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The Non-Commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Military, Prisons, Schools, And Churches With Companion CD-ROM Review

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(More customer reviews)Many books claim to be the end all be all when it comes to instructing managers and preparing them to lead a team in the food service industry. None of them compares to The Non-Commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook. It is a step by step guide to every part of managing any non-commercial food service industry, whether it's a church, a prison, a nursing home or even the military. I have never seen a more complete and thorough explanation of what is required of a manager. With its in-depth explanation of money management, menu planning, purchasing and inventory, food handling, safety and literally dozens of other necessary components to being an effective manager I highly recommend this book for anyone looking into management as a career.

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Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations. This massive 600-page new book will show you step by step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has left no stone unturned. The book s 19 chapters cover the entire process from startup to ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid many common mistakes. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms in the book in PDF format. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost-control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, dietary considerations, special patient/client needs, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The extensive resource guide details over 7,000 suppliers to the industry; this directory could be a separate book on its own. This covers everything for which many companies pay consultants thousands of dollars.

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The Beauty Bible Review

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(More customer reviews)If "sleeping with the head facing magnetic north" sounds like helpful beauty advice to you, then this book is for you. One of the problems is this book tries to be everything. About 100 pages focus on beauty, 25 on hair and the rest of the book is about stuff that I would consider marginally related to beauty. If I wanted to learn about diets, exercise plans or meditating, I'd be buying whole books on those topics, not a beauty bible. Also, when authors start talking about colonic irrigation and bust enhancing creams, they start to lose a little credibility.
Another problem is the date of the book, 1996. How many of the products reviewed are still around 4 years later? How many have the same formulations? Due to the book being written/published in the UK, some products reviewed aren't readily available here, and conversely, some US products aren't available there and were excluded.
I give it 3 stars for the first 100 pages or so, which really do have nice pictures and illustrations, and very well-written instructions. I just wish the whole book had been like the first 100 pages. I also bought Stephanie Seymour's book and found that to be much more practical and meaty. If you like more of a scientific approach to things, you probably won't be thrilled with this book.

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Covering every beauty and health topic imaginable--from makeup to massage, skin and hair care to stress management-- this is the complete guide to getting gorgeous from the ultimate beauty and fashion insiders. 220 full-color photos. National magazine features.

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Chemical Formulation: An Overview of Surfactant-based Preparations Used in Everyday Life (RSC Paperbacks) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is written nicely in a style that is easy to understand, humourous, infromative and practical. It indeed takes you to an expected destination without boring you with excessive academic facts that can only be understood with a Phd degree.
I will recommend this book to anyone interested in furthering their knowledge on surfactant science and product formulation.

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Chemical formulation can be traced back to Stone Age times, when hunter-gatherers attached flint arrowheads to shafts using a resin made from birch bark and beeswax. Today, formulated preparations are part of everyday life. Formulations based on surfactants are by far the most prolific, from shampoos and shower gels to emulsion paint and polishes. This book discusses the chemical technology of surfactants and related chemicals, using over forty examples of everyday products. Some basic theory on surface chemistry, molecular interactions and surfactant function is included to aid understanding. Chemical Formulation: An Overview of Surfactant-based Preparations Used in Everyday Life then goes on to look at wider aspects such as surfactant manufacture, raw materials, environment, sustainability, analysis and testing. Throughout, common chemical names are used for formulation chemicals, further aiding the readability of the book.Bridging the gap between theory and application, this book will be invaluable to anyone wishing to broaden their knowledge of applied chemistry, including students on A level, BTEC and technician courses. It will also be of benefit to those new to the formulation industry.

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The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Koi: How to Keep Your Koi Fish Happy and Healthy, Without Spending a Fortune Review

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(More customer reviews)My husband and I are planning on getting a few koi very, very soon, and we've found this book to be very helpful in the planning process. It covers all the bassic areas one would expect (how to feed them, how to keep them disease-free, even how to pick out the right kind for you), and it does so in a very clear, well-explained manner. I can't comment on some aspects of the process, because our koi pond isn't done yet, but so far this book has been very helpful throughout the planning process. If you're planning on raising koi yourself, this book is an excellent primer on the subject.

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If you've always wanted to enjoy the beauty of your own koi fish, but didn't know how to get started, then "The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Koi" is exactly the book you're looking for.By raising your own koi, you will experience immense satisfaction, possess something of true beauty, and become part of a world-wide community that loves this elegant and beautiful fish as much as you do.In "The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Koi", Arthur Flynn takes you by the hand and leads you through the process of raising healthy, happy koi, step by step, with absolutely nothing left out.All of the advice is simple and practical, and covers all the major areas of this wonderful pursuit, including...- How to determine which type of koi is right for you.- 3 things you should never do when raising koi.- Optimal nutrition secrets for raising the healthiest koi possible.- How to identify possible koi fish diseases.- A pennies on the dollar approach to setting up and maintaining a koi pond....and much more!"The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Koi" is written in plain, easy to understand English (you won't find any complicated technical jargon here), and covers every aspect of owning and raising koi, so you can get started right away, no matter what your current level of experience may be.So if you've always admired the beauty of koi, and want to finally learn how to raise your own, then "The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Koi" is the perfect book to get you started!Get your copy today!

