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by Dr N. M. Schreurs, P. R. Kenyon, Dr E. K. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;
Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;
Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep
by H.L.L Loh, Lionel Loh Han Loong
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This ethnographic study of a mixed martial arts gym in Thailand describes the everyday practices and lived experiences of martial art practitioners. Through the lived realities and everyday experiences of these fighters, this book seeks to examine why foreigners invest their time and money to train...
by Hélène de Monaghan
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1977
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1977
Sylvia, au-dessus de la mêlée, ignorait avec une superbe inconscience, les réactions qu'elle suscitait. Pourtant, sans être psychologue patenté, n'importe qui aurait pu discerner les divers courants de force qui convergeaient vers la belle blonde : amour fou, amour sage, désir de protection,...
26 lettres
Abécédaire des mots en perte de sens
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Vingt-six auteurs. Vingt-six lettres. Vingt-six adresses publiques. Un abécédaire. Une refondation de la parole et du sens des mots. La langue, les mots, leurs sens ont le pouvoir de lier une communauté autour d’images, de référents, de débats. Ils ont aussi le dos large. Souvent—particulièrement...
Germinal
suivi d un dossier thématique « Ouvriers et ouvrières au XIXe siècle »
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2017
En lien avec le thème « La fiction pour interroger le réel » du nouveau programme de français en 4e, le chef-d’œuvre naturaliste d’Émile Zola (en texte abrégé). En complément, un dossier thématique sur la condition ouvrière au XIXe siècle.
Le roman
Sous le Second Empire, Étienne...
by Hélène Vecchiali
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Une explication de la psychologie du pervers et de sa victime• des récits et des clés pour reconnaître les techniques des pervers• des contre-techniques pour sortir de l'emprise• une question brûlante : faut-il pardonner ? un texte qui déculpabilise les victimes, et les aide à reconstruire...
by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
by Wye J. Allanbrook, Gregory Butler, Eric Chafe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
Reflective Essays Based upon Findings from the Tuskegee Legacy Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is a collection of essays that seeks to redefine the "legacy" of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in light of recent findings from other scientific studies that challenge the long-standing, widely-held understanding of...
Algal Ecology
Freshwater Benthic Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1996
Algae are an important component of aquatic benthic ecosystems because they reflect the health of their environment through their density, abundance, and diversity. This comprehensive and authoritative text is divided into three sections to offer complete coverage of the discussion in this field....
Transforming Tajikistan
State-building and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the rHélène Thibault is assistant professor in Political Science at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan since 2016. Prior to that, she had been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for the Study of Religious Pluralism and the...
by Frances R. Aparicio, María Isabel Carvajal Araya, Julia Chindemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these...