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This anthology of original essays by leading thinkers in the field gathers together in one place voices from diverse theological and practical commitments. Unlike other publications on Jewish bioethics, it adopts an explicitly pluralistic stance. The...

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character...

An American of wide-ranging interests and overflowing energy, Benjamin Thompson applied his scientific and technical knowledge to the improvement of public service and welfare institutions in Bavaria (a service for which he was made Count Rumford),...

International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably...

In the quest for sustainability, we strive to meet our present needs without sacrificing the same opportunity for future generations. Our success or failure depends on our ability to think in "systems," integrating environmental, social, and economic...

Our Energy Future is an introductory textbook for the study of energy production, alternative and renewable fuels, and ways to build a sustainable energy future. Jones and Mayfield explore the creation and history of fossil fuels, their impact on the...

The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used...

William Latham Christian Le Bas Persistence of firm innovative behavior became an important topic in applied industrial organization with the publication of the seminal empirical work of P. Geroski and his colleagues (1997). Evidence that firms innovate...

Winner of the Best Book Award in the 2009 Garden Writers Association Media Awards Named an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009 In this introduction to sustainable landscaping...

Pediatrician David Hellyer (b. 1913) records his family history and the life experiences that led to his founding of the 600-acre Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Eatonville, Washington.Book InformationISBN 9780295996493Author David...

For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies. Information is that which exists between elements; bodies are the elements themselves. One is abstract the other corporeal. One is...

For 25 years, Adolph Murie, one of North America's greatest naturalists, spent his summers in Mount McKinley National Park (since renamed Denali National Park) tracking, recording, and interpreting the lives of grizzlies in one of their few remaining...

'Book InformationISBN 9780231056328Author Theodosius DobzhanskyFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the...

Buckwheat Germplasm in the World offers an overview of this globally important crop, including its general characterization and genetic diversity-particularly in Russia, China, India and Eastern Europe. The book presents the latest research on molecular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780080434711Author Jean A. SwankFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Elsevier / The LancetPublisher Elsevier Health SciencesWeight(grams) 400g

This publication contains 36 papers presented at four symposia during the Thirty-first COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Birmingham, UK during 1996. Papers reflect the following symposia themes: life science support system studies; production,...

The majority of this volume is devoted to the subject of high energy radiation from galactic and extragalactic black holes. The volume also covers future space missions to primitive bodies and fine structures in the middle atmosphere and their origin. In...

This book is primarily intended to assist candidates studying geology for the Ordinary Level of G.c.E., and examinations of comparable standard, but it should also be found useful by the" reader requiring a rapid conspectus of the geological history of...

These consumable worksheets develop content reading skills. Lessons are supported by lesson outlines and visual interpretation, graphs, charts and diagrams. The worksheets provide vocabulary development, graphic organizers, and Cloze tests to maximize...

The book is divided into two parts, the first one covering the concepts and methodologies, and the second describing the tools and integrated environments that were developed in those projects. In this way, we hope that the reader will find the book...

Type I collagen is a popular biomaterial for use in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications owing to its abundance in natural tissues and its natural functions within the body as a scaffold material with favourable cell-interactive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832543648Author Siegfried WeisenburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Arachidonic acid (AA) is an -6 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in the phospholipids of the membranes of the human body's cells, and is abundant in the brain, muscles, and liver. This fatty acid is particularly obtained from meat products including...

This book explores applications of decision-making primarily in health care but also presents examples dealing with environmental challenges and international affairs. It gives recent evidence of failures in each of these sectors and attempts to explain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490793573Author John BrightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 581g

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The carvings by prehistoric, pre-agricultural people emphasise predators, and vultures in particular are even...

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The aim of this volume is to introduce new topics on the areas of difference, differential, integrodifferential and integral equations, evolution equations, control and optimisation theory, dynamic system theory, queuing theory and electromagnetism and...

FAQs About the Use of Animals in Science: A handbook for the scientifically perplexed offers readers that are not extensively educated in science a balanced critique of the practice of using animals in scientific research. This book is about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415256335Author Leonardo MoledoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ediciones RobinbookPublisher Ediciones RobinbookWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415256397Author Juan ScaliterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ediciones RobinbookPublisher Ediciones RobinbookWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832542771Author Janina MothesFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium. Shrinking land resources, weather aberrations, deterioration of land quality, and the globalization and liberalization of market economies have become...

First published in 1945, The Impact and Value of Science is both a plea and a challenge: a plea for more and more science – not to increase the sum total of technical knowledge nor to extend present material amenities, but in the words of the author for...

Addressing the most critical issues in the management of emerging diseases throughout the world, experts in plant pathology from internationally renowned institutes share their research and examine key literature. They look at both traditional pathology...

From geometric integration and its applications, and linear programming and condition numbers under the real number computational model, to chaos in finite difference schemes, these essays explore the foundational issues of computational mathematics.Book...

Volume four of the all-new "Handbook of Neuropsychology" addresses the disorders of visual behaviour. This work reviews the neurophysiology of spatial vision, as well as recent work on recognition deficits for faces, objects and words. Also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780080436401Author Jian YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Elsevier / The LancetPublisher Elsevier Health SciencesWeight(grams) 330g

This essay is based on Kenneth Arrow's celebrated impossibility theorem stating that under a few quite reasonable assumptions, collective choice cannot be simultaneously logical and fair. The purpose here is to argue that planning procedures can reduce...