Laura F : 53 books

The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Urology has been fully updated to reflect the significant advances in medical and surgical opportunities since the previous edition, including pelvic laparoscopic and robotic surgery, new drugs in incontinence and male sexual health, and new laser devices...

A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet...

The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

​​This book contains three sections. Part I includes an introductory chapter and an applied chapter on conducting a risk assessment.  Part II provides a description of how the measures were organized and quick-view tables that provide easy access to measures with enough information to allow for...

Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming  Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production  Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world

This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet measures of many aspects of flourishing...

Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases...

This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict. It presents a robust framework, based in developmental psychopathology, for evaluating current research on this topic for strength of design, methodology, and documentation....

Il presente volume raccoglie i contributi scientifici presentati al convegno internazionale Arte e committenza nel Lazio nell'età di Cesare Baronio, organizzato in occasione del IV centenario della morte del cardinale sorano (1538-1607), storico della Chiesa e autore degli Annales Ecclesiastici....

Envuelta en un ambiente onírico mezclado con humedad fluvial, entre grumos de un oscuro pasado de brujería y veneración a abominables entes ultraterrenos, Arkham muestra sus centenarias entrañas en un viaje temporal donde se van sucediendo destinos inexorables e inevitables encuentros, libros...

Diferentemente da ética aristotélica, a ética do cuidado não visa a recomendar virtudes para a vida boa no sentido de Aristóteles nem, distintamente da de Kant, a impor regras à vontade humana, mas nos chama a atender às necessidades que decorrem do fato que estamos aí para ser e compartilhar...