Understanding Bioterrorism

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"Understanding Bioterrorism" is a guide to understanding and protecting against biological attacks. It offers timely information and precautionary measures that all Americans should have. As the United States wages its war against terrorism, there is growing concern about biological attacks on our country. In "Understanding Bioterrorism," Dr. Bhatnagar clarifies the dangers that infectious organisms present to the population and outlines the measures that citizens can take to safeguard themselves, their families, and their communities. "Understanding Bioterrorism" provides fundamental concepts of biological organisms employing "easy to comprehend" layman's terms, figures, and illustrations that help readers understand various physiological processes and reactions. Bhatnagar does more than define organisms. He lists them by type, incubation period, symptoms, and treatment using easy-to-follow charts. He presents medically sound data and information that serves to prevent and treat the effects of bioterrorism, giving readers the knowledge they need to be prepared!

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A highly accessible and informative resource.......2003-04-08

Understanding Bioterrorism by registered pharmacist Raghav N. Bhatnagar is a straightforward primer written to educate non-specialist general readers about the basics of biological pathogens, how they work, and steps that can be taken to protect oneself. A highly accessible and informative resource, Understanding Bioterrorism is a very timely and highly recommended informational resource on a sensitive and contemporary social, political, and military issue for readers of all backgrounds.

Gaining a better understanding of bioterrorism.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: State Legislatures

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Gaining a better understanding of bioterrorism.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: State Legislatures
Cheryl Runyon
Manufacturer: National Conference of State Legislatures
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Gaining a better understanding of bioterrorism.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Cheryl Runyon
Publication: State Legislatures (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: National Conference of State Legislatures
Volume: 29 Issue: 4 Page: 6(1)

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Azeotropy & Polyazeotropy
W. (edited By K. Ridgway) Swietoslawski
Manufacturer: Pergamon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K7BIF4

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Azeotropy and polyazeotropy
Wojciech Swietoslawski
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006AX6PK

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This Research Note contains papers presented at the SIAM 40th anniversary meeting organised by the editors and held in Los Angeles in 1992. The papers focus on new fundamental results in the theory of plates and shells, with particular emphasis on the treatment of different materials and the nonlinearities involved. Asymptotic methods, such as formal expansions, homogenization, and two-scale convergence, are analytical tools that pervade much of the research. Some of the papers are also concerned with existence results, especially for nonlinear problems, using various functional analytic methods.

Multi-scale Modelling for Structures and Composites

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Multi-scale Modelling for Structures and Composites
G. Panasenko
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1402029810

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Rod structures are widely used in modern engineering. These are bars, beams, frames and trusses of structures, gridwork, network, framework and other constructions. Numerous applications of rod structures in civil engineering, aircraft and spacecraft confirm the importance of the topic. On the other hand the majority of books on structural mechanics use some simplifying hypotheses; these hypotheses do not allow to consider some important effects, for instance the boundary layer effects near the points of junction of rods. So the question concerning the limits of applicability of structural mechanics hypotheses and the possibilities of their refinement arise. In this connection the asymptotic analysis of equations of mathematical physics, the equations of elasticity in rod structures (without these hypotheses and simplifying assumptions being imposed) is undertaken in the present book. Moreover, a lot of modern structures are made of composite materials and therefore the material of the rods is not homogeneous. This inhomogeneity of the material can generate some unexpected effects. These effects are analysed in the present book. The methods of multi-scale modelling are presented in the book by the homogenization, multi-level asymptotic analysis and the domain decomposition. These methods give an access to a new class of hybrid models combining macroscopic description with "microscopic zooms".

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Rigorous mathematical analysis of structures without hypotheses of the Kirchhoff-Love, Kirchhoff-Clebsch type
Taking into consideration the inhomogeneity of the rods and plates
New numerical algorithms decomposing a structure in 3D and 1D parts with some interface conditions between them.

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Theories of Plates and Shells

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540209972

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Plate and shell theories experienced a renaissance in recent years. The potentials of smart materials, the challenges of adaptive structures, the demands of thin-film technologies and more on the one hand and the availability of newly developed mathematical tools, the tremendous increase in computer facilities and the improvement of commercial software packages on the other caused a reanimation of the scientific interest. In the present book the contributions of the participants of the EUROMECH Colloquium 444 "Critical Review of the Theories of Plates and Shells and New Applications" have been collected. The aim was to discuss the common roots of different plate and shell approaches, to review the current state of the art, and to develop future lines of research. Contributions were written by scientists with civil and mechanical engineering as well as mathematical and physical background.

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A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman.
“An excellent and eloquent book.”—James Wood, New York Times Book Review
“A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day.”—J. Hillis Miller
“Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghue’s book is his appendix of ‘afterwords,’ brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers.”—John Bayley, New York Review of Books
“Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won’t want to lay it down.”—Hugh Kenner

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Beauty Disclosed.......2003-12-29

Denis Donoghue has launched a rescue mission: he wants to reclaim our attention to the idea and representation of "beauty" (which is often shackled by scare-quotes because of its dubious status in our culture). Donoghue's brief but evocative book is necessary because "beauty" has been debased by advertisers (for whom it is merely the most effective way to touch a consumer's heart and wallet) and removed from academic studies by certain philosophers and literary critics who reject it as an outmoded concept. Fortunately, Donoghue suggests the many ways in which he and _we_ still find beauty, particularly in literature.

