This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using salt throughout the house to save time and money. The quick and simple tips in this book will help with cooking, cleaning, and much more. Salt is available in everyone's pantry. Give these tricks a try . . . you'll be glad you did.
When Ethelyn (Gerty) Thompson's father dies in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, she also loses the rest of her family and her home. At age 15, she has no friends, no skills, no plans, and nowhere to go. How will she forge a new life for herself in Minneapolis, and will she ever be reunited with the sisters she loves?
This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using baking soda throughout the house to save time and money. » The quick and simple ideas in this book cover many areas: cleaning the house, maintaining health and beauty, caring for pets, doing laundry, and much more. » Arm & Hammer Baking Soda is in everyone's pantry . . . give these tricks a try. You'll be glad you did.
Want a clean your home without using toxic cleaning products? Green Cleaning provides plenty of tips, hints, and resources to make your home healthier and more eco-friendly. Covering everything from bathroom grime to pets, this book explains in detail how you can safely and effectively clean with natural products. The chapters include: • "Getting Started," a guide to avoiding the worst cleaning products and building your own green cleaning kit • "Kitchen Catchalls," a chapter that tells you everything you need to know to clean your appliances, counters, floors, utensils, cookware, fine china, and more • "Bathroom Buff-ups," a collection of tips for knocking out mildew, cleaning the toilet, scrubbing the floor, and more • "Clothes Encounters," an eye-opening look at how you can save energy and water while still making your clothes look their best • "Keeping a Green House," a chapter that covers cleaning the rest of the home, including carpets, furniture, glass, and pet messes • "Car Keepers and Garage Sweepers," a guide to cleaning your car exterior and interior, as well as battery leaks and oil spills in your garage • "The Green Outdoors," a chapter about cleaning patio furniture, decks, pool toys, siding, grills, and more With this handy book, you'll do more than save time, money, and energy—you'll help to save the planet.
This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using vinegar throughout the house to save time and money. » The quick and simple ideas in this book will help with cooking, cleaning, and many other household tasks. » Heinz Vinegar is in everyone's pantry. Give these tricks a try . . . you'll be glad you did.
Filled with suggestions on how to use simple yet amazing ingredients around your home. You'll also find informative sidebars offering special hints and information, the different types of salt and vinegar available, and unconventional solutions they just might be worth a try.
You may know that Heinz is the most recognized brand of vinegar, but did you know that vinegar might be the most versatile product in your home? The terrific tips and tricks in Heinz Vinegar: Over 100 Helpful Household Hints will save you time and money. In its various forms, vinegar can be a healer, a disinfectant, a preservative, an acid, and a condiment. You can clean your entire house, treat acne, neutralize odors, and even make pennies look new again, all with the special power of vinegar. Learn how vinegar can: • Absorb paint and other unpleasant odors • Dissolve chewing gum in carpeting • Remove mildew from canvas tents and shower curtains • Entertain kids with fun crafts and science experiments • Kill weeds and preserve flowers There's even a chapter of recipes. After discovering all its great uses for cleaning, use vinegar for cooking. Try these favorites: • Roast Pork Chops with Apples and Cabbage • Jalapeno Coleslaw • Texas Hot & Tangy BBQ Sauce.
This fun book offers hundreds of intriguing suggestions as to how to make your life even more exciting than it already is. Whether it is traveling to some distant land you've never visited, or participating in some exciting adventure you've never experienced, or feasting on some exotic food you've never enjoyed, this book describes many of these and other things to do you've probably never even imagined. Each idea is numbered with a check box, so you can keep tabs on what you've done and still can do. And sidebars, fun facts, and interesting quotes provide additional insight and encouragement to these ideas.
This book covers many aspects of Injury and Skeletal Biomechanics. As the title represents, the aspects of force, motion, kinetics, kinematics, deformation, stress and strain are examined in a range of topics such as human muscles and skeleton, gait, injury and risk assessment under given situations. Topics range from image processing to articular cartilage biomechanical behavior, gait behavior under different scenarios, and training, to musculoskeletal and injury biomechanics modeling and risk assessment to motion preservation. This book, together with "Human Musculoskeletal Biomechanics", is available for free download to students and instructors who may find it suitable to develop new graduate level courses and undergraduate teaching in biomechanics.
