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Food Phytates

Food Phytates

Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates including their potential health benefits. It includes the latest information on the beneficial heath effects of phytates the influence of phytates in disease prevention the potential use of phytate as an antioxidant in foods and phytase expression in transgenic plants. In 14 chapters leading researchers shed new light on phytates' potential ability to lower blood glucose reduce cholesterol and triacylglycerols and reduce the risks of cancer and heart disease.

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Food-Drug Synergy and Safety

Food-Drug Synergy and Safety

Scientists health professionals and consumers are increasingly interested in the relationships between food components and food-drug combinations as they strive to find more effective ways to prevent or treat chronic disease. As one of the first unified and in-depth sources in this emerging topic Food-Drug Synergy and Safety explores the vast potential benefits of food and food-drug synergy. The book addresses the interaction of two or more components within a single food between several foods or between foods and drugs consumed together in which the potential health benefit is greater than the effect of the single component food or drug. Each chapter follows a consistent framework and addresses the health benefits mechanisms of action and safety aspects pertaining to the food and food-drug synergies. Sections discuss food and food-drug synergies in the context of specific disease groups such as cardiovascular disease cancer osteoporosis inflammatory diseases hypertension and obesity for easy reference in a clinical setting. A separate section focuses entirely on performance enhancers including caffeine creatine and ephedrine/ephedra and their potential to influence human health in addition to ergogenic applications. The final section provides scientists with a framework for designing experiments that elucidate the heath benefits and safety aspects of food and food-drug synergies. Food-Drug Synergy and Safety lays the essential foundation in this new direction of research as it gains momentum in the fields of food nutrition medicine and pharmaceutical sciences.

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The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

The Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio broadcasting streaming and podcasting. This book’s tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what when and why in a professionally managed station. This new edition explains what radio in America has been where it is today and where it is going covering the basics of how programming is produced financed delivered and promoted via terrestrial and satellite broadcasting streaming and podcasting John Allen Hendricks and Bruce Mims examine radio and its future within a framework of existing and emerging technologies. The companion website is new revised with content for instructors including an instructors’ manual and test questions. Students will discover an expanded library of audio interviews with leading industry professionals in addition to practice quizzes and links to additional resources. | The Radio Station Broadcasting Podcasting and Streaming

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Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

Mircea Eliade (1907�1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence function and value of religion and myth in his work. Nicolae Babuts Robert Ellwood Eric Ziolkowski John Dadosky Robert Segal Mac Linscott Ricketts Douglas Allen and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred and the profane. Each explores Eliade's phenomenological approach to the study of religion and myth. They show that modern rites of initiation cultural activities and spectacles like bullfighting film and perhaps surprisingly reading and writing all harken back to the archetypal structures of the mythical imagination. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Eliade's phenomenological approach is that it reveals what we have in common with pre-Socratic man: the mind's structural capacity to endow objects and events with spiritual values and meanings. As a study of Eliade's concept of the mythic imagination the book posits an analogy between the myths of the past and modern imitations. The authors suggest that in spite of their differences and their separate historical sources myths represent basic structures of human consciousness. This book is essential reading for all students of religion philosophy and literature. | Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris’s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller Jeanne Fahnestock and Alan G. Gross along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris’s detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context and frames the important contributions of each essay which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race revolution and Daoism come up along the way and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science studies and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned with science not as a special autonomous sacrosanct enterprise but as a set of value-saturated profoundly influential rhetorical practices. | Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

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The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

In the space of three years from 2009 to 2012 Bernie Madoff Tom Petters and R. Allen Stanford were all convicted for running multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes. These three schemes alone have had the largest financial take in U. S. history. But what role does the economy and legislation play in the occurrences of Ponzi schemes? What is the nature of Ponzi schemes and what are their tools and mechanisms? What can we know about Ponzi perpetrators? Unraveling the answers to these questions (and many more) Marie Springer provides the first representative portrait of Ponzi schemes their perpetrators and their victims. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach she begins by presenting an overview of different types of Ponzi schemes. She later explores perpetrators and victims of Ponzi schemes followed by a close examination of economic trends regulatory changes and the financial relationship with Ponzi schemes. Other key features include: • A non-technical overview of both offender based and offense-based approaches of studying this form of fraud. • Examples of Ponzi schemes and Ponzi schemers. • A wealth of descriptive statistics on known federal cases from the 1960s until the present to quantify this specific form of fraud. Broadening our understanding of Ponzi schemes as a form of white-collar crime The Politics of Ponzi Schemes provides an excellent foundation for students and practitioners of public administration banking as well as investors finance and accounting law enforcement officers legislators and regulators. | The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

