M Thomas: 903 books
Times and Tides of Tuberculosis
Perceptions Revealed in Literature, Keats to Sontag
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This is a study of changing attitudes—of patients, the medical community, and society in general—towards tuberculosis, over the course of a century and a half. As TB became better understood scientifically, treatment of the disease changed for the better, and the attitudes became more hopeful....
by M. Lane Bruner, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion; in fact...
Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists
Experience and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars...
La bataille d'Austerlitz
Le génie militaire de Napoléon face à la troisième coalition
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille d’Austerlitz en moins d’une heure !
Dans la nuit du 1er au 2 décembre 1805, les armées de l’empereur des Français, Napoléon Ier, de l’empereur du Saint Empire romain germanique, François II, et du tsar de Russie, Alexandre...
by Gloria Ciria, Manuel Galindo, Mario Velázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2018
La globalización económica, las reformas institucionales neoliberales y el cambio de enfoque —de uno produccionista a otro conservacionista— han modificado a las comunidades pesqueras y a las costas de México. El proceso de desmantelamiento de la actividad pesquera inició en la década de...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants
Seen but Not Heard
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
As global societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. This book addresses this lapse by presenting interdisciplinary perspectives...
by Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...
Verner Suomi
The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist Verner Suomi, who, in...
by Thomas Steckler, N.H. Kalin, J.M.H.M. Reul
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
The Handbook of Stress and the Brain focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain, and in turn, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage
Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management
by Dr O. Huguenin-Elie, Dr L. Delaby, Dr K. Klumpp
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Assesses latest research on how grasslands function
Surveys best practice in sustainable grassland management
Considers wider aspects of sustainability such as ecosystem services and biodiversity
Improving Energy Decisions
Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only...
Insurrection: La Guerre de la Reine Araignée, T2
La Guerre de la Reine Araignée, T2
Language: French
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Un groupe d'aventuriers drows des plus expérimentés et cernés par le chaos de la guerre entament un dangereux périple dans la redoutable Outreterre.
Leur quête les conduira au coeur même des ténèbres et l'Outreterre s'en trouvera ébranlée. Si d'aventure les puissants elfes noirs faiblissent,...
Organoselenium Compounds in Biology and Medicine
Synthesis, Biological and Therapeutic Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Organoselenium shows incredible promise in medicine, particularly cancer therapy. This book discusses organoselenium chemistry and biology in the context of its therapeutic potential, taking the reader through synthetic techniques, bioactivity and therapeutic applications.
Divided into three sections,...