University Press Of Florida: 327 books

Cover of The Democracy Machine

The Democracy Machine

How One Engineer Made Voting Possible For All

by Jon Silman, University of Florida
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...
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No Student Left Behind

Transforming Education in the Online Classroom

by Jon Silman, University of Florida
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...
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The Diabetes Epidemic

Controlling, Curing, and Prevention

by Leonora LaPeter Anton, University of Florida
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...
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Building a Better Tomato

The Quest to Perfect "The Scandalous Fruit"

by Jeff Klinkenberg, University of Florida
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018

Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools...
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