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A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds
A description of seed dispersal by which plants, most specifically fruits, travel from one place to another. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
How the Elephant Got Its Trunk: A Retelling of the Rudyard Kipling Tale
There was one thing the little elephant really wanted to know: What does the crocodile eat for dinner? Here is a story that takes place a long time ago, before elephants had trunks for noses . . . One day a very special young elephant comes along--an unusually curious elephant--and she has an impo... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2003 -
Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals
by Keith R. Solomon • Paul J. Van Den Brink • Theo C. M. Brock • Dick De Zwart • Scott D. Dyer • Leo Posthuma • Sean Richards • Hans Sanderson • Paul SibleyA wide-ranging compilation of techniques, Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals describes methods of extrapolation in the framework of ecological risk assessment. The book, informally known as EXPECT, identifies data needs and situations where these extrapo... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
Fifty Key Irish Plays (Routledge Key Guides)
Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and, alert to... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023 -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the entire range of Irish drama, from the late nineteenth-century melodramas (anticipating the rise of the Abbey Theatre) to the contemporary Dublin of theater festivals. In addition to studies of individual playwrights, the collection includes an examination of ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Mapping Irish Theatre
Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is 'a machine for making place from space'. Con... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Voice Over: A Novel
A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen betw... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
China’s Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development: 2020
by Tsinghua-Rio Tinto Joint Research Centre for Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development • Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua UniversityThis book explores sustainable development from the perspective of resources and energy, based on China’s practical experience and cross-disciplinary research. It focuses on major challenges, key solutions and policy recommendations, and studies and explores seven important themes of resources, ener... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
One Health
by David Waltner-Toews • Rea Tschopp • Vanessa Racloz • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Bonnie Buntain • Bassirou Bonfoh • Simon Reid • Jakob Zinsstag • Carol Rubin • Karin Hediger • Eric Boa • David H Cumming • Mahamat Bechir • Vreni Jean-Richard • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Andrea Meisser • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Monique Lechenne • Martin Bunch • Maxine WhittakerThe One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathemati... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Rea Tschopp • Vanessa Racloz • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Bonnie Buntain • Bassirou Bonfoh • Simon Reid • Carol Rubin • Karin Hediger • Eric Boa • David H Cumming • Mahamat Bechir • Vreni Jean-Richard • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Solveig Danielsen • Andrea Meisser • Professor Craig Stephen • Angela Cassidy • Monique Lechenne • Martin BunchThe One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathemati... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Re-thinking Children’s Work in Churches: A Practical Guide
by Michael Wells • Ian Ross • Sally Nash • Howard Worsley • Carolyn Edwards • Sian Hancock • David Csinos • Isobel MacDougall • Barbara Meardon • Martyn Payne • Ruth Radley • Sam Richards • Andy Robertson • Keith J. WhiteDrawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.By outlining a range of lenses thro... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1965 -
Galectins
Galectins: Methods and Protocols is the first book solely dedicated to methodological approaches designed to study galectin function. The galectin family represents one of the most pleiotropic families, with individual members having been implicated in various aspects of nearly every biological pro... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Why Science Needs Art: From Historical to Modern Day Perspectives
Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields. Reflecting on a time when art and science were considered inseparable and symbiotic pursuits, the book discusses how they have historically informed and influenced each other, before considering how pub... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans
"He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot's elbow -- a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters." --... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1946 -
Galectins: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2442)
This second edition is dedicated to new and updated methodological approaches designed to study galectin function. Chapters examine salient features of galectin functions. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics,... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)
This edited collection examines the labour laws of seven industrializing East Asian societies - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam - and discusses the variation in their impact across the whole region. Leading scholars from each country consider both laws pe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Biological sequence analysis
Probabilistic models are becoming increasingly important in analysing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analysing biological sequences, linguistic-grammar-based probabilistic ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
Gynaecological Cancers: Biology and Therapeutics
Gynaecological cancers are categorised as 'rare' diseases, although collectively they affect over 16,000 women each year in the UK alone. There is a lack of real understanding of these conditions compared with other malignancies, possibly owing to their relative rarity when viewed as individual dis... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
The Derrick Bell Reader
Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell has provoked his critics and challenged his readers with uncompromising candor and progressive views on race and class in America. A founder of Critical Race Theory and pioneer of the use of allegorical stories as tools of analysis, ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Global Cultural Network
In the turbulent years after World War I, American novelist Pearl S. Buck, African American singer and activist Paul Robeson, left-wing journalist Agnes Smedley, and Chinese authors Lao She and Lin Yutang sought to transform the terms by which the United States and China, or more broadly "East" and ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
For well over a decade, critical race theory-the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life-has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
Must We Defend Nazis?
In Must We Defend Nazis?, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic set out to liberate speech from its current straight-jacket. Over the past hundred years, almost all of American law has matured from the mechanical jurisprudence approach--which held that cases could be solved on the basis of legal rules ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999 -
Critical Race Theory
For well over a decade, critical race theory-the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life-has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood
by Jean Mills • Richard MillsThe nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media. This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999