Elena: 1551 books
Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem
Mechanisms, Strategies, Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance...
by Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media such as blog articles, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. This has led to an increasing demand for powerful software...
The Global Context for New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Take an in depth look at the field of child and adolescent development. In this issue, the new leadership of this series offers different aspects of relevant work throughout multiple disciplines and continents, capturing both the variability and the richness of the themes considered and topics investigated...
Maternal Brain Plasticity: Preclinical and Human Research and Implications for Intervention
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 153
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The transition to motherhood is marked by significant change at both biological and psychological levels, facilitating the development of maternal behavior. Interdisciplinary research converge to highlight the plasticity of the maternal brain, and the interplay of neurophysiology and postpartum experience,...
by Svetlana N. Orlova, Elena N. Malyuga
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic...
Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...
by Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in usage, national and global policymakers...
by Elena Farley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
The Three Trees
A Traditional Folktale
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Three forest trees dream of what they will one day become. One dreams of becoming a royal throne; one of being a ship that can withstand any storm; and one longs to stay in the forest and grow as tall as tall can be. When they are felled, it seems their dreams are over. But as each tree is crafted...
Not in Water nor in Sand
God Answers Prayer the Whereabouts of Natalee Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In "Not in Water nor in Sand," the author recounts how she learned facts about the disapperance of a youg girl Natalee Holloway in June 2005.
The Author was just an ordinary person who, like many order, experieced blessed and trouble times. Howerver, in all she had gone through she...
Chicano Educational Achievement
Comparing Escuela Tlatelolco, A Chicanocentric School, and a Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Heimat
version alpha - Erzählungen, Geheimnisse und Rezepte
Language: German
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Was wäre, wenn Sie ihre Augen schließen und versuchen sich ihre Heimat vorzustellen. Was würden Sie sehen? Das Haus ihrer Kindheit? Ihre Familie? Eine Landschaft? Oder erinnern Sie sich vielmehr an ganz bestimmte Gerüche, an Farben, an den Geschmack ihres Lieblingskuchens? Autorinnen und Autoren,...
by Michela Martignoni, Elena Martignoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Una donna nuda coperta di petali di rosa attende l’amante.
E’ Vannozza Cattanei, la protagonista del romanzo. L’uomo che ama è il più potente di Roma: il vicecancelliere Rodrigo Borgia.
Ci vuole coraggio nel confessare certi ricordi, certi peccati, e lei, ormai anziana, lo fa mostrandosi ai...
Fronteras del desarrollo
Impacto social y económico en la cuenca del río Pilcomayo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014
La expansión de la frontera agropecuaria y la inversión de infraestructura en viviendas, caminos y presas a lo largo de toda la Cuenca del Río Pilcomayo, caracterizan las trayectorias recientes de los proyectos de desarrollo implementados en la región. La aceleración y reconfiguración de los...