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The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Eric R. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the table and shows how the deeper meaning of the table's structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory.

In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells - from lavender, cut grass, and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books - using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more.

Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943) was a chemist and founding member of the Alchemical Society in London. The most important alchemical theories are discussed in the first part, while the second deals with notable alchemists.

With triplet eight-year-old daughters, I don’t get four-hour study blocks in a quiet corner of the library. I get an hour here or 15 minutes there. This book is for those commuters, busy parents, and working students who need a “fit it in” approach to studying pharmacology. This book has multiple rapid-fire questions, answers, rationales, and mnemonics that you can do alone or with a partner to help you understand pharmacology better and remember the content longer.

This handy resource is filled with several actionable tips, secret techniques. and established strategies to help you maximize your time, work, efforts, relationships, and potential to be successful. You can begin using these tips right away for leading a rewarding and fulfilling life, irrespective of how you currently perceive your life to be. It is never too late to aim for wealth, success. and a fulfillment-filled life.

Dann habe ich jetzt genau das Richtige für dich! Tatsächlich habe ich es selbst geschafft, über 20Kg abzunehmen und mein Gewicht bis heute, 2 Jahre später, langfristig zu halten. Es gibt bei mir kein theoretisches Blabla und Hin und Her, sondern nur fundierte, wissenschaftliche Hintergrundinformationen und erprobtes praktisches Wissen aus meinen persönlichen Erfahrungen.

Mit diesem Ratgeber eignen Sie sich äußerst wertvolles Wissen zum Vorgang des Stoffwechsels an und lernen dadurch gleichzeitig auch Ihren eigenen Körper besser kennen. Sie lernen, wie der Organismus die aufgenommene Nahrung verwertet, welche Umstände den Stoffwechsel ausbremsen können und welche ihn auf Trab bringen.

The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use, has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the US drug supply. Today, an estimated 80 percent of our drugs are manufactured overseas, mostly in India and China. Every link along this supply chain offers an opportunity for counterfeiters, and increasingly, they are breaking in. Even when the US system works, consumers are increasingly circumventing the safeguards. Skyrocketing health care costs in the US have forced more Americans to become "medical tourists" seeking drugs, life-saving treatments, and transplants abroad, sometimes in countries with rampant counterfeit drug problems and no FDA. Bitter Pills will heighten the public's awareness about counterfeit drugs, critically examine possible solutions, and help people protect themselves.

Dieses Buch über Meditation beinhaltet alle Grundlagen, die wichtig sind, um Meditation und Entspannungstechniken in den Alltag zu integrieren. Heutzutage leiden sehr viele Menschen an Stress. Dieses Buch kann die Lösung deines Problems sein. Mit diesem Buch erhältst du eine genaue Anleitung, wie du deinen Stress bekämpfen kannst und dein Wohlbefinden steigern.

Tips and techniques on how to develop, build and improve self-control to gain meaning, get more success, and become a shining no-excuse example.

After listening to this book, you will have a better insight on why chronic pain exists and why most drugs, medications, and surgeries do not afford permanent relief. You will also be able to choose essential oils based on their primary ingredients that will help ease most or all the symptoms of physical ailments.

Do you want to maximize your life? Would you like to know the most powerful NLP techniques? Are you mentally weak? Do you want to know how NLP can maximize the relationships in your life? When you listen to this, your NLP skills will improve steadily each day! You will discover everything you need to know about mastering your mind! These important strategies and tips will explode your life. You'll see the excellence and new achievement in your life.

These days, it is very important that you do everything you can to save money, and to make sure that you have something to eat, in case calamities or unprecedented events occur. It is also important that you have some food that will see you through your everyday life. Canned or preserved food is essential in every household because it is easy to make and very delicious, too.

Basic home remedies are treatments that can cure or help you manage a disease with the use of spices, condiments, and other items that can be commonly found around your home or easily bought from the local market. This kind of practice has been done over the years. Living with certain conditions is manageable with items you probably never imagined have medicinal properties. Two of them--coconut oil and apple cider vinegar--will be thoroughly discussed in this audiobook.

Here's a biographical profile of Charles Goodyear, the man who gave the world one of its most useful products - vulcanized rubber. Natural rubber, the milky sap of rubber trees, is not a very practical commodity. It melts in hot weather or cracks and freezes in cold weather. In 1839, Charles Goodyear came across a process that made rubber so useful it changed the world we live in. A century later there were 122 rubber factories in Ohio.

Food is one of the most absolute essentials in survival. Ensuring that you have a sufficient source of food is essential in improving your odds of survival regardless of the emergency situation in which you find yourself. By using a mason jar, you can preserve all kinds of food for yourself and your family should the unfortunate happen. This audiobook talks about everything you need to know about these jars, including how you can use them to preserve food.

Eric Scerri presents the intriguing stories of these seven elements - protactinium, hafnium, rhenium, technetium, francium, astatine and promethium. The book follows the historical order of discovery, roughly spanning the two world wars, beginning with the isolation of protactinium in 1917 and ending with that of promethium in 1945. For each element, Scerri traces the research that preceded the discovery, the pivotal experiments, the personalities of the chemists involved, the chemical nature of the new element, and its applications in science and technology.

This audiobook explains the scientific tools and techniques that revealed the century's biggest food fraud scams. It looks in detail at the biggest scams in recent times; drawing on the lead author's extensive experience at the forefront of the fight against these fraudsters, it goes on to explore the arms race between scientists and adulterers as better techniques for detection spur more creative and sophisticated means of adulteration.

Did you know that "nontoxic" usually means "never tested"? Or that many green cleaners are good for the environment but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink to the halls of the powerful, tracing Americas love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless - thats how she describes the current prevalence of harmful chemicals in our everyday lives. Read Pick Your Poison to learn the facts and find out what you can do about the daily onslaught of toxins that are making lab rats of us all.

Before there even was modern era medications and its pharmacopoeia of artificial medications, there were medicinal plants. Prehistoric civilizations have widely used them for the strategic treatment of common illnesses as well as life-threatening ailments. More recently, the information about medicinal plants was handed over from one generation to the next.