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Alcohol Advertising and Young People's Drinking
Representation, Reception and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in society, especially by young people. Although overall volumes of alcohol consumption may be levelling off, the occurrences of excessive or 'binge' drinking, especially among teenagers and young adults, are increasingly commonplace....
The Program Evaluation Standards
A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Schulha, Hopson, and Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of the Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility,...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
by B.M. Peake, R. Braund, Louis A Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment identifies pathways of entry of pharmaceuticals into the environment, beginning with the role of global prescribing and disposal practices. The book then discusses typical levels of common pharmaceuticals and how they can be determined in natural...
De la A a la Z
El conocimiento de las lenguas de México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2018
El estudio por los frailes de las lenguas americanas desde diversos aspectos gramática, vocabulario, modos de hablar, escribir, conocer y concebir el mundo.
Neuropathology
A Guide for Practising Pathologists
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In commissioning this volume of Current Topics in Pathology, the editor of the series, Prof. Sir Colin Berry, asked me to produce something "which is aimed at the general pathologist but from the point of view of the neuropathologist who knows what is not being done well". This was easier...
by Baffour Badu-Apraku, M.A.B. Fakorede
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The book focuses on the principles and practices of tropical maize improvement with special emphasis on early and extra-early maize to feed the increasing population in Sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the similarities and differences between results obtained in temperate regions of the world and...
by Jorge Ferreira, Villas-Bôas Corrêa, Alzira Alves de Abreu
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 27, 2014
A década de 1950 no Brasil representou um momento de grande importância na história nacional. Além da consolidação da democracia que permitiu a ampliação do jogo partidário e da participação popular, após anos da ?ditadura estadonovista?, o período se destacou por um desenvolvimento industrial...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Esas que también soy yo
Nosotras escribimos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 7, 2019
El cuento es la forma literaria que recoge la magia de la narración desde tiempos inmemoriales hasta ahora. Este género plasma como pocos la historia de la literatura y su cercanía a la población: el cuento oral, el cuento en las hogueras de la tribu, el cuento en las cocinas de las casas, el...
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Six Steps to Inclusive Preschool Curriculum
A UDL-Based Framework for Children's School Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
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