ilość książek w kategorii: 603
Public Health and Agricultural Biotechnology: A Review of the Legal, Ethical, and Scientific Controversies Presented by Genetically Altered Foods
ISBN: 9781581120936 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,06 zł |
Qigong for Living: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Health with Qi from Modern China
ISBN: 9781886969117 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having a light-hearted attitude towards living is helpful in finding the truth of life" says Yanling Lee Johnson when asked how do we live a happy and healthy life?Incorporating simple qigong exercises into our daily routine can have profound effects on our health, happiness and longevity. Qigong isn't always that difficult to do, we need good information, a sincere attitude and patience to receive the wonderful results that qigong practice can reward us with. In this book, we will explore Qigong as it realates to our soul and spirit; Qigong as it is taught and practiced in modern China; and...
Having a light-hearted attitude towards living is helpful in finding the truth of life" says Yanling Lee Johnson when asked how do we live a happy and...
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73,50 zł |
Ancient Chinese Weapons: A Martial Arts Guide
ISBN: 9781886969674 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many martial artists, once they reach a certain level of proficiency with their barehanded fighting forms, choose to expand their knowledge to include weapons techniques. But what weapon to choose? Over the past 5,000 years, the Chinese have developed a vast array of weapons, built for a multitude of purposes. What are these purposes? What is the background of these weapons? What weapon is right for you?Ancient Chinese Weapons: A Martial Artists Guide is an easy reference guide. Profusely illustrated, easy to navigate, and conveniently broken down into four main classifications: Long Weapons,...
Many martial artists, once they reach a certain level of proficiency with their barehanded fighting forms, choose to expand their knowledge to include...
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82,17 zł |
Cardiokickboxing Elite: For Sport, for Fitness, for Self-Defense
ISBN: 9781886969926 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Thiboutot, the man who created the original Cardio Kickboxing presents it as it was intended to be more than just an aerobic workout, but as a real sport and a real means of self-defense. Let's be honest. You're not going to learn anything just punching and kicking the air. In fact, you could hurt yourself. You have to learn what impact resistance and hitting moving targets are all about. Learn the safe, authentic and effective way to punch, block and kick, using real equipment and real bag work. Acquire real Kickboxing and self-defense skills while getting into the cardiovascular shape...
Frank Thiboutot, the man who created the original Cardio Kickboxing presents it as it was intended to be more than just an aerobic workout, but as a r...
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86,51 zł |
Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety [With Windows-Based]
ISBN: 9781891853111 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is there potential for a US regulatory system that is more efficient and effective? Or is the future likely to involve paralysis by analysis? This work considers the challenges faced by the regulatory system as society and technology change, and our knowledge about the effects of our activities on human and planetary health becomes more sophisticated.
Is there potential for a US regulatory system that is more efficient and effective? Or is the future likely to involve paralysis by analysis? This wor...
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254,11 zł |
Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
ISBN: 9780230608115 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster. Surviving Bhopal draws on oral testimonials of the affected community and analyzes the cause and aftermath of the disaster from the perspective of those who suffered the severe consequences of systemic failure and travesty of justice. The event resulted in a resistance movement, led by women, against corporate and state power. Mukherjee explores the underlying gender politics, showing how...
On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an eco...
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191,40 zł |
White Water Safety and Rescue
ISBN: 9780954706159 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features white water safety and rescue for canoeists, kayakers and rafters. This work includes full colour and photos throughout. It contains rescue and rafting sections. The chapter 'Planning a Descent' covers factors to be considered when travelling abro
Features white water safety and rescue for canoeists, kayakers and rafters. This work includes full colour and photos throughout. It contains rescue a...
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86,11 zł |
The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents
ISBN: 9780754649656 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance, or conscientiousness of the pilots. The Limits of Expertise is a fresh look at the causes of pilot error and aviation accidents, arguing that accidents can be understood only in the context of how the overall aviation system operates. The authors analyzed in great depth the 19 major U.S. airline...
Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? Th...
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248,92 zł |
Food Authentication
ISBN: 9780751403411 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of food authenticity is not new. For centuries unscrupulous farmers and traders have attempted to 'extend', or othewise alter, their products to maximise revenues. In recent years the subject has reached new prominence and there even have been situations where food authenticity has featured as a newspaper headline in various countries. Food legislation covering the definition, and in some cases composition, of various commodities has been in place in developed countries for many years and paradoxically it is the legislative trend away from emphasis on composition and more on...
The issue of food authenticity is not new. For centuries unscrupulous farmers and traders have attempted to 'extend', or othewise alter, their product...
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574,29 zł |
The City, the River, the Bridge: Before and After the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
ISBN: 9780816667673 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 1, 2007, just after 6:00 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, the 1,900-foot-long, eight-lane I-35W bridge buckled and crashed into the Mississippi River. The unimaginable had happened right on the doorstep of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Many of the first responders were from the University, persevering in the midst of chaos and disbelief. In the ensuing weeks, research and engineering teams from the University reviewed the wreckage, searched for causes, and began planning for the future.
The City, the River, the Bridge represents another... On August 1, 2007, just after 6:00 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, the 1,900-foot-long, eight-lane I-35W bridge buckled and crashed...
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93,31 zł |
Survivalist Family Prepared Americans for a Strong America
ISBN: 9781935018254 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just what IS a "survivalist family"? instead of "survivalist family" we could say "prepared family" or talk about "family preparedness" but that is just so politically correct it makes one sick. Just because the media don't like survivalists and therefore vilify them does not mean we have to change our language. For our purposes, the Survivalist Family is defined as, "A multi-generational group of people living in one house (usually consisting of a father, mother and their offspring) who take positive steps as a cohesive group to prepare for possible future negative situations and...
Just what IS a "survivalist family"? instead of "survivalist family" we could say "prepared family" or talk about "family preparedness" but that is ju...
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119,00 zł |
Holding Your Ground: Preparing for Defense if it All Falls Apart
ISBN: 9780615497556 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holding Your Ground provides instruction, ideas and concepts for protecting your family in the event of a break down in society or services. Most of the concepts and ideas in this book can be implemented with little or no expense. This book will NOT provide you with plans for the construction of an underground bunker, but will provide instructions on how to defend it or your home.
Holding Your Ground provides instruction, ideas and concepts for protecting your family in the event of a break down in society or services. Most of t...
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98,49 zł |
The Fluorspar Mines of Newfoundland : Their History and the Epidemic of Radiation Lung Cancer
ISBN: 9780773540392 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1930s a rich deposit of fluorspar, a mineral used in the production of aluminum, steel, non-stick coatings, and fire retardant clothing, was discovered on the southern tip of Newfoundland. Two mines were established and by mid-century were major employers in St Lawrence. In the 1950s physician Cyril Walsh noticed a marked increase in cases of cancer in the miners. By the late 1960s nearly twenty percent of St Lawrence households had lost a family member to lung cancer. John Martin tells the history of Newfoundland's fluorspar mines from their founding to the last shipment of...
In the early 1930s a rich deposit of fluorspar, a mineral used in the production of aluminum, steel, non-stick coatings, and fire retardant clothing, ...
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534,26 zł |
Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development
ISBN: 9781782662464 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NASA Aeronautics Book Series. By Peter W. Merlin, et al. Contains a collection of case studies of mishaps involving experimental aircraft, aerospace vehicles, and spacecraft in which human factors played a significant role. Offered as a learning tool so that future organizations, programs, and projects may not be destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Written in such a way as to be useful to a wide audience. Each case study includes a detailed analysis of aeromedical and organizational factors for the benefit of students, teachers, and others with an academic interest in human factors...
NASA Aeronautics Book Series. By Peter W. Merlin, et al. Contains a collection of case studies of mishaps involving experimental aircraft, aerospace v...
