L John: 890 books
by Prof. Mick Price, Dr Matt Spangler, Annie Vénien
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;
Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;
Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as color, flavor and tenderness
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
Christmas Stories and Fairy Tales for Children - World’s Best Collection
30+ Stories to delight & amuse, Incl. 'Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)' and 'The Night Before Christmas'
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Christmas Stories World's Best Collection
Think about your love for wonderful and beautiful Christmas stories..Think about how you love to share stories and fairy tales with your children…Think about the excitement both you and they feel when sharing wonderful stories together…
Do...
by Collectif, Michael Morpurgo, Marcus Sedgwick
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2015
David Almond (Je m’appelle Mina), Tracy Chevalier (La jeune fille à la perle), Timothée de Fombelle (Le livre de Perle), Michael Morpurgo (Cheval de Guerre)…
Les plus grandes signatures de la littérature racontent la Première Guerre mondiale à partir d’objets emblématiques.
Un superbe...
by Dana Terry, Jean-Luc Cheri, Adam Coppola
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In this collection of 29 stories, you can visit a smoke-filled bar in a fantasy world, or experience a love affair with artificial intelligence. Maybe you'd prefer to go back in time and relive the experience of going to a baseball game with your dad, or go back even farther to live in a perilous...
Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization
Citizens without States
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization examines...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Embrace the best practices for initiating multicultural change in individuals, groups, and institutions
Higher education institutions have begun to take steps toward addressing multicultural issues on campuses, but more often than not, those in charge of the task have received little to no...
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Presidential Swing States
Why Only Ten Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter...
Gay Men at Midlife
Age Before Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
“Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. Ellis
Today, that literary blindness...
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...