Academic Press imprint: 6422 books

Blue Division

Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941–1945

by Xavier Moreno Juliá
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study of the Blue Division—a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some 40,000 Spanish combatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or liberty) to the Russian Front during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to stabilize and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars, and this book, which includes both theoretical discussions and empirical applications, considers the various factors of peacebuilding. As it addresses...

Biotic Stress Management in Rice

Molecular Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

This book, Biotic Stress Management in Rice: Molecular Approaches, addresses biotic stress of rice and its management through molecular approaches. It focuses on the biotechnological aspects of rice with the aim of reducing the fungicide and insecticides and ultimately ensuring safety of rice as a...

Single Cell Oils

Microbial and Algal Oils

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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015

Featuring recognized academic and industrial experts in this cutting-edge field, this book reviews single cell oils (SCO) currently in the market. The text mainly focuses on the production of the long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, Arachidonic acid, and Docosahexaenoinc acid. All chapters provide...

Biopesticides and Bioagents

Novel Tools for Pest Management

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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

Insects, diseases, and weeds cause an almost 30% yield loss per annum in agricultural production, resulting in an increased consumption of pesticides by 20% per annum throughout the world. This comprehensive volume looks at the status of biopesticides and biocontrol agents in agriculture. It will...

Fit To Practice

Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask

by Kaye Frankcom, Bruce Stevens, Philip Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

Australian psychology practice today is a dynamic, well respected and increasingly competitive environment. Many new psychologists graduate with an expectation of setting up their own private practice. But how is that best done? What are the traps to avoid, the questions to ask, the knowledge needed...

M-Commerce

Experiencing the Phygital Retail

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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

This volume presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on contemporary m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers’ buying intentions and decisions. The chapters consider consumer behavior theory in the context of green or ecologically friendly...

Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution

The Surge of Support for Independence in Catalonia

by Germà Bel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic, and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement...
by Tim Prenzler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Crime prevention that works - the goal of much government and corporate policy - can be difficult to discover amongst obscure and tedious academic texts. Yet, now more than ever, we need sophisticated government and corporate crime prevention policies that produce results. This book of research, policy...

Materials Behavior

Research Methodology and Mathematical Models

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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

The development of advanced materials has become extremely important in the last decade, being widely used in academic and industrial research. This book examines the potential of advanced materials as well as nanotechnology to improve fiber science from fibril to fabric mode, to create better materials...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

This volume, the first of the two-volume Drug Delivery Approaches and Nanosystems series,presents a full picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and its applications. It addresses the ever-expanding application of nanotechnology or nano-sized...

Circulation of Knowledge

Explorations into the History of Knowledge

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created—but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers...

Elastomer-Based Composite Materials

Mechanical, Dynamic and Microwave Properties, and Engineering Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Elastomer-Based Composite Materials: Mechanical, Dynamic, and Microwave Properties and Engineering Applications is focused on elastomer-based composite materials comprising different types of reinforcing fillers. The book provides an informative examination of the possibilities for broadening...
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