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The L Word: An Unapologetic, Thoroughly Biased, Long-Overdue Explication and Celebration of Liberalism
Discussion of liberalism... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies
"For those endeavoring to approach peace, there is no shortage of challenges, practical as well as intellectual. Fortunately, there is also no shortage of inspiration and insight. "--From the preface Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies, Second Edition, provides a unique and interdiscipli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Natural Selections
"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat[es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A delightful read."--Michael Shermer, author of The Science of Good and Evil "Entertaining and thought-provoking."--Steven... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
What can elephant seals tell us about Homer's Iliad? How do gorillas illuminate the works of Shakespeare? What do bloodsucking bats have to do with John Steinbeck? According to evolutionary psychologist David Barash and his daughter Nanelle, the answers lie in the most important word in biology: evo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Peace and Conflict Studies (Conflict And Consciousness Ser. #Vol. 9)
The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of the gold standard text explores historical and current topics in today’s rapidly changing world to provide a comprehensive introduction to peace and conflict studies. Authors David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel offer an insightful analysis of 21st-century gl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Peace and Conflict Studies
The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of the gold standard text explores historical and current topics in today’s rapidly changing world to provide a comprehensive introduction to peace and conflict studies. Authors David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel offer an insightful analysis of 21st-century gl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies sets the standard for an accessible introduction, a comprehensive exploration, and analysis of 21st-century world events – including updated coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Middle East, the Social Justice movements within the US, and Global Climate Change. The text ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies sets the standard for an accessible introduction, a comprehensive exploration, and analysis of 21st-century world events – including updated coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Middle East, the Social Justice movements within the US, and Global Climate Change. The text ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Gender Gap: How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships
Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from bi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Making Sense Of Sex: How Genes And Gender Influence Our Relationships
Why do most women prefer romance, and men, sex? Why do women live longer than men? Why are men willing to pay for sex while women almost never are? Why are women nearly always the primary caregivers of young children? What happens when a man's brain is trapped in a woman's body? When is a short, bal... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Improving Outcomes in Colon & Rectal Surgery
Quality measures and outcomes are receiving greater attention by the lay and medical communities. The occurrence or mismanagement of complications often results in poor outcomes, increased cost, and significant morbidity. Answering the call for transparency and improvement requires action by all inv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology
by Lars Björndahl • David Mortimer • Roelof Menkveld • Ulrik Kvist • Juan G. Alvarez • Trine B. Haugen • Christopher L. Barratt • José Antonio CastillaThis practical, extensively illustrated handbook covers the procedures that are undertaken in andrology and ART laboratories to analyse and assess male-factor infertility, and to prepare spermatozoa for use in assisted conception therapy. The content is presented as brief, authoritative overviews of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology
by Lars Björndahl • David Mortimer • Jose Antonio Castilla • Roelof Menkveld • Ulrik Kvist • Juan G. Alvarez • Trine B. Haugen • Christopher L. R. BarrattThis practical, extensively illustrated handbook covers the procedures that are undertaken in andrology and ART laboratories to analyse and assess male-factor infertility, and to prepare spermatozoa for use in assisted conception therapy. The content is presented as brief, authoritative overviews o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Biofuel Crops
