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Thereexists a common set of principles underlying all athletic performance, andthese principles, if observed in unison over time, enable any athlete to matureinto an accomplished athlete capable of achieving a lifetime of enjoymentthrough participation in sports. Thisbook is all about improving athletic performance. Learn how each of the ten athleticprinciples common to all sports assist top athletes in achieving superior athleticperformance. ...

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Aging Education provides educators in aging studies with a unique text that responds to the paucity of instructional strategies and teaching materials. By developing and explaining a multidisciplinary approach to working with older adults in areas related to health, education, ethics, law, cultural competency for a multicultural population, translating social policy into practice, spirituality, and human services, the editors provide an imagin...

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale's considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities, which were related in Society and Politics (Volume 5). Public Health Care includes a critical edition of Notes on Nursing for the La...

3D Virtual Applications: Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds deals with the use of virtual inhabited 3D spaces in different domains of society. (Other volumes deal with interaction, production methodology and space.) From focusing on virtual reality (a reality into which users and objects from the real world should be moved) we are increasingly focusing on augmented reality (i.e. on moving computers out into the reality of real users...

Classifier systems are an intriguing approach to a broad range of machine learning problems, based on automated generation and evaluation of condi­ tion/action rules. Inreinforcement learning tasks they simultaneously address the two major problems of learning a policy and generalising over it (and re­ lated objects, such as value functions). Despite over 20 years of research, however, classifier systems have met with mixed success, for reason...

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Die einschlägige Literatur ergibt, dass die Darwin'sche Selektionstheorie nicht eine einzige Frage der Biologie wirklich beantworten kann. So z.B., wie es kommt, dass alle Wachstumsformen ununterbrochen proportional miteinander abgestimmt entstehen und gleichzeitig dreidimensional auf die Endform der Pflanzen und Tiere ausgerichtet werden... Und wie diese Steuerung während deren Evolution in ihre Genketten hineinkommen konnte. Auf der Suche na...

Roland wählt seine Urlaubsdestinationen nach einem bestimmten Schema. Aus diesem Grund verschlägt es ihn ins westafrikanische Ghana. Doch der Urlaub beginnt nicht ganz nach seinen Vorstellungen. Es ist nicht eine Doppelgängerin von Naomi Campbell, die während des Fluges neben ihm sitzen würde, sondern ein Mann mit der Statur des Bullen von Tölz. Schon am Flughafen in Accra fühlt sich Roland in eine völlig neue Welt versetzt und dieses Gefühl...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) James Diggle (University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mast...

Description: Over 10, 000 abbreviations are added to this second edition of the dictionary, the first edition of which was published in 1999. The new edition contains over 30, 000 abbreviations of terms used in the field of anatomy, bacteriology, biology, chemistry, medicine (human and veterinary), pathology, pharmacology, etc., with especially detailed itemization of the chemical elements, hormones, insulins, kidney function tests, pulmonary ...

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Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916. By January 1917, Ruchthofen had shot down fifteen aircraft had been appointed commander of his own unit. He painted the fuselage of his Albatros D-III a bright red was was nicknamed the Red Baron.

Andrew is a happy family man, enjoying retirement with his wife and the busy daily life of his active grandchildren. Still, he is haunted by an unsolved mystery from his past. His grandfather, also named Andrew, seemed to be a happy husband and father. Then, on one April morning the grandfather disappeared, leaving his family to wonder and to question what brought a sudden end to their world. Andrew finds himself compelled to search for the an...

Have you experienced happenings in life but had no explanation? Or had a person come to your rescue and never saw them again? Angels Cometh by Constance Tallaha Ekon has the answers you have wondered about. Officially installed as Chief in a village in Ghana, Africa, Constance is known as Queen Mother Boatenma. Not only is this book packed with a startling revelation into the belief about Angels. Angels Cometh examines the existence of Angels ...

Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease--'I'm forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle--a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn her home movies into a blockbuster--make for comedic yet poignant reading. "My G-String Mother" is a stylish, incisive portr...

Sex and Champagne is set in the glitz of the annual Cannes Film Festival, but accurately describes what happens in the shadows created by the money that the festival brings, drugs, alcohol, prostitution and abuse. Dana, a beautiful though naive young woman decides to move up in the world and obtains a job in a 'Champagne bar' not knowing that is just a front for the 'oldest profession.' She soon looses her naivety and starts dating Jack Hollow...

The Snow Child is a book of love and tears. The motherless child is a feeling we all have from time to time. These poems, by a mother, for her son, reveal true feelings towards love and harmony. As the song goes, "God Bless the Child.