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Killing Time with Strangers
by W. S. PennYoung Pal needs help with his dreaming.Palimony Blue Larue, a mixblood growing up in a small California town, suffers from a painful shyness and wants more than anything to be liked. That's why Mary Blue, his Nez Perce mother, has dreamed the weyekin, the spirit guide, to help her bring into the wor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
The Absence of Angels
by W. S. PennThis magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life has as its narrator-protagonist, Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, overweight, shy college student who hides his feelings with humor, and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Storytelling in the Digital Age
by W. S. PennThrough a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, Storytelling in the Digital Age suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, W. S. Penn aim... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Raising Bean: Essays on Laughing and Living (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by W. S. PennOffered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as "Bean," as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society’s interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by Michael Steinberg • Jerry Dennis • W. S. Penn • Rhoda Janzen • Davy Rothbart • Benjamin Busch • Keith Taylor • Mardi Jo Link • Fleda Brown • Jessica Mesman • Stephanie Mills • Anne-Marie Oomen • Teresa J. Scollon • Rochelle Riley • Alison Swan • Marcia Aldrich • Jaimien Delp • Kathleen McGookey • Toi Derricotte • Robert Root • Airea D Matthews • Ari L. Mokdad • Jacob Wheeler • Holly Wren SpauldingElemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan's most well-known essayists. A celebration of the elements, this collection is both the storm and the shelter. In her introduction, editor Anne-Marie Oomen recalls the "ritual dousing" of her storytelli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Helping Soldiers Leverage Army Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities in Civilian Jobs
by Melissa A. Bradley • Laura Werber • Michael G. Shanley • Cate Yoon • Ellen M. Pint • Eric J. Duckworth • Jeffrey B. Wenger • Jonathan Welch • Nicole H. Curtis • Tepring Piquado • Trinidad BelecheThis report discusses the results of occupation surveys administered to soldiers in selected Army military occupational specialties (MOSs) to assess the level and importance of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed in these MOSs and to develop better crosswalks between military and civilian oc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Bovine Tuberculosis
by B. Coleman • Y. Wu • R. Reid • A. Arunachalam • H. A. Bahamonde • L. Borrelli • S. Briggs • G. Caballé • C. Carrasco • S. X. Chang • C. Concha • S. K. Dhyani • F. Dube • C. Dupraz • M. E. Fernández • C. Figueroa • V. Gargaglione • H. E. Garrett • M. A. Gold • Professor Andrew Gordon • J. Gyenge • A. K. Handa • N. E. Hansen • M. F. Hawke • S. Jose • P. D. Kemp • R. L. Knowles • B. M. Kumar • N. Lamersdorf • G. J. Lawson • M. V. Lencinas • C. E. Lloyd • G. Martínez Pastur • R. Moore • B. Müller-Using • P. Neira • S. M. Newman • S. Ormaechea • V. P. Papanastasis • X. Peng • P. L. Peri • D. J. Pilbeam • A. Rosati • J. Ruiz-Mirazo • V. Rusch • M. Sarasola • J. M. Schwenke • V. Schwenke • R. Soler • N. B. Stolpe • L. E. Tejera • N. V. Thevathasan • A.R. von Müller • W. Wang • T. Ward • L. Zabek • E. Zagal • Z. ZhuThis book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in som... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Survival of Dulles: Reflections on a Second Century of Influence
by Elizabeth Johnson • Terrence W. Tilley • Michael M. Canaris • H. Ashley Hall • Anne-Marie Kirmse O.P. • Joseph Lienhard • Most Rev. James Massa • Michael C. McCarthy • Peter Phan • Stephanie Puen • Patrick J. Ryan S.J. • Katherine Schmidt • Vincent L. Strand • Mary Beth YountThis collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the vol... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