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Deer Management for Forest Landowners and Managers

Deer Management for Forest Landowners and Managers

One of the biggest management problems for forest landowners and managers is browsing by overabundant deer herds that simplifies habitat and reduces species composition and abundance of plant and wildlife communities. This book addresses deer biology management of deer and deer impact on private and public forestlands. It integrates information on deer biology and human dimensions aspects including culture values politics and financial and human resources into development and implementation of comprehensive management of people and deer. Additional audiences are wildlife educators deer hunters and administrators of natural resource agencies who affect deer density and impact on forest resources by regulating deer hunting. The book is written by wildlife and forestry scientists consultants managers and educators with over 350 years of collective experience in managing deer impacts on forest resources. It includes nine case histories of deer management on forestlands ranging from small woodlots to large commercial operations and state/national forests. Praise for Deer Management for Forest Landowners and Managers: “If you’re a forest landowner serious about managing your deer and woods this book is for you. ” Kip Adams Quality Deer Management Association “This book is an extensive resource for deer and timber management and is a hands-on manual that includes extensive review of relevant literature. David Samuel Bowhunter Magazine “This book provides definitive answers to the questions of how to accomplish deer management in … the face of large deer populations. It belongs on the reading list of every forest landowner. ” William F. Porter Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife “It captures the wealth of knowledge of the authors who understand deer as hunters ecologists managers and scientists. It provides a leap forward in the who and how of deer and forest management. ” Peter Smallidge Extension Forester “This is a must read for landowners deer and forest managers and those studying forest ecology. ” Merlin Benner wildlife consultant “This book is a road map to restoring deer to their long-time place of balance serving the common good for people and nature. ” Allen Pursell The Nature Conservancy

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Insect Diets Science and Technology Second Edition

Insect Diets Science and Technology Second Edition

Dr. Allen Carson Cohen’s new edition of Insect Diets: Science and Technology continues to provide a current integrated review of the field of insect diets. It reaffirms and expands upon the belief that the science of diet development and the technology of diet application in rearing programs require formal foundations and guidelines. Cohen argues for a data-driven approach as well as a focus on humane treatment in insect rearing programs. He also calls for academics and industries to make a new push toward statistical process control (SPC) in their approaches to rearing in general using his own work with insects as a paradigm. This approach yields the benefits of careful scientific analysis by addressing issues of quality and efficiency in academic research and industrial practices and applications. See What’s New in the Second Edition:This edition expands upon the role of food science in the use of artificial diets in rearing programs especially texture analysis with rheological techniques. It includes an entirely new chapter focused solely on the subject of food quality in insect diets. The book also revisits microbial relationships to insect diets as a powerful influence on their feeding processes and emphasizes a new better understanding and utilization of the relationship between insects and microbes in artificial diets. Cohen also expands his vision of the future of insect rearing including the use of insects themselves as a potential food source for a rapidly expanding global human population. To that end this book gives you guidelines to develop use and evaluate artificial diets in order to improve their cost and scientific efficiency in the rearing of insects because as the author urges it is important to know your insect. This understanding will serve the multifaceted goals of using insect rearing for research and teaching pest management strategies and biocontrol agents as food for other organisms and for many other purposes. | Insect Diets Science and Technology Second Edition

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Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both the aesthetics and practices that underpin the audiovisual. Contributions draw upon established discourses in electroacoustic music media art history film studies critical theory and dance; framing and critiquing these arguments within the context of diverse audiovisual practices. The volume’s interdisciplinary perspective contributes to the rich and evolving dialogue surrounding the audiovisual demonstrating the value and significance of practice-informed theory and theory derived from practice. The ideas and approaches explored within this book will find application in a wide range of contexts across the whole scope of audiovisuality from visual music and experimental film to narrative film and documentary to live performance sound design and into sonic art and electroacoustic music. This book is ideal for artists composers and researchers investigating theoretical positions and compositional practices which bring together sound and image. | Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

