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Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Sleep in the Military
Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U.S. Servicemembers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Given the unprecedented demands on the U.S. military since 2001 and the risks posed by stress and trauma, there has been growing concern about the prevalence and consequences of sleep problems. This first-ever comprehensive review of military sleep-related policies and programs, evidence-based interventions,...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
by Juan Gorelli Hernández, Inmaculada Marín Alonso, Juan Gorelli Hernández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2013
La relevancia de la negociación colectiva en el marco de un sistema democrático de relaciones laborales es evidente. Su papel entre las diferentes instituciones jurídico-laborales resulta absolutamente esencia. Por estos motivos siempre está justificado el estudio de la negociación. Pero si a...
The Superintendent's Planner
A Monthly Guide and Reflective Journal
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This reflective calendar and planning journal helps new and veteran superintendents address day-to-day concerns while keeping student achievement in perspective throughout the year.
Systemic Treachery: Mission 5
Black Ocean: Astral Prime, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
An old foe returns to collect a high price.
The syndicate had given her an ultimatum: disappear. Watched and wary, Fujita Hiroko obeyed for years, burying herself in work. Now one of the galaxy's most recognized faces, owner of the universe's must-see tourist trap, she can't hide any longer.
And...
Designing Research on Bilingual Development
Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions....
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
by Hilary J. Dibben B.Sc M.Sc S-LP(C), Anita Kess B.A. M.A. Dip.App.Ling
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The first and only speech therapy book for adults, offering speech rehabilitation for those with high functioning speech disorders. (Important to note is that you may not even realize that you have a speech disability: I didn't.) This book is very good value - it's equivalent to over 50 speech therapy...
Knowledge Coupling
New Premises and New Tools for Medical Care and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Knowledge Coupling discusses the premises upon which the coupling of knowledge to every action is based in the practice of medicine, as well as why these premises must change. In concrete terms, the volume explores the methods of structuring and using medical knowledge and medical records that enables...
by Raúl Pérez Guerra, Severiano Fernández Ramos, Raúl Pérez Guerra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Los estudios universitarios en Turismo, plasmados en el actual Grado en Turismo, contemplan la necesaria adquisición por el alumno de determinadas competencias relacionadas con la ordenación legal de las actividades, servicios y productos turísticos, así como de las políticas turísticas desarrolladas...