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We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age. Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, develop...

(Guitar Solo). 15 soothing songs arranged for solo guitar in standard notation and tablature, including: Don't Know Why * Hallelujah * I'm Yours * Let It Be * Morning Has Broken * Photograph * Tears in Heaven * When I'm Sixty-Four * You've Got a Friend * and more. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.

“The Inevitable Solar School: Building the Sustainable School of the Future, Today” describes the two major forces that are driving public and private schools and other buildings to solar energy. These forces are the recognition of climate change and the cost advantage of on-site solar energy. Either force would be sufficient reason on its own to change the school market, but in combination they become indominable.Sustainability has emerged as a widely accepted theme in school buil...

Having a bad day at the office? How would you like to be CEO of a rapidly failing, 16 billion-dollar insurance corporation and you haven't a clue about what to do? Why? Because you are there by mistake. Your real life has been that of an angry, over-the-edge labor leader with a history of battling copper mine owners with unconventional skills learned in Vietnam. What about the urbane, Madison Avenue business fellow who is supposed to be CEO of the corporation? He is up in Montana trying to...

The Silicon War is a fictional story that depicts the theft and illegal export of sensitive US electronic equipment and the federal governments efforts to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice. The story takes place in two principal locations: Silicon Valley, California, and the USSR. The story in Silicon Valley tells the activities of the perpetrators of the crimes and of authorities in their efforts to find them. It also explores the impact of these crimes on the innocent...

Ever wondered why your life and health can sometimes be so hard to control? Or why it seems so easy for other people? Mark Hanson and Lucy Green draw on their years of experience as scientists and educators to cut through the usual information on genetics and lifestyle to reveal the secrets of early development which start to make each of us unique, during our first 1,000 days from the moment of conception. Some surprising discoveries, based on little-known new research, show how events du...

This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? In the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies. Since that time, the development strategies pursued by each country resulted

A tornado watch covers thirty Oklahoma counties. At 2:40 p.m. on May 20, 2013, the National Weather Service issues a severe thunderstorm warning for a storm near Newcastle and warns of possible tornado development. The storm is moving east. The view beneath it is already disappearing in rain.At KQOC, meteorologists Dana Vale and Nolan Price work to explain each new update without claiming more than the data can show. On the roads, storm chasers Cal Rusk, Marnie Bell, and Owen Slate ...

On May 3, 1999, supercells gather over Oklahoma, and every decision on the road begins to matter.Amateur storm chaser Cal Rusk knows the back roads, but his daughter Jo is in Moore, where warnings are closing in. Alongside him, Marnie Bell, a veterinary technician and ham-radio operator, records what she sees and reports what she cannot. Retired EMT Owen Slater keeps the crew moving as hail, traffic, and rain make every route a risk. In Oklahoma City, meteorologist Dana Vale and pro...

In a world saturated with the “how tos” of OD, there is a void of evidence-based resources for both organizational leaders and OD scholar-practitioners to use as a guide while navigating the complex and chaotic environment of healthcare. This handbook has been created to fill this space and provide a resource for this vital audience at a time of great change and greater potential in the healthcare arena.The handbook will focus on the critical nature of OD in healthcare and how it a...

Rantoul and the former Chanute Air Force Base are inseparably intertwined as primary players in a single historical narrative. Rantoul was first founded as an agriculturally based community in 1848 near an area known as Mink Grove. The settlement boomed with the coming of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1854; a railroad championed by the town�s namesake, Robert Rantoul Jr. Disaster followed in 1899 and again in 1901 with devastating fires. Then, in 1917, a U.S. Army flying field was built...

The California Gold Rush and Communist Manifesto happened within the same month, January through February of 1848. German newspaper editor Karl Marx learns of the gold strike by October of the year, and within the month has begun his journey toward the Golden Hills of California, there to make a pile and, in the offing, kick over the bourgeoisie with a little help from his erstwhile pal Friedrich Engels in London.