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This Mean Disease
In the first book written by the child of someone who died from an eating disorder, Daniel Becker shows us the heartbreaking details of his mother's anorexia nervosa-her unrelenting obsession with food and her inability to nourish herself. His earliest memory of her is watching as she packs her suit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014: Understanding Good Practice (Knowledge In Practice Ser.)
by Emily White • David Orr • Martin Stevens • Trish Hafford-Letchfield • Rebecca Johnson • Michael Preston-Shoot • Suzy Braye • Marilyn Taylor • Sarah Carr • Jill Manthorpe • Fiona Bateman • Jane Lawson • Lee-Ann Fenge • Adi Cooper • Antony Botting • Caroline Norrie • Daniel Baker • Lindsey Pike • Sally Lee • Tony Stanley • John Gunner • Linda Tapper • Lyn Romeo • Nicki Norman • Professor Keith Brown • Sean Olivier • Stephen Martineau • Tish ElliottPractice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond
by Richard Phillips • James Shanahan • Geoffrey Brown • David M. Konisky • Daniel Becker • Ellen D. Ketterson • Sanya Carley • James Robert Farmer • Rebecca Lave • Keith Clay • Paul Staten • Eric Sandweiss • Elizabeth Grennan Browning • Jeffrey S. Dukes • Melissa Widhalm • Janet G. McCabe • Gabriel M. Filippelli • Kimberly A. Novick • Ben Kravitz • Douglas Edmonds • Chanh Kieu • Travis A. O'Brien • Scott Robeson • Brian Yanites • Chen Zhu • Sarah Mincey • John Baeten • Justin Maxwell • Allison Byrd • Adam Fudickar • Matthew Houser • Alex Jahn • Jennifer Ann Lau • Sarah Wanamaker • Heather L. Reynolds • Samantha L. Hamlin • Dana Habeeb • Jeffrey S. Wilson • Daniel Myers • Beth Edwards • Nathan Geiger • Andrea Webster • Nikolaos Zirogiannis • Eva Sanders Allen • Lingxi ChenyangClimate change is affecting Indiana's environment, threatening the way Hoosiers live and do business, and introducing new stresses to the state's economy, health, and infrastructure. And while scientists predict more days of extreme weather, increased public health risks, and reduced agricultural pr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Urban Risk Assessments
This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities in u... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Riparian Areas of the Southwestern United States: Hydrology, Ecology, and Management
The demand for water resulting from massive population and economic growth in the southwestern U.S. overwhelmed traditional uses of riparian areas. As a consequence, many of these uniquely-structured ecosystems have been altered or destroyed. Within recent years people have become increasingly aware... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Extreme Events and Natural Hazards
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 196.Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective examines recent developments in complexity science that provide a new approach to understanding extreme events. This understanding is cri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Low-Carbon Land Transport: Policy Handbook
by Daniel Bongardt • Felix Creutzig • Hanna Hüging • Ko Sakamoto • Stefan Bakker • Sudhir Gota • Susanne Böhler-BaedekerPractical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems. Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport decision-making and planning strategies. With case studies from developed and de... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill
The hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute circulatory failure and respiratory failure has in the past usually been performed using invasive procedures but in recent years less invasive monitoring devices have been introduced. Echocardiography can be used for both the diagnosis and the manage... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Environmental Law
by Daniel M. Steinway • Baker Botts • Buchanan Patterson • William F. Brownell • Karen J. Nardi • David R. Case • Kevin A. EwingThe environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and acces... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Ones: An Original Story In The World Of The Ones (The Ones #1)
We are not all created equal.Seventeen-year-old Cody and her boyfriend, James, were two of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive genetic engineering. Known as the Ones, this one percent of the population is healthy, beautiful, and talented...and to some that's not fair. Mounting f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Equals (The Ones #2)
What happens when your own government turns against you?The Equality Team continues to round up and subject The Ones—the 1% of the American population who were genetically engineered in vitro—to a vaccine that will level the playing field. Desperate to save her boyfriend James from this fate, Cody f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Between: An Original Story in the World of The Ones (The Ones)
