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2020Vitamin D
The healing power of the sunshine vitamin
by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Michael F. Holick
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem that puts the quality of life and life expectancy of more than a billion children and adults at risk worldwide. Many lifestyle diseases may be associated with vitamin D deficiency: myocardial infarction, infections, cancer, neurological diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, to name just a few. This 4th updated edition incorporates numerous new insights into the therapeutic effect of vitamin D, including its importance for a healthy pregnancy, prenatal imprinting, optimum sporting performance, diabetes mellitus and autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or multiple sclerosis. Since the metabolism and the effect of vitamin D are supported by a complex network of micronutrients – for example, magnesium, vitamin A or vitamin K – a specific chapter is devoted to this network. Here, the reader can discover how vitamin D successfully protects against diseases, improves the quality of life and optimises medication and treatment!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2011Bourgeois consumption
Food, space and identity in London and Paris, 1850–1914
by Rachel Rich
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. Forgoing the traditional food history territory of recipes and ingredients in favor of how people ate in different circles, Bourgeois Consumption explores the role of real and imagined meals in shaping Victorian lives. The perception of the middle classes as rigid and upright, found in the extensive pages of their etiquette books, is contrasted with a more flexible and spontaneous bourgeoisie, gleaned from the pages of their own colorful memoirs, diaries and letters, leading us on a lively journey into eating spaces, mealtimes, manners, and social interactions between diners. Further, contrasting Paris with London reveals some of the ways each city shaped its inhabitants but, more surprisingly, throws up a range of similarities that suggest the middle classes were, in fact, a transnational class. Rachel Rich's work will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the history of food, consumption and leisure, as well as to a broader audience curious about how the Victorian middle classes distinguished themselves through daily life and manners. ;
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureDecember 2021Conservation Agriculture in Africa
Climate Smart Agricultural Development
by Saidi Mkomwa, Amir H Kassam
Tillage agriculture has led to wide-spread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts on the environment. In addition, agriculture in Africa today faces major challenges including increased costs, climate change effects and a need for more sustainable production intensification methods. Conservation (no-tillage) agriculture has emerged as a major alternative sustainable agriculture practice in Africa and has spread to many African countries in the past decade as more development and research has enabled its extension and uptake. This landmark volume is based on the material presented at the Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-12 October 2018. The main theme of the Congress was: Making Climate Smart Agriculture Real in Africa with Conservation Agriculture: Supporting the Malabo Declaration and Agenda 2063. The Congress was aligned to mobilize stakeholders in all agriculture sectors to provide development support, impetus and direction to the vision and agenda for transforming African agriculture as set out by the Malabo Declaration and Agenda 2063. This book is aimed at all agricultural stakeholders in the public, private and civil sectors in Africa engaged in supporting the transformation of conventional tillage agriculture to Conservation Agriculture. This includes: researchers, academics, students, development stakeholders and policy makers as well as institutional libraries across the world.
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April 2004Diskursökonomie
Versuch über die innere Ökonomie der Medien
by Hartmut Winkler, Hartmut Winkler
"Zwischen ökonomie und Medienwissenschaften gibt es fraglos zahlreiche überschneidungen. Aber lassen sich ökonomische Modelle konkret für die Medienwissenschaften erschließen? Hartmut Winkler zeigt in seinem Buch, daß sich die Zirkulation der Waren als Modell für den Weg der Zeichen durch das Netz der Gesellschaft eignet. ökonomischer Tausch und Austausch/Kommunikation sind auf vielfältige Weise untereinander verbunden. Dabei geht es nicht primär um die geldökonomische Seite der Medien; Winkler nimmt vielmehr an, daß es eine Art von »innerer ökonomie« der Medien gibt, die bis in semiotische Mechanismen hineinreicht. Darüber hinaus soll aber auch eine Grenze gezogen werden: Wenn die ökonomie immer weitere Teile des Gesellschaftlichen bestimmt, scheint es dringlich, auch das Spezifische der Medien neu zu beschreiben."
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The ArtsDecember 2022D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
by Jenny Barrett, Douglas Field, Ian Scott
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March 2012Weltbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Beschleunigung
Umrisse einer neuen Gesellschaftskritik
by Hartmut Rosa
Mit der Beschleunigung des sozialen Lebens in der Moderne ändert sich auch die Art und Weise, in der der Mensch »in die Welt gestellt« ist. Hartmut Rosa analysiert aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln die Veränderungen in der Welterfahrung, der Weltbeziehung und der Weltbearbeitung moderner Subjekte. Dabei entsteht umrißhaft das Programm einer kritischen Soziologie, in deren Zentrum die Bestimmung derjenigen sozialen Bedingungen und Voraussetzungen steht, die eine gelingende individuelle und kollektive Weltaneignung möglich machen.
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The ArtsSeptember 2017Principles and Practices of 3-D Animation Production
by Liu Shangbing
This book is based on the real case of the original animation project "Adventure Little Prince" by several national animation companies in Hunan province. The analysis applies 3ds MAX software as the platform, includes theories and practical skills of 3D animation video creation in an all-round way from the aspects of animation plays, audiovisual language, art design, animation models, animation materials, lighting rendering, etc. All cases in the manuscript have been carefully selected and are good representations. At the same time, these project cases contain the most popular ideas and technologies, which can be well applied into practice.
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August 2010Berühmte Frauen. Kalender 2011
by Luise F. Pusch
Berühmte Frauen ist der Klassiker unter den Taschenkalendern. Der Kalender Berühmte Frauen 2011 erinnert an große Frauen der Geschichte und an Zeitgenossinnen: Agnes von Böhmen, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Christie, Melissa Etheridge, Ulrike Folkerts, Heike Makatsch, Anna Netrebko, Ginger Rogers, Arundhati Roy und andere. Monat für Monat werden bemerkenswerte Frauen vorgestellt, eine ausführliche Literaturliste lädt zum Weiterschmökern ein.
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March 2011Krank und pleite?
Das deutsche Gesundheitssystem
by Hartmut Reiners
Sind unsere Krankenkassen wirklich pleite? Können wir es uns bald nicht mehr leisten, krank zu werden? Daß unser Gesundheitssystem keine Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung ist, sondern ein mächtiger Wirtschaftszweig, haben wir längst begriffen. Aber wer profitiert hier eigentlich? Und warum zahlen wir als Versicherte immer mehr drauf? Hartmut Reiners, einer der erfahrensten Gesundheitsökonomen, eilt dem verwirrten Patienten nun zu Hilfe und entlarvt in dieser kritischen Einführung Schritt für Schritt die Mythen unseres Gesundheitssystems. Am Ende werden Sie endlich verstehen, worüber sich die Spezialisten des Gesundheitswesens bei Anne Will, Maybrit Illner oder Frank Plasberg eigentlich streiten. Was in unserem Gesundheitssystem schiefläuft und wie es wirklich reformiert werden könnte, zeigt einer der führenden Gesundheitsökonomen Deutschlands.
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October 2020Unverfügbarkeit
by Hartmut Rosa
Das zentrale Bestreben der Moderne gilt der Vergrößerung der eigenen Reichweite, des Zugriffs auf die Welt: Diese verfügbare Welt ist jedoch, so Hartmut Rosas brisante These, eine verstummte, mit ihr gibt es keinen Dialog mehr. Gegen diese fortschreitende Entfremdung zwischen Mensch und Welt setzt Rosa die »Resonanz«, als klingende, unberechenbare Beziehung mit einer nicht-verfügbaren Welt. Zur Resonanz kommt es, wenn wir uns auf Fremdes, Irritierendes einlassen, auf all das, was sich außerhalb unserer kontrollierenden Reichweite befindet. Das Ergebnis dieses Prozesses lässt sich nicht vorhersagen oder planen, daher eignet dem Ereignis der Resonanz immer auch ein Moment der Unverfügbarkeit.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureAugust 2020The Quest to Conserve Rare Breeds
Setting the Record Straight
by Lawrence Alderson
Since the middle of the twentieth century the world has witnessed a succession of political and social disruptions. Globalisation, technological advancement, climate change, human migration, war and conflict - all have caused major worldwide upheavals. In this light, it's unsurprising that conservation of rare breed animals has been neglected. Yet the preservation of these genetic resources - this biological diversity - is an essential ingredient of sustainable life on Earth, and not something we can afford to lose. This book, straight from the 'horse's mouth' Lawrence Alderson CBE, challenges often repeated 'facts' about livestock farming and argues for a reasoned and evidence-based approach from political and public circles. Correcting misconceptions as he goes, he recounts the creation and development of the rare breed conservation movement, addresses extinctions and genetic safe-guarding measures, and considers where we go from here. Challenged as we are by climate change, sustainability and feeding the world, perhaps it is these endangered animals that hold the answer - perhaps with them, we can adapt to our changing environment and see a way forward to a more certain future.