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Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

This book is a comprehensive presentation of health and diseases in reindeer and caribou or just Rangifer a key Circumarctic species with broad social and ecological value. It is an essential reference for anyone interested in the biology and health of wild or semi-domesticated reindeer and caribou and is more broadly relevant for those with interests in other species of free-ranging and captive cervids. Beginning with a general introduction to Rangifer as a species it then focuses on Rangifer health as a concept and describes the determinants of health at an individual and population level. Chapters cover a range of topics from nutrition and feeding to stress non-infectious and infectious diseases meat hygiene capture and restraint diagnosis and treatment of health issues and finally potential impacts of climate change on health of Rangifer. Reindeer and Caribou: Health and Disease compiles extensive research and experience-based information on issues ranging from drug doses for chemical immobilization blood chemistry values and raising an orphaned calf. In addition it contains hundreds of high quality colour illustrations that contribute to its value as a diagnostic resource for recognizing various parasites pathogens and signs of disease both in live and dead animals. Each chapter is followed by a comprehensive list of references and a list of contact information for all the contributors identifying world experts in the different areas of health for this circumpolar and fascinating species. This book is compulsory reading and an indispensable resource for anyone dealing with health in reindeer and caribou including veterinarians wildlife biologists and managers reindeer herders/game ranchers zoological husbandry personnel and students with wildlife health. | Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

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Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

Providing vital reading for audio students and trainee engineers Sound and Recording is the essential guide for anyone who wants a solid grounding in both theory and industry practices in audio sound and recording. This updated and comprehensively restructured edition includes new content on DAW configuration effects processing 3D/immersive audio systems object-based audio and VR audio technology. This bestselling book introduces you to the principles of sound perception audio technology and systems. Sound and Recording is the ideal audio engineering text for students an accessible reference for professionals and a comprehensive introduction for hobbyists. | Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

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Nutrition and Diabetes Pathophysiology and Management

Nutrition and Diabetes Pathophysiology and Management

Diabetes occurs at such an alarming rate that it can be described as a global epidemic. Following its predecessor Nutrition and Diabetes: Pathophysiology and Management Second Edition is a comprehensive resource that describes various factors that drive the accumulation of excess body weight and fat resulting in obesity. The book discusses the metabolic aberrations found in obesity and how they lead to the association of obesity with diabetes. This new edition highlights the role played by diet and the interrelationships in the metabolism of key nutrients in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes which provides the scientific basis for treatment and management approaches. FeaturesHighlights the role of nutrition in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes Organized logically into two easy-to-use sections - Pathophysiology and Management of Obesity and Pathophysiology and Treatment of DiabetesFeatures emerging therapeutic approaches for management of obesity and diabetesDiscusses experience in the management of obesity and diabetes in developing countries Presents challenges in insulin therapy and provides guidelines to overcome themThe first section of the book retains key topics from the previous edition and contains new chapters including genetic determinants of nutrient processing; fat distribution and diabetes mellitus; combined effect of diet and physical activity in the management of obesity; pharmacologic treatment of obesity; and the role of gut microbiota in the pathogenesis and treatment of obesity. The second section features updated versions of most of the other chapters in the first edition comprising a modified chapter on oxidative stress and the effects of dietary supplements on glycemic control in Type 2 diabetes. In addition new chapters are added in this section and include the contribution of iron and transition metal micronutrients to diabetes; role of microbiota in the pathogenesis and treatment of diabetes; primary prevention of Type 2 diabetes; and the pathophysiology and management of Type 1 diabetes. | Nutrition and Diabetes Pathophysiology and Management

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Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