The Between is a digital-only novella that follows the shocking events of The Ones and leads directly into its exciting sequel, The Equals.Having every genetic advantage possible can’t save you when you’re outnumbered 99 to 1.James was one of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature
by Daniel • Levin BeckerWhat sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau-and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature’s quirkie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
La Boutique Obscure
The beguiling, never-before-translated dream diary of Georges PerecIn La Boutique Obscure Perec once again revolutionized literary form, creating the world's first "nocturnal autobiography." From 1968 until 1972--the period when he wrote his most well-known works--the beloved French stylist recorded... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Rust Programming By Example: Enter the world of Rust by building engaging, concurrent, reactive, and robust applications
Discover the world of Rust programming through real-world examples Key Features Implement various features of Rust to build blazingly fast applications Learn to build GUI applications using Gtk-rs Explore the multi-threading aspect of Rust to tackle problems in concurrency and in distributed e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters
Supercomputing research--the goal of which is to make computers that are ever faster and more powerful--has been at the cutting edge of computer technology since the early 1960s. Until recently, research cost in the millions of dollars, and many of the companies that originally made supercomputers a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
How to Prevent Autism: Expert Advice from Medical Professionals
by Scott Smith • Katie Wright • James Lyons-Weiler • Kim Mack Rosenberg • Dara Berger • Sidney Baker • Nancy O'Hara • Geri Brewster • Maureen McDonnel • Anju Usman • Stephanie Seneff • Maria Rickert-Hong • Corinne Simpson BrownThe statistics are alarming and become more so every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 68 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder, making it one of the fastest growing developmental disorders in the United States. Further, the CDC estimat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Elephant Tourism Business
by Eric Laws • Anja Pabel • Rebecca Winkler • Clive Phillips • Eric Brymer • Andrew McLean • Professor Noel Scott • Melville Saayman • Daniel Turner • Professor Xavier Font • Mucha Mkono • Ann Suwaree Ashton • Liv Baker • Sumanth Bindumadhav • Sarah Blaine • Naphawan Chantradoan • Saranphat Chotmanakul • Qingming Cui • Susanna Curtin • Charlotte Day • Nilakshi Galahitiyawe • Vivek Gurusamy • Nicole Hausler • Jeffrey Dale Hobbs • Claire Jenkinson • Professor John Koldowski • Naut Kusters • Shilpa Mahbubani • Somyot Ongkhluap • Piengpen Na Pattalung • Kannapa Pongponrat • Bongkosh Rittichainuwat • John Edward Roberts • Andrea Saayman • Jan Schmidt-Burbach • Alokparna Sengupta • Vinathe Sharma-Brymer • Ramona Strödecke • Daminda Sumanapala • Marjorie Van Strein • Isabelle Wolf • Honggang XuElephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Reaching a Generation for Christ: A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
by Ed Robinson • David Roth • Paul Borthwick • Quentin Schultze • Richard Dunn • David Olshine • William Stewart • Dewey Bertolini • Dan Webster • Dave Rahn • Bo Boshers • Helen Musick • Wesley Black • Pamela Campbell • Greg Lafferty • Mark DeVries • John Fischer • David Hart • Christine Cook • Marta Elena Alvarado • Gwyn Belden Baker • Scott Benson • Ridge Burns • Mark Cannister • Christie Stonecipher Cistola • Chapman R. Clark • Kevin Conklin • Teresa Dunn • Diane Elliot • Donald Ferris • Paul Fleischmann • David Garda • Ken Garland • Stephen Greggo • Ronald Habermas • Saundra Hensel • David Hunsicker • Jacob Kwon Tae Joo • Russ Knight • Tony Ladd • Mark Lamport • Kevin Lawson • Larry Lindquist • Sarah Katherine McDavitt • Wayne Mitchell • Mark Moring • Chuck Neder • G Keith Olson • Leslie Parrott • Steve Patty • Ron Powell • Chuck Rosemeyer • Barry St Clair • Mark Senter • Jana Sundene • David Veerman • Timothy Voss • David Warnick • Lavon Welty • Daniel WeyerhaeuserThings have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing moral... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Reaching a Generation for Christ: A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
