Silva: 1118 books

Plants have been widely used to treat diseases, owing to the presence of bioactive compounds (phytochemicals) which play important roles in health promotion and disease prevention. In recent years, advances in chemical extraction techniques, lifestyle and dietary choices for human health have increased...

En momentos en que la credibilidad de la Iglesia católica se ve afectada por tantos escándalos de miembros de su clero, hace bien volver a los orígenes de la Iglesia y rencontrarse ahí con la fuerza de su testimonio inicial. Este libro busca las razones para creer en Jesús que se encuentran en el origen de la fe en él; para ello, indaga en los escritos paulinos del Nuevo Testamento.

In an effort to promote agro-enterprises and agro-industries as viable forms of inclusive development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) in collaboration with the International Association...

Creating Excellence, first published in 1984, proposes a rational yet visionary blend of approaches for a winning, strategy-driven culture that can provide you and your company with the confidence that gets results. Based on a programme of six essential leadership skills – vision, sensitivity,...

Mycology: Current and Future Developments is a book series that brings together the latest contributions to research on the biology, genetics, and industrial use of fungi. Each book chapter is written by academic / professional experts from around the world. The book series is of interest to mycologists...

In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to a rigorous academic debate on the possible socio-economic, political and cultural factors responsible for corrupt practices across the region. This book...

Teaching the Dimensions of Literacy provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy classroom and a multitude of instructional strategy lessons for classroom use with both monolingual and bilingual students. It proposes that teachers need...

Rules represent a simplified means of programming, congruent with our understanding of human brain constructs. With the advent of business rules management systems, it has been possible to introduce rule-based programming to nonprogrammers, allowing them to map expert intent into code in applications...

It’s the 26th Century—an age when the children of humanity sail the known Galaxy on billowing tall ships powered by dark energy. The Terran Union, an alliance of worlds banded under the leadership of Earth for mutual trade and defense, just ended a disastrous conflict with one of its own: the...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Familie, Frauen, Männer, Sexualität, Geschlechter, Note: 1,3, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Interesse unserer Forschungsgruppe galt im vorangestellten Sinne der Frage, ob homosexuelle oder 'queere' Elternschaft...

A história de um menino comunicativo e de origem humilde que começou como camelô, e se tornou o melhor entre eles, conquistando o título de o maior comunicador do país, dono de um carisma que se mantém inabalável desde que assinou seu primeiro contrato como locutor, em 1954. Com sua habilidade...

É na escuridão que brilha o amor verdadeiro. Paola: Perante Deus, meu marido prometeu me amar. Cuidar de mim. Ser meu amigo. Perante todos, disse que me amava. Que seríamos felizes. Viveríamos para sempre juntos. Mentiu em tudo. Até que um dia ele me disse que me mataria. E não mentiu. A partir...

Mutações coloca em discussão as transformações tecnocientíficas, as novas propostas de vida que a tecnologia vem apresentando e a derrocada de sólidos paradigmas morais, éticos e políticos. O livro procura discutir o conceito de mutação na filosofia, na antropologia, na biologia, na física,...

Dialogar com outros textos literários ou mesmo textos pertencentes ao universo jovem – sejam eles da música, do cinema, da televisão – parece ter sido a forma encontrada de fazer ficção pelos autores de obras juvenis. Apropriando-se de textos alheios das mais diversas formas – seja por...