Completely revised and updated the sixth edition of Practicum and Internship is a practical resource that provides students and supervisors with thorough coverage of all stages and aspects of the practicum and internship process. New to this edition are: Downloadable customizable online forms contracts and other materials Across-the-board updates that reflect 2016 CACREP standards Incorporation of contemporary research and literature that addresses recommended practices and ethical considerations regarding the use of technology in counseling New information on preparing students to run their first counseling and therapy groups A review of ethical standards and current perspectives on working with culturally diverse clients Current perspectives on managing self-care during practicum and internship and beyond A thoughtful presentation of trauma-informed approaches to counseling A revised final chapter including guidelines for preparing for licensure exams and for longevity in the profession With comprehensive information that spans across therapeutic approaches concerns and topics this remains an essential foundational text for counseling and psychotherapy students and their supervisors. | Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

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Tourism and Hospitality Issues and Developments

Tourism and Hospitality Issues and Developments

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Tourism has become a key global economic activity as expectations with regard to our use of leisure time have evolved attributing greater meaning to our free time. Tourism is one of the world s largest industries and in many regions it is the single largest source of investment and employment. This new book provides a look at many important issues in the field of tourism and hospitality including understanding tourist preference satisfaction and motivation; tourism and hospitality education; rural tourism and its impact on local residents; the increasing popularity of cultural and heritage tourism; strategies for sustainable tourism; and more. | Tourism and Hospitality Issues and Developments

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Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict. This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through engagements with everyday collective memories in differing places. Specifically addressing questions of place-making displacement and identity contributions shed new light on the processes of commemoration of war in everyday urban façades and within generations of families and national communities. Contributions seek to clarify how we connect with memories and places of war and conflict. The spatial and narrative manifestations of attempts to contextualise wartime memories of loss trauma conflict victory and suffering are refracted through the roles played by emotion and identity construction in the shaping of post-war remembrances. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective with insights from history memory studies social psychology cultural and urban geography to contextualise memories of war and their ‘use’ by national governments perpetrators victims and in family histories. | Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

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Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

This new book on school attendance and behaviour brings an international flavour to the field with contributions on some of the latest empirical research and thinking from around the world. It includes contributions from Canada and the USA Hong Kong Europe the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some of the interesting wide-ranging and often unique topics covered in the book include: truancy and well-being disaffection pupil absenteeism social mediation aggression in primary schools bullying emotional barriers to learning behaviour management training exclusion reintegration the role of educational psychologists and ethnic diversity and classroom disruption in the context of migration policies. The book should prove both helpful and useful for a wide range of professionals students and academics across a wide range of educational care and social policy disciplines. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies. | Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

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Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems Wildland Fire Science Policy and Management

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems Wildland Fire Science Policy and Management

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover the book places itself as a communication between students fire scientists and fire fighters and each of these groups will find some familiar ground and some challenging aspects in this text: something which ultimately will help to bring us closer together and enrich our different approaches to understanding and managing our changing planet. Sally Archibald Professor University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa Most textbooks are as dry as kindling and about as much fun to sink your teeth into. This is not that kind of textbook. Devan Allen McGranahan and Carissa L. Wonkka have taken a complex topic and somehow managed to synthesize it into a comprehensive yet digestible form. This is a book you can read cover to cover – I know I did it. As a result I took an enlightening journey through the history and fundamentals of fire and its role in the natural and human world ending with a thoughtful review of the evolving relationship between humans and wildland fire. Chris Helzer Nebraska Director of Science The Nature Conservancy and author of The Prairie Ecologist blog Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems: Wildland Fire Science Policy and Management is intended for use in upper-level courses in fire ecology and wildland fire management and as a reference for researchers managers and other professionals involved with wildland fire science practice and policy. The book helps guide students and scientists to design and conduct robust wildland fire research projects and critically interpret and apply fire science in any management education or policy situation. It emphasizes variability in wildland fire as an ecological regime and provides tools for students researchers and managers to assess and connect fire environment and fire behaviour to fire effects. Fire has not only shaped social and ecological communities but pushed ecosystems beyond previous boundaries yet understanding the nature and effects of fire as an ecological disturbance has been slow hampered by the complexity of the dynamic interactions between vegetation and climate and the fear of the destruction fire can bring. This book will help those who study manage and use wildland fire to develop new answers and novel solutions based on an understanding of how fire functions in natural and social environments. It reviews literature synthesizes concepts and identifies research gaps and policy needs. The text also explores the interaction of fire and human culture demonstrating how fire policy can be made adaptable to cultural and socio-ecological objectives. | Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems Wildland Fire Science Policy and Management