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Daily Dose of Toxins Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a must have for any healing modality practitioner, especially NAET practitioners. It provides a wealth of information and helps you, as a Practitioner, on your investigative journey.

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This book discusses the impact of toxins on the physical body, with a view to assisting those seeking self-help or practitioners in restoring balance through identifying health problems and in detoxification and healing. 1. Provides a brief overview of how toxicity occurs;
2. Gives new knowledge and insight into the toxic effect of even relatively low levels of exposure to various contaminants;
3. Provides practitioners or those interested in their health with information aboutsymptoms and sources of toxic contamination, so they can help themselves and others live better with renewed health.
It has long been known external contaminations can upset our physical systems and create all manner of problems.It's easy to see the more obvious and extreme forms of toxicity, such as swallowing known poisons.Less obvious are the subtler effects of many manmade toxins, and the potential impact of various foods and other allergens on the human immune system.We see evidence of increasing toxicity in the mounting incidence of allergies, immune system disorders, birth defects and genetic mutation.A toxin acts as an irritant, and the immune system can only respond by attempting to isolate and/or destroy the toxin.Once this happens, the immune system has a "file" on that toxin and will automatically attack it once the presence of the particular toxin is detected.Sometimes the immune system is too weak to prevail against the toxin, and the body succumbs to illness or even death.In other circumstances, a given immune system may be stronger than the contaminant, yet still use up much of the body's vitality in combating or avoiding the effects of a poison.In many cases, the immune system is compromised, even if no overt symptoms are detected.It doesn't take many such contaminations to have a lasting effect on the body's overall health and vitality.

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Who Owns the Sun: People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy Review

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(More customer reviews)"Who Owns the Sun?" is a densely packed, well written book with many surprising and practical revelations about where solar energy technology came from, how it has developed in the U.S. and where it presently stands. Drawing on the history of public vs. private power, the potentially crucial role of organized labor in the solar movement and the decisions being made by those who use energy primarily as a way to make money, Berman and O'Connor give a perceptive look into why our energy mix stands as it does today. By discussing the societal and environmental impacts of this mix we see renewable energy cast in a refreshing light. Gone is the euphoric notion of slapping some photovoltaics on your roof to solve the world's problems. Rather, by looking at the powers who control the energy supply and what they are doing to maintain that control into the future, we get a clear vision of the strategies that need to be considered by people concerned about the direction our world is going in. Cleaner less polluting options exist, but will these paths be followed by the same people who control the show right now? Probably not, and the authors give many lengthy examples as to why they feel this way. Ultimately, "Who Owns the Sun?" exposes much of the energy industry for what it really is, profit driven. By accepting this idea, the logic of the utilities and others controlling our energy fate becomes clear. And by acting on this logic we're able to begin stacking the deck in favor of consumer and environmental driven ideals.

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Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury: Moving Ahead with Your Life Review

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(More customer reviews)First of all, this is the real deal. These are the folks who do spinal cord work at the Mayo Clinic. The book is aimed at a general audience but as an RN with a number of years of neuro experience I learned a thing or two. If you are running a spinal rehab center and are not using this book you are not doing the job right.
The book is divided into five main sections beginning with an introduction which describes the team that will be dealing with the injury, the normal anatomy of the spinal cord and its function. It then takes a close look at the types of spinal cord injuries. This section and indeed the entire book are copiously illustrated with drawings that I wish I would have had in training.
Section two covers the changes in the body following an injury divided into first the internal organs then the skin, muscle, and bone and finally the circulation and body regulation. This is a hands on review dealing with problems and how they should be prevented and dealt with.
Section three is on sexuality and fertility. This is an area that many textbooks sort of skip over with a few lines. There is a full and straightforward discussion of the sexual aspects of spinal injury. The effects, the problems and the solutions.
Section Four deals with the strategies for overcoming the new boundaries of life with a cord injury. It is a wonderfully comprehensive guide that covers everything from the law to conflict management with your caregiver. There are check list and work sheets and real world tools to solve problems with. I was hugely impressed by this section and the amount of information it conveyed.
Section Five is titled Living Fully with a Spinal Cord Injury and it is a guide to an active life one that is different from the life before injury but not one whit less fulfilling in its potential.
A number of sections round out the book including a section on clinical trials a list of resources and a very good Glossary.
Over all this is best one volume book on spinal cord injury I have seen in over 25 years of nursing. I cannot recommend it enough.

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Traumatic spinal cord injuries have become increasingly common, with nearly a quarter of a million Americans dealing with the condition and another 10,000 new cases each year. The need for a simple, authoritative guide to this disability has never been greater. The Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury addresses that need. With all the information written, vetted, and endorsed by the world's most prestigious medical clinic, the book enables sufferers to return to an active and productive life within the limits of their disability. Here the Clinic's leading experts offer advice on everything from emotional adjustments to skin care to modifying homes and cars. This independence-granting book encourages readers to resume their favorite hobbies, participate in athletic activities, and return to the workplace quickly and safely.

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