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This is a study of the evolution of proposals to develop the Nile Basin to ensure the best use of its precious waters. The hydropolitics of the Nile Valley is the most important issue today for the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and East Africa. The story of `Nile Control' is the product of British, Egyptian, and Sudanese engineers and hydrologists, whose designs have determined the way of life of the millions who depend upon the Nile waters for their survival. Product details Format Hardback | 464 pages Dimensions 142 x 222 ...

If you've ever had questions about the inconsistencies between chakra systems or wondered where the names, colors, locations, and other associations came from--you'll find the answers here, along with 24 tables and 28 black-and-white illustrations showing how the Western chakra system developed from the mid-19th through the 20th century, many from rare and forgotten sources. Based on the teachings of Indian Tantra, the chakras have been used for centuries as focal points for healing, meditation, and achieving a gamut of physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits, from improved health to ultimate enlightenment. Contemporary yoga teachers, energy healers, psychics, and self-help devotees think of the chakra system as thousands of years old. Yet the most common version in use in the West today came together as recently as 1977. Never before has the story been told of how the Western chakra system developed from its roots in Indian Tantra, through Blavatsky to Leadbeater, Steiner...

Is it possible to read and relax your way into financial abundance? Can dollars flow to you even if you just sat quietly in your favorite armchair and did "nothing"? Is abundance and prosperity really our natural birthright, as claimed by so many spiritual masters and authors throughout the ages? In his latest book Dollars Flow To Me Easily, bestselling author and spiritual explorer Richard Dotts attempts something that he has never done before - to write a book that changes and transforms the reader's innermost perceptions about money as they read it. Richard explains that these spiritual principles have never been about "attracting" more money or stuff into our lives. Instead, these Universal truths all speak of recognizing the inherent abundance that is already there for our taking. Is it any wonder that traditional Law of Attraction techniques which focus on "doing" and "attracting" something from out there to fill a perceived lack in our...

Excerpt from Byron There are legends of old Norse Burnns migrating from their home in Scandinavia, and settling, one branch in Normandy, another in Livonia. To the latter belonged a distant Marshal de Bnrun, famous for the almost absolute power he wielded in the then infant realm of Russia. Two members of the family came over with the Conqueror, and settled in England. Of Erneis de Burun, who had lands in York and Lincoln, we hear little more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully;...

In the fall of 1961, the photographer Eikoh Hosoe, then in his late 20s, agreed to make a series of portraits of the controversial author Yukio Mishima. Hosoe visited Mishima at his home and was immediately intrigued by a marble mosaic of the zodiac in the middle of Mishima's lawn. Taking the rubber hose with which Mishima's father was watering the garden, Hosoe wrapped it around the half-naked writer (who had been sunbathing) and photographed him in various poses against the zodiac mosaic and around the grounds. They named their collaboration "Barakei" ("bara" meaning "rose" and "kei" meaning "punishment," although the two decided on "Killed by Roses" as the English title). The original edition, designed by Kohei Sugiura, established the standard for the two subsequent editions of 1971 (which chimed with Mishima's suicide) and 1985. Aperture now issues this facsimile of the 1963 original, making available once a...

Investigating the discovery of the body, Sergeant Holly Rudd knows she's an unwelcome presence in the close-knit community of Bamfield. But she doesn't expect the residents to be spooked by the mere sight of her. What rattles Holly even more, though, is her overwhelming desire for diver and former Special Forces soldier Finn Carver. Finn has no doubt that the corpse he found while diving was a victim of foul play ? just as there's no doubt that he wants Holly. Now the two will have to come together to outwit a criminal who's already gotten away with murder. Product details Format CD-Audio Dimensions 134.62 x 190.5 ...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos quiets. ... Crime is circling. ... And cold cases never cease ...After almost a month in picturesque Kelowna, Doreen Montgomery still can't keep her notoriety to a minimum or her nose out of other people's business. Now those suffering from the loss of a loved one seek her out, wanting her help. While the last thing Doreen wants is to have the media discover she's involved in another cold case, she is already hooked on the details ...But even more is going on. News has gotten out that Nan's old house is brimming over with valuable antiques, antiques Nan collected and left for Doreen, and the seedier elements of their lovely town are circling like vultures. With her animals in full assistant mode, Doreen must investigate the cold case, right the wrongs of the past, and keep her home safe, all while evading the media-and Corporal Mack Moreau. Product details ...

