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"Why did that happen?", "How does that work?", "What will happen if..?". Young children ask questions about the world around them all day long. They are filled with curiosity and the desire to learn. Bubbles, Rainbows, and Worms teaches children about the world using hands-on experiments with plants... अधिक

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... अधिक

Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews wha... अधिक

Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition toge... अधिक

In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend... अधिक

Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas, policies, and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared th... अधिक

Featuring an international team of authors, Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics presents several approaches to the modeling of human cognition and language using neural computing techniques. It also describes how adaptive robotic systems can be produced using neural networ... अधिक

“If you want one of the shortest, fastest routes to getting toxic chemicals out of your life, get behind the wheel of Gay Browne’s Living with a Green Heart and you’ll get there in no time flat.”—Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group In an increasingly toxic world, the paths to environm... अधिक

Permafrost is the thermal condition of the earth's crust when its temperature has been below 32°F continuously for a number of years. Half of Canada's land surface lies in the permafrost region--either in the continuous zone where the ground is frozen to a depth of hundreds of feet, or in the ... अधिक

The remarkable story of the life and work of Australia's most famous modern judge.This biography charts Michael Kirby's extraordinary public life from his first forays as a student politician in the early 1960s, to his appointments as foundation chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission in 19... अधिक

Well constructed and thoroughly competent" - The Economist "It is refreshingly differentThe new-comer to economics who studies this book should find it an interesting and invigorating task" - Economic Journal This book introduces readers to some of the salient features and problems of the world econ... अधिक

Among the issues discussed in Applied Economics are world population growth and the economic factors governing international migration: issues that are as pertinent today as when the book was originally published.The problems of defining and comparing industrial and general efficiency in different e... अधिक

This richly photographed travel pictorial tours Korea--a place of dynamic innovation with strong traditional currents.Several years ago, a columnist at one of Korea's English language newspapers used the byline "Only the Morning is Calm." And while Korea is known as the Land of the Morning Calm, tha... अधिक

From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the New Testament with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic content and issues of the New Testament. While a wealth of information is contained... अधिक

Over the past fity years the Roman Catholic Church's understanding of the Bible opened up to modern scholarship in a way never before imaginable, and at the center of this shift is Raymond Brown. Today, both academic and general readers continue to find insight and inspiration in his publications. ... अधिक

Known world-wide as the standard introductory text to this important and exciting area, the sixth edition of Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis addresses new and growing areas of research whilst retaining the philosophy of the previous editions. Assuming the reader has little prior knowledge of the subje... अधिक

A distinguished scholar looks at seven different New Testament churches after the death of the Apostles.... अधिक

NUTRITION NOW introduces non-major students to the science of nutrition while engaging them through active learning exercises and applied, real-world examples. This text's unique modular format (33 units) helps students focus on critical content by organizing the material into smaller sections and ... अधिक

Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your "space" (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, James J. Brown's Ethical Programs examines and explores the rhetorical ... अधिक

Neal Collins is a charming ladies' man whose street smarts and business savvy propel him to a position of power and respectability amidst Detroit's neighborhood turf battles and corruption. He has the toughness, cunning, and intelligence to take advantage of opportunities that make him a force to be... अधिक

There were no bats or balls on the campus of Wichita State University in the spring of 1977. Five years later, the resurrected varsity baseball program was in the final game of the College World Series, fulfilling the seemingly impossible promise made by Gene Stephenson when he began recruiting play... अधिक

The Flint Hills stretch across eighty-two thousand square miles of American history in a long, rocked-up, grassed-up finger pointing from the Oklahoma border all the way to Nebraska. This history winds though the mythos of the cowboy, climbing among families built on fierce independence, respect for... अधिक

This book examines the multitude of challenges which the European Commission faces: once the centre ofpolitical gravity in Europe's integration process, the growth of Euroscepticismand the emergence of new institutional rivals threaten to undermine its statusas an institution. Tracing the roots of ... अधिक

This edited volume focuses on how international education policy, set by international policymakers and donors, influences local education policy in developing countries. The book's primary purpose is to give voice to scholars from developing countries and regions around the world by inviting them ... अधिक

Focusing on new methods and techniques developed to address longstanding questions about the Golgi complex, this volume explores a diverse set of chapters, ranging from live and fixed cell imaging techniques to in vitro biochemical reconstitution systems. Each chapter provides a detailed set of spe... अधिक