Academic Press: 465 books
The Predictive Brain
Consciousness, Decision and Embodied Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An investigation of the working of the human mind, this book sets out to show that the brain is not only a reactive mechanism, but rather proactive, allowing people to make hypotheses, anticipate consequences, and formulate expectations. The book discusses how the evolution of motor modes of behavior,...
Pathways to Modern Physical Chemistry
An Engineering Approach with Multidisciplinary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Pathways to Modern Physical Chemistry: An Engineering Approach with Multidisciplinary Applications focuses on recent trends and takes a systematic and practical look at theoretical aspects of materials chemistry. The book describes the characterization and analysis methods for materials and explains...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This volume, edited by a well-known specialist in the field of theoretical chemistry, gathers together a selection of papers on theoretical chemistry within the themes of mathematical, computational, and quantum chemistry. The authors present a rich assembly of some of the most important current research...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this book, new developments based on conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) and its applications in chemistry are discussed. It also includes discussion of some applications in corrosion and conductivity and synthesis studies based on CDFT. The electronic structure principles—such as the...
Food Engineering
Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This new volume presents a selection of recent advances and emerging trends in food process engineering from several disciplines. Exploring the key concepts of food engineering, Food Engineering: Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications presents the information in four parts: Modeling in food engineering;...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Engineering Interventions in Agricultural Processing presents recent advanced research on biological engineering, bioprocessing technologies, and their applications in agricultural food processing, and their applications in agriculture science and agricultural engineering, focusing on biological science,...
Food Safety
Rapid Detection and Effective Prevention of Foodborne Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This new volume, Food Safety: Rapid Detection and Effective Prevention of Foodborne Hazards, focuses on the general concepts, mechanisms, and new applications of analytical and molecular biology techniques for detecting, removing, and preventing chemical and biological hazards from food. Edited by...
'For Us It Was Heaven'
The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“This is a biography of many facets offering a wealth of insight and textual content of particular relevance in the context of gender studies. It tells us much of the status of nurses in Britain in the 1930s. It is also an important contribution to the history of the International Brigades and the...
Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem
Jewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In 2006, a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West Jerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of the historic Muslim Mamilla...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international...
Sensitive Objects
Affect and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Some objects seem especially personal and important to us – be it a quickly packed suitcase, an inherited vase, or a photograph. In Sensitive Objects the authors discuss when, how, and why particular objects appear as 'sensitive'. They do so by analyzing the objects' affective charging in the context...
by Per Bauhn
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Combining in-depth analysis with strikingly apt examples of the role that courage plays in the life of human beings, this major contribution to moral philosophy argues that courage is necessary to personal achievement as well as to the common good of a civic community. Bauhn insists that courage is...
Nanobiotechnology for Sensing Applications
From Lab to Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book explores the potential of nanosystems as a multidisciplinary science with the aim of the design and development of smart sensing technologies using micro/nano electrodes and novel nanosensing material. It discusses their integration with MEMS, miniaturized transduction systems, novel sensing...
Child Psychotherapy, War and the Normal Child
Selected Papers of Margaret Lowenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Essential reading for anyone those involved in the psychology of children, this work details how Margaret Lowenfeld developed new forms of communication with children—primarily through the use of play and specifically through sand play—allowing psychotherapists to locate and address behavioral problems resulting from trauma, especially as from the result of war.