Academic Press: 465 books
The Financial Universe
Planning Your Investments Using Astrological Forecasting
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Written by one of the world's foremost financial astrologers, this work highlights the periods to maximize investment returns while minimizing portfolio losses through exposure to geopolitical events and circumstances and financial market hotspots. This important new and revised text maps out potential...
Divided Cities
Governing Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Combining peace and conflict studies with public administration research, Divided Cities critically investigates the roles of public administration and civil servants in resolving issues that are potentially conflictual in divided societies. Zooming in on nine cities with very different legacies and...
Values and Vulnerabilities
The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Forced migration is a global issue. About 34 million of the world’s inhabitants were identified in 2010 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as either refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers or stateless people. Systematic inquiries are urgently needed to understand...
by Nikolas Glover
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organization that was to improve the country’s reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden’s policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging...
Technological Interventions in Dairy Science
Innovative Approaches in Processing, Preservation, and Analysis of Milk Products
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This volume covers a selection of important novel technological interventions in dairy science, from the physical properties of milk and other milk products to nonthermal processing of milk. It also discusses safety methods in dairy science, which includes cleaning-in-place and techniques to determine...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This volume addresses the challenges of the short shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Innovative packaging technologies are the most promising strategies for overcoming these limitations. This book provides a host of sustainable packaging solutions that deliver protection, branding, consumer attractiveness,...
Processing Technologies for Milk and Milk Products
Methods, Applications, and Energy Usage
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The demand for quality milk products is increasing throughout the world. Food patterns are changing from eating plant protein to animal protein due to increasing incomes around the world, and the production of milk and milk products is expanding with leaps and bounds. This book presents an array of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Due to the advent of state-of-the-art technologies in the field of biotechnology, much progress has been achieved since the last decade. OMICS technologies are being extensively used to address various issues pertaining to agriculture. Recent advances in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book presents a selection of innovative postharvest management practices for vegetables. It covers technologies in harvesting, handling, and storage of vegetables, including strategies for low-temperature storage of vegetables, active and smart packaging of vegetables, edible coatings, application...
Sustainable Biological Systems for Agriculture
Emerging Issues in Nanotechnology, Biofertilizers, Wastewater, and Farm Machines
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Sustainable Biological Systems for Agriculture: Emerging Issues in Nanotechnology, Biofertilizers, Wastewater, and Farm Machines explores and introduces the use of nanotechnology, biofertilizers, and design of farm machines in agriculture. The contributions are from India, Africa and the USA; the...
Insect Pests of Stored Grain
Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Stored products of agriculture and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetles, 70 species of moths, and about 355 species of mites, causing huge quantitative and qualitative losses and insect contamination in food commodities. This is an important quality control problem. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Presenting illustrative case studies, highlighting technological applications, and explaining theoretical and foundational concepts, this book is an important reference source on the key concepts for modern technologies and optimization of new processes in physical chemistry. This volume combines...
Ethnobotany of India, Volume 4
Western and Central Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Ethnobotany of India: Volume 4: Western and Central Himalayas is the 4th volume of the 5-volume set, an informative book series on the ethnobotanical aspects of India. The books cover different regions, including
Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan
Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast...
by Tim Prenzler
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
“The weaker-sex snap up every opportunity of quitting the sacred-side of the home. Independence is their cry — irresponsible independence. The ambition is no doubt laudable, but is it desirable?”— The Sydney Stock and Station Journal, 1915. “ Police have at all times been able to collect evidence...