In dieser Arbeit wird eine phanomenologische Beschreibung inverser und komplementarer Spektren entwickelt. Es wird gezeigt, dass inverse optische Phanomene nicht notwendig vollstandig invertiert sind. Vor dem Hintergrund einer Analyse der Eigenschaften optischer Raume wird eine verallgemeinerte Invertierungsvorschrift angegeben, die vollstandige, abbildungsoptisch symmetrisierte Invertierungen ermoglicht und die sich auch strahlungsphysikalisch begrunden lasst. Fur eine verallgemeinerte Form des experimentum crucis Newtons wird gezeigt, dass vollstandig inverse Zustande auch nach wiederholten optischen Abbildungen und Mehrfachanwendungen spektral-analysierender Operationen invers bleiben. Die Eigenschaft der Inversion kann daher als Erhaltungsgrosse im "spektralen Zustandsraum" angesehen werden. Ausserdem lassen sich mit einer neu entwickelten "selbstinvertierenden" Spiegelblende inverse und komplementare Spektren als sich gegenseitig bedingende spektrale Zustande e...

`The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight-Loss and Long-term Health` is the definitive resource for anyone considering a plant-based diet and, because of this, more than a half million people have picked up the book. With the Hispanic community struggling with obesity rates like never before--for instance, Hispanic girls have 2-3 times the risk of having a high body mass index (BMI) than Caucasian girls of the same age--a plant-based diet can improve the health of an entire culture. This and many other facts nearly demand a release of `The China Study` Spanish-translation edition. Product details Format Paperback | 417 pages Dimensions ...

Medieval Europe introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. In an accessible and engaging narrative, it tells how the peoples of medieval Europe built, understood, and changed their world. Never losing sight of the neighboring civilizations of Byzantium and Islam, it has its feet firmly planted in the medieval West, from whence it gives ample consideration to such subjects as women's lives, Jewish communities, ordinary people, and the experiences of Europeans in the often-neglected centuries of the Later Middle Ages. Product details Format Paperback | 416 pages Dimensions ...

IT-Security und Hacking sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille - wer das eine verstehen will, muss auch das andere kennen. Machen Sie sich also mit den wichtigsten Werkzeugen vertraut und verstehen Sie die Hintergründe der Bedrohungsszenarien aus dem Netz. Von der Absicherung des Active Directory bis zum Einsatz von Kali Linux, von der Suche nach Exploits bis zur Härtung von Webservern: Ein Team renommierter IT-Sicherheitsexperten zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Ihre Infrastrukturen nachhaltig absichern und Angreifern einen Schritt voraus sind. Aus dem Inhalt: Kali Linux Hacking-Tools (nmap, hydra, Koadic Metasploit, OpenVas) Externe Sicherheitsüberprüfung Penetration Testing (Client und Server) Basisabsicherung: Linux und Windows, Active Directory und Samba Cloud-Sicherheit: AWS, NextCloud, Office 365 Hacking und Security von Smartphones Web-Anwendungen absichern und angreifen Exploits: Buffer Overflows, Fuzzing, Heap Spraying und mehr Mobile-Security IoT-Geräte und -Infrastruktur ...

This volume will take students through the topics required for the ABRSM Grade 5 exam, building upon the information covered in the preceding books by tackling subjects in an organised and logical way. It introduces the subjects of Transposition, irregular time signatures, chord sequences and cadences. Contents: Irregular Time Signatures; Tenor Clef; Keys With Six Sharps or Flats; Transposition; Voices in Score (SATB); More Irregular Time Divisions; Interval Compounds; Naming Chords (I, II, III, IV, V/abc; Composing A Melody; Chords At Cadential Points; Performance Directions; Reiterations And Repeats; Orchestral Instruments; Ornaments; General Exercises Product details Format Book | 64 pages ...

Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today's environmental politics. The Tenth Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. The book provides in-depth examinations of public policy dilemmas including fracking, food production, urban sustainability, and the viability of using market solutions to address policy challenges. Students will also develop a deeper understanding of global issues such as climate change governance, the implications of the Paris Agreement, and the role of environmental policy in the developing world. Students walk away...

Enthrall Your Readers! Suspense is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for captivating readers--but it isn't just for thrillers. From mainstream fiction to memoir, suspense creates the emotional tension that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is your hands-on guide to weaving suspense into your narrative. Award-winning author Jane K. Cleland teaches you how to navigate genre conventions, write for your audience, and build gripping tension to craft an irresistible page-turner. Inside, Cleland will show you how to: - Implement thirteen no-fail techniques to construct an effective plot and structure for your story - Use Cleland's Plotting Road Map to add elements of suspense like twists, reversals, and moments of danger - Write subplots with purpose - Improve your descriptions, character development, sentence structure, and more Packed with case studies, exercises, and dozens of examples from best-selling authors, Maste...

