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Data de nascimento: 1938-10-05
Sexo: female
Nacionalidade: USA
Educação: Washington University, St. Louis (PhD|Biology|1978)
Radcliffe College (AB|Biology|1960)
Ocupação: registered dietitian
Organizações: Florida State University

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Nutrition for health and health care de Eleanor Noss Whitney

Current, practical information in a real-world context for future nurses and health care professionals. Designed for the clinical nutrition and/or diet therapy nutrition course, NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE is a trusted text that demonstrates the important role of nutrition to future nurses and health care professionals in their future careers. The text begins by covering basic nutrition concepts and followed by clinical topics organized by organ systems, linking nutrition to different disease states, such as diabetes, renal disease, and liver disorders. Each chapter includes practical information, current research, and clinical practice guidelines for addressing nutrition concerns and incorporating nutrition into care plans. Valuable supplements accompany this text to help instructors prepare for class and to help students succeed in their course.… (mais)

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MLJLibrary | May 1, 2018 |

A Mah Jong Handbook : How to Play, Score, and Win… de Eleanor Noss Whitney

Mah Jong (as it is spelled here) is a wonderful game, but scoring is incredibly complex, at least the classical version. This may be a bit simpler, but it doesn't gibe at all with how my mother-in-law in China counts the score. If I have to pick, I'll go with my mother-in-law.

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datrappert | 1 outra resenha | Oct 17, 2016 |

Understanding Nutrition de Eleanor Noss Whitney

This is a very informative text that includes several useful charts. I used this for a distance-learning college course and found that, even without face-to-face interaction with an instructor, I got my money's worth from the class based on the quality of this book. Of course, it's still a textbook, mind, so don't expect a riveting read. It's instructive, well-illustrated, organized ... all things a textbook should be.

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TheBooknerd | Jun 11, 2010 |

A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win de Eleanor Noss Whitney

Mahjong is a popular Chinese game, which was a huge fad in the Western world in 1920s and has since lived through waves of popularity. Currently the game is on the rise again. This handbook is from 1960's, but still very much worth reading. The copy I have says it's first printing from 1964, but I believe 2007 is the correct year.

Whitney covers a form of mahjong that was current in the 1960's, the Japanese classical mahjong. The game isn't played that way in Japan anymore, the more modern riichi mahjong is much more popular there, but it doesn't make this book obsolete (unless you're looking for information on mahjong as played in Japan today), because classical Japanese mahjong is a good mahjong rule set for beginners.

This handbook is a good choice for beginners: the rules explained in the book are simple and sensible, the presentation is excellent and the new edition looks really smart. Whitney covers the basic rules, scoring, offers plenty of alternative and optional rules to spice up the game and the book even has a pretty strong section on beginner mahjong strategy.

So, if you've got a mahjong set and want to learn how to play (perhaps your set came with rules you can't understand), getting Whitney's handbook is a good idea.

(Review of A Mah Jong Handbook at Mikko reads)… (mais)

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msaari | 1 outra resenha | Aug 26, 2008 |

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