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by Peter Dubina, W. K. Giesa, Alfred Wallon
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Und noch viel weiter! Ein SF-Abenteuer Paket Expeditionen zu fernen Welten, die Begegnung mit Alien-Kulturen, galaktische Kriege zwischen Sternenreichen von unermesslicher Weite - darum geht es in den Science Fiction Abenteuern dieses Buches. Die Bestimmung des Menschen liegt im Kosmos und Science...
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
Binge Breaker!(TM)
Stop Out-of-Control Eating and Lose Weight
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2000
Binge eating, eating more food than feels comfortable, is a problem for more than half of all overweight Americans. Binge eating is not bulimia, and while many do it -- over the sink, late at night, or in front of the refrigerator -- yo-yo dieters are especially susceptible. Renowned diet expert Dr....
by Peter M. Som, MD, Hugh D. Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Head and Neck Imaging, by Drs. Peter M. Som and Hugh D. Curtin, delivers the encyclopedic and authoritative guidance you’ve come to expect from this book – the expert guidance you need to diagnose the most challenging disorders using today’s most accurate techniques. New state-of-the-art imaging...
by Peter M. Som, MD, Meng Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Problem Solving in Neuroradiology, by Meng Law, MD, Peter M. Som, MD and Thomas P. Naidich, MD, is your survival guide to solving diagnostic challenges that are particularly problematic in neuroimaging. With a concise, practical, and instructional approach, it helps you apply basic principles of problem...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.
The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...
by Tom Crosshill, Erik Amundsen, Peter M. Ferenczi
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
This issue of Clarkesworld features the following original stories: "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" by Tom Crosshill, "Draftyhouse" by Erik Amundsen and "The Womb Factory" by Peter M. Ferenczi. Non-fiction includes two round table discussions (world-building and speculative fiction in academia),...
Punishment in Paradise
Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century...
Handbook of Deposition Technologies for Films and Coatings
Science, Applications and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This 3e, edited by Peter M. Martin, PNNL 2005 Inventor of the Year, is an extensive update of the many improvements in deposition technologies, mechanisms, and applications. This long-awaited revision includes updated and new chapters on atomic layer deposition, cathodic arc deposition, sculpted thin...
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...
The Encultured Brain
An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...