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Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

Stephen K. Medvic’s Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compact core text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracy: the processes that constitute campaigns and elections and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process and actors it gives equal billing to both campaigns and elections and covers contests for legislative and executive positions at the national state and local levels including issue-oriented campaigns of note. The book opens by providing students with the conceptual distinctions between what happens in an election and the campaigning that precedes it. Significant attention is devoted to setting up the context for these campaigns and elections by covering the rules of the game in the American electoral system as well as aspects of election administration and the funding of elections. Then the book systematically covers the actors at every level—candidates and their organizations parties interest groups the media and voters—and the macro-level aspects of campaigns such as campaign strategy and determinants of election outcomes. The book concludes with a big-picture assessment of campaign ethics and implications of the permanent campaign. New to the Fourth Edition: • Fully updated through the 2020 elections looking ahead to the 2022 midterms • Covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election as well as the January 6 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol • Adds new sections in Chapter 3 on election integrity and the assessment of election administration • Reviews recent Supreme Court cases on gerrymandering and faithless electors • Expands coverage of social media as a source of news of the increasingly partisan nature of the media and of the role of media fact-checking in campaigns and elections • Reorganizes the chapters on the various actors so that the chapter on candidates leads directly to the chapter on campaigns • Fully updates the resources listed at the end of each chapter | Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

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Medical Instruments and Devices Principles and Practices

Medical Instruments and Devices Principles and Practices

Medical Instruments and Devices: Principles and Practices originates from the medical instruments and devices section of The Biomedical Engineering Handbook Fourth Edition. Top experts in the field provide material that spans this wide field. The text examines how biopotential amplifiers help regulate the quality and content of measured signals. It includes instruments and devices that span a range of physiological systems and the physiological scale: molecular cellular organ and system. The book chronicles the evolution of pacemakers and their system operation and discusses oscillometry cardiac output measurement and the direct and indirect methods of measuring cardiac output. The authors also expound on the mechanics and safety of defibrillators and cover implantable stimulators respiration and the structure and function of mechanical ventilators. In addition this text covers in depth: Anesthesia Delivery Electrosurgical Units and Devices Biomedical Lasers Measuring Cellular Traction Forces Blood Glucose Monitoring Atomic Force Microscopy Parenteral Infusion Devices Clinical Laboratory: Separation and Spectral Methods Clinical Laboratory: Nonspectral Methods and Automation Noninvasive Optical Monitoring An offshoot from the definitive bible of biomedical engineering Medical Instruments and Devices: Principles and Practices offers you state-of-the-art information on biomedical instruments and devices. This text serves practicing professionals working in the areas of medical devices and instrumentation as well as graduate students studying bioengineering instrumentation and medical devices and it provides readers with a practical foundation and a wealth of resources from well-known experts in the field. | Medical Instruments and Devices Principles and Practices

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Biodiversity and Conservation Characterization and Utilization of Plants Microbes and Natural Resources for Sustainable Development and Eco

Biodiversity and Conservation Characterization and Utilization of Plants Microbes and Natural Resources for Sustainable Development and Eco

This volume provides an enlightening and pragmatic approach to preserving biological diversity by gathering a wide range of peer-reviewed scientific content from biodiversity researchers and conservators from around the world. It brings comprehensive knowledge and information on the present status of conservation of biological diversity including floral faunal and microbial diversity. A detailed account of recent trends in conservation and applications under changing climate conditions focusing mainly on agriculturally and industrially important microbes and their sustainable utilization is presented as well. Over the past five decades extensive research work has been done on many aspects of biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization of biological resources. This book examines this crucial issue. Chapters discuss biodiversity concepts benefits and values for economic and sustainable development; explores applications and strategies for biodiversity preservation; and considers the role of biodiversity conservation in public awareness services and cultural significance. The volume also examines the process of evolution and the future of biodiversity in conjunction with climate change factors with special reference to infectious diseases. | Biodiversity and Conservation Characterization and Utilization of Plants Microbes and Natural Resources for Sustainable Development and Eco

