Can you remember names, faces,lists, numbers, speeches, dates, examination data ?
Speed Memory is a comprehensive memory training course based on recent research. As you work through the book, you graduate from simple methods to highly advanced systems - increasing your memory power all the time.
These techniques to improve your memory form the basis of the new BBC television programme Use Your Head, devised and presented by the author.
This illustrated volume documents the history of the Nazis, from their roots in World War I and their rise to power in 1933 to the end of the Cold War era and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, using many previously unseen images of Nazi Germany and World War II.
Illustrated History of the Nazis traces the roots of the movement from the early days of the Weimar Republic, through the rise to power of the charismatic Adolf Hitler, the dramatic downfall of Germany in 1945. Extra material follows the aftermath of the war through to the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the Cold War, and examines the consequences of the Wehrmacht. Paying particular attention to the holocaust, the policy of "total war", the state of German society and the systematic use of propaganda and terror.
Understanding Electric Power Systems
The Enron scandal notwithstanding, it is important
for professionals in the electric power industry and related positions
gain a solid understanding of electric power systems and how they work.
Written by two veteran power company managers and respected experts,
this is a real-world view of electric power systems, how they operate,
how the organizations are structured, and how electricity is regulated
and priced.
A comprehensive overview of the electric power industry from the inside
Covers
electric power system components, electricity consumption, generation,
transmission, distribution, electric utility operation, electric system
control, power system reliability, government regulation, utility rate
making, and financial considerations.
Includes an extensive glossary of key terms used in the U.S. and also definitions for terms used worldwide
The 17th century physician William Harvey wrote in the preface to his thesis
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, a letter addressed to King Charles I. 'The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them...from which all power proceeds. The King, in like manner, is the foundation of his kingdom, the sun of the world around him, the heart of the republic, the foundation whence all power, all grace doth flow'.
Harvey was probably wise to address the King in this manner, for what he laid out in his groundbreaking text challenged scientific wisdom that had gone unquestioned for centuries about the true function of the heart. Organs had been seen in a hierarchical structure with the heart as the pinnacle. But Harvey transformed the metaphor into something quite different: the heart as a mechanistic pumping device.
How had the Ancient Greeks and Islamic physicians understood the heart? What role did the bodily humours play in this understanding? Why has the heart always been seen as the seat of emotion and passion? And why was it that despite Harvey's discoveries about the heart and its function, this had limited implications for medical therapy and advancement?