Sheryl Sandberg advises women to "lean in" to realize their full potential. To do so successfully, women need effective communication skills and a confident presentation style. In this must-have guide, one of the nation’s premier speech coaches shares tested techniques from twenty years of coaching women on what works and what doesn’t. The author details the practices and techniques of successful women to help all women improve their presentation and public speaking skills. With access to her expertise, you’ll learn strategies that will help you present your best self in forums from PTA meetings to TV studios, conferences to classrooms, boardrooms to YouTube. The author has advised First Lady Michelle Obama for her International Olympic Committee speech, provided speaker training to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and coached corporate CEOs and more women elected officials than any other trainer. Every woman can benefit from studying the polished speaking skills of such powerful women. Strategic advice on everything from messaging to hair and hemlines will allow you to come across as polished and prepared. The author includes easy-to-follow exercises so you can try out techniques immediately, from the use of sound bites and secrets to establishing eye contact to what not to do with your hands. Filled with behind-the-scenes advice, this book is for every woman who wants to present herself well, express her ideas with confidence, and earn the respect of any audience.
Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques—prioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even napping—but none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herself—without giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at home—she road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energy—or that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent. Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to • say “no” strategically and when to say “yes” with abandon • make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities • stop multitasking and gain efficiency • “take recess” in sync with the brain’s need for rest • use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy • increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions Complete with practical “easiest thing” tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carter’s own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against “The Overwhelm,” letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything right—and start doing the right things. ONE OF GREATER GOOD’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “[For fans] of a certain kind of self-improvement book—the kind, like The Happiness Project or 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think or Getting Things Done, that offers up strategies for making certain areas of life work better without requiring that you embrace a new belief system.”—KJ Dell’Antonia, The New York Times (Motherlode blog) “A breath of fresh air . . . Based on personal experiments with living life in what she calls the ‘pressure cooker,’ Dr. Carter offers advice in easily digestible nuggets.”—Working Mother “Carter gives actionable ways to balance your life, your health, and your career. This book is packed with smart advice and hard-earned wisdom.”—Inc. “Learn more about escaping the ‘busyness trap’ and uncovering a happier, less stressed you.”—Shape “A highly readable, diligently researched advice book that offers concrete tips on how to get off the treadmill of busyness.”—Greater Good “Chock-full of concrete tips on how to sharpen your focus, improve your efficiency, and use technology to your advantage.”—The Week “Illuminates the simple and sustainable path toward a precious and happy balance.”—Deepak Chopra
In Christine Remembers, you’ll share the life and experiences of Christine Brooks. Born of immigrant parents, her childhood was spent on a farm in Roseau, Minnesota where Norwegian was the primary language. After the age of five, she was raised by a widowed father and five older siblings. Soon after embarking on a career in nursing, Christine undertook a daring and fateful journey to Miami, Florida with her father and two sisters. It was there that she started a family of her own. Years later, a move to the mountains of North Carolina provided many more enjoyable stories in this long and remarkable life. Throughout Christine Remembers, cherished moments are shared in an easygoing and down-to-earth style. Christine writes of her positive outlook on life, her family values, and her strong faith in God. The subjects explored will undoubtedly stir memories in your own life.
Filled with suggestions on how to use simple yet amazing ingredients around your home. You'll also find informative sidebars offering special hints and information, the different types of salt and vinegar available, and unconventional solutions they just might be worth a try.
This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using salt throughout the house to save time and money. The quick and simple tips in this book will help with cooking, cleaning, and much more. Salt is available in everyone's pantry. Give these tricks a try . . . you'll be glad you did.
