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DaimlerChrysler Post-Merger Integration (A)
Describes the background, process, and aftermath of the merger between Daimler-Benz of Germany and Chrysler Corp. of America. Describes the economic structure and trends of the world automobile industry at the turn of the century as well as the individual histories and strategies of the two firms. F... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Biggest Stick: The Employment Of Artillery Units In Counterinsurgency
This study uses a comparative analysis of the Malayan Emergency, the American experience in Vietnam, and Operation Iraqi Freedom to examine the role and effectiveness of artillery units in complex counterinsurgency environments. Through this analysis, four factors emerge which impact the employment ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies: Narratives of Hope, Power, and Vision
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of politic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Reclaiming Writing: Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions
With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)
by Robert P. Anderson • A. Townsend Peterson • Enrique Martínez-Meyer • Miguel Nakamura • Richard G. Pearson • Jorge Soberón • Miguel B. AraújoThis book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative vi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
How Learning Works
by Marsha C. Lovett • Richard E. Mayer • Michael W. Bridges • Marie K. Norman • Michele Dipietro • Susan A. AmbroseDistilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to a college or university teacher, this book introduces seven general principles of how students learn. The authors have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Rodent Pests and Their Control
by David Cowan • Adrian Meyer • Roger Quy • Hans-Joachim Pelz • David W Macdonald • Brian Wood • Stephen Battersby • Richard Shore • Michael Fall • Colin Prescott • Grant SingletonThe most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment. In the last two decades, the science and practice of rodent control has faced new legislation on rodenticides, the pests' increasing resistance to chemical cont... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
California Science
by Dinah Zike • Jay K. Hackett • Richard H. Moyer • Joanne Vasquez • Mulugheta Teferi • Kathryn Leroy • Dorothy J. T. Terman • Gerald F. WheelerAn introductory science textbook.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Science 4th Grade (California Edition)
by Dinah Zike • Jay K. Hackett • Richard H. Moyer • Joanne Vasquez • Mulugheta Teferi • Kathryn Leroy • Dorothy J. T. Terman • Gerald F. WheelerThe text contains lessons on: Life Science: Living things need Energy, Living things and their Environment. Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals, Slow changes on Earth, Fast changes on Earth and Physical Science: Electricity, Magnetism.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Rodent Pests and Their Control
by David Cowan • Adrian Meyer • Roger Quy • Alan P Buckle • Hans-Joachim Pelz • David W Macdonald • Brian Wood • Stephen Battersby • Richard Shore • Robert H Smith • Michael Fall • Colin Prescott • Grant SingletonThe most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment. In the last two decades, the science and practice of rodent control has faced new legislation on rodenticides, the pests' increasing resistance to chemical cont... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
by Mark David • James Sanders • Clifford S. Snyder • Hans Paerl • William Crumpton • Denis Gilbert • Alan Blumberg • Daniel J. Conley • Andrew N. Sharpley • Thomas Bianchi • Thomas W. Simpson • Thomas Armitage • Donelson Wright • Holly Stallworth • Catherine L. Kling • Virginia H. Dale • David Wangsness • Kenneth Reckhow • Kyle Mankin • Richard Lowrance • Robert W. Howarth • Judith L. Meyer • Walter Boynton • James OpaluchThe goal of the book is to examine scientific advances since 2000 that may have increased understanding and options in three general areas related to hypoxia: Characterization the Cause(s) of Hypoxia. The physical, biological and chemical processes that affect the development, persistence and exte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Poultry Health: A Guide for Professionals
