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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Advances in Quantitative Ethnography: Second International Conference, ICQE 2020, Malibu, CA, USA, February 1-3, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1312)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2020, held in February 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference has been postponed to 2021 and was held in online format. The 28 full papers were selected from 56 submissi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics
From theory and fundamentals to the latest advances in computational and experimental modal analysis, this is the definitive, updated reference on structural dynamics.This edition updates Professor Craig's classic introduction to structural dynamics, which has been an invaluable resource for practic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Communicating: A Social, Career, and Cultural Focus (Mycommunicationlab Ser.)
This highly-regarded introduction to communication book offers a comprehensive blend of basic communication theory, research, and skills, with a strong emphasis on relationship communication (social), workplace (career), and intercultural communication (culture). Communicating introduces the basic p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Stellar Short Novels
This is a collection of three short science fiction novels including: The Mortal and the Monster by Gordon R. Dickson (a delightful story of Nessie), The Greenhouse Defect by Andrew J. Offutt (science fiction locked room mystery cum ecological mayhem), and Oceans Away by Robert S. Weinstein (is it t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1976 -
Bacteriophages: Methods and Protocols, Volume 3 (Methods in Molecular Biology #1681)
Ranging from the evolution of pathogenicity to oceanic carbon cycling, the many and varied roles that bacteriophages play in microbial ecology and evolution have inspired increased interest within the scientific community. Bacteriophages: Methods and Protocols pulls together the vast body of knowle... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema
by Murray Leeder • Catherine O'Brien • R. Barton Palmer • David Sterritt • J. P. Telotte • Carl H. Sederholm • Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock • Regina M. Hansen • Katherine A. Fowkes • Simon Bacon • David Hauka • Russ Hunter • Barry C. Knowlton • Eloise R. KnowltonThe first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxietie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Bovine Tuberculosis
by B. Coleman • Y. Wu • R. Reid • A. Arunachalam • H. A. Bahamonde • L. Borrelli • S. Briggs • G. Caballé • C. Carrasco • S. X. Chang • C. Concha • S. K. Dhyani • F. Dube • C. Dupraz • M. E. Fernández • C. Figueroa • V. Gargaglione • H. E. Garrett • M. A. Gold • Professor Andrew Gordon • J. Gyenge • A. K. Handa • N. E. Hansen • M. F. Hawke • S. Jose • P. D. Kemp • R. L. Knowles • B. M. Kumar • N. Lamersdorf • G. J. Lawson • M. V. Lencinas • C. E. Lloyd • G. Martínez Pastur • R. Moore • B. Müller-Using • P. Neira • S. M. Newman • S. Ormaechea • V. P. Papanastasis • X. Peng • P. L. Peri • D. J. Pilbeam • A. Rosati • J. Ruiz-Mirazo • V. Rusch • M. Sarasola • J. M. Schwenke • V. Schwenke • R. Soler • N. B. Stolpe • L. E. Tejera • N. V. Thevathasan • A.R. von Müller • W. Wang • T. Ward • L. Zabek • E. Zagal • Z. ZhuThis book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in som... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Calculus: Single Variable (5th Edition)
by Deborah Hughes Hallett • Deborah Hughes-Hallett • Daniel E. Flath • Andrew M. Gleason • Patti Frazer Lock • Karen R. Rhea • Andrew Pasquale • Sheldon P. Gordon • Douglas Quinney • William G. Mccallum • David O. Lomen • David Lovelock • Jeff Tecosky-Feldman • Thomas W. Tucker • Joseph ThrashThe fifth edition of Calculus brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innova... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management (Indigenous Knowledge And Development Ser. #Vol. 39)