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195,80 zł |
Esskulturen
ISBN: 9783631629871 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes beschaftigen sich mit den Essensgewohnheiten, die sich bei vielen Menschen durch die Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert sehr verandert haben. So erweitert Susanne Finsterer den Forschungsansatz von Spiekermann, Essen kulturell zu analysieren, um Fragen nach der Qualitat des Lebensmittels Wasser und des Wassers in Lebensmitteln. Wasser selbst bedarf des Schutzes gegen Risikofaktoren wie Hormone im Grundwasser aus medizinischen Abwassern, Radioaktivitat, Mangel an Abwassertechnik und Hygiene. Zu Indikatoren fur Okologie und Nachhaltigkeit zahlen Fische....
Die Beitrage dieses Bandes beschaftigen sich mit den Essensgewohnheiten, die sich bei vielen Menschen durch die Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert ...
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227,28 zł |
Transportation, Traffic Safety and Health -- Prevention and Health: Third International Conference, Washington, U.S.A, 1997
ISBN: 9783642631627 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of this book is to present some of the latest aspects in the area of mobility and its relation to planning of an optimal traffic safety. The book demonstrates the necessity of integrating knowledge from various disciplines in order to achieve a suited prevention program to reduce traffic injuries. It thus cuts the barriers between the different disciplines in their joint aim to reduce traffic injuries. Scientists, clinicians and administrators from various disciplines present different methods and results such as economic issues of developing and industrialized countries,...
The focus of this book is to present some of the latest aspects in the area of mobility and its relation to planning of an optimal traffic safety. The...
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382,84 zł |
The Fluorspar Mines of Newfoundland: Their History and the Epidemic of Radiation Lung Cancer
ISBN: 9780773540408 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1930s a rich deposit of fluorspar, a mineral used in the production of aluminum, steel, non-stick coatings, and fire retardant clothing, was discovered on the southern tip of Newfoundland. Two mines were established and by mid-century were major employers in St Lawrence. In the 1950s physician Cyril Walsh noticed a marked increase in cases of cancer in the miners. By the late 1960s nearly twenty percent of St Lawrence households had lost a family member to lung cancer. John Martin tells the history of Newfoundland's fluorspar mines from their founding to the last shipment of...
In the early 1930s a rich deposit of fluorspar, a mineral used in the production of aluminum, steel, non-stick coatings, and fire retardant clothing, ...
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145,18 zł |
Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse
ISBN: 9780061998263 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ultimate Fighter champ Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss, who previously brought you the New York Times bestseller Got Fight, now offer a hilarious and very timely guide to surviving the coming apocalypse. Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down provides everything an aspiring Mad Max needs to know about post-apocalyptic living. Since it's coming soon anyway, we might as well all Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down.
Ultimate Fighter champ Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss, who previously brought you the New York Times bestseller Got Fight, now off...
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73,68 zł |
Safety Design for Space Operations
ISBN: 9780080969213 / Angielski / Twarda / 1072 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Endorsed by the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) and drawing on the expertise of the world's leading experts in the field, Safety Design for Space Operations provides the practical how-to guidance and knowledge base needed to facilitate effective launch-site and operations safety in line with current regulations. With information on space operations safety design currently disparate and difficult to find in one place, this unique reference brings together essential material on:
Endorsed by the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) and drawing on the expertise of the world's leading experts i... |
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715,81 zł |
Encyclopedia of Food Safety
ISBN: 9780123786128 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 2304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the world's growing population, the provision of a safe, nutritious and wholesome food supply for all has become a major challenge. To achieve this, effective risk management based on sound science and unbiased information is required by all stakeholders, including the food industry, governments and consumers themselves. In addition, the globalization of the food supply requires the harmonization of policies and standards based on a common understanding of food safety among authorities in countries around the world. With some 280 chapters, the Encyclopedia of Food Safety provides... With the world's growing population, the provision of a safe, nutritious and wholesome food supply for all has become a major challenge. To achieve... |
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4564,56 zł |