Metabolic Regulation in Mammals presents the basic principles of metabolic control, based on investigations conducted during the past twenty years. It explains the impact of recent advances in cell biology, molecular biology and genetics on the field. Beginning with the basic concepts, this text covers all angles of metabolic regulation, including blood caloric homeostasis, cardiac and skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and liver metabolism. Review questions, summary sections and worked examples help break down the complexity of the subject and allow the reader to review the principles and concepts presented. Details of metabolic pathways are provided for each body system, with accompanying charts to provide the reader with an overall perspective. This text is ideal for undergraduates across a range of biological and health science disciplines, particularly those taking one or two semester courses in metabolic regulation.

Metabolic Regulation in Mammals

Science & Math

Harris, Robert A.

Gibson, David M.

Biological Sciences

Taylor&Francis

Metabolic Regulation in Mammals (Lifelines Series)

Metabolic Regulation in Mammals presents the basic principles of metabolic control, based on investigations conducted during the past twenty years. It explains the impact of recent advances in cell biology, molecular biology and genetics on the field. Beginning with the basic concepts, this text covers all angles of metabolic regulation, including blood caloric homeostasis, cardiac and skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and liver metabolism. Review questions, summary sections and worked examples help break down the complexity of the subject and allow the reader to review the principles and concepts presented. Details of metabolic pathways are provided for each body system, with accompanying charts to provide the reader with an overall perspective. This text is ideal for undergraduates across a range of biological and health science disciplines, particularly those taking one or two semester courses in metabolic regulation.

Gibson, David

CRC-Press

Numerous stills and other photographs supplement coverage of the casts, credits, and action of all the motion pictures directed by the master of the macabre

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Lasky, Michael S.

Carol Pub. Group

-- Features a brand-new foreword by Patricia Hitchcock, the director's daughter -- Illustrated with hundreds of photos -- Updated edition will tie in with the anniversary of Universal StudiosHe is the undisputed master of terror and suspense, and is probably the most popular and celebrated movie maker ever. He brought us Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, Shadow of a Doubt, The Birds, and Strangers on a Train, among others. His name is Alfred Hitchcock, the man who made us afraid to step into a shower or spy on our neighbors or visit Mount Rushmore. His movies continue to inspire countless filmmakers almost twenty years after his passing. Indeed, Hitchcockian is still used to describe the cinematic techniques he created.Included in this new edition is a complete and up-to-date listing of all Hitchcock movies and television shows available on video and DVD.

The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Citadel Pr

Writing with Clarity and Style

Writing with Clarity and Style, 2nd Edition, will help you to improve your writing dramatically. The book shows you how to use dozens of classical rhetorical devices to bring power, clarity, and effectiveness to your writing. You will also learn about writing styles, authorial personas, and sentence syntax as tools to make your writing interesting and persuasive. If you want to improve the appeal and persuasion of your speeches, this is also the book for you. From strategic techniques for keeping your readers engaged as you change focus, down to the choice of just the right words and phrases for maximum impact, this book will help you develop a flexible, adaptable style for all the audiences you need to address. Each chapter now includes these sections: <ul>
<li>Style Check, discussing many elements of style, including some enhanced and revised sections </li> <li>Define Your Terms, asking students to use their own words and examples in their definitions.</li> <li>It’s in the Cloud, directing students to the Web to locate and respond to various rhetorically focused items, including biographies and speeches.</li> <li>Salt and Pepper, spicing up the study of rhetoric by stretching students’ thinking about how their writing can be improved, sometimes by attending to details such as punctuation, and sometimes by exploring the use of unusual techniques such as stylistic fragments.</li> <li>Review Questions, providing an end-of-chapter quiz to help cement the chapter ideas in long-term memory.</li> <li>Questions for Thought and Discussion, a set of questions designed for either in-class discussion or personal response.</li> </ul> New to the Second Edition <ul>
<li>Additional examples of each device, including from world personalities and the captains of industry </li> <li>More and longer exercises, with a range of difficulty</li> <li>Advice from classical rhetoricians including Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Cicero, and Quintilian.</li> </ul>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

The Integration of Faith and Learning: A Worldview Approach'provides students with the philosophical context and practical tools necessary for making the connections between Christian knowledge and the knowledge they will acquire during their undergraduate and graduate years in higher education. This book focuses on helping students understand how worldviews influence the interpretation of data and even what is judged to be knowledge itself. The worldviews of philosophical naturalism, postmodernism, and Christianity are compared and analyzed. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on helping students develop the practical skills needed to evaluate knowledge claims and to integrate all knowledge into a unified whole through the touchstone of Christian truth.

The Integration of Faith and Learning

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Wipf and Stock

Entering Wonderland: A Toolkit for Pastors New to a Church

The first year or so of a pastor's tenure in a new congregation is precarious; many pastors stay at a new congregation for fewer than five years. This handbook helps coach both experienced and new pastors to enter a new congregation effectively. Drawing from organizational systems leadership material in religious and secular worlds, it offers nearly fifty tips and tools designed to help new pastors analyze their congregation's system and then to lead leaders within the congregation to affect positive change. Using imagery from Alice in Wonderland to clarify various archetypal roles within the church community, Harris provides concrete suggestions for facilitating communication and dealing with difficult behaviors within the congregation. He provides a coaching approach to ministry, in which the pastor reframes issues and asks provocative questions—a powerful strategy to maximize a new pastor’s chances for success. Readers will find tools to help them uncover critical information about their new congregation regarding: 
<ul>
<li>congregational norms, particularly regarding the office of pastor, conflict, and holy objects;</li>
<li>their history and sense of God's call;</li>
<li>the true leaders among the congregation;</li>
<li>mutual accountability.</li>
</ul>

Entering Wonderland

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The first year or so of a pastor's tenure in a new congregation is precarious; many pastors stay at a new congregation for fewer than five years. This handbook helps coach both experienced and new pastors to enter a new congregation effectively. Drawing from organizational systems leadership material in religious and secular worlds, it offers nearly fifty tips and tools designed to help new pastors analyze their congregation's system and then to lead leaders within the congregation to affect positive change. Using imagery from Alice in Wonderland to clarify various archetypal roles within the church community, Harris provides concrete suggestions for facilitating communication and dealing with difficult behaviors within the congregation. He provides a coaching approach to ministry, in which the pastor reframes issues and asks provocative questions—a powerful strategy to maximize a new pastor’s chances for success. Readers will find tools to help them uncover critical information about their new congregation regarding: 
<ul>
<li>congregational norms, particularly regarding the office of pastor, conflict, and holy objects;</li>
<li>their history and sense of God's call;</li>
<li>the true leaders among the congregation;</li>
<li>mutual accountability.</li>
</ul>

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Books by Harris, Robert A.

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Metabolic Regulation in Mammals

Metabolic Regulation in Mammals (Lifelines Series)

Metabolic Regulation in Mammals (Lifelines Series)

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Writing with Clarity and Style

Writing with Clarity and Style

The Integration of Faith and Learning

Entering Wonderland

Entering Wonderland: A Toolkit for Pastors New to a Church