Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Wildlife tourism is a growing multimillion-dollar industry within the hospitality and tourism industry. Wildlife tourism, in its simplest sense, is the creation of tour packages for watching wild animals in their natural habitats, and is particularly important in African and South American...
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy
New Challenges for Society and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions...
Urban Squares
Spatio-temporal Studies of Design and Everyday Life in the Öresund Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology – the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
With contributions from a broad range of leading professors and scientists, this volume focuses on new areas of processing technologies in foods and plants to help meet the increasing food demand of the rapidly growing populations of the world.
The first section of the book is devoted to emerging...
Bully Blocking at Work
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Evelyn Field's masterful analysis of the ways we can help employees cope with and overcome workplace bullying and harassment is a must read for all concerned about how to right this wrong. — Dr Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University and author of The Lucifer Effect, Understanding How Good People Turn...
Pollution and the Atmosphere
Designs for Reduced Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
This new compendium volume examines the significant impact of air quality on human health. Assessing air pollution in complex morphologies has become an important issue in order to implement mitigation measures and limit emissions from the...
Contested Technologies
Xenotransplantation and Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Addressing the important perspectives on xenotransplantation and human embryonic stem cell research, this book explores both the enthusiastic proponents and vehement resistance to these new biomedical technologies. Investigating the political, social, and ethical forces behind this kind of research...
Hospitality Marketing and Consumer Behavior
Creating Memorable Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Creating memories and joyous experiences for consumers is a key dimension affecting the profitability and growth of a hospitality firm. Drawing on global experiences, this new book looks at the diverse factors that create these positive experiences and provides insight into marketing and consumer...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In this valuable volume, new and original research on various topics on chemical engineering and technology is presented on modeling and simulation, material synthesis, wastewater treatment, analytical techniques, and microreactors. The research presented here can be applied to technology in food,...
The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies
Creating Wealth from a New Employment Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A must-have in any manager's library. — Sergio Carlo Maresca, author of BREAKAWAY!
If you think you are doing it right, think again and read this book. — Dr Roxanne Zolin, QUT
An excellent read for organisation specialists. — Hermias C. Hendrikse, Director of Organisation Effectiveness,...
by Edwin Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This special edition is a distinguished vintage reproduction, of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland, by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott. Meticulously elaborated by the editorial team of Chiron Academic Press in collaboration with the renowned literature publisher Edition l'Aleph (www.l-aleph.com),...
Molecular Biology
Different Facets
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This volume provides a comprehensive description of the basic tenets of molecular biology, from mechanisms to its elaborate role in gene regulation. The initial sections cover the history of genetics and molecular biology. The book then goes on to highlight the significance of molecular approaches...
Petals and Bullets
Dorothy Morris New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book is based on the vivid, detailed, and evocative letters New Zealand nurse Dorothy Morris sent from Spain and other European countries. They have been supplemented by wide-ranging research to record a life of outstanding professional dedication, resourcefulness, and courage. Dorothy Aroha...
Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy
Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Focusing on Friedrich Hölderlin’s writings on Greek tragedy—especially the works of Sophocles, which he translated to German—this study also examines Hölderlin’s own poetry, which frequently engaged with tragedy. His musings enable a consideration of the various meanings of tragedy, providing...