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Coxiella burnetii: Recent Advances And New Perspectives In Research Of The Q Fever Bacterium (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #984)
Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease found worldwide. The bacterium is a fascinating example of intracellular parasitism that has uniquely evolved to thrive in the most inhospitable of cellular compartments-the phagolysosome. Understanding how C. burnetii resists... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
A History of American Economic Thought: Mainstream and Crosscurrents (The Routledge History of Economic Thought)
This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today – the United States of America. A History of American Economic Thought is a comprehensive study of American economics as it has evo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Reef-Platform Coral Boulders
The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.e. large coral boulders) on tropical coastlines for understanding both modern and pre-historical (Holocene) high-magnitude marine inundation events. There has been a rapid groundswe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Coral Reef Remote Sensing: A Guide for Mapping, Monitoring and Management
Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated processes, at regional to global scales. With overwhelming evidence that much of Earth's reefs are in decline, our need for large-scale, repeatable assessmen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide
Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide sheds light on these important questions and more: Why has corruption flourished in Illinois even as reformers struggle for ethical change? How do the three regions of the state compete for resources? How does the legislature work? When did the state become so bl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1988 -
Educating Exceptional Children
Authored by luminaries in the special education field, EDUCATING EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN introduces readers to each of the thirteen disability categories, and to the needs of children who are gifted and talented. The fourteenth edition continues to focus on the strengths of previous editions, while als... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Invasion Biology: Hypotheses and Evidence (CABI Invasives Series)
by James Griesemer • Gordon A. Fox • Julie L. Lockwood • Sabrina Amador-Vargas • Tim M. Blackburn • Raul Rennó Braga • Phillip Cassey • Simon Debille • Martin Enders • Felix Erhard • Alejandro G. Farji-Brener • Pablo García-Díaz • Lorena Gómez Aparicio • Christopher J. Lortie • Caroline Müller • Regina Nordheimer • Petr Pysek • Samuel M. Scheiner • Julian Starzer • Olena Torchyk • Jean Ricardo VituleInvasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy
by Bertha Chiroro • Gérard Tchouassi • Saïda Yahya-Othman • Ibrahima Hathie • Mohamadou Sy • Jenny Hodgson • Tade Akin Aina • Kwaku Asante Darko • Halima Mahomed • Christa L. Kuljian • James Muzondidya • Marwa El Daly • Connie Ngondi-Houghton • Fondo Sikod • Andrew Kingman • Alan Fowler • Susan Wilkinson-Maposa • Kayode Samuel • Bhekinkosi Moyo • Robert Muponde • Mohammed A. BakariThe past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
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 -
Kitty Literature: An Illustrated Collection for Cat Lovers
by William Shakespeare • L. Frank Baum • Rudyard Kipling • Miguel De Cervantes • Edgar Allan Poe • Charles Darwin • Emily Dickinson • Mark Twain • Charles Dickens • Louisa May Alcott • Alexandre Dumas • Lewis Carroll • Henry David Thoreau • Oscar Wilde • John Greenleaf Whittier • Walter Scott • Washington Irving • Anton Chekhov • Lafcadio Hearn • Beatrix Potter • John Keats • Bram Stoker • P. G. Wodehouse • Harriet Beecher Stowe • H. P. Lovecraft • Carl Sandburg • E. E. Cummings • John Muir • Leonardo Da Vinci • William Wordsworth • W. B. Yeats • Charles Baudelaire • William Carlos Williams • The Brothers Grimm • Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Richard Stephens • Arthur Rackham • Vincent Van Gogh • John James Audubon • Paul Gauguin • Pierre Bonnard • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes • Teddy Roosevelt • Louis Wain • Samuel F. B. Morse • Goya • Marc Chagall • Ando Hiroshige • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Pablo Picasso • Thomas Eakins • Henri RousseauPeople have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Aphids as Crop Pests
