Academic Press: 465 books
Biopesticides and Bioagents
Novel Tools for Pest Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Insects, diseases, and weeds cause an almost 30% yield loss per annum in agricultural production, resulting in an increased consumption of pesticides by 20% per annum throughout the world. This comprehensive volume looks at the status of biopesticides and biocontrol agents in agriculture. It will...
Fit To Practice
Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Australian psychology practice today is a dynamic, well respected and increasingly competitive environment. Many new psychologists graduate with an expectation of setting up their own private practice. But how is that best done? What are the traps to avoid, the questions to ask, the knowledge needed...
M-Commerce
Experiencing the Phygital Retail
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
This volume presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on contemporary m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers’ buying intentions and decisions. The chapters consider consumer behavior theory in the context of green or ecologically friendly...
Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution
The Surge of Support for Independence in Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic, and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement...
by Tim Prenzler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Crime prevention that works - the goal of much government and corporate policy - can be difficult to discover amongst obscure and tedious academic texts. Yet, now more than ever, we need sophisticated government and corporate crime prevention policies that produce results. This book of research, policy...
Materials Behavior
Research Methodology and Mathematical Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The development of advanced materials has become extremely important in the last decade, being widely used in academic and industrial research. This book examines the potential of advanced materials as well as nanotechnology to improve fiber science from fibril to fabric mode, to create better materials...
Drug Delivery Approaches and Nanosystems, Volume 1
Novel Drug Carriers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This volume, the first of the two-volume Drug Delivery Approaches and Nanosystems series,presents a full picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and its applications. It addresses the ever-expanding application of nanotechnology or nano-sized...
Circulation of Knowledge
Explorations into the History of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created—but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers...
Elastomer-Based Composite Materials
Mechanical, Dynamic and Microwave Properties, and Engineering Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Elastomer-Based Composite Materials: Mechanical, Dynamic, and Microwave Properties and Engineering Applications is focused on elastomer-based composite materials comprising different types of reinforcing fillers.
The book provides an informative examination of the possibilities for broadening...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book highlights many of the latest developments and trends in engineering chemistry research and describes the respective tools to characterize and predict properties and behavior of materials. The book provides original, theoretical, and important experimental results which use non-routine methodologies...
by Lynne M. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
"Lynne Baker shows her compassion and determination to wake the religious and secular communities to action and care. " — Len Matthews, Salvation Army
This book takes a very real look into the lives of Christian women who cope with domestic abuse on a daily basis. It explores their...
by Caroline Bradbury-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Participatory approaches are becoming increasingly popular in research involving children. A growing trend is research by children where researchers engage or employ children as co-researchers or primary researchers. Caroline Bradbury-Jones explores the ethical, methodological, practical and protection...
Mrs Catherine Gladstone
'A Woman Not Quite of Her Time'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Catherine Glynne was born in 1812, in the same year as Charles Dickens. An earl’s daughter she married the son of a self-made merchant, William Ewart Gladstone, who became Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister on four occasions. While the Queen and the PM loathed each other, they both loved Catherine,...