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Inspiring and entertaining account of a 4300km solo hike from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Despite never having hiked before, George Spearing decided to take 'leave of absence' from his job as a firefighter in the New Zealand Fire Service and walk the length of America. Travelling entirely on foot and off road, his five month journey takes him through the desert areas and snowbound High Sierra Nevada of California, the C...

In 1985, 24-year-old Grey Tigrett happens upon the island of Elba where he recedes into an emotional exile. Fourteen years later, three pivotal events shatter his asylum, revealing to him whether Elba was his downfall or will be his savior.

A BESTSELLER IN CANADA - NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK!This is the story of an authentic Canadian hero, a man whose courage and determination saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians in the besieged mountains of Yugoslavia during the Second World War.On the night of May 12, 1944, Major Colin Scott Dafoe - a surgeon on assignment with Britain's Special Operations Executive - parachuted into eastern Bosnia. His mission was to provide medical...

The impetus for a more careful study of the 119th Psalm came thirty years ago when my first pastor-teacher-friend reached a series of messages on this multifaceted gem from God's Word. Ever since that time, the Lord has providentially brought into my life occasions for plumbing the depths of its 176 verses. Some of these avenues of Divine confrontation and comfort have included two life-threatening thoracic surgeries accompanied by discomforti...

Wie in den meisten hoch entwickelten Ländern wird auch in Deutschland ein starker und nachhaltiger demographischer Wandel erwartet. Der langfristige Trend einer alternden und schrumpfenden Bevölkerung stellt Unternehmen vor große Herausforderungen - insbesondere die Altersstruktur ihres Personals wird sich deutlich verändern. Um Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit trotz alternder Belegschaften sowie einem sinkenden Potential an Nachwuchskräf...

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Schokolade ist heute für viele eine der süßesten Versuchungen der Welt. Ihre Geschichte begann bereits vor etwa drei Jahrtausenden mit den Kakaokulturen der Maya und Azteken im Amazonasgebiet und es sollte noch lange Zeit dauern, bis Kakao in Form von Trinkschokolade im 16. Jahrhundert n. Chr. nach Europa kam. Dort erfreute sich zunächst ausschließlich der Adel an der süßen Köstlichkeit, während vereinzelt auch schon Berichte von den schlechte...

The theory of capital structure is one of the most exciting and complex topics in corporate finance. After many years of debate it is still extremely difficult to provide a conclusive answer to the question which capital structure maximises the value of a company and what factors determine the optimal mix of debt and equity capital.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to capital structure theory and investigates its practical releva...

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George J. Zemek received his doctorate of theology at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. He began his teaching career at Grace College in the Greek department from 1975-1977. During that period he also served as a part-time instructor in the Homiletics department of the seminary. From 1977-1988, he was a full-time professor of biblical languages, theology, and apologetics, serving also as the seminary's director of doctoral st...

Reviews the molecular mechanisms employed by cells to distinguish between damaged and undamaged sites and stimulate the appropriate repair pathways. This work discusses the theoretical aspects of DNA damage recognition, exploring those that are relevant for various regulatory responses, such as transcriptional regulation or checkpoint arrest.

This collection of papers will address the question "What is the Magnetospheric Cusp?" and what is its role in the coupling of the solar wind to the magnetosphere as well as its role in the processes of particle transport and energization within the magnetosphere. The cusps have traditionally been described as narrow funnel-shaped regions that provide a focus of the Chapman-Ferraro currents that flow on the magnetopause, a boundary between the...

Nutrition and Cancer Prevention brings together top experts in nutritive health who present significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer, modulating its development, or reducing tumor metastasis. The book updates the descriptive epidemiology of the major cancers of the Western world and discusses the likely mechanisms of action that occur when certain essential nutrients become...

This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison, expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of reference against which current events and people (including the self) are experienced. The central theme of the book is that judgments can be characterized as either assimilative or contrastive in nature. Assimilation occurs when the target of eval...

The volume begins with a historical overview of the self in social judgment and outlines the major issues. Subsequent chapters, all written by leading experts in their respective areas, identify and elaborate four major themes regarding the self in social judgment: - the role of the self as an information source for evaluating others, or what has been called 'social projection'- the assumption of personal superiority as reflected in the pervas...

Based on the bestselling Handbook of Phase I/II Clinical Drug Trials, this newly named, completely revised and expanded volume details how recent advances and increasing demands for safety and efficacy have changed the process by which drugs are developed and approved. It examines critical considerations for trials conducted during each phase of clinical development. It also explores early pre-clinical evaluations of pharmacological activity a...