by Mark Stevens • Jeremy Pritchard • Jacques Brodeur • Rosemary Rosemary • Rufus Isaacs • Christophe Lacomme • Jean-Philippe Deguine • Robert R Martin • Caroline S Awmack • Sebastiano Barbagallo • Chris Bass • James R Bell • A Nicholas Birch • Roger Blackman • Thierry Brévault • Toby J Bruce • Mauricio G Chang • Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza • Piero Cravedi • T G Davies • Charles-Antoine Dedryver • Ian Denholm • Gregor Devine • Alan Devonshire • Alan M Dewar • Angela E Douglas • Victor Eastop • Owain Edwards • Frédéric Fabre • Alberto Fereres • Linda M Field • Stan Finch • Stephen P Foster • Michael P Garratt • Robert T Glinwood • Fiona L Goggin • Geoff Gurr • Ann E. Hajek • Thierry Hance • Jim Hardie • Udo Heimbach • George E. Heimpel • Gemma L Hough • Maurice Hullé • Michael E. Irwin • Gail E. Kampmeier • Fatemeh Kohandani-Tafresh • Shinkichi Komazaki • Simon R Leather • Samuel G Leigh • Hugh D Loxdale • Manfred Mackauer • J P Michaud • Françoise Munaut • Xinzhi Ni • Judith K. Pell • Jan Pettersson • John A. Pickett • Jon Pickup • Jean-Sébastien Pierre • Hans-Michael Poehling • Sharron S. Quisenberry • Pierre J. Silvie • John J. Sloggett • Denis Tagu • Mark Tatchell • Thomas Thieme • W Fred Tjallingii • Jason M Tylianakis • Laura H Vickers • Christoph Vorburger • Susan E Webb • Martin S Williamson • Steve Wratten • Jing-Jiang ZhouAphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Disaster Management
by David Allen • Rajesh Arora • Yoram Weiss • Corbin Curtis • Levent Kenar • Jameel Ali • Nandini Mukherjee • Giles Barrier • Robert Chilcott • Miklosh Bala • Tahir Ahmed Dar • Fernando Turégano • P Thullier • Scott P Hagen • Rostislav Kostadinov • Thibaut Pelat • Mesut Ortatatli • Marcia Trainer • Timothy P Cohen • Monideepa Roy • Douglas Paton • Steven Parrillo • Christopher R Foerster • J R Bhardwaj • Rajiv Goel • Dale Vincent • Shabir Dhar • Anders Ruter • Benjamin W Berg • Kamen Kanev • Kai-Lit Phua • Denis Josse • Sudeep Nayak • Christophor Dishovsky • Nibedita Ray-Bennett • Mark Huntington • Itamar Ashkenazi • Stoian Tonev • James Hagen • Gerald Kost • Yasamin Izadkhah • Mahmood Hosseini • Anish V Cherian • Ann Sakaguchi • Edward Waller • Maria Nirmala Christine • Richard Louie • Christopher Cocking • Rakesh Sharma • Aaron Richman • Rupa Gunaseelan • J Bajgar • Vinod Kaushik • Naveen C Kumar • Yuval Weiss • Preeti Arora • Michael Hust • Anju Goel • Jean B Bail • Raman Chawla • Suresh Bada MathDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Disaster Management: Medical Preparedness, Response and Homeland Security
by David Allen • Yoram Weiss • Corbin Curtis • Levent Kenar • Jameel Ali • Nandini Mukherjee • Giles Barrier • Miklosh Bala • Tahir Ahmed Dar • Fernando Turégano • P Thullier • Scott P Hagen • Rostislav Kostadinov • Thibaut Pelat • Mesut Ortatatli • Marcia Trainer • Timothy P Cohen • Monideepa Roy • Douglas Paton • Steven Parrillo • Christopher R Foerster • J R Bhardwaj • Rajiv Goel • Dale Vincent • Shabir Dhar • Anders Ruter • Benjamin W Berg • Kamen Kanev • Kai-Lit Phua • Denis Josse • Sudeep Nayak • Christophor Dishovsky • Nibedita Ray-Bennett • Mark Huntington • Itamar Ashkenazi • Stoian Tonev • James Hagen • Gerald Kost • Yasamin Izadkhah • Mahmood Hosseini • Anish V Cherian • Ann Sakaguchi • Edward Waller • Maria Nirmala Christine • Richard Louie • Christopher Cocking • Rakesh Sharma • Aaron Richman • Rupa Gunaseelan • J Bajgar • Vinod Kaushik • Naveen C Kumar • Yuval Weiss • Michael Hust • Anju Goel • Jean B Bail • Raman Chawla • Suresh Bada Math • Professor Robert ChilcottDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013