This book is a practical guide for first time visitors to Thailand to help prepare for a journey of many surprises, much beauty and some dangers to be avoided.

This book examines how a consortium of banks perpetrated a fraudulent scheme to artificially depress LIBOR as a means to pay lower interest rates on interest-bearing financial instruments and securities that the banks sold to investors.

Since millions of people around the world consume coffee, colas or energy drinks on a daily basis there is a prevailing attitude that caffeine is a completely safe drug. However, the detrimental side effects of caffeine have long been documented and confirmed by reliable medical science. This book examines the real dangers of caffeine consumption based on that research.

Epitaphs is a collection of 243 gravestone inscriptions compiled from cemeteries in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts over the course of 7 years.Included is a A Meditation on Death by Thomas a Kempis the 15th century sage and visionary.

The FBI has named Identity Theft the fastest growing crime in America and approximately 70 million people have been victims of identity theft. Hackers and cyber thieves are able to penetrate security systems to steal personal information from virtually any computer system. This book explains what you need to do to prevent identity theft and the means to clear up your credit history if you become a victim.

Community Leisure and Recreation Planning offers an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to planning community leisure and recreation facilities, programs and services. It introduces readers to key theory and best practice in the planning of effective leisure and recreation projects.The book defines planning, leisure, recreation and other key concepts and explains why a thorough planning process is essential to achieving effective outcomes. It presents a comprehensive, inte...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes address the foundation principles of marketing and contextualise these principles around a series of key insights and challenges related to the delivery of sustainable tourism services in nat...

Thailand: 50 Facts You Should Know When Visiting ThailandYour heart is beating wildly and emotions tear at you. An opportunity of a lifetime is in front of you. Thailand, a magnificent place full of untold mystique and beauty is calling you. A place with a rich history and amazing culture, but also corruption, scams, and pitfalls for the uninformed. Some situations may leave you with a few dollars out of pocket, while others can drop you in a load of trouble.This book conta...

Curcumin is a miracle nutrient that prevents and treats a wide variety of serious disease conditions, including: • Osteoarthritis, back pain, fibromyalgia and other painful musculoskeletal conditions; • Heart disease • Diabetes • Depression • Alzheimer’s disease • Digestive disorders • Obesity • Lung and liver disease If this sounds far-fetched to you, consider the voluminous scientific validations of curcumin’s power and the particular effectiveness of super-absorbable BCM-95™. Curcumin l...

Read all about the fascinating world of sharks. There are over 500 species of sharks, and there is a great deal of diversity among them. Sharks include the world's largest fish, the Whale Shark, as well as some as small as a few inches. Most are predators, but a few filter plankton from the seawater.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author "gives readers of all ages 100 doable strategies for keeping brains sharp and bodies healthy" (William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Healthy Brain Book).Most people think there is little or nothing you can do to avoid Alzheimer's. But scientists know this is no longer true. In fact, prominent researchers now say that our best and perhaps only hope of defeating Alzheimer's is to prevent it.After bestselli...

Tourism destinations and businesses are becoming increasingly prone to the impacts of crises and disasters due to global environmental change and security risks. This is the first research based book that provides a strategic approach to understanding the nature of tourism crises and disasters before outlining tourism crisis and disaster planning, response, and longer term recovery and knowledge management strategies. It applies a wide range of theoretical perspectives and concepts to impr...