University Of Florida Press: 327 books
The Shark Attack Files
Investigating the World's Most Feared Predator
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
In 1958, a panel funded by the Office of Naval...
When the Seas Rise
Global Changes and Local Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Sea levels are rising around the globe, and in Florida--with...
Microbes to Ecosystems
Charting Biodiversity through Informatics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. In Microbes to Ecosystems, follow the scientists, researchers,...
Plugged In
Cybersecurity in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. Cybersecurity is the most pressing issue of our increasingly...
Harney Flats
A Florida Paleoindian Site
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
"Represents another stepping stone toward our understanding of life in the Southeast 10,000–11,000 years ago."--Southeastern Archaeology "The Paleoindian component at Harney Flats is a benchmark in early [human] studies in Florida and the Southeast."--North American Archaeologist...
Born to Learn
Innovations in Early Childhood Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. The human brain’s largest and most important developmental...
Tapping the Source
Inside UF's Water Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Florida has 51,858 miles of rivers and streams,...
The Disease Detectives
Unraveling How Viruses Go Viral
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The experts at UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute make it their mission answering baffling questions such as how is a pig-borne disease transmitted in a Muslim country, what kinds of parasites do Florida ticks carry and how has a cholera strain from Nepal evolved in Haiti? Gatorbytes highlight for...
The Wind Engineers
Building a Hurricane-Safe House
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Hurricanes and tornadoes--and the devastation they...
The Democracy Machine
How One Engineer Made Voting Possible For All
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Driven to make it possible for people with disabilities to vote like everyone else, engineer Juan Gilbert, a specialist in human-centered computing, spent 10 years perfecting Prime III, software that does just that. His creation has already been tested in the real world and is earning rave reviews...
No Student Left Behind
Transforming Education in the Online Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
For many years, higher education was mostly limited...
The Diabetes Epidemic
Controlling, Curing, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society’s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
The Diabetes Epidemic explores the complicated...
Building a Better Tomato
The Quest to Perfect "The Scandalous Fruit"
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry Klee and renowned taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk teamed up and are hot on the trail of a specimen that will have you thinking you just picked it in your own back yard. Gatorbytes highlight...
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
Exploring the Spaces in Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools...