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With the advent of latest techniques of surgery and Modern drugs the age old methods of naturally curing ailments have lost ground. The objective of this book is to show how all disease can be cured without aid of any drugs. Hydropathic appliances when intelligently used assist Nature in her healing process, while drugs may thwart her beneficial course.This book provides the user access to knowledge and experience of the ancients of both the Eastern and Western ...
There are many managers who don't know how to read a balance sheet. Can you? If you're one of those managers honest enough to admit that you don't understand what your accountant is talking about half the time, then this book is for you. It is based on the authors' unique business simulation, which successfully conveys to hundreds of managers the difficult concepts of finance in simple terms. It demystifies financial management by explaining how to understand: ...
This fascinating and colourful book provides a concise guide to the History of Art in Japan, from the earliest times to the present day. From the cave art of primitive man in Japan, we move to the flowering of art in Japan in UKIYO - E prints of international fame. Whereas the art of painting has been delt with in greater comprehensive details, progress on other arts has been briefly, but substantially, described through the ages. Commencing with the geographical ...
The "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library Science and Information Technology" covers in detail terminologies used in the field of Library & Information Science and subjects like publishing, printing, paper making, binding, and use of computers in libraries. Terminologies from the fields of computers, and desktop publishing have also been covered in detail. There has been immense development in Library Science over the last two decades and it now ...
The word information and its scope has changed with regard to its communication, exchange, sourcing and updation with the passage of time. Global information highways have evolved and with them has come the need to look at reference and information sources in a totally new light. This book deals with a vast array of international sources on reference and information in different disciplines and subject divisions. It also includes some general sources to satisfy ...
The library is the life-blood of an academic institution, a fact which has been emphasised by one and all using a variety of words and expressions. The library can perform its function of accumulation, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge only if it is directed by one who knows the objectives and potentialities of the library, fully knows how and where to find out the material as well as is thoroughly acquainted with the ‘hide and seek’ character of ...
In the Service of Library, the consumer is the user; the commodity served is systematised knowledge-that is, subject; and the distributor of the commodity is the library profession. To perform this work efficiently, the library profession should acquire some knowledge of commodities to be served that is the Universe of Subjects, particularly its development, structure and the interrelation among the subjects. Such a study is, in fact, the necessary implication of ...
This book is a comprehensive volume answering to the basic needs of technical communication. It is intented primarily: for people for whom writing-and oral-presentation skills are essential and for people entering technical fields of work as a career.
India is a land whose past is ever receding in time and it is therefore not surprising that her myths and legends take us through centimes to the Great War 5,000 years ago. Cosmic events, heroic events, tales of the invisible, of human nature at its best and at its worst, of the nearness of gods and nature spirits to man, of the great powers of nature and those that can be gained by man-all these make up the drama which is unfolded to our gaze. But cosmos and man ...
In this book, Shirley Fletcher focuses on a potential problem area for many trainers. The many ‘quality’ initiatives that are being introduced, particularly by large organizatioins, can leave the trainer, if not the whole workforce, in something of a quandary. The problem is that often there is little or no co-ordination of initiatives linking quality with competence, this book provides a model which shows how all parties can be brought together, with senior ...
Over recent years line managers have taken to heart the message that training should be regarded as an investment rather than a cost. Having done so it is only to be expected that they would wish to know what the return is on their investment. In this book tony Newby shows managers how to ensure that training in their organizations is effective in addressing real performance problems and value for money by outlining how aspects of that return can be measured. ...
Clear, Jargon-free and cost-effective, The Manager's Toolkit Series consists of found practical books providing a tightly structural self-development action plant - a plan that helps you acquire the 12 essential management skills in your own time and at your own pace. Each stand-alone volume covers skills relating to a different key role -managing people, information, operations and resources - making the Manager's Toolkit especially useful if you're working ...
This book is bout the dreams of a common citizen of India, who wonders: shy in spite of being one of the resource-rich countries of the world, India remains one of the poorest nations on the face of the earth. It analyses our strengths as well as weaknesses, and goes on to make an emphatic statement that the malaise is not due to the people; but is because of the faulty systems and processes, particularly of the government. The book draws extensively, for its ...