Reference : Handbooks & Manuals

This comprehensive volume describes Srilankan (Ceylon) cinnamon, Chinese cassia, Indonesian cassia, Indian cassia, camphor and other useful spices of the Cinnamomum plant. It explores botany and crop improvement of these spices, covering taxonomy, morphology, embryology, reproductive biology, and propagation. In addition to an extensive bibliography, Cinnamon and Cassia: Genus Cinnamomum includes an appendix with recipes. This text is ideal for spices workers and students, and for those who study, cultivate, market or process cinnamon and cassia. Examining pharmacology, toxicology, end uses, economics, and marketing, this is the only major reference book available on these important spices. more...

Price: $129.95

This field guide was designed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to offer health workers at different levels of the health care system and different programs in the schools of health sciences the tools to control jungle yellow fever and prevent its reurbanization in the Region of the Americas. It emphasizes clinical and epidemiological aspects of the disease, together with prevention and control strategies. It also offers practical exercises on a clinical case and outbreak for use in training health workers, especially local personnel in enzootic areas. The field guide covers prevention, proper case management, and the improvement of epidemiological surveillance. more...

Price: $16.00

This manual offers advice on recruiting the right staff for an organization. It covers: how to draw up job advertisements; how to assess and interview applicants; making the job offer; and the legalities of appointing people. There is a bullet point summary at the end of each chapter. more...

Price: $19.99

El objetivo de este libro es proteger a la población de la emergencia o reemergencia de diferentes enfermedades. Algunas son nuevas y exóticas como el SARS o causadas por el VIH, el virus del Ébola y el hantavirus, entre otras. Otras son comunes y cotidianas en ciertos entornos, como el sarampión, el paludismo y la tuberculosis, o son las llamadas enfermedades postergadas y de la pobreza, como las parasitosis, la filariasis linfática, la enfermedad de Chagas y la oncocercosis. more...

Price: $28.00

A demonstration of take-downs, pins, chokes, bars, atemi and defences from the kneeling position, under his all-fours, over his all-fours or kneeling at the opponent's side or him kneeling at your side. this title is part of the "ground Fighting " series. more...

Price: $17.99