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 -
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25) (1650-1850 Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Jack Lynch • Pat Rogers • Kate Brown • Sarah Stein • Richard P. Heitzenrater • Yu Liu • Suzanne L. Barnett • Mark G. Spencer • Malcolm Jack • Isabel Rivers • Nigel Penn • Robin Runia • Samara Anne Cahill • Claude Willan • Howard Weinbrot • Molly Marotta • Anthony W Lee • Daniel Gustafson • James Horowitz • Philip S. Palmer • R.J.W. Mills • Christopher Trigg • Roy Bogas • Gefen Bar-On Santor • Jane R. Stevens • Paula Pinto • Tamara WagnerVolume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
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 -
Vegetable Grafting: Principles and Practices
by Pradeep Kumar • Alfonso Albacete • M A Nawaz • Penelope J Bebeli • Meni Ben-Hur • Zhilong Bie • Angeles Calatayud • Roni Cohen • Sara Cookson • J. Anja Dieleman • Ian C Dodd • Aviv Dombrovsky • Menahem Edelstein • Pilar Errea • Carmina Gisbert • Francesco Giuffrida • Yuan Huang • Jan Janse • Eyal Klein • Amnon Koren • Marios C. Kyriacou • Jung-Myung Lee • Cherubino Leonardi • Frank J. Louws • Isabel Mourão • Georgia Ntatsi • Gölgen B. Oztekin • Ivan Paponov • Maria Belen Pico • Ana Pina • Youssef Rouphael • Dimitrios Savvas • Andrew J Thompson • Allessandra Trinchera • Jan Henk Venema • Halit YetisirThis book provides comprehensive, current scientific and applied practical knowledge on vegetable grafting, a method gaining considerable interest that is used to protect crops from soil-borne diseases, abiotic stress and to enhance growth/yield. Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Molecular Breeding in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum: Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Yield
by Pradeep Kumar • Natasha Sharma • Shabir Hussain Wani • Santosh Kumar • Muhammad Sarwar Khan • Charan Singh • Rod Snowdon • Pardeep Kumar • Professor David Edwards • Andrea Acuna • Muhammad Amjad Ali • John Amalraj • Maria Arguello • Arushi Arora • Diana Ballesteros • Bhoja R Basnet • Salma Bhyan • Richard Boyles • Faïçal Brini • Yibo Cao • S Antony Ceasar • Nidhi Chakma • Subhadra Chakrabarty • Moutoshi Chakraborty • Harmeet Singh Chawla • Dharampal Choudhary • Mukesh Choudhary • M C Dagla • Mônica Furaste Danilevicz • Abhijit Kumar Das • Haixiao Dong • Kate Dreher • Susanne Dreisigacker • Xiaorong Fan • Maria Laura Federico • Cassandria Tay Fernandez • Ertugrul Filiz • Monika Garg • Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes • Karama Hamdi • K Hariprasanna • Firoz Hossain • Guanghui Hu • Zhaorong Hu • B S Jat • Caifu Jiang • Faiz Ahmad Joyia • Mehar Kamboj • Chikkappa Karjagi • Lovenpreet Kaur • Emna Khanfir • Rajesh Khulbe • Bhupender Kumar • Firat Kurt • Zhao Li • Yun-Hua Liu • Ningthaipuilu Longmei • Damar Lopez-Arredondo • Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes • T Maharajan • Jacob Marsh • R. Esten Mason • Clémentine Mercé • Ghulam Mustafa • Vignesh Muthusamy • Sudha K Nair • Zhongfu Ni • Kazutoshi Okuno • Geoffrey Onaga • Huiru Peng • Jorge Fernando Pereira • Sacn Perera • Bhukya Prakash • Lydia Pramitha • P Rajendrakumar • Mantena Raju • Savaram Vr Rao • Ali Razzaq • P Sanjana Reddy • Trenton Roberts • G Victor Roch • Umesh R Rosyara • Pawan Saini • Sindhu Sareen • Gajanan Saykhedkar • André Schaffasz • Armin Scheben • Tariq Shehzad • Sonia Sheoran • Ishwar Singh • Prabha Singh • Vishal Singh • Nithya Subramanian • Qixin Sun • Madhumal Thayil Vinayan • Yiqiao Wang • Steffen Windpassinger • Kerstin Wydra • Yinping Jiao • Mingming Xin • Ines Yacoubi • Pranjal Yadava • Yingyin Yao • Kuohai Yu • Yaping Yuan • Pervez Haider Zaidi • Hong-Bin Zhang • Meiping Zhang • Zhiwu Zhang • Rajkumar U ZunjareThe global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021