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by R. H. V. Corley, P. B. H. Tinker
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The oil palm is the world's most valuable oil crop. Its production has increased over the decades, reaching 56 million tons in 2013, and it gives the highest yields per hectare of all oil crops. Remarkably, oil palm has remained profitable through periods of low prices. Demand for palm oil is also...
The Niagara Escarpment
From Tobermory to Niagara Falls
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
Chiral Environmental Pollutants
Trace Analysis and Ecotoxicology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This monograph contains a survey on the role of chirality in ecotoxicological processes. The focus is on environmental trace analysis. Areas such as toxicology, ecotoxicology, synthetic chemistry, biology, and physics are also covered in detail in order to explain the different properties of enantiomers...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Rebuilding the Ark
New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) may be the most powerful environmental law in the United States. Enacted in 1973, the ESA prohibits any actions that may cause harm to endangered plants and animals or the ecosystems upon which they depend. But although more than 1,200 species are protected under the...
Seelenfeuer
Geschichten und Gedichte über das ganz große Gefühl
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2012
. über die Liebe! Geschichten und Gedichte, geschrieben von Frauen und Männern, die die Geschehnisse ihres Herzens, ihrer Phantasie, ihrer Erlebnisse und ihre Gefühle zu Papier gebracht haben. Ein unvergleichliches Kaleidoskop an Emotionen, arrangiert zu einem wunderbaren Strauß von Sinnlichkeit...
Lay Ecclesial Ministry
Pathways Toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The role of lay ecclesial ministers—professionally prepared laity who serve in leadership roles—is becoming critically more important in the life of the Catholic church. In Lay Ecclesial Ministry, theologians and pastoral leaders from diverse disciplines provide a deeper understanding, envision...
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century
The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...
by María Belén Ahumada, Ted Galen Carpenter, Khatchik DerGhougassian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...
Recovering the Personal
The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Recovering the Personal will be of interest to a broad range of intellectual readers with interests in philosophy, psychology, theology, and the humanities.
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit
From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Awards and Praise for the first edition:
Recipient of the 2006 International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award
"This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to text for stalking researchers. That is my opinion and the opinion of multiple fellow scholars I know...
Sister of Darkness
The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The world’s only non-denominational exorcist tells her astonishing true story: a riveting chronicle of wrestling entities from infected souls, showing how pain and trauma opens us to attachment from forces that drain our energy . . . and can even destroy our humanity.
As a secular exorcist,...
by J. Crocker, P. DalCin, R.A. Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus. This book draws together a series of techniques which have been successfully...