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![]() Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part I : Introduction to Energy Method of Treating the Transducers by Boris S. Aronov English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644698218 | 173 Pages | True PDF | 2.92 MB ![]() Pharmaceutical product strategy: using dynamic modeling for effective brand planning By Mark Paich; Corey Peck; Jason Valant 2004 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 0849327296 | PDF | 3 MB "A basic business modeling book can give you technical information on applying business models, and a basic marketing book can give you an understanding of branding, but none of them cover the issues singular to the pharmaceutical industry. Focusing on these unique issues, Pharmaceutical Product Strategy: Using Dynamic Modeling for Effective Brand Planning provides detailed solutions to the challenges involved in product launches, the brand planning process, and the modeling of patient, physician, and prescription data to predict a product's success."--BOOK JACKET. ![]() Robert Sellers, "Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography: The Definitive Biography" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1250095948 | ASIN: B01E3PZREQ | EPUB | pages: 432 | 7.1 mb Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge he brought to his roles and to his real life. ![]() F. Kaid Benfield, "People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0989751104 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 305.8 mb With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs, getting our communities right has never been more important, more complicated, or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening and entertaining essays about the wondrous ecology of human settlement, and how to make it better for both people and the planet. ![]() Mr John Clayton, Mr Richard J McNamara, "Pelican Bay: Guard McNamara's Story" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1489538631 | EPUB | pages: 96 | 0.1 mb Behind the walls of California's Pelican Bay State Prison an 18 year veteran gives you the stories behind the headlines. In a world were force is the main currency, and wits the only true tool, you will see the ugly underbelly of America's criminal class.Inmates, Administrators, and Officers all bring their share of danger and distress to one othe ugliest and most dangerous jobs humans face: the guarding of inmatesin prison. ![]() Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030805212 | 871 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 69 MB This book presents a detailed overview of a spectrum of pediatric neurosurgical conditions. It features detailed insight into the techniques available for examining abnormalities, hemorrhages and a variety of tumors. Relevant surgical methodologies are described in relation to a clinical problem or disorder, ensuring that the reader can systematically develop their knowledge of how to perform both routine and more-obscure procedures presently utilized to treat these conditions. ![]() Pathways to Gang Involvement and Drug Distribution: Social, Environmental, and Psychological Factors By Inger-Lise Lien (auth.) 2014 | 133 Pages | ISBN: 3319016636 | PDF | 1 MB This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depression among gang-involved youths, and other mechanisms of control and retention within the system of gangs. Based on a study of young inmates in Norway, with international backgrounds including Africa, Pakistan, Middle East and Western Europe, the findings explained in this book are broadly applicable. It aims to create a picture of the entire system of gang membership, while revealing a research framework that could be applied to other studies. Gang members were found in high levels to be suffering from depression and traumatic stress, and were often heavily indebted (financially and otherwise) to persons in the outside world. Owing money, violence and other threats, all make it difficult to leave the system, despite the pains they suffer within it. In order understand young peoples' life within the system, and its hold on them, and in order to reduce its continuation and growth, this important analysis helps researchers and policy makers, particularly those interested in juvenile justice, youth gangs, and drug trafficking understand its logic and identify its weak points and possible ways out. ![]() Elisa Kochskämper, "Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive implementation " English | ISBN: 1138713295 | 2017 | 180 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of revolutionizing European water governance, mandates participatory river basin management planning across the European Union. The belief of European policymakers and the European Commission is that participation will deliver better policy outputs and implementation. This book examines a range of approaches to participatory river basin management planning, and considers whether and how participation impacted on the environmental standard of planning documents, quality of implementation, and social outcomes. ![]() Bruce Thomas Boehrer, "Parrot Culture: Our 25-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird" English | ISBN: 0812221044 | 2010 | 224 pages | EPUB | 11 MB After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of the most punishing deserts on the planet. He fought a series of desperate battles against strange foes mounted on war-elephants, suffering wounds that nearly killed him. And when he eventually turned homeward, he brought with him specimens of a rare, magical species, a bird that could speak with a human voice. ![]() Paris to Provence: childhood memories of food & France By Ethel Brennan, Sara Remington 2013 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1449427510 | EPUB | 12 MB Paris to Provence is a culinary travelogue of separate summers spent in France, interweaving a collection of simple recipes with evocative memories and stories of those years."This beautiful mémoire will beguile everyone who loves France and should be essential reading for anyone going there for the first time. Ethel and Sara have captured a beloved place through the rosy, whimsical, wacky, tender, and honest lens of childhood. Forget three-star dining and luxury travel; this is the France that I love and remember with pleasure. The recipes are simple and soul satisfying-from café fare and home cooking to street food and a village feast. I was enchanted with the evocative photos and charmed by every memory."-Alice Medrich, author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts"To read Paris to Provence is to take a beautiful and wonderfully nostalgic journey to the France of my childhood, the France of sweet dreams. If you've ever had your soul captured by the magic that exists in the lighter side of la France profonde, and if you have a sensitivity toward joyful moments created around food, family, and friends, then Paris to Provence is for you. It's a lovely book filled with classic and simple yet delicious French recipes. Somebody needs to open a restaurant here in the United States that uses this book to inspire its menu. I'd eat there at least once a week!"-William Widmaier, author of A Feast at the BeachEthel and Sara beguile you with recipes and stories from their summer childhoods as they traveled with their respective families from Paris to Provence. In markets, cafés, truck stops, bakeries, bistros, and French family homes, the girls experienced their first taste of France, re-created here through recipes, stories, and photographs.Inspired by her memories of truck stop lunches sitting next to tables of grizzled truckers, Ethel gives us Steak au Poivre à la Sauce aux Morilles (pepper steak with morels). Sara's whimsical game of using her asparagus as soldiers' spears to guard her food from her sister is the source of her recipe for Les Soldats (soft-boiled eggs and fresh asparagus spears). Lingering over late-night dinners with grown-ups and listening in on their stories of the resistance and wild boar hunts inspired Ethel's recipe for Fraises au Vin Rouge (strawberries in red wine syrup). Rosemary and its powerful scent, first discovered by Sara while hiking with her family in the Luberon Mountains in the south of France, infuses her recipe for Cotes d'Agneau Grillées au Romarin (grilled lamb chops with rosemary). From Îles Flottantes (poached meringues in crème anglaise) to Escargots (snails in garlic butter), and from Merguez (spicy grilled lamb sausage patties) to Ratatouille (summer vegetable stew), each recipe reflects Sara and Ethel's childhood experiences in Paris and Provence. Sixty thoughtful, simple, and traditionally French dishes complemented by over one hundred luscious photographs will send you to your kitchen, and maybe even to France. |