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Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a fascinating look at the behavior motivations experiences and needs of women as tourists and travellers drawing on both historic and contemporary eras. Surprisingly little research has explored key issues experiences and opportunities in the context of women’s travel. This revealing volume fills this gap exploring the discourses debates and discussions about women travel and tourism. With an international roster of contributors from diverse regions of the world the book celebrates a variety of women’s voices. Khoo-Lattimore and Wilson deliberately sought to include nontraditional and non-Western perspectives on women’s travel with inclusions of Asian solo female travelers; Islamic women travellers and the constraints placed on them; and women who cannot travel (or choose for whatever reason a ‘home holiday’). This enlightening volume brings together scholars from the broad areas of tourism hospitality geography and leisure studies to examine how and why women travel. The chapters bring light to perspectives from different countries cultures backgrounds and religions and utilize different methods approaches and styles of presentation. Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives will be of interest to academics and graduate students from a range of disciplines including tourism leisure studies sociology cultural geography anthropology feminist and gender studies business economics and management; as well as professionals working in the tourism industry particularly those with an interest in niche markets and segmentation. | Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

Chronic hepatitis B and C affect 520 million people worldwide and are a major cause of chronic liver disease and of mortality despite the efficacy of the vaccine. Hepatitis B and C: Management and Treatment second edition provides a practical explanation of the natural history and management of the disease and examines the benefits of the most recent drugs and their effects whether used in isolation or as part of a combination therapy. This second edition expands the coverage of treatment of various difficult-to-treat patients and will be a welcome guide to the physician in both clinical decision-making and in explaining the benefits and side-effects to the patient. | Hepatitis B and C Management and Treatment

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Management and Engineering of Fire Safety and Loss Prevention Onshore and offshore

Management and Engineering of Fire Safety and Loss Prevention Onshore and offshore

The papers presented deal with the general methods and techniques from a range of disciplines as they can be applied to specific engineering and fire safety situations. The circumstances described include a variety of large scale plant applications in the petrochemical industry. As such this book is a valuable reference for fire engineers petroleum engineers and legislators working in today's multi-disciplinary design engineering team. These proceedings address five major areas of importance on and offshore: risk assessment operations and operational safety research risk reduction and design safety detection and control and protective systems. | Management and Engineering of Fire Safety and Loss Prevention Onshore and offshore

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Trust and Conflict Representation Culture and Dialogue

Trust and Conflict Representation Culture and Dialogue

Trust distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture representation and dialogue this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and contemporary events. Part I offers a symbolic and historical analysis of trust and distrust while Parts II and III examine trust distrust and conflict in specific events including the Cyprus conflict Estonian collective memories coping with HIV/AIDS in China Swedish asylum seekers the Cuban missile crisis and Stalinist confessions. With an impressive array of international contributors the chapters draw on a number of key concepts such as self and other ingroup and outgroup contact between groups categorization brinkmanship knowledge beliefs and myth. Trust and Conflict offers a fresh perspective on the problems that arise from treating trust distrust and conflict as simplified indicators. Instead it proposes that human and social sciences can view these phenomena within the complex matrix of interacting perspectives and meta-perspectives that characterise the social world. As such it will be of interest to undergraduates postgraduates and lecturers of human and social sciences especially social psychology sociology political science and communication studies. | Trust and Conflict Representation Culture and Dialogue

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Ethanol and the Liver Mechanisms and Management

Ethanol and the Liver Mechanisms and Management

Distilling the available knowledge on ethanol-induced liver damage and directly complementing the available bio-medical literature Ethanol and the Liver covers pathogenic and clinical aspects of alcoholic liver disease. Providing broader coverage of the subject than any available monograph the editors and their panel of experts relate basic science to pathogenesis and treatment modalities and explore future developments. Coverage includes:Histopathology-fatty liver alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosisEthanol metabolism and its consequencesMechanisms in the pathogenesis of ALD including genetics immunology and insulin-like growth factorsExtrahepatic effects of ALD and the role of alcohol in potentiating liver damage due to other etiologiesInteraction of alcohol with viral hepatitisEpidemiology diagnosis and treatmentManagement strategies including transplantationThe vast amount of knowledge and expertise gathered in this book make it an unparalleled resource. | Ethanol and the Liver Mechanisms and Management

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