by Michael Jones • Chris Morrow • David Parsons • Peter Cargill • Scott Reid • Patrick Garland • Paul F McMullin • Filip Van Immerseel • Damer Blake • Janet M Bradbury • Andrew Broadbent • Ian H Brown • Vanessa Ceeraz • Jens Peter Christensen • Jane K. Cook • Vivien Coward • Annatachja DeGrande • Fien DeMeyer • Evelien Dierick • Richard Ducatelle • Kannan Ganapathy • Evy Goosens • Hafez Mohamed Hafez • Rowena Hansen • Rüdiger Hauck • Grant Hayes • Rikke Heidemann Olsen • Richard Jennison • Richard C. Jones • Roberto LaRagione • Jade Passey • Androniki Psifidi • Joan A. Smyth • Victoria Smyth • Barry Thorp • Fiona Tomley • Paul WigleyPoultry are a major source of valuable high-quality protein for much of the world's population, so food security is heavily dependent on maintaining poultry health. They are also increasingly important as specialist hobby animals in back-yard flocks. Despite this, veterinarians specializing in the c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Kitty Literature: An Illustrated Collection for Cat Lovers
by William Shakespeare • L. Frank Baum • Rudyard Kipling • Miguel De Cervantes • Edgar Allan Poe • Charles Darwin • Emily Dickinson • Mark Twain • Charles Dickens • Louisa May Alcott • Alexandre Dumas • Lewis Carroll • Henry David Thoreau • Oscar Wilde • John Greenleaf Whittier • Walter Scott • Washington Irving • Anton Chekhov • Lafcadio Hearn • Beatrix Potter • John Keats • Bram Stoker • P. G. Wodehouse • Harriet Beecher Stowe • H. P. Lovecraft • Carl Sandburg • E. E. Cummings • John Muir • Leonardo Da Vinci • William Wordsworth • W. B. Yeats • Charles Baudelaire • William Carlos Williams • The Brothers Grimm • Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Richard Stephens • Arthur Rackham • Vincent Van Gogh • John James Audubon • Paul Gauguin • Pierre Bonnard • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes • Teddy Roosevelt • Louis Wain • Samuel F. B. Morse • Goya • Marc Chagall • Ando Hiroshige • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Pablo Picasso • Thomas Eakins • Henri RousseauPeople have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Molecular Breeding in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum: Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Yield
by Pradeep Kumar • Natasha Sharma • Shabir Hussain Wani • Santosh Kumar • Muhammad Sarwar Khan • Charan Singh • Rod Snowdon • Pardeep Kumar • Professor David Edwards • Andrea Acuna • Muhammad Amjad Ali • John Amalraj • Maria Arguello • Arushi Arora • Diana Ballesteros • Bhoja R Basnet • Salma Bhyan • Richard Boyles • Faïçal Brini • Yibo Cao • S Antony Ceasar • Nidhi Chakma • Subhadra Chakrabarty • Moutoshi Chakraborty • Harmeet Singh Chawla • Dharampal Choudhary • Mukesh Choudhary • M C Dagla • Mônica Furaste Danilevicz • Abhijit Kumar Das • Haixiao Dong • Kate Dreher • Susanne Dreisigacker • Xiaorong Fan • Maria Laura Federico • Cassandria Tay Fernandez • Ertugrul Filiz • Monika Garg • Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes • Karama Hamdi • K Hariprasanna • Firoz Hossain • Guanghui Hu • Zhaorong Hu • B S Jat • Caifu Jiang • Faiz Ahmad Joyia • Mehar Kamboj • Chikkappa Karjagi • Lovenpreet Kaur • Emna Khanfir • Rajesh Khulbe • Bhupender Kumar • Firat Kurt • Zhao Li • Yun-Hua Liu • Ningthaipuilu Longmei • Damar Lopez-Arredondo • Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes • T Maharajan • Jacob Marsh • R. Esten Mason • Clémentine Mercé • Ghulam Mustafa • Vignesh Muthusamy • Sudha K Nair • Zhongfu Ni • Kazutoshi Okuno • Geoffrey Onaga • Huiru Peng • Jorge Fernando Pereira • Sacn Perera • Bhukya Prakash • Lydia Pramitha • P Rajendrakumar • Mantena Raju • Savaram Vr Rao • Ali Razzaq • P Sanjana Reddy • Trenton Roberts • G Victor Roch • Umesh R Rosyara • Pawan Saini • Sindhu Sareen • Gajanan Saykhedkar • André Schaffasz • Armin Scheben • Tariq Shehzad • Sonia Sheoran • Ishwar Singh • Prabha Singh • Vishal Singh • Nithya Subramanian • Qixin Sun • Madhumal Thayil Vinayan • Yiqiao Wang • Steffen Windpassinger • Kerstin Wydra • Yinping Jiao • Mingming Xin • Ines Yacoubi • Pranjal Yadava • Yingyin Yao • Kuohai Yu • Yaping Yuan • Pervez Haider Zaidi • Hong-Bin Zhang • Meiping Zhang • Zhiwu Zhang • Rajkumar U ZunjareThe global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021