Countless numbers of people turn to their cups of coffee in the mornings to get them going. Caffeine gives them that burst of energy and the mental edge they need to make the most of their day. Others use caffeine to boost sports performance and even as a weight-loss aid. Now, the benefits of coffee are being enhanced-not in another pill, but in that very same cup so many of us enjoy. It's called functional coffee. In this book, readers will discover various blends of java that contain health-promoting and performance-enhancing nutraceuticals.

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity.

This important new handbook for Primary Care Nurses is designed to assist senior nurses in developing the understanding and skills required to be effective at both strategic and operational levels.

Neuroimmune pharmacology seeks to harness the immune system to provide pharmacological intervention to combat neurodegenerative diseases. This book provides a comprehensive overview of topics that embrace the link between the immune system and the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. Results from recent studies strongly suggest that a major part of the process in diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well as Prion diseases, comes from changes in the innate and adaptive arms of the brain and peripheral immune systems. Thus, the book provides an in-depth study of numerous fields including immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience and neurovirology. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM that includes access to lectures, slide presentations, and question and answers on neuroimmune pharmacology.

The International Handbook of Population Aging examines research on a wide array of the profound implications of population aging. It demonstrates how the world is changing through population aging, and how demography is changing in response to it.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2006, held in Wuhan, China in September 2006. The 57 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

This text offers a contemporary insight into non-medical prescribing initiatives in everyday situations, covering the latest phase in this ever-evolving field of professional practice. With contributors from a variety of health professions, this practical text examines prescribing as it stands now, how it may develop in the future.

Cloud computing was a cloud technology pioneered by Amazon for a long time due to its software technology that is based on the online shopping platform. After Google, Microsoft also follow up, and this technology, in fact, already exists in our lives, and applications continue to expand, become an integral part of life. With the rapid development of the Internet and the demand for high-speed computing of mobile devices, the simplest cloud computing technology has been widely used in online services, such as ,Äúsearch engine, webmail,,Äù and so on. Users can get a lot of information by simply entering a simple instruction. Further cloud computing is not only for data search and analysis function, but also can be used in the biological sciences, such as: analysis of cancer cells, analysis of DNA structure, gene mapping sequencing; in the future more Smart phone, GPS and other mobile devices through the cloud computing to develop more application service.

Principles of Insolvency Law is widely regarded as 'the' text on Insolvency law. Professor Sir Roy Goode's reputation as the "doyen of commercial law" has established a unique position for the Work as a leading authority in the field. The book provides a clear and concise treatment of the general philosophical principles underpinning Insolvency law. It works as an introduction to this complex area and as such it has a broad market, ranging from students and newly qualified practitioners to barristers in Court.

This book constitutes the refereed joint post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing, ISHPC 2005, held in, Japan, in 2005. It also includes the refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems 2006, ALPS2006, and some from the Workshop on Applications for PetaFLOPS Computing, APC 2005. A total of 42 papers were carefully selected from 76 submissions, covering a huge range of topics.