Academic Press: 465 books
Careers Work in Schools
Cost Effective Career Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
It is important that schools deliver career education and career services to all students in order to develop the capacity of students to adapt to a changing world of work. From ethical and accountability viewpoints, school career education programs and career services should be evidence-based, known...
by Vivienne Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Research tell us that 60% of women and 35% of men are dissatisfied with some part of their bodies.
For youth aged 14 to 25 years old, body image is their number one concern — more important than family, friends and school.
A negative body image can lead to anxiety and depression, affecting...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This volume reflects the huge breadth and diversity in research and the application of industrial and engineering chemistry and cheminformatics. The book presents cutting-edge research developments and new insights that emphasize the vibrancy of industrial and engineering chemistry and cheminformatics...
The Future of Organizations
Workplace Issues and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This volume provides valuable insights into how organizations are changing and evolving and how human resource personnel, employers, and employees are reacting to these emerging workplace transitions. Today’s successful organizations must be learning organizations in that they must keep abreast...
Legitimizing ESS
Big Science as a Collaboration Across Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"Big Science" is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects that involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of planning, and large multidisciplinary teams of researchers. Legitimizing the ESS examines the complexity of the cultural, social,...
Theoretical Models and Experimental Approaches in Physical Chemistry
Research Methodology and Practical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This new volume presents an up-to-date review of modern materials and physical chemistry concepts, issues, and recent advances in the field. It presents a modern theoretical and experimental approach in applied physical chemistry. The volume discusses the developments of advanced chemical products...
Leishmaniasis
Biology, Control and New Approaches for Its Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This new volume provides exhaustive knowledge on a wide range of natural products and holistic concepts that have provided promising in the treatment of leishmaniasis. Including the major natural therapies as well as traditional formulations, over 300 medicinal plants and 150 isolated compounds that...
Crime, Culture and Violence
Understanding How Masculinity and Identity Shapes Offending
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From prison interviews with violent offenders and a wealth of experience and research, psychologist Dr Katie Seidler explores the complex interaction between crime and culture. Featuring the voices of the offenders themselves, 15 convicted adult male violent offenders from various ethnic cultural...
Underexploited Spice Crops
Present Status, Agrotechnology, and Future Research Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Spices provide our food with nutraceutical value rather than actual nutrition. But apart from the popular and major spices, there are several other spices, which, in spite of their enormous contribution to human health, remain underexploited or underutilized. This new volume, Underexploited Spice...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Applied Food Science and Engineering with Industrial Applications highlights the latest advances and research in the interdisciplinary field of food engineering, emphasizing food science as well as quality assurance. The volume provides detailed technical and scientific background of technologies...
by Subrata Kumar Majumder
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Slurry bubble column reactors are intensively used as a multiphase reactor in the chemical, biochemical, and petrochemical industries for carrying out reactions and mass transfer operations in which a gas, made up of one or several reactive components, comes into contact or reacts with a liquid. This...
The Atomized Body
The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes and Neurons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Referring to the focus of the biosciences on molecular "particles" of the human biology—such as stem cells, genes, and neurons—this account examines the relationships between culture, society, and bioscientific research. Showing that the atomized body is indeed socially and culturally...
Physical Chemistry for Chemists and Chemical Engineers
Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This volume is based on different aspects of chemical technology that are associated with research and the development of theories for chemical engineers, helping to bridge the gap between classical analysis and modern, real-life applications. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors present...
by Tangellapalli Srinivas, N. Shankar Ganesh, R. Shankar
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This volume provides a good understanding of the binary fluid system, highlighting new dimensions of the existing Kalina cycle system, a thermodynamic process for converting thermal energy into usable mechanical power. The book illustrates that providing new flexibility leads to new research outcomes...