composite photographs and graphics involving the travelers jaguar and baby jaguar, "Amazing Berlin" shows you the city inside and out.