L J A : 463 books
Radical Conflict
Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...
The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature
Written in the Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human...
Gender and Peacebuilding
All Hands Required
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects...
Feeding Wild Birds in America
Culture, Commerce, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
by Laurent Borgmann, Anne Burke, João M. S. Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
As a result of the industrialization, urbanization, and population increase during the last two centuries, the global landscape has been irreversibly damaged. These anthropological pressures have create endless problems on the global level, and individuals and organizations are beginning to realize...
The Value-Driven Eye Care Game
A Player's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
With the establishment of optometry as the primary eye care profession, and significant reforms under way in health care, the opportunity exists now to add value to an independent eye care practice for both the doctor and the patient. The favorable geographic distribution of optometrists in rural...
Driver Distraction
A Sociotechnical Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Driver Distraction: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach promotes a sociotechnical systems approach to driver distraction. This perspective focuses on analysis of the whole system, its values, and the interactions between human and technical elements at all organisational levels. The book covers the...
by Victor L. Tonchi, William A. Lindeke, John J. Grotpeter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal...
The Book of Havana
A City in Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him…
A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics...
by Manuel Rebollo Puig, Eloísa Carbonell Porras, Manuel Rebollo Puig
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Adaptado a los planes de estudios del grado en Derecho, este "Derecho Administrativo" cubrirá en sus diversos tomos las asignaturas obligatorias y optativas, y desde la llamada parte general hasta las partes especiales más significativas, como son las de Derecho urbanístico y ambiental....
Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
Crustal Evolution of Southern Africa
3.8 Billion Years of Earth History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Syntheses of the geology of major areas of the Earth's crust are increasingly needed in order that the features of, and the problems associated with, the secular evolution of the continents can be understood by a wide audience. Southern Africa is fortunate in having a remarkable variety of geological...
by L.A. Simons, J.C. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Coronary heart disease is the principal cause of death in all Western countries. Abnormalities in the serum lipids are one of the major risk factors widely recognised as leading to this epidemic of heart disease. These abnormalities occur very com monly in the general community and in general practice,...