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Global Forest Fragmentation
by Stacy M. Stacy M. • Jürgen Jürgen • Bruce L. Bruce L. • Ute Ute • Timm F. Timm F. • Lian Pin Koh • Katharine J.M. Katharine J.M. • Raphael K. Didham • Joern Joern • Panut Panut • Sarah H. Sarah H. • Chris Kettle • Jan C. Jan C. • Claude Claude • Richard T. Richard T. • Sarah A. Sarah A. • Laurène Laurène • Edgar C. Edgar C. • Campbell O. Campbell O. • Andrew D. Barnes • Shonil Shonil • Aline Finger • Keith Keith • Alexandra-Maria Klein • Kinari Kinari • Jahi Jahi • Richard B. Richard B. • Kelvin S.H Kelvin S.H • Christopher Christopher • Rhett D. Rhett D.Forest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies. This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecologic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Global Forest Fragmentation
by Stacy M. Stacy M. • Jürgen Jürgen • Bruce L. Bruce L. • Ute Ute • Timm F. Timm F. • Katharine J.M. Katharine J.M. • Raphael K. Didham • Joern Joern • Panut Panut • Sarah H. Sarah H. • Jan C. Jan C. • Claude Claude • Richard T. Richard T. • Sarah A. Sarah A. • Laurène Laurène • Edgar C. Edgar C. • Campbell O. Campbell O. • Andrew D. Barnes • Shonil Shonil • Aline Finger • Keith Keith • Alexandra-Maria Klein • Kinari Kinari • Jahi Jahi • Richard B. Richard B. • Kelvin S.H Kelvin S.H • Christopher Christopher • Rhett D. Rhett D.Forest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies. This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecologic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Autism Service Delivery: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice (Autism and Child Psychopathology Series)
This volume examines ways in which service delivery to individuals with autism can be improved from both ends of the basic-applied research spectrum. It introduces the concept of translational scholarship and examines real-world value in developing relevant interventions. Each area of coverage rev... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Ultrafast Photonics (Scottish Graduate Series)
Ultrafast photonics has become an interdisciplinary topic of high international research interest because of the spectacular development of compact and efficient lasers producing optical pulses with durations in the femtosecond time domain. Present day long-haul telecommunications systems are almost... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
An Introduction to Behavior Analysis
Explore a fascinating introductory treatment of the principles of behavior analysis written by three leading voices in the field An Introduction to Behavior Analysis delivers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and applications of behavior analysis for students of behavior an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities
The Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities synthesizes a substantive range of evidence-based research on clinical treatments as well as organizational processes and policy. This comprehensive resource examines the concept of behavioral crisis in children and adults with speci... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Heidegger's Moral Ontology
Heidegger's Moral Ontology offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the publication of Being and Time (1919–1927), and in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction (Women And Gender In The Early Modern World Ser.)
by Kirk D. ReadThe pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Export of Legal Education: Its Promise and Impact in Transition Countries
by D. Wes RistThis collection is the multifaceted result of an effort to learn from those who have been educated in an American law school and who then returned to their home countries to apply the lessons of that experience in nations experiencing social, economic, governmental, and legal transition. Written by ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid
by J. D. ReedVirgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly--if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Troy to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment
by T. J. ReedGermany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Go... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. ReidT. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. ReidA New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Eat Dessert First!
The Red Hat Society cooks are back! With a beautiful full-color dessert cookbook filled with enthusiasm, humor, and really good desserts."Life is uncertain, eat dessert first!" This beautiful cookbook maintains that you should "Eat Dessert Always!" Even the Red Hatters who no longer bother to cook r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Digitized Lives: Culture, Power, and Social Change in the Internet Era
by T. V. ReedIn a remarkably short period of time the Internet and associated digital communication technologies have deeply changed the way millions of people around the globe live their lives. But what is the nature of that impact? In chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics, ed... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
by T. R. ReidThe U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point. That happened in 1922, and again in 1954, and again in 1986. In other ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
by T. R. ReidThose who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Digitized Lives: Culture, Power and Social Change in the Internet Era
by T. V. ReedIn chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics, education, race, gender relations, the environment and social protest movements—Digitized Lives argues that making sense of digitized culture means looking past the glossy surface of techno gear to ask deeper questions abou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present
by T. V. ReedA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to pro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Heine Und Die Weltliteratur
by T. J. Reed"The 1997 London Heine Conference brought together leading scholars and critics from Austria, Britain and Germany. The essays collected in this volume offer a broad canvas of Heine's themes and techniques, his debts and his influence, the ancient and modern connections of his work, its epic and lyri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar, 1775-1832
by T. J. ReedOriginally published in 1980, this book examines the nature and significance of Classicism as a literary phenomenon and relates the beginnings of the German variety to the search for a national identity in the circumstances of a politically fragmented eighteenth century Germany. It surveys the pre-c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1980 -
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by T. R. ReidBarely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The United States of Europe
by T. R. ReidTo Americans accustomed to unilateralism abroad and social belt-tightening at home, few books could be more revelatory—or controversial—than this timely, lucid, and informative portrait of the new European Union. <P><P> Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU has more people, mo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
by T. V. ReedThe Art of Protest presents a broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that helped shape them, and shows the vital importance of these movements to American culture.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Red Hat Society Cookbook
Life is short; eat dessert first, says Sue Ellen Cooper, Exalted Queen Mother of the Red Hat Society, which is the most fun phenomenon to happen to women over 50 in this century. And so this cookbook has more than 250 desserts at the beginning of a collection of more than 1,000 recipes. Red Hat edit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006