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Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status...... more

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activities. In addition, situated choice coordinates the offender’s willingness to end a life of crime with the social structural...... more

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one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential to turn agricultural crops or...... more

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evolutionary significance. It is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria...... more

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Management of critically-ill trauma patients presents multiple challenges that are unique to this pa... more

For forty years on either side of the death of John Wesley in 1791, Thomas Coke was a key figure in the development of...... more

Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-medi... more

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Drylands are a sizeable part of the world’s potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the...... more

scholars who have studied, lived through, and taught those issues over the years. It offers a refreshing understanding of...... more

Asian Popular Culture explores the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime... more

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Contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Econo... more

This book looks at the African diasporas as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived experiences, and...... more

reviewed and selected, resulting in 38 papers from a total of 52 submissions....... more

This book contains a series of review chapters from the world s leaders in herpesvirus research. It is designed as a...... more

such a way as to gain information from the data and determine significance. Visual analytics is the science of analytical...... more

, comprised of rows of planted trees that may be destined for pulp or sawmills after only a few years of growth, appear to have...... more

This work derives from a conference discussing the history of computing in education. This conference is the first of...... more

Presenting the reader with provocative articles that critically examine the morality of the war on t... more

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Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status...... more

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began...... more

Focuses on the implementation of professional development for early childhood educators, describing a number of models...... more

This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea...... more

historical, social-scientific, cultural/critical, and interdisciplinary approaches. It explains what community journalism is as a...... more

Calvin@500 is an exercise in appreciative criticism and appropriation of the Reformer’s work for chu... more

intergenerational social immobility and inequality in circumstances be measured? What is a fair way to form partnerships? How vulnerable...... more

by indigenous authors, provides unique insights into the seven countries being examined. Each chapter brings a unique...... more

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Evidence from Insurance Industries of Developed Countries.- A Program for Minimzing the Private and Public Cost...... more

The utlitiarian economist and Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi and the liberal egalitarian philosopher John Rawls were two...... more

. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent...... more

The motivation underlying our development of a "handbook" of creativity was different from what usually is described by...... more

and methodological reflection were some of the constituents in a quite different mélange in which knowledge of nature was...... more

University of Pennsylvania. John A. Rice, independent scholar, is a member of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschungin Salzburg....... more

, in July 2009. This title focuses on a number of Latin American countries, on the understudied topics of poverty and...... more

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Over the past four decades, there has been immense progress in every area of lignin science, ranging... more

with warlords formed the bedrock of a medieval economy that enabled the consolidation of the state....... more

The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast...... more