Michael David: 725 books
by David A. Sugden, Michael G. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction...
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics...
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
Green Warriors
Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This study assesses whether Army policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict phases of contingencies. A review of policy, doctrine, operational experience, and documentation, as well as interviews with Army personnel, indicates that environmental concerns...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since...
by Shigetoshi Aono, Elizabeth M Boon, Hitomi Sawai
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Gas molecules such as O2, NO, CO and ethylene are present in the environment and are endogenously (enzymatically) produced to act as signalling molecules in biological systems, including the regulation of metabolic networks, chemotaxis, circadian rhythms, mammalian hypoxia responses, and plant ethylene...
by Michael Y.M. Chen, Thomas L. Pope, David J. Ott
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
A well-illustrated, systems-based primer on learning radiologic imaging
Basic Radiology is the easiest and most effective way for medical students, residents, and clinicians not specializing in radiologic imaging to learn the essentials of diagnostic test selection, application, and interpretation....
Bergey's Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology
Volume Two: The Proteobacteria (Part C)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Includes a description of the Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria (1256 pages, 512 figures, and 371 tables). This large taxa include many well known medically and environmentally important groups. Especially notable are Acetobacter, Agrobacterium, Aquospirillum, Brucella, Burkholderia,...
Teaching Environmental Health to Children
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United...
by Gregory H. Bledsoe, Michael J. Manyak, David A. Townes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
With an increase in visits to remote and dangerous locations around the world, the number of serious and fatal injuries and illnesses associated with these expeditions has markedly increased. Medical personnel working in or near such locations are not always explicitly trained in the management of...
Improving What is Learned at University
An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010.
What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according...
by David Groome, Michael Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers an accessible review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories, and models. Using real-world scenarios and engaging everyday examples this book offers clear explanations of how the findings of cognitive psychologists...