by David A. Cleveland • Roy Ellen • James Fraser • James Fairhead • Samara Brock • Melissa Leach • Christopher Shepherd • Patricia Howard • Johannes Lehmann • Delphine Renard • Daniela Soleri • Andrew Ainslie • Kojo Amanor • Jeff Bentley • Stephen Brush • Luisa Cortesi • Michael R Dove • Romain Duda • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares • Sandrine Gallois • Chris Hebdon • Samuel Guindo • Sascha Huditz • Amy Leigh Johnson • Alder Keleman • J Stephen Lansing • Rosalinda Hidalgo Ledesma • Francis Michael Ludlow • Doyle McKey • Citlalli López Binnqüist • Paul Van Mele • Tom Van Mourik • Lars Otto Naess • Florencia Palis • Fortunata Panzo Panzo • Victoria Reyes García • Gede Sedana • Professor Paul Sillitoe • Dawit Solomon • Sidi Toure • Thérèse De Vet • Wayan Windia • Gérard ZoundjiIndigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It addresses IK's potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply for a gr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (Jeffersonian America)
by Gordon S. Wood • Andrew Burstein • Jon Meacham • R. B. Bernstein • Annette Gordon-Reed • Jan Ellen Lewis • J. Jefferson Looney • Brian Steele • Nancy Isenberg • Francis D. Cogliano • Joanne B. Freeman • Barbara Oberg • Christine Coalwell McDonald • Robert M. S. McDonald • Richard Samuelson • Herbert SloanWho was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Advances in Broadband Communication and Networks
by David Johnson • David Burton • Li Li • Homayoun Nikookar • Mark Bishop • Peter Fischer • Evangelos Bekiaris • F. Zhang • Ming Xu • R. J. Evans • C. Lin • Z. Liu • Thomas Magedanz • Y. Li • J. I. Agbinya • O. Sevimli • S. Lal • S. Selvadurai • A. Al-Jumaily • S. Reisenfeld • Graham I Hooker • Ross Hennessey • Craig Lobsey • Andrew Maclean • Andrew D. Hellicar • Kieran Greene • Greg Hislop • Stephen Hanham • Nasiha Nikolic • Jia Dn • Greg P. Timms • John D. Bnnton • Michael L. Brothers • John W. Archer • Val Dyadyuka • Leigh Stokes • B. Yang • Y. Mo • B. Wicks • C. Ta-Minh • G. Felic • K. Wang • P. Nadagonda • T. Walsh • E. Skafidas • Kuan Lun Huang • Jinhong Yuan • Hajime Suzukia • Iain B. Collings • George Lam • Mark Hedley • Jian Andrew Zhang • Eu-Suk Shim • Jee-Hyun Kim • Hyoung-Kyu Song • Young-Hwan You • J. Renato Nascimento • Marius Iulian Corici • Fabricio Carvalho de Gouveia • Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye • Eugene Zilberg • Murad Karrar • Saroj Lal • Budi Thomas Jap • Sara Lal • Frank Chiang • Robin Braun • Bashar Ramadanny • Ibrahim S. Raada • Xiaojing Huang • Raad RaadBroadband communications has become the major focus for industry for offering rich multimedia IP services in next generation networks. This book deals with the state-of-the-art and the underlying principles of key technologies which facilitate broadband telecommunications including millimetre wave g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Keywords #11)
by Walter Johnson • Andrew Ross • Lisa Nakamura • Angela D. Dillard • George Lipsitz • Sunaina Maira • Nikhil Pal Singh • E. Patrick Johnson • Timothy Mitchell • Carla L. Peterson • George J. Sanchez • Ashley Dawson • Josh Kun • Caleb Smith • Kandice Chuh • Lisa Lowe • Ann Cvetkovich • Christopher Newfield • George Yúdice • Alys Eve Weinbaum • Brian T. Edwards • Leerom Medovoi • Lauren Berlant • Junaid Rana • Erin Manning • Cynthia G. Franklin • Julie Sze • Scott Herring • Christina B. Hanhardt • Rebecca Wanzo • Juana María Rodríguez • Marc Bousquet • Laura Briggs • Sandra M. Gustafson • Erica Kohl-Arenas • Kevin K. Gaines • Henry Yu • David Kazanjian • Dean Spade • Siobhan B. Somerville • Crystal Parikh • Lee Bebout • Rebecca Hill • Jack Halberstam • Kirsten Silva Gruesz • Eric Lott • David F. Ruccio • Marlene L. Daut • Kyla Schuller • Jentery Sayers • Robert McRuer • Matthew Frye Jacobson • Alyshia Gálvez • Kembrew McLeod • Daniel Martinez HoSang • Valerie Rohy • Joseph Lowndes • Amaranth Borsuk • Robert Fanuzzi • John Kuo Wei Tchen • Lauren Klein • Miriam Posner • Tara McPherson • Jodi Melamed • Vermonja R. Alston • Stephanie Smallwood • J. Kēhaulani Kauanui • June Wayee Chau • Oneka LaBennett • Tavia Nyong’oIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020