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African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

by Jean-Blaise Samou, Koni Benson, Mohamed Kamara, Janice Spleth, Marie-Therese Toyi, Lifongo J. Vetinde, Thomas Spree MacDonald, Adrien M. Pouille, Uchenna David Uwakwe0, Hervé Tchumkam1 ...

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.This ... Read more

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A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.This
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Therapeutic Progress in Oncology

Towards a Revolution in Cancer Therapy?

by Jacques Barbet, Adrien Foucquier, Yves Thomas ...

The combined effects of population growth and aging have led to an increase in the number of cancers. Preventing, diagnosing, treating and curing cancer are therefore, more than ever, imperatives facing medicine especially to continue the decrease in cancers� mortality rates and to improve the quality of survival.Over time, the �classic� modes of treatment (surgery, external beam radiotherapy, ... Read more

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The combined effects of population growth and aging have led to an increase in the number of cancers. Preventing, diagnosing, treating and curing cancer are therefore, more than ever, imperatives facing medicine especially to continue the decrease in cancers� mortality rates and to improve the quality of survival.Over time, the �classic� modes of treatment (surgery, external beam radiotherapy,
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Microbial bioprotectants for plant disease management

by Dr Jürgen Köhl, Dr Josiane Barros Chiaramonte, Dr Rodrigo Mendes, Dr Stéphane Compant, Dr Günter Brader, Dr Angela Sessitsch, Dr Marc Bardin, Dr Thomas Pressecq, Dr Philippe C. Nicot, Dr Yousra Bouaoud0, Dr Jacob Eyal1, Dr Willem J. Ravensberg3, Dr Michael Dimock4, Dr José João Carvalho5, Dr Rüdiger Hauschild6, Mr Mark C. Trimmer7, Dr Adrien Anckaert8, Dr Anthony Arguelles Arias9, Dr Grégory Hoff0, Dr Maryline Calonne-Salmon1, Dr Stéphane Declerck2, Prof Gabriele Berg3, Dr Marc Ongena4, Dr Emilio Montesinos5, Dr Anna Bonaterra6, Dr Enrique Monte7, Dr Rosa Hermosa8, Dr Dan Funck Jensen9, Dr Mukesh Dubey0, Dr Birgit Jensen1, Dr Magnus Karlsson2, Dr Peter Kusstatscher3, Dr Manoj Choudhary4, Dr Mathews Paret5, Prof Jeffrey B. Jones6, Dr Nelia Ortega-Parra7, Dr Zafeiro Zisi8, Dr Inge M. Hanssen9, Dr Anne D. van Diepeningen0, Dr Ranajit Bandyopadhyay1, Dr Franz Stocker2, Dr Alejandro Ortega-Beltran3, Dr Matieyedou Konlambigue4, Dr Lawrence Kaptoge5, Dr Titilayo D. O. Falade6, Dr Peter J. Cotty7, Dr Joeke Postma8, Dr Ahmed Abdelfattah9, Dr Tomislav Cernava0, Dr Wagner Bettiol1, Dr Flávio Henrique Vasconcelos de Medeiros2, Dr Aleksa Obradović3, Dr Katarina Gašić4, Professor Monica Hӧfte5 ...

Series Book 108 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
A comprehensive review of the recent developments in microbial bioprotectantsCovers key classifications of bioprotectants: bacterial (e.g. Bacillus spp.), fungal (e.g. Trichoderma spp.), and viral (e.g. bacteriophages)Discusses the general issues that arise with the use of key bioprotectants throughout agriculture (e.g. risk of development of resistance against bioprotectants) ... Read more

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A comprehensive review of the recent developments in microbial bioprotectantsCovers key classifications of bioprotectants: bacterial (e.g. Bacillus spp.), fungal (e.g. Trichoderma spp.), and viral (e.g. bacteriophages)Discusses the general issues that arise with the use of key bioprotectants throughout agriculture (e.g. risk of development of resistance against bioprotectants)
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Climate, Ticks and Disease

