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...

There is this hen Otthilda, who hates her own land and soporific lifestyle in the farm Spitak. Under frequent attacks of fame-fever, she dreams of becoming a celebrity in a 'big' town, like Roxbury Crossing/MA. With timely aid of her fairy godmother Galina-Alba, her dreams are about to come true. Alas, when the fairy godmother is on vacation, her replacement scams and mixes-up Otthilda's files and wishes. Since then, Otthilda gets small and junk surprises, and eventually makes her living on a yard sale.

"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'...

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,...

Germination is a fascinating process. Seeing the life-preserving secrets of seeds, and a tiny seedling emerge from a dry, wrinkled seed and watching its growth and transformation is observing the mystery of life unfolding. While studying the seeds morphology ask yourself a simple question whether or not, a viable, fertile seed and optimal conditions for germination are enough to transform a tiny grain into a mature plant, bush, or tree? There is something else, isn't it, something mysterious that breathes life and vigor into a new development Designed for the Nature-lovers, this book...

Written in a pourquoi tale genre, "Amazing Florence" covers the pivotal periods of Renaissance, including the patronage of the arts by the powerful de Medici family. It takes you to the empire of a shoe-magnate Ferragamo, recounting his network with the Hollywood celebrities. Ins and outs, tips and nuances of dining and lodging in Florence and Fiescole are provided. Welcome to Florence, the most beautiful city in Europe

One of the hot spots of the Mediterranean traffic, Sardinia was conquered from 1500 BC onward by the Phoenicians, Carthage, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, and Austrians before obtaining its current semi-autonomous status within Italy. Bearing an inviting mix of all these cultures, Sardegna still delivers the very breath of reigns under the Houses of Aragon and Savoy, the Roman and Byzantine Empires and the Cardinals -- in the form of prehistoric stone forts, the proud nuraghi of Nora and Tharros. Today's Sardinia is popular with the jet-set presence of the rock climbers, wind-surfers, kayakers,...