E E Smith: 544 books
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
From improved varieties to local applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues
Practical Solutions for Making Sense of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues attempts to explain how many children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) relate to the world through their senses. Chapter 1 is an overview of sensory integration terminology and a discussion of how the sensory systems impact behavior. Chapter 2 takes an indepth look at...
The Mouse in Biomedical Research
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, the third volume in the four volume set, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, encompasses 23 chapters whose contents provide a broad overview on the laboratory mouse’s normative biology, husbandry, and its use as a model in biomedical research. This consists...
Nouveau Projet 10
Automne-hiver 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Des paradis fiscaux au jazz de Port-au-Prince, de la pertinence des cégeps au souci de vérité en littérature, Nouveau Projet 10 balaye de nombreux sujets. Le dossier central (plus de 50 pages) porte quant à lui sur Montréal. Dans le cadre du 375e anniversaire de sa fondation, nous avons eu envie...
Narrating Midlife
Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to construct their own meaning after reading each...
by Stephen A. Benjamin, Caleb E. Finch, John C. Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research,...
Seeing and Knowing
Rock art with and without ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
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The Preschool Inclusion Toolbox
How to Build and Lead a High-Quality Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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Inclusion is clearly related to better outcomes for young children—but reports from the US Department of Education show the practice has grown by just 5% over the past 27 years. This is the how-to book preschool administrators, school district leaders, child care directors,...
Earth and Mars
A Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Nearly five billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born together as planetary siblings orbiting a young, emerging Sun. Yet today, one planet is water rich and life bearing, while the other is seemingly cold, dry, and forbidding.
Earth and Mars is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images...
La Galgada, Peru
A Preceramic Culture in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Excavations over many years in the Peruvian Andes and coastal regions have revealed that the village settlements on the west coast of South America were one of the early centers of world civilization. One of these settlements, La Galgada, flourished from 3000 B.C. to 1700 B.C. Its extraordinarily complete...
Gadamer verstehen
Gadamer verstehen /Understanding Gadamer
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Hans-Georg Gadamer ist eine der herausragenden Gestalten der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Sein Hauptwerk ›Wahrheit und Methode‹ ist ein Klassiker der philosophischen Hermeneutik. Der vorliegende Band ist ein Kompendium zu Gadamers Philosophie. Ideengeschichtlich werden die unterschiedlichsten Einflüsse...