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The Paleobiology of Australopithecus
Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925. This volume synthesizes the geological and paleontological context of the species in East and South Africa; covers individual sites, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Early Hominin Paleoecology
An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas. Recent advance... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Early Hominin Paleoecology
An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up?to?date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas.Recent advances in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Lecture Notes: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Lecture Notes #63)
Lecture Notes: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, to achieve a thorough understanding of how drugs work, their interaction with the body in health and disease, and how to use these drugs appropriately in clinical situations. Prese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Concrete Permeability and Durability Performance: From Theory to Field Applications (Modern Concrete Technology #23)
Durability and service life design of concrete constructions have considerable socio-economic and environmental consequences, in which the permeability of concrete to aggressive intruders plays a vital role. Concrete Permeability and Durability Performance provides deep insight into the permeabilit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications (Wiley - IEEE)
Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications offers a review of the most current research as well as the basic concepts, key ideas and powerful tools of energy harvesting wireless communications. Energy harvesting is both renewable and cheap and has the potential for many applications in future wireles... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Big Data: 10th CCF Conference, BigData 2022, Chengdu, China, November 18–20, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1709)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th CCF Conference on BigData 2022, which took place in Chengdu, China, in November 2022. The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include theories and met... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Powerhouse Voices: Amazing Experiences on Clubhouse (Volume 2)
by Naleighna Kai • J. L. Woodson • Mary B. Morrison • Michael Montgomery • Stephanie M. Freeman • Ehryck Gilmore • La Ammitai • Darryl Benally • Chi Love • Matt Sandy • Jacquie Branagan • Glen Rudin • Jeremy Burright • Dan Eisen • Bobby Del Rio • Marco RobinsonThe second book of Powerhouse Voices: Amazing Experiences on Clubhouse continues with more success stories that happened on an audio-only app that changed the world and helped people connect on a deeper level.Celebrities, influencers, life coaches, CEOs, authors, artists, and leading entrepreneurs s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
by Sarah Tobias • Genny Beemyn • Susan R. Rankin • Jian Chen • Marcia Ochoa • Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz • Valens Keja • Nora Butler Burke • Lucas Crawford • Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel • Aren Z. Aizura • Sel J. Hwahng • Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel • A. Finn Enke • Pauline Park • Jody L. Herman • Toby Beauchamp • Mickael Chacha EnriquezFrom Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Revising Eternity: 27 Latter-day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships
by Stephen Carter • Ted Smith • Dan Smith • John Doe • David Nicolay • Joey Franklin • Kevin Barnwell • Scott Blanding • Joseph Broom • T. Kay Browning • Michael Carpenter • Tyler Chadwick • Kelland Coleman • John B Dahl • Scot Denhalter • Theric Jepson • Clyde Kunz • Scott Russell Morris • Thomas W Murphy • Boyd Jay Petersen • Robert Raleigh • Robert A. Rees • Eric Robeck • Caleb Scoville • Kim Siever • Nicholas Don Smith • Andrew SpriggsMarriage’s central role in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distinguishes the faith while simultaneously reflecting widespread American beliefs. But what does Latter-day Saint marriage mean for men? Holly Welker presents a collection of essays exploring this question. The essayists pr... More
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Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding
