J Edward: 443 books

Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork—especially at the individual, family, and community levels—can help professionals plan and assess policies.

The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political...

Teach to the Common Core, differentiate instruction, and keep students engaged—all at the same time! With new Common Core–aligned tools and strategies, this second edition of a bestseller is an all-in-one math classroom management resource. Covering everything from lesson design to math-specific...

Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what...

This new book covers drinking water regulations such as disinfectant by-products, synthetic organics, inorganic chemicals, microbiological contaminants, volatile organic chemicals, radionuclides, fluoride, toxicological approaches to setting new national drinking water regulations, and trihalomethanes....

Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of communication, is distinguished by its focus on causing action. Its goal is not simply to communicate ideas, educate, or persuade,...

A practical and up-to-date tutorial on everything necessary to understand how to apply fiber in a communications application. covers components, system design, cable installation, and systems and fiber measurement. For technicians, associates, trainers, supervisors, or engineers that have to either design, install and/or maintain a practical fiber system in today's environment.

First published in 1981. Comprehensive overview of existing knowledge of Yersina enterocolitica, including laboratory models, clinical observations, and associated dieases.

Your days spent fruitlessly scouring textbooks and websites for credible vet information are over! Now you can get the whole story — the accurate story — all in one place. IntroducingThe Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Expert Consult, 8th Edition. Still the only comprehensive resource...

To philosophy's famous question: "Why is there something when there could be nothing?" this book replies: There is nothing. It is this Nothing's rift into annihilative antitheses that make world "seem." This implacable Descent to Nothingness exhibits the delusion of aliveness characterized...

This second edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect current clinical practice and the latest technical developments, including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, array CGH, QF-PCR, non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and next generation sequencing amongst others. The first section covers...

The analysis of the protein content of the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) is a central tool in the diagnosis of a number of diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis and Encephalitis. Proteins of the Cerebrospinal Fluid is a complete revision of the first edition published 16 years ago and reflects the...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...

This book and software package complements the traditional data analysis tools already widely available. It presents an introduction to the analysis of data using neural network functions such as multilayer feed-forward networks using error back propagation, genetic algorithm-neural network hybrids,...