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Sound of Terror
by Don BerryWhat is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Beyond Good and Evil
by Don BerryNo philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically attacked the traditionally accepted views of academic philosophers, seeking to tear down their rickety platform and replace it with a platform of his own. Creative... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
by Juan Felipe Herrera • Minal Hajratwala • Inés Hernández-Avila • Barbara Jane Reyes • David Bowles • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Abigail Carl-Klassen • Adela Najarro • Allen Baros • Barbara Brinson Curiel • Carmen Calatayud • Cecca Austin Ochoa • Cordelia Barrera • César L. De León • D. M. Chávez • Dan Vera • Daniel E. Solís y Martínez • David Hatfield Sparks • Elsie Rivas Gómez • Emmy Pérez • Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez • Ire'Ne Lara Silva • Ire’ne Lara Silva • Jennine Doc Wright • Jo Reyes-Boitel • Joe Jiménez • John Fry • José Antonio Rodríguez • Juan Morales • Karla Cordero • Kim Shuck • Lupe Mendez • Marie Varghese • Melanie Márquez Adams • Michael Wasson • Miguel M. Morales • Monica Palacios • Nadine Saliba • Nia Witherspoon • Nidia Melissa Bautista • Olga García Echeverría • Oswaldo Vargas • Pablo Miguel Martínez • Rachel Mckibbens • Rodney Gomez • Roy G. Guzmán • Sarah A. Chavez • Shauna Osborn • Suzy de Jesus Huerta • T. Sarmina • Tara Betts • Tomas Moniz • Veronica Sandoval • Victor Payan • Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo • Ysabel Y. GonzálezIn homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized, expl... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana
The incredible true story of the kidnapping, enslavement, and rescue of Solomon Northup in the era before the Civil War-now a major motion picture!In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free man living in Saratoga Springs, New York, making a living as a violinist and spending his spare time with his wife an... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1841 -
The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History
It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone's face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball's battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the only ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Improving the Lives of People with Dementia through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (Aging and Mental Health Research)
by Rose-Marie Dröes • Martin Orrell • Frans R. J. Verhey • Déborah Oliveira • Orii McDermott • Fania C.M. DassenThis book explores the practical application of recent improvements in technology for people living with dementia and highlights the positive outcomes on care, quality of life, and services on patients through exploration of 15 research projects to redefine the future of dementia care. Using resea... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023 -
Culture and Cognition: Readings in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Psychology Library Editions: Personality)
Originally published in 1974, studies of cultural influences on cognition, carried out from a variety of theoretical and methodological stances, were collected for the first time in this volume. The editors placed particular emphasis on selecting material by authors from many countries who had been ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1974 -
Advances in Fig Research and Sustainable Production
by Arpan Modi • Belit Balci • Avital Bechar • David Ben-Yakir • H Zafer Can • Yafit Cohen • Alain Costa • Dan Eisikowitch • Toufic Elbeaino • Mahua Ghara • Ali Muhammet Gündesli • Hidetoshi Ikegami • Burhanettin Imrak • Esref M Irget • Ebru N. Kafkas • Salih Kafkas • Kumar Lama • Simcha Lev-Yadun • Margarita López Corrales • Huiqin Ma • Alberto Martin • Kamil M. Meriç • Dvora Namdar • Betül K. Özer • Reut Peer • Antonio Piga • Victor Rodov • Manuel Joaquín Serradilla Sánchez • Kenta Shirasawa • Fatih Sen • Ece Tirkaz • Eleni Tsantili • Ferit Turanli • Christian Ponce Vera • Yanlei Zhai • Irit Ziffer • Daniel ValeroThe common fig (Ficus carica L.) is one of the oldest fruits domesticated by humans, and is native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean. Figs have been associated with health and prosperity since ancient times. They are rich in fibre, potassium, calcium, and iron, as well as being an important so... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Designing Innovative Corporate Water Risk Management Strategies from an Ecosystem Services Perspective
by Emily Taylor • Berry Kennedy • Don Scavia • Makely Lyon • Joshua Rego • Daniel Gerding • Andrew Hoffman • Neil HawkinsAccess to water is essential for almost all aspects of the economy and quality of life; in particular, for health, food production and security, domestic water supply and sanitation, energy, industry, and ecosystem health. Yet, water scarcity already affects more than 40 percent of the global popula... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: Theory and Skills for Practice
by Anna Turner • Marian Liebmann • Anna Gupta • Dan Tucker • Jude Boyles • Mark Doidge • Suryia Nayak • Colin Turbett • Lucy Mort • Rebecca Yeo • Natalia Farmer • Jen Ang • Katy Tolman • Hannah Berry • Rachael Bee • Jo Vincent • Elaine Ortiz • Annemarie Morsch • Joanne Vincett • Lynn King • Durani Rapozo • Ana DraperMass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework. Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Maize Kernel Development
by Bo Shen • Alan Meyers • Sherry Flint-Garcia • Matthew Evans • Philip Becraft • Jim Birchler • Ljudmilla Borisjuk • Prem S. Chourey • Joanne Dannenhoffer • José Gutiérrez-Marcos • Jeff Habben • Curt Hannah • Tracie Hennen-Bierwagen • Gregorio Hueros • Gwyneth Ingram • Shawn Kaeppler • Karen Koch • Brian A Larkins • Fangfang Ma • Don McCarty • Jo Messing • Keith Roesler • Hardy Rolletschek • Paolo Sabelli • Jeff Schussler • Bill Sheridan • Rentao Song • Erik Vollbrecht • Thomas Widiez • Yongrui Wu • Ramin Yadegari • Junpeng ZhanThis is an authoritative book that acts as a guide to understanding maize kernel development. Written by a team of experts, it covers topics spanning pre- and post-fertilization events, embryo and endosperm development, grain filling and maturation, and factors influencing crop yield. It explores th... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 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: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
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: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023