by Bharat Singh • Ratikanta Maiti • Pratik Satya • J G Isebrands • Surinder S Banga • Sujata Bhargava • T K Biswas • S Wani • Steven E Mckeand • Toshihiko Yamada • Ralph Sims • Ismail Dweikat • Natalie S Betts • Caitlin S Byrt • L A Moraes • S Hemaiswarya • C Dana Nelson • Belum V Reddy • Jagannath Vishnu Patil • Holger Schuhmann • Somashekhar Punnuri • Gary Stephan Banuelos • N K Fageria • John H Fike • C M Williams • Martin Weih • Robert B Rummer • Rachel A Burton • Isabel S Carvalho • P Srinivasa Rao • Eric J Jokela • Donald L Rockwood • M Czako • Ryan P Viator • Peer M Schenk • Bill Kovarik • Leslie H Groom • K C Falk • A Moreira • Kossonou Guillaume Anzoua • Eric Obeng • Christopher Q Lan • Karaj Singh Dhillon • R Raja • C Ganesh Kumar • A V Umakanth • Masazumi Kayama • David J Parrish • Naser Farrokhi • Anna Hale • Gary F Peter • R Ravikumar • Serge Bracconnier • Hari P Singh • P J Minogue • Kurt H Johnsen • C Eynck • L Marton • K MuthukumarappanProviding comprehensive coverage on biofuel crop production and the technological, environmental and resource issues associated with a sustainable biofuel industry, this book is ideal for researchers and industry personnel. Beginning with an introduction to biofuels and the challenges they face, the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Stephen Adkins • Nuria Alburquerque • Maria Luisa Badenes • Luciana Baldoni • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • J. R. Botella • Patrick Brown • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Luis A. Cañas • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Yuval Cohen • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Abhaya Dandekar • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • Kate Evans • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Vicente Vicente • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • Henryk Flachowsky • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Julie Graham • Dennis J. Gray • Magda-Viola Hanke • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Ossama Kodad • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Óscar Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Leandro Pena • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Alain Rival • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • Nicolas Roux • Eddo Rugini • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Trichoderma
by Claire Sallenave-Namont • Idit Kosti • Richard J Weld • Fabian Glaser • Yves Francois Pouchus • Walter M Jaklitsch • Csaba Vagvolgyi • Charles M Kenerley • Astrid R Mach-Aigner • Lea Atanasova • David Laughlin • Hexon Angel Contreras-Cornejo • Yariv Brotman • Nicolas Ruiz • Rainer Schuhmacher • Laszlo Manczinger • Catherine Roullier • B A Horwitz • Susanne Zeilinger • Rita Gorsche • Karina Petit • R L Melnick • Johanna M Steyaert • Sue Karagiosis • Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza • Mala Mukherjee • Sergio Casas-Flores • Bryan A Bailey • U S Singh • Najam S Zaidi • Ludovit Varecka • Walter A Vargas • Matthias G Steiger • Robert L Mach • Jose Lopez-Bucio • Randy Ortiz-Castro • Oliver Grovel • Monika Schmoll • Laszlo Kredics • Prasun K Mukherjee • Svetlana Kryštofová • Martin Simkovic • Lorant Hatvani • Alison Stewart • Irina S Druzhinina • Scott E Baker • Alfredo Herrera-EstrellaTrichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for it... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Trichoderma: Biology and Applications
by Claire Sallenave-Namont • Idit Kosti • Richard J Weld • Fabian Glaser • Yves Francois Pouchus • Walter M Jaklitsch • Csaba Vagvolgyi • Charles M Kenerley • Astrid R Mach-Aigner • Lea Atanasova • David Laughlin • Hexon Angel Contreras-Cornejo • Yariv Brotman • Nicolas Ruiz • Rainer Schuhmacher • Laszlo Manczinger • Catherine Roullier • B A Horwitz • Susanne Zeilinger • Rita Gorsche • Karina Petit • R L Melnick • Sue Karagiosis • Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza • Mala Mukherjee • Sergio Casas-Flores • Bryan A Bailey • U S Singh • Najam S Zaidi • Ludovit Varecka • Walter A Vargas • Matthias G Steiger • Robert L Mach • Jose Lopez-Bucio • Randy Ortiz-Castro • Oliver Grovel • Monika Schmoll • Laszlo Kredics • Prasun K Mukherjee • Svetlana Kryštofová • Martin Simkovic • Lorant Hatvani • Alison Stewart • Irina S Druzhinina • Scott E Baker • Alfredo Herrera-Estrella • Johanna SteyaertTrichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for it... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013