For courses in Nutrition for non-majors. Nutrition concepts applied to our daily lives Nutrition: An Applied Approach introduces non-majors to nutrition with an innovative format that promotes long-term learning without rote memorization. Key focus areas include: functions of vitamins and minerals in the body, fluid and electrolyte balance, antioxidant function, bone health, energy metabolism, and blood health. The 5th Edition shows how nutrition concepts apply to our daily lives with new chapters on food equity, sustainability, and obesity. A new suite of ABC News Videos and Focus Figures explore nutrition, human disease, and nutrients found in food. To engage students and help them learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts, each chapter now includes Learning Outcomes and a new study plan that connects to Mastering (TM) Nutrition reading quizzes and exercises. Also available with Mastering Nutrition Mastering (TM) Nutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and ass...

Die vorliegende Einführung in "Das Kapital" unterscheidet sich von anderen auch dadurch, dass sie nicht polemisch zu belegen versucht, dieses Werk besser verstanden zu haben als jene. Sie zeichnet zwar ebenfalls dessen Gesamtargumentation nach, zeichnet sich aber dadurch aus, dass sie 1) besonderes Gewicht auf den dritten Band legt; 2) die Rehabilitation der reinen Arbeitswertlehre, wie sie im ersten Band entwickelt ist, übernimmt; 3) danach fragt, in welchem Verhältnis die Analyse der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise und die Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten ihrer Aufhebung in der Marxschen "Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie" zueinander stehen. Die Erkenntnisse der "Neuen Marx-Lektüre" und der "Monetären Werttheorie" werden dabei aufgenommen, aber vom Kopf auf die Füße gestellt. Das Ziel dieser Einführung ist erreicht, wenn die Leserinnen und Leser neugierig auf das Original werden und dessen Lektüre folgen lassen. Dieser Basistext kann ihnen dabei ...

Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical--even antagonistic--toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this volume, have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in the profession. This book assembles the most important papers on behavioral economics published since around 1990. Among the 25 articles are many that update and extend earlier foundational contributions, as well as cutting-edge papers that break new theoretical and empirical ground. Advances in Behavioral Economics will serve as the definitive one-volume resource for those who want to familiarize themselves with the new field or keep up-to-date with the latest developments. It will not only be a core text for students, but will be con...

Boy and girls everywhere love Minecraft. Now they can do more than just play their game, they can experience the world of Minecraft in an adventure that spills from the game right into the real world. Imagine a world where your favorite video game and your average day at school collide. That's what Stevie and Maison discover shortly after Stevie escapes the Minecraft world and slips into ours. Neither Stevie nor Maison feel at home in their own worlds. Stevie was just exploring when he stumbled into our world, but it opened the way for all sorts of Minecraft mayhem. Now these kids must work together to save both worlds-and themselves. More and more creatures are slipping out by the second, wreaking havoc on a world that has no idea how to handle zombies, creepers, giant spiders, and the like. Stevie and Maison must put their heads together and use their combined talents in order to push the zombies back into Minecraft, where they belong. As Stevie and Maison's worlds become mo...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit ethischen Aspekten im Umgang mit Menschen, die an Alzheimer oder Demenz erkrankt sind. Als Beispiel soll dafür Arno Geigers Roman "Der alte König in seinem Exil" dienen, der sich sehr detailliert mit dem Thema auseinandersetzt. Das Leben mit dem demenzkranken Vater des Autors liefert dabei mehrere essentielle Gesichtspunkte, die erörtert werden (Beziehung zu Demenzkranken, Umgang mit Heimatlosigkeit u.Ä.) Product details Format Paperback | 24 pages Dimensions ...

Merope, das kleinste Sternenkind im Siebengestirn, lag in ihrem Himmelbett. Und weil sie nicht einschlafen konnte, nahm sie die Decke und lüftete sie. Da geschah es: Die winzigen Sterne auf ihrer Decke fielen herunter und regneten auf die Erde herab. Merope fliegt den funkelnden Sternen hinterher - und so beginnt eine wundersame Reise auf die Erde, wo das kleine Sternenkind ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen erlebt ... Product details For ages 4+ Format Hardback | 104 pages Dimensions ...