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An Integrative Approach to Successional Dynamics
Tempo and Mode of Vegetation Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Much of what is considered conventional wisdom about succession is not as clear cut as it is generally believed. Yet, the importance of succession in ecology is undisputed since it offers a real insight into the dynamics and structure of all plant communities. Part monograph and part conceptual treatise,...
by A.J. Edis, L.A. Ayala, R.H. Egdahl
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
ment of those endocrine diseases encountered by the general surgeon. Opera tions on the pituitary gland are, therefore, specifically excluded. It should be most useful to general surgical residents and practicing surgeons, but we hope it will also prove useful to the wide range of physicians who...
The Science of Cooking
Understanding the Biology and Chemistry Behind Food and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal studies science courses and will cover a range of scientific principles of food, cooking and the science of taste and smell. Chapters include: The Science...
Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces
Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
This collection of fully peer-reviewed papers were presented at the 26th Leeds-Lyon Tribology Symposium which was held in Leeds, UK, 14-17 September, 1999.
The Leeds-Lyon Symposia on Tribology were launched in 1974, and the large number of references to original work published in the Proceedings over...
Coronary Artery Diseases
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
2 Diagnostic Use of Radiographic Methods in Coronary Disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 3 Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4 Mode of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5 Radiological Projections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6 Monitoring...
by Thomas Briggs, W.-Y. Chan, Albert M. Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be a review and not a comprehensive textbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The book covers only the highlights from the much more detailed knowledge that is usually found in textbooks and we recommend that the reader...
by Ana Carolina Maoski, Angélica Fonsêca, Cláudia Linhares Sanz
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Os artigos do livro Cinema, representação e relações de gênerorefletem o boom das pesquisas de gênero e sexualidade no campo da Comunicação e especificamente do cinema. O objetivo desta publicação, produzida pelo Grupo de Pesquisa de Cinema da Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares...
Sixty Squadron R.A.F.
A History of the Squadron from its Formation (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
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This book tells the story of Squadron No. 60 of the Royal Flying Corps, afterwards of the Royal Air Force. When the war began, in August 1914, the Royal Flying Corps was a very small body which sent four squadrons on active service and had a rudimentary training organisation...
by Michael Wilkins, Craig A. Evans, Andreas J. Köstenberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The most comprehensive volume ever produced in defense of the Gospels and Acts
The four Gospels and the book of Acts tell stories of Jesus’ life and the birth of Christianity. Are these stories true history or just religious fiction? Christians accept the stories as true and say that the entire...
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
Tax Law and the Environment
A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves...
Congress and Harry S. Truma
A Conflicted Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...