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by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This 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...
A Guide to Co-Teaching
New Lessons and Strategies to Facilitate Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Your go-to guide for co-teaching!
When you and a co-teacher bring together your individual skill sets and strategies, you'll create a more enjoyable, creative, and productive teaching experience—with more effective outcomes for students. Featuring updated research and case studies, this brand-new...
Railway Security
Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks.
Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation...
by Richard C.K. Jordan, Michael A.O. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A widely popular option for vision correction, contact lenses are also useful for the treatment of many serious optical disorders. Like any therapeutic tool, however, they have both positive and negative effects, and a variety of complications can result from their use. Diagnosing and treating these...
by Richard A. Pethrick, Taweechai Amornsakchai, Alastair M. North
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A valuable primer to help students and workers understand concepts and relationships which are developed more fully in other specialist texts on polymer molecular physics, Introduction to Molecular Motion in Polymers explains how molecular movement is determined by chemical structure, then how the...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
The Phantom of the Rocking R
Fictional Story of Ranch Life in Western North Dakota
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The Phantom of the Rocking R is a fictional story of ranching in western North Dakota. It covers a hundred years and four generations of ranching on the same ranch located in the beautiful, rugged badlands north of Medora, North Dakota. Matthew Kaiser set out on his adventure to the North Dakota Badlands...
The War on Terror and the Laws of War
A Military Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups. Understanding how the law of armed conflict applies to and regulates military...
by Herbert Hausmaninger, Richard Gamauf, George A. Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This book provides a thorough introduction to Roman property law by means of "cases," consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in the original Latin with accompanying English translations. The cases are selected and grouped so as to provide an overview of each topic and an orderly...
by Richard A. Marder, George J. Lian
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As more internists and family physicians increase their scope to include sports medicine, this book reaches beyond the orthopaedic surgery market to provide a one-source reference for the treatment of both simple and complex sports-related injuries. For ease of use, the book is divided into the various...
The Psychology of Marriage
An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their insights into adult romantic...
by Richard B. Thompson, Carol A. Fierke
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Enzymes as Sensors, Volume 589, the latest release in the Methods in Enzymology series, covers a variety of topics, including advances in genetically coded fluorescent sensors, enzymes as sensors, and bioapplications of electrochemical sensors and biosensors. Users will find a comprehensive discussion...
Diet Evaluation
A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets. The book discusses health promotion and disease prevention; the prevalence, risk factors, and major...
Behind Closed Doors
Violence in the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000...