by Ed Robinson • David Roth • Paul Borthwick • Quentin Schultze • Richard Dunn • David Olshine • William Stewart • Dewey Bertolini • Dan Webster • Dave Rahn • Bo Boshers • Helen Musick • Wesley Black • Pamela Campbell • Greg Lafferty • Mark DeVries • John Fischer • David Hart • Christine Cook • Marta Elena Alvarado • Gwyn Belden Baker • Scott Benson • Ridge Burns • Mark Cannister • Christie Stonecipher Cistola • Chapman R. Clark • Kevin Conklin • Teresa Dunn • Diane Elliot • Donald Ferris • Paul Fleischmann • David Garda • Ken Garland • Stephen Greggo • Ronald Habermas • Saundra Hensel • David Hunsicker • Jacob Kwon Tae Joo • Russ Knight • Tony Ladd • Mark Lamport • Kevin Lawson • Larry Lindquist • Sarah Katherine McDavitt • Wayne Mitchell • Mark Moring • Chuck Neder • G Keith Olson • Leslie Parrott • Steve Patty • Ron Powell • Chuck Rosemeyer • Barry St Clair • Mark Senter • Jana Sundene • David Veerman • Timothy Voss • David Warnick • Lavon Welty • Daniel WeyerhaeuserThings have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing moral... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Keywords #9)
by Michael Joseph • Beverly Lyon Clark • Michelle Martin • Peter Hunt • Karen Sánchez-Eppler • Colleen Glenney Boggs • Elizabeth Marshall • Clémentine Beauvais • Lynne Vallone • Philip Nel • Lissa Paul • Robin Bernstein • Evelyn Arizpe • Katharine Capshaw • Vanessa Joosen • Patricia Crain • Kerry Mallan • Kenneth Kidd • Kimberley Reynolds • Mavis Reimer • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Clare Bradford • JonArno Lawson • Nicole Markotić • Ute Dettmar • Karen Coats • Louise Joy • Naomi Hamer • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh • Joseph T. Thomas • Hugh Crago • Debra Dudek • Claudia Nelson • Derritt Mason • Zoe Jaques • Charles Hatfield • Anna Stemmann • Sandra L. Beckett • Kelly Hager • Mike Cadden • Boel Westin • Lydia Kokkola • Marah Gubar • Victoria Ford Smith • Nina Christensen • Sarah Park Dahlen • Eric L. Tribunella • Richard Flynn • B. j. McDaniel • Ebony Elizabeth Marshall • Elisabeth Lies Wesseling • Deirdre Baker • Karin E. Westman • Peter Hollindale • Michael Heyman • Kevin Shortsleeve • William Moebius • Stine Liv Johansen • Cathryn M. Mercier • Åse Marie Ommundsen • Emer O’SullivanIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated editionOver the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Genetics and Genomics of the Rabbit
by Domenico Spina • Cristiano Boiti • Bernd Fischer • Jianglin Fan • Zsuzsanna Bosze • Joana Abrantes • Marielle Afanassieff • Daniel Allain • Andre Almeida • Susana S. Araújo • Manuel Baselga • Agustin Blasco • Paul Boettcher • Gerard Bolet • Darko Bosnakovski • Samuel Boucher • Samuele Bovo • Gudrun A. Brockmann • Luca Buttazzoni • Cesare Castellini • Pascale Chavatte-Palmer • Peter Chrenek • Veronique Duranthon • Pedro José Esteves • María-Luz García • Hervé Garreau • Elen Gócza • Mélanie Gunia • Pilar Hernández • László Hiripi • Arata Honda • Adriana Kolesárová • Ana Lemos de Matos • Rose Mage • Manolis Matzapetakis • István Nagy • Clive Page • Mariana Palma • Miriam Piles • Andrea Rau • Andreas Ritsch • Claire Rogel-Gaillard • Jun Pablo Sanchez • Maria Antonia Santacreu • Pierre Savatier • Giuseppina Schiavo • Ina Sternstein • Zsolt Szendro • Valerio Joe UtzeriRabbits have many uses - as well as being cherished pets, they are bred for their meat and fur, and as laboratory animals. Understanding their genetics and genomics is key to their production and, equally, to their care, welfare and health. Beginning with an introduction to the rabbit, including key... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Integrated Nematode Management: State-of-the-Art and Visions for the Future
by John Mueller • Andreas Westphal • Pedro Luiz Pedro Luiz Martins • Graham Stirling • Jon Pickup • Danny Coyne • Thomas Forge • Professor Johannes Hallmann • Horacio D. Lopez-Nicora • Terry L. Niblack • Richard W. Smiley • Gregory L. Tylka • Inga A. Zasada • Sheila Storey • Muhammad Amjad Ali • Larry Duncan • Johan Desaeger • Amer A Dababat • Ravi Singh • Abasola C. Simon • Driekie Fourie • John. W. Kimenju • P. K. Wendo • A. K. Thuo • H S Gaur • J. S. Prasad • Nethi Somasekhar • Prabashnie Ramouthar • Andressa Cristina Machado • Richard F Davis • Robert C. Kemerait • Kathy S. Lawrence • Daniel Dalvan Nascimento • Deliang Peng • Edward Sikora • Philip A Roberts • Nicola Greco • Zane Grabau • Patricia Timper • Sonia Steenkamp • Luis Pocasangre • Soledad Verdejo-Lucas • Joseph W. Noling • Michael V. McKenry • John M. Halbrendt • Hans Hugo • M. S Daneel • W. P. Steyn • Sônia Maria Salgado • Willian C. Terra • Raman K. Walia • Nicola Sasanelli • Miguel Talavera-Rubia • J. Ole Becker • Johnny Visser • Brinkman D.D. Onion • Wim M.L. Wesemael • Bernd Augustin • Pella Brinkman • Misghina Goitom Teklu • Saad L. Hafez • Sundararaj Palanisamy • Mikhail Pridannikov • Ann. MacGuidwin • Biodun Claudius-ColePlant parasitic nematodes are costly burdens of crop production, causing an estimated US$80 - 118 billion per year in damage to crops. They are associated with nearly every important agricultural crop, and are a significant constraint on global food security. Regulations on the use of chemical pesti... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Language: GERCopyright: 2019