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...

(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 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...

“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...

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...

As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and society. Now we must figure out how to function in the world we’ve created.Over thousands of years, humans have invented ingenious ways to gain mastery over our environment. The ability to communicate, accumulate knowledge collectively, and build on previous innovations has enabled us to change nature. Innovation has al...

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...

This book reviews public health activities such as awareness campaigns, health education, and strategies for health policy based on recent epidemiological studies that provide insights into epigenetic processes caused by environmental factors and developmental plasticity. It provides the latest concepts and findings on the public health aspects of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research regarding early prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Attention is especi...

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.

Julian and his new wife Mary accompany his merchant friends Stephen and Roger to Amiens in France and the market fair there. There, Julian meets a Moorish minstrel from Granada who is traveling at the behest of his Sultan to feel out the political climate of the Spanish and French kingdoms on Granada's borders. Julian and Abu enter into discussions on music, chess, and religion, and when he returns to Penzance, Julian decides he will open a tavern of his own.At his annual Christmast...

Sean Kaatz was kidnapped by fairies and taken to their home planet. (What? You thought fairies were from the earth, and imaginary? You thought wrong!) Remnants of an ancient and vastly superior technological society, fairies once ruled over our Earth- AND human beings! It's now become Sean's task to bring their message to the people of Earth- cease your senseless rape of your planet, or prepare for war!Sean's mother writes fairy tales for a living, but hardly believes in them, cynic...

A collection of short stories by Mark Lind-Hanson includes: A young Indian boy coming to grips with warfare in prairie culture, an invasion of the southern California coast, a man who wakes up one day with the ability to hear his neighbor's thoughts, and draw places he has never been, a retired widow's encounter with a genie, a young man who goes on a rampage when his Fun Credits are revoked, an amusement park ride goes awry, a spaceship full of robots is put in charge of human space migra...