Fix Your Genes to Fit Your Jeans is a practical book that explains the value of genetic analysis in understanding your individual nutritional and metabolic strengths and weaknesses. It provides insight into how you can best manage your macronutrient intake for optimal health and weight management and includes easy-to-follow personalized diet, lifestyle and natural supplement guidelines. There is no "cookie-cutter" formula for nutrition. People do not fit into well-defined clinical "boxes" ...

Come with Arcos as he searches for the mysterious Misaro'Deio in this fantasy adventure set in the land of Aratae'Tor.'"Some of you have hearts that are wondering if the Cartographer really cares." A shiver ran down Arc's spine ... How could this man be reading his thoughts?'Arcos is a young artist who travels to the mountainous land of Aratae'Tor for the annual festival to honour the Cartographer who mapped out the world. But after an earthquake left his m...

Equine Neurology, Second Edition provides a fully updated new edition of the only equine-specific neurology book, with comprehensive, clinically oriented information.Offers a complete clinical reference to neurologic conditions in equine patientsTakes a problem-based approach to present a clinically oriented perspectivePresents new chapters on imaging the nervous system, neuronal physiology, sleep disorders, head shaking, differential diagnosis of...

This text provides a fresh, accessible introduction to human metabolism that shows how the physiological actions of selected organs can be explained by their particular biochemical processes.Focusing on metabolic integration, rather than pathways, this book opens with three introductory chapters that explore the principles of metabolism and its control before moving onto ‘themed’ chapters that investigate liver, communication systems (endocrine and neurological), blood and vascular...

This textbook provides a unique, pocket-sized, self-directed study guide to fluid, electrolyte and acid base homeostasis for undergraduate biomedical science, pharmacology, medical and allied health students. It details the chemical (mostly ionic) composition of body fluids, explains how abnormalities arise, what laboratory tests can be used to identify and analyze the cause of these disorders and shows how normality can be achieved to maintain health.

Discover how to become a great and fascinating conversational even if in you're shy or often don't know what to say...Conversation skills are considered one of the most valuable skill sets ever. In fact, with those, you'll be able to seduce whoever you want, conquer your employer and get the job you're desiring, negotiate a higher income, attract new people into your life, and the list doesn't stop here. Our communication skills and success are highly connected. Do...

Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up.Tom and Elenna must enter the deadly Netherworld to face the last of Malvel's monstrous Beasts. Lypida the Shadow Fiend is a terrifying creature with a tail like a powerful whip!There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in this series - don't miss out! Grymon the Biting Horror; Skrar the Night Scavenger; Tarantix the Bone Spider an...

Are elegant, elusive unicorns real, or just a myth? You decide with this new book in the nonfiction series, Behind the Legend!Behind the Legend looks at creatures and monsters throughout history and analyzes them through a scientific, myth-busting lens, debating whether or not the sightings and evidence provided are adequate proof of their existence. In Unicorns, readers learn about all the sightings and "proof" of them, from stories in history of people l...

*The ancient world. A young girl, Ila, is found, injured after a violent raid. She is taken in by Noah and his family and grows up strong and happy – she even finds love with her soulmate, Shem, Noah’s son. But when devastation comes to the world in the form of a huge flood, Ila and her new family are responsible for saving not only themselves but all life on earth. Against all odds they set off in the Ark, but all is not as it seems...As events unfold, Ila has to find the power wi...

Snowball is a white kobold; something so rare that the other kobolds in his tribe won't accept him as a proper kobold. In fact, they delight in making poor Snowball's life miserable. But Snowball is determined that some day he'll show them that there's nothing wrong with being a white kobold.One day, in Snowball's tenth Winter, something strange comes to the mountains where Snowball and his tribe live. The kobolds want to know what it is, but with their red-brown colour they'll be ...

Tochtli was born to run—and the gods were watching.In the grand city of Tenochtitlan, a young boy named Tochtli is chosen by the temple priests to begin a journey unlike any other. Trained to become a paina—an elite messenger for the Aztec Empire—Tochtli must master steep pyramids, sacred symbols, and secret paths through jungle and city alike. But speed alone won’t be enough. When his first mission takes an unexpected turn, Tochtli finds himself carrying more than...

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitive to the fascinations and beauty of the natural world tells of jumping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seed...