by Weikai Yan • Salvatore Ceccarelli • Surinder S Banga • Nourollah Ahmadi • Jacqueline Batley • Baffour Badu-Apraku • José Crossa • Ravi Prakash Singh • Manjit Kang • Meike S Anderson • Robyn Anderson • Paolo Annicchiarico • Vivi N Arief • Jérôme Bartholomé • Kaye E Basford • Dharminder Bhatia • Darshan S Brar • Juan Burgueño • Tuong-Vi Cao • Hernán Ceballos • Sandeep Chapagain • Binu Cherian • Monica Danilevicz • Ian H DeLacy • Professor Dave Edwards • M A Fakorede • Cassie Tay Fernandez • Mahalingam Govindaraj • Cécile Grenier • Mehak Gupta • L A Hunt • Shailesh Vinay Joshi • Philomin Juliana • Anand Kanatti • M T Labuschagne • D Lloyd Evans • Suschismita Modal • Gurbachan S Miglani • Osval A Montesinos-López • E Obeng-Bio • S A Oyekale • Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez • Wolfgang H Pfeiffer • M Pillay • K N Rai • Lovepreet Singh • Rajveer Singh • Prasanta K Subudhi • A O Talabi • S N Tchala • Soodeh Tirnaz • Parminder S VirkSince the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the field of quantitative genetics, genomics and breeding has changed markedly. In response, only four chapters have been updated for this new edition, and the remaining 16 chapters are entirely new. This book presents state-of-the-art,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management (Indigenous Knowledge And Development Ser. #Vol. 39)
by David A. Cleveland • Roy Ellen • James Fraser • James Fairhead • Samara Brock • Melissa Leach • Christopher Shepherd • Patricia Howard • Johannes Lehmann • Delphine Renard • Daniela Soleri • Andrew Ainslie • Kojo Amanor • Jeff Bentley • Stephen Brush • Luisa Cortesi • Michael R Dove • Romain Duda • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares • Sandrine Gallois • Chris Hebdon • Samuel Guindo • Sascha Huditz • Amy Leigh Johnson • Alder Keleman • J Stephen Lansing • Rosalinda Hidalgo Ledesma • Francis Michael Ludlow • Doyle McKey • Citlalli López Binnqüist • Paul Van Mele • Tom Van Mourik • Lars Otto Naess • Florencia Palis • Fortunata Panzo Panzo • Victoria Reyes García • Gede Sedana • Professor Paul Sillitoe • Dawit Solomon • Sidi Toure • Thérèse De Vet • Wayan Windia • Gérard ZoundjiIndigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It addresses IK's potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply for a gr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Disaster Management
by David Allen • Rajesh Arora • Yoram Weiss • Corbin Curtis • Levent Kenar • Jameel Ali • Nandini Mukherjee • Giles Barrier • Robert Chilcott • Miklosh Bala • Tahir Ahmed Dar • Fernando Turégano • P Thullier • Scott P Hagen • Rostislav Kostadinov • Thibaut Pelat • Mesut Ortatatli • Marcia Trainer • Timothy P Cohen • Monideepa Roy • Douglas Paton • Steven Parrillo • Christopher R Foerster • J R Bhardwaj • Rajiv Goel • Dale Vincent • Shabir Dhar • Anders Ruter • Benjamin W Berg • Kamen Kanev • Kai-Lit Phua • Denis Josse • Sudeep Nayak • Christophor Dishovsky • Nibedita Ray-Bennett • Mark Huntington • Itamar Ashkenazi • Stoian Tonev • James Hagen • Gerald Kost • Yasamin Izadkhah • Mahmood Hosseini • Anish V Cherian • Ann Sakaguchi • Edward Waller • Maria Nirmala Christine • Richard Louie • Christopher Cocking • Rakesh Sharma • Aaron Richman • Rupa Gunaseelan • J Bajgar • Vinod Kaushik • Naveen C Kumar • Yuval Weiss • Preeti Arora • Michael Hust • Anju Goel • Jean B Bail • Raman Chawla • Suresh Bada MathDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Disaster Management: Medical Preparedness, Response and Homeland Security
by David Allen • Yoram Weiss • Corbin Curtis • Levent Kenar • Jameel Ali • Nandini Mukherjee • Giles Barrier • Miklosh Bala • Tahir Ahmed Dar • Fernando Turégano • P Thullier • Scott P Hagen • Rostislav Kostadinov • Thibaut Pelat • Mesut Ortatatli • Marcia Trainer • Timothy P Cohen • Monideepa Roy • Douglas Paton • Steven Parrillo • Christopher R Foerster • J R Bhardwaj • Rajiv Goel • Dale Vincent • Shabir Dhar • Anders Ruter • Benjamin W Berg • Kamen Kanev • Kai-Lit Phua • Denis Josse • Sudeep Nayak • Christophor Dishovsky • Nibedita Ray-Bennett • Mark Huntington • Itamar Ashkenazi • Stoian Tonev • James Hagen • Gerald Kost • Yasamin Izadkhah • Mahmood Hosseini • Anish V Cherian • Ann Sakaguchi • Edward Waller • Maria Nirmala Christine • Richard Louie • Christopher Cocking • Rakesh Sharma • Aaron Richman • Rupa Gunaseelan • J Bajgar • Vinod Kaushik • Naveen C Kumar • Yuval Weiss • Michael Hust • Anju Goel • Jean B Bail • Raman Chawla • Suresh Bada Math • Professor Robert ChilcottDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023