The center of the book is the chapter "The Force of Form," in which Donoghue confesses, "I don't see any difference between beauty and formal perfection: whatever can be said about the one can be said with equal point about the other." Though some have grown suspicious of beauty as a "formal" matter, those who "want pure phenomena in which no act of mind is involved," Donoghue reminds us that our approach to a work (and our recognition of its beauty) is typically "formal," even if we do not acknowledge it as such. "Form" need be a four-letter pejorative only for iconoclasts; the rest of us may agree with Pierre Bourdieu that "a power must be affirmed that belongs to art to constitute everything aesthetically by virtue of form."

Although many writers, critics, and philosophers make cameo appearances in this work, two in particular seem to constitute the poles between which Donoghue shuttles so deftly. One is Paul de Man, who "regularly spoke of beauty and the aesthetic as his enemies, all the more sinister for their pretending to be innocuous," and who was "a grim reader, hostile as on principle to any sign of inventiveness, wit, the gypsy phrase, or memorable cadence." (Though Donoghue wisely avoids emphasizing de Man's checkered past, such as his pro-Fascist journalism during WWII, before he became a distinguished professor of comparative literature at Yale, the reader might wonder of what duration was de Man's opposition to beauty.) On the other side is beauty's former champion, John Ruskin, to whom Donoghue devotes his final chapter. For Ruskin, beauty was essential (in the sense of "essence") in life; yet he saw that the artist's achievement of beauty can be a complicated process, "an intrication of forms, reaching a state of rest in the end but only after conflicts of principle, good and evil, roses and cankerworms." Ruskin realized that to be receptive to beauty, one must have a special "disposition" ("dispositions which require to be created," as he wrote in his essay "The Mystery of Life and Its Arts"), a state of mind that is difficult for many to develop and maintain in our age.

In presenting the various ways that writers and critics have responded to beauty (as represented "form" and as idea), Donoghue reintroduces a discussion that has a lengthy history: he has achieved something about which he wrote in an earlier work, FEROCIOUS ALPHABETS,

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I want to replace a theory of communication with a theory of communion, and to argue that what writers want is the system of exchange which I have described as conversation.
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The conversation will continue . . . even if in the end we acknowledge that beauty remains mysterious: as Robert Frost wrote in "The Secret Sits,"

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We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
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Making you think about the little things (That aren't so little!)

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The Polished Politician: The Political Candidate's Personal Handbook
Lillian Brown
Manufacturer: LB-LTD Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0964106108

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Making you think about the little things (That aren't so little!).......2005-12-24

Lillian Brown's The Polished Politician covers the basics of media relations and public image, specifically for those seeking political office.

Brown, a Washington,DC-based image consultant with experience in network news and political candidate campaigns writes, "This handbook will not resolve all of your doubts or solve many of your problems as you hit the bumps and bruses of the campaign trail....it was designed to help you...looking your best, making successful public appearances, dealing with the press and communicating your best message to get those votes."

There are probably a lot of items in the book that you will think are pretty basic, but there are things you probably need to be reminded of too.

At only 87 pages, The Polished Politician gives you valuable info quickly, without a lot of fluff. Take the time to read it and you will get a few good tips to help you.

It was helpful.......2001-08-18

It was rather helpful. It's rather short but gives some good advice. (ie did you know that you are supposed to wear makeup on your HANDS for tv?) It's a bit basic but even seasoned political veterans will benefit from the book. For me, the book made me think about the image that I want my campaign to project and it reminded me of all the little things I should be doing. My favorite exercise though is going somewhere like a grocery store and pretending like a camera is recording my every movement, facial expression, and word. It really makes you aware of your mannerisms etc. So, it is a good book that I recommend to friends in the political field.

Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances, Second Edition

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Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances, Second Edition
Lillian Brown
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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A Guide to Chinese Home Remedies (Naturally Speaking)

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A Guide to Chinese Home Remedies (Naturally Speaking)
Terry Tan
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Level 1 Beginner - Beauty and the Beast
Jenny Dooley
Manufacturer: Express Publishing
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Naturally Speaking: Indian Recipes and Home Remedies (Naturally Speaking)

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Naturally Speaking: Indian Recipes and Home Remedies (Naturally Speaking)
Devagi Sanmugam
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Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances in the Meeting Room, on the Platform, and on TV

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Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances in the Meeting Room, on the Platform, and on TV
Lillian Brown
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
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ASIN: 1557040427

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The definitive sourcebook for people on the job, on interviews, giving lectures, or on TV, by one of America's top media and vocal coaches. Includes advice on personal appearance, voice, public speaking, handling the media, and appearing on TV.

Denis Donoghue. Speaking of Beauty.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today

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Denis Donoghue. Speaking of Beauty.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today
William Pratt
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 750 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Denis Donoghue. Speaking of Beauty.(Book Review)
Author: William Pratt
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 78(2)

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From wretched ugliness to glamour doll-dom.(Strictly Speaking)(Inuit women): An article from: Wind Speaker

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From wretched ugliness to glamour doll-dom.(Strictly Speaking)(Inuit women): An article from: Wind Speaker
Zebedee Nungak
Manufacturer: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009GLR3O
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 836 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: From wretched ugliness to glamour doll-dom.(Strictly Speaking)(Inuit women)
Author: Zebedee Nungak
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 22 Issue: 6 Page: 19(2)

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The Reality of the Beautiful.(Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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The Reality of the Beautiful.(Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Edward T. Oakes
Manufacturer: Institute on Religion and Public Life
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1889 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Reality of the Beautiful.(Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue)(Book Review)
Author: Edward T. Oakes
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 138 Page: 44(5)

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