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1976Arbeitshilfen für den Religionsunterricht der Studienstufe, Teil D/E
Lehrerheft zu den Göttinger Quellenheften 16-24
by Andere Adaption von Isermann, Gerhard; Andere Adaption von Matschke, Hans D; Andere Adaption von Hirschler, Horst; Andere Adaption von Kunath, Siegward; Andere Adaption von Galling, Brigitte
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September 1975The Best of H. C. Artmann
by H. C. Artmann, Klaus Reichert
Von allen deutschen Autoren, die nach 1945 zu schreiben begannen, ist Artmann ohne jeden Zweifel der vielseitigste, originellste und erfinderischste. So wie Artmann in fast allen Gattungen gearbeitet hat, auch den angeblich antiquierten, und ohne sich um die Tagesparolen der mal reine Dichtung betreibenden, mal engagierten, mal die Literatur totsagenden Kollegen zu kümmern, so hat er seine Quellen, seine Herkunft überall: in der Artusepik, in barocker Schäferpoesie, in den Wörterbüchern und Grammatiken von gut zwei Dutzend Sprachen, in Irland und im England des Sherlock Holmes, bei Villon und dem Wiener Vorstadtdialekt, Lorca, Gomez de la Serna, den Surrealisten und Dadaisten, in den Detektivheftchen der 20er Jahre und den Comic strips von damals bis heute. Unsere Auswahl versucht, nicht nur einen repräsentativen Querschnitt durch das Werk Artmanns zu geben, sondern gleichzeitig Verstreutes, an entlegensten Orten Publiziertes zu sammeln.
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December 1979Größe und Elend des Menschen
Aus den »Pensées«
by Blaise Pascal, Wilhelm Weischedel, Wilhelm Weischedel, Wilhelm Weischedel
Die Pensées des Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) sind eine Sammlung von Notizen und Entwürfen für eine geplante „Apologie des Christentums“. Pascals Gedanken beeindrucken durch ihre psychologische Einsicht
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June 2024Key Questions in Wildlife & Nature Conservation Law
A study and revision guide
by Paul A. Rees
Law plays an essential part in the conservation of wildlife and ecosystems. The study of wildlife and nature conservation law is an important component of a wide range of programmes of study including wildlife conservation, environmental management and environmental law. This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes. It contains 600 multiple choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas: 1. Principles of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Law 2. History of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Law 3. Species Protection and Exploitation I - EU and International Law 4. Species Protection and Exploitation II - National Laws 5. Protected Areas and Habitats I - EU and International Laws 6. Protected Areas and Habitats II - National Laws 7. Planning, Pollution, Restoration and Conservation Funding 8. Wildlife Trade, Animal Collections and Alien Species 9. Wildlife Law Enforcement and Penalties 10. Legal Texts This book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time, in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in wildlife and nature conservation law and study the role of legislation at national, European Union (EU) and international level in the protection of individual species, habitats and landscapes. It uses examples from a wide variety of taxa, habitats and protected areas selected from a range of jurisdictions from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to Antarctica and the High Seas. Topics include the control of hunting, the conservation of trees and forests, the protection of National Parks and wilderness areas, wildlife trade and the organisations involved in the enforcement of wildlife laws. The structure of the book allows the study of one topic area at a time, progressing through simple questions to those that are more demanding. Some of the questions require students to use their knowledge to interpret information provided in the form of photographs and legal texts.
