Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Overcoming School Refusal
A practical guide for teachers, counsellors, caseworkers and parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
School refusal affects up to 5% of children and is a complex and stressful issue for the child, their family and school. The more time a child is away from school, the more difficult it is for the child to resume normal school life. If school refusal becomes an ongoing issue it can negatively impact...
Peanut Agriculture and Production Technology
Integrated Nutrient Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Peanut Agriculture and Production Technology: Integrated Nutrient Management focuses on agricultural techniques and integrated nutrient management of peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.).Peanuts are the second most important oil crop of India, occupying 5.7 million hectares, with an average production of...
Women's Language
An Analysis of Style and Expression in Letters Before 1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By linguistic close-reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centuries—written in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and English—this compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis,...
War and Revolution in the West of Ireland
Galway, 1913–1922
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The period 1913–22 witnessed extraordinary upheaval in Irish society. The Easter Rising of 1916 facilitated the emergence of new revolutionary forces and the eruption of guerrilla warfare. In Galway and elsewhere in the west, the new realities wrought by World War One saw the emergence of a younger...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The sugarcane crop, one of the most important crops commercially grown in about 115 countries of the world, faces a number of problems, such as low cane productivity, biotic and abiotic stresses, high cost of cultivation, postharvest losses, and low sugar recovery. This volume addresses these issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism explores a number of major roles of PUFA in the body, including its role as a component of cell membranes and how it provides substrates for the synthesis of lipid second messengers. Recent studies are unraveling the effect of interactions between diet and endocrine...
Life Behind the Mask
Theatre Practice as an Instrument of Self-Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“You had to decide to let yourself be turned upside down, you had to accept to see the idea you had forged about yourself progressively shatter.” In the summer of 1969, at 19 years old, Didier Mouturat gave up on college, shattering his parents’ hopes that he follow a safe and conventional course....
Welcome Home Mr Swanson
Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Between 1840 and 1940, more than one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for...
Story of War
Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610–1710
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"O God we thank thee" was sung in the churches of France and Sweden after military victories in the seventeenth century. To celebrate Thanksgiving was a way of thanking God, but also a way for the rulers to legitimize the ever ongoing wars. For the inhabitants it was both an occasion for...
Ethnobotany of India, Volume 1
Eastern Ghats and Deccan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Ethnobotany of India: Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Adjacent Deccan, the first of a five-volume set, provides an informative overview of human-plant interrelationships in this southern area of India. The volume looks at the ethnic diversity, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, ethnoveterinary medicine, and...
Advocating Propaganda Viewpoints from Israel
Social Media, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Military Psychology, and Religious Persuasion Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Based on a series of interviews with top players in the Israeli propaganda war, Advocating Propaganda – Viewpoints from Israel gathers the perspectives from a rabbi, a priest, a politician, public servants, a military officer, a student activist, and a social media consultant to discuss the incomprehensible...
Atomic and Molecular Photoabsorption
Absolute Partial Cross Sections
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Atomic and Molecular Photoabsorption: Partial Cross Sections is a companion work to Joseph Berkowitz's earlier work, Atomic and Molecular Photoabsorption: Absolute Total Cross Sections, published with Academic Press in 2002.
In this work Joseph Berkowitz selected the "best" absolute...
Clinical Nutrition and Aging
Sarcopenia and Muscle Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
Sarcopenia—the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs with advancing age—is a major health challenge, particularly in North America, Europe, and Japan, which have large aging populations. This compendium volume is a valuable addition...
by Ramasamy Santhanam
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The first comprehensive volume exclusively on marine cone snails, this book provides descriptions of over 100 species of hazardous marine snails along with their biological and ecological characteristics; the characteristics of conotoxins; information on cone snail injuries and their treatment along...