University Of Florida: 34 books
The Shark Attack Files
Investigating the World's Most Feared Predator
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
In 1958, a panel funded by the Office of Naval...
When the Seas Rise
Global Changes and Local Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Sea levels are rising around the globe, and in Florida--with...
Plugged In
Cybersecurity in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. Cybersecurity is the most pressing issue of our increasingly...
Microbes to Ecosystems
Charting Biodiversity through Informatics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. In Microbes to Ecosystems, follow the scientists, researchers,...
Born to Learn
Innovations in Early Childhood Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. The human brain’s largest and most important developmental...
Tapping the Source
Inside UF's Water Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Florida has 51,858 miles of rivers and streams,...
The Disease Detectives
Unraveling How Viruses Go Viral
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The experts at UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute make it their mission answering baffling questions such as how is a pig-borne disease transmitted in a Muslim country, what kinds of parasites do Florida ticks carry and how has a cholera strain from Nepal evolved in Haiti? Gatorbytes highlight for...
The Wind Engineers
Building a Hurricane-Safe House
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Hurricanes and tornadoes--and the devastation they...
No Student Left Behind
Transforming Education in the Online Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
For many years, higher education was mostly limited...
The Diabetes Epidemic
Controlling, Curing, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
The Diabetes Epidemic explores the complicated...
Building a Better Tomato
The Quest to Perfect "The Scandalous Fruit"
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry Klee and renowned taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk teamed up and are hot on the trail of a specimen that will have you thinking you just picked it in your own back yard. Gatorbytes highlight...
The Democracy Machine
How One Engineer Made Voting Possible For All
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Driven to make it possible for people with disabilities to vote like everyone else, engineer Juan Gilbert, a specialist in human-centered computing, spent 10 years perfecting Prime III, software that does just that. His creation has already been tested in the real world and is earning rave reviews...
Cultural Materialism
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential...
The Rise of Anthropological Theory
A History of Theories of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2001
The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition...