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Book cover of Does America Need More Innovators?
by Matthew Wisnioski, Humera Fasihuddin, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019

A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1

Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability

by Dr Louis Jean Claude Autrey, Salem Saumtally, Asha Dookun-Saumtally
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...
Book cover of The Good Life in Galicia 2017
by S Bush, Noelia Roca Jones, Fiona Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018

Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea, and on a third by Portugal. This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the coastal...
Book cover of The Encultured Brain

The Encultured Brain

An Introduction to Neuroanthropology

by Katherine C. MacKinnon, Agustín Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay
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...
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Commonplace Commitments

Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

by Kenneth L. Anderson, Scott D. Churchill, Vincent M. Colapietro
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...
Book cover of Atlas of Electroencephalography in Sleep Medicine
by Hrayr P. Attarian, Nidhi S Undevia
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012

Sleep Medicine is a field that attracts physicians from a variety of clinical backgrounds. As a result, the majority of sleep specialists who interpret sleep studies (PSG) do not have specialized training in neurophysiology and electroencephalography (EEG) interpretation.  Given this and the fact...
Book cover of Dandelions for Dinner

Dandelions for Dinner

Greece at War and a Family’S Dreams of America

by Sam P. Stamatis, Peter S. Stamatis
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

What happens to a family already on the brink of disaster when the world around them crumbles? Dandelions for Dinner presents a memoir set in the sleepy town of Gargaliani, Greece, spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the Greek Civil War of the 1940s. Told through the...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of tomatoes
by W. L. Araújo, C. Nick, F. T. Delazari
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Tomatoes are the second most important vegetable crop in the world after potatoes. Originating in South America, they are now grown widely around the world. As the population continues to grow, there is a need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests...
Book cover of Turned On!

Turned On!

A Young Professor’S 1960S Memoir

by S. P. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

No decade before or since witnessed cultural, technical, and social changes as dramatic as the 1960s. Pop culture reflected a transition from the rigid 1950s to the permissive 1970s. The Vietnam War spawned student protests, draft card burning, and a hippie counter-culture. Caught up in these...
Book cover of Trafalgar
by Benito Pérez Galdòs
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2016

“Se me permitirá que antes de referir el gran suceso de que fui testigo, diga algunas palabras sobre mi infancia, explicando por qué extraña manera me llevaron los azares de la vida a presenciar la terrible catástrofe de nuestra marina.” Presentamos aquí la versión ebook de la obra...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2

Sorghum utilization around the world

by Dr S. R. Bean, B. P. Ioerger, J. D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Book cover of HilbertHuang Transform and Its Applications
by Norden E Huang, Samuel S P Shen
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

This book is written for scientists and engineers who use HHT (Hilbert–Huang Transform) to analyze data from nonlinear and non-stationary processes. It can be treated as a HHT user manual and a source of reference for HHT applications. The book contains the basic principle and method of HHT and...
Book cover of Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment
by Dawn P. Flanagan, Samuel O. Ortiz, Vincent C. Alfonso
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

The most up-to-date resource of comprehensive information for conducting cross-battery assessments The Cross-Battery assessment approach—also referred to as the XBA approach—is a time-efficient assessment method grounded solidly in contemporary theory and research. The XBA approach systematically...
Book cover of Performance Pay for Teachers
by C. M. Wragg, C. M. Wragg, G. S. Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

The first widespread incentive pay scheme was initiated in UK schools in 2000. This book is the result of monitoring the whole process from its inception. The authors visited schools, observed lessons, and solicited the views and experiences of a large collection of teachers and headteachers. Their...
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