The emerging generation of research and academic library users expect the delivery of user-centered information services. ‘Apomediation’ refers to the supporting role librarians can give users by stepping in when users need help. Library 3.0 explores the ongoing debates on the “point oh phenomenon and its impact on service delivery in libraries. This title analyses Library 3.0 and its potential in creating intelligent libraries capable of meeting contemporary needs, and the growing role of librarians as apomediators. Library 3.0 is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces and places the topic in context. The second chapter considers “point oh libraries. The third chapter covers library 3.0 librarianship, while the final chapter explores ways libraries can move towards ‘3.0'. Focuses on social media in research and academic libraries Gives context to the discussion of apomediation in librarianship and information services provision Provides a balance between more traditional and more progressive approaches
The concept of Quality Management began in the manufacturing sector, but a growing concern with quality in other areas of the economy has led to its wider application in service industries, government, education, and other not-for-profit agencies. A great quantity of material related to quality management has been produced in recent years, much of it by small presses, professional and trade associations, and consultants. The Quality Management Sourcebook is the first in-depth, international guide to the most useful material and sources of information. The book begins with the origins of quality management, explains how it evolved, examines its current situation, and explores the future. The book is divided into five main sections: * Introduction: General sources for information * Applications of total quality management * Focus on specific aspects of quality management * Quality in the future * Resource materials The Quality Management Sourcebook is an essential reference for everybody involved in either the theory or practice of quality management: in manufacturing, retail, banking, and insurance, the utilities industry, the transportation industry, health, education and other public services. Over 900 citations cover books, journal articles, technical reports, video training materials and software. Each is followed by a descriptive annotation. Resource materials include strategies for locating additional information; training materials; organizations; and consultants. The book concludes with a glossary of quality management terms, a name index, a title index, and a detailed subject index.
This book guides you through the process, covering such essential steps as the movement toward physician performance management, the physician leader's role, conducting the review, integrating compensation and addressing physician behavior.
Behavioral Principles in Communicative Disorders: Applications to Assessment and Treatment examines the basic principles of the science of behaviorism and applies those principles to the assessment and treatment of communicative disorders. It begins with the history and basic principles of behaviorism, as well as a chapter examining Skinner's (1957) concept of verbal behavior and functional units of verbal behavior. The text then discusses functional behavior assessment, the formulation of operationally defined target behaviors, discrete trial treatment procedures, and various techniques for increasing desirable behaviors and decreasing undesirable behaviors. The concluding chapters describe single-case research designs that support the efficacy of behavioral principles and address ethical questions and historic controversies surrounding the application of those principles. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) seek to change communicative behaviors in the clients they serve; the principles of behavioral science have many applications to the assessment and treatment of communicative disorders. There is a vast body of evidence indicating the efficacy of behavioral approaches in behavior modification, and SLPs have been tasked by their professional associations to employ evidence-based practices. Also, there is an appreciation for the usefulness of behavioral principles in treating clients with very severe communicative disorders, such as autism, apraxia, and dysfluency. This is evidenced by the development of the field of applied behavior analysis and the growing numbers of board certified behavior analysts (BCBA), with whom SLPs may be called upon to collaborate. Behavioral Principles in Communicative Disorders is primarily designed for practicing speech-language pathologists looking for detailed descriptions of evidence-based treatment procedures, as well as professors and students in university programs in communicative disorders. However, professionals in other fields, such as applied behavior analysis and special education, will also find this to be a highly useful text.
This volume and its companion, Volume 350, are specifically designed to meet the needs of graduate students and postdoctoral students as well as researchers, by providing all the up-to-date methods necessary to study genes in yeast. Procedures are included that enable newcomers to set up a yeast laboratory and to master basic manipulations. Relevant background and reference information given for procedures can be used as a guide to developing protocols in a number of disciplines. Specific topics addressed in this book include cytology, biochemistry, cell fractionation, and cell biology.
Covering the full spectrum of clinical issues and options in anesthesiology, Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting’s Clinical Anesthesia, Ninth Edition, edited by Drs. Bruce F. Cullen, M. Christine Stock, Rafael Ortega, Sam R. Sharar, Natalie F. Holt, Christopher W. Connor, and Naveen Nathan, provides insightful coverage of pharmacology, physiology, co-existing diseases, and surgical procedures. This award-winning text delivers state-of-the-art content unparalleled in clarity and depth of coverage that equip you to effectively apply today’s standards of care and make optimal clinical decisions on behalf of your patients.
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