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by H.D. Nels
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Jack Bisson is a welder from Calgary, sharing a business with his brother and disapproving, emotionally distant father. Rather than celebrating his birthday with his family, Jack prefers to avoid his father and spend the evening out on his own. Jack’s meets Willem in a gay bar, a meeting that will...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 2
Diseases, pests, food and other uses
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by W. H. D. Rouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of Jātaka tales. However, the author confesses to ‘ruthlessly’ altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a ‘phrase or a versicle’. He opens the book with a warning; “To this work I refer...
by H. D. Cerqueira de Souza
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This rather long Brief Carolingian Bibliography, named to make it sound more humble and therefore less prone to peer criticism, is a list of books on Charlemagne and the Carolingians published in English, French and Portuguese, gathered during my research to write From Charlemagne to my Father (published...
Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western...
by K.R. Hornbrook, C.F. Jr. Meier, J.M. Carney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than ten years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of the...
Systemic Risk
A Practitioner's Guide to Measurement, Management and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Systemic Risk provides readers with a wide-ranging practical guide to systemic risk in the financial system. It challenges the notion that systemic risk is exclusively about interconnectivities within the financial system, showing that past systemic risk crises have often involved a broader range...
by Alexander H.-D. Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book treats the mechanics of porous materials infiltrated with a fluid (poromechanics), focussing on its linear theory (poroelasticity). Porous materials from inanimate bodies such as sand, soil and rock, living bodies such as plant tissue, animal flesh, or man-made materials can look very different...
The School Reform Landscape
Fraud, Myth, and Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the...
Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm
Principles and Applications in Research Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding, genetics, anthropology, economics, and policy, this...
In search of scientific excellence
scientists' guide to public funding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
`Excellence is said to be the sole criterion in grant decision-making. How excellence is judged by funding organizations is difficult to grasp. This book helps scientists to acquire a grant for basic research from national and international funding organizations. It describes the processes involved and...
Onions and Allied Crops
Volume II: Agronomy Biotic Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Onions and Allied Crops
Volume I: Botany, Physiology, and Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by H.D Mustafa, Shabbir N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book intends to change the perception of modern day telecommunications. Communication systems, usually perceived as “dumb pipes”, carrying information / data from one point to another, are evolved into intelligently communicating smart systems. The book introduces a new field of cloud communications....