by Saeed Alasmari, Neil Alexander, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Reiko Arai, Armanda Bastos, Gervasio Henrique Bechara, John Beier, Giovanni Benelli, Joshua Benoit, Dennis Bente, Richard Bishop, Adrien Blisnick, René Bødker, Fernando Boinas, Sarah Bonnet, Nathalie Boulanger, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano, Cyril Caminade, Jirí Cerny´, Roxanne Albertha Charles, Ali Reza Chavshin, Rosalind Cornforth, Neil Coughlan, Peter Cox, Lauren Culler, Milan Daniel, Vlasta Danielova, Mona Dehhaghi, Maria Diuk-Wasser, James P Duffy, Olivier Duron, Lars Eisen, Rebecca Eisen, Jana Elsterová, Koray Ergünay, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Li-Qun Fang, Natalia Fernández-Ruiz, Erol Fikrig, Serhii Filatov, Durland Fish, Janet Foley, José de la Fuente, Roman Ganta, Aysen Gargili Keles, Robin Beat Gasser, Abdul Ghafar, Naftaly Githaka, Lucy Gilbert, Maryna Golovchenko, Yuval Gottlieb, Ernest Gould, Jeremy Gray, Libor Grubhoffer, Gilles J. Guillemin, Kayleigh M. Hansford, Charles Hart, John E. Healy, Deborah Hemming, Stephen Higgs, Andrew Hoodless, Yan-Jang S. Huang, Bernard Hudson, Chris Huntingford, Peter Irwin, Abdul Jabbar, Nicholas Johnson, Esther Kanduma, Sirri Kar, Maria Kazimirova, Neil Kaye, Thomas C. Kelly, Lene Jung Kjaer, Agatha Onyemowo Kolo, Eduard Korenberg, Nina Król, Chi-Chien Kuo, Timothy J. Kurtti, Xavier de Lamballerie, Patrick A. Leighton, Hao Li, L. Robbin Lindsay, Wei Liu, Geoffrey E. Lynn, Ilya Maclean, Ben J. Mans, Maristela Martins de Camargo, Karen D. McCoy, Jolyon M. Medlock, Ulrike G. Munderloh, Atle Mysterud, Sukanya Narasimhan, Anna Obiegala, Dasiel Obregón Alvarez, Mari H. Ogihara, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Charlotte Oskam, Domenico Otranto, Kennan J. Oyen, Neha Pandey, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, A. Townsend Peterson, John H. O. Pettersson, Martin Pfeffer, L. Paul Phipps, Heather J. Plumpton, Tatjana Pustahija, Ram Raghavan, Ryan O.M Rego, Annapaola Rizzoli, Isobel Ronai, Franz Rubel, Natalie Rudenko, Benjamin Ruiwen, Rufus Sage, Abdallah M. Samy, Gustavo Seron Sanches, Isabel Kinney Ferreira Santos, Marcello Otake Sato, Megumi Sato, Richard Schloeffel, Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh, Ladislav Šimo, Sunit Kumar Singh, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Morgan Sparey, Frederic Stachurski, Snorre Stuen, Matias Pablo Juan Szabó, DeMar Taylor, Mike Teglas, Sam R. Telford III, Saravanan Thangamani, Georgia Titcomb, Attila J. Trájer, Michael Turell, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Laurence Vial, Margarita Villar, Richard Wall, André B. B. Wilke, G. R. William Wint, Jianhong Wu, Zbigniew Zajac, Xue Zhang, Dr Nicholas H. Ogden ...

Series Book 18 - CABI Climate Change Series
This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It ... Read more

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This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It
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Learn French with Bilingual Books

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by Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Gwinnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Perrault, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe0, Edith Wharton1, Emile Zola2, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche3, Gustave Flaubert4, Guy Maupassant5, Hans Christian Andersen6, Harriet Beecher Stowe7, Herbert George Wells8, Honoré de Balzac9, Ivan Turgenev0, James Fenimore Cooper1, Jerome Klapka Jerome2, Jules Verne3, Leo Tolstoy4, Lewis Carroll5, Marcel Proust6, Mark Twain7, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley8, Maurice LeBlanc9, Nikolai Gogol0, Oscar Wilde1, Prosper Mérimée3, René Descartes4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Victor Hugo6, Voltaire8, Walter Scott9, William Shakespeare0 ...

Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Oscar Wilde2, Victor Hugo7, Adrien de Jassaud1, Agnes Kinloch Kingston2, Albert Montemont3, Albert Savine4, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos5, Alfred Gerardin6, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret7, Charles Baudelaire8, Charles Du Bos9, Charles Pierre Baudelaire0, Charles Welsh1, Clara Bell2, Claud Field3, Edmund Gosse4, Eleanor Marx-Aveling5, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer6, Ellen Marriage7, Ellis Havelock8, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly9, Ernest Augustus Boyd0, Ernest Jaubert1, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot2, Frederic Amadeus Malleson3, George Makepeace Towle4, Germain d'Hangest5, Henri Albert6, Henri Bue7, Henriette Loreau8, Henry Davray9, Isabel Florence Hapgood0, Jeanne de Polignac1, John Veitch2, Joseph Bedier3, J.-Wladimir Bienstock4, Leon Golschmann5, Lesbazeilles Souvestre6, Louise Swanton-Belloc7, Louis Labat8, Louis Moland9, Louis Viardot0, Lucie Paul-Margueritte1, Marcel Schwob2, Mary Loyd3, Petrus Borel4, Pierre Georget La Chesnais5, Robert Nisbet Bain6, Susannah Mary Paull7, Theo Varlet8, Therese Bentzon9, Thomas Common0, Tobias George Smollett1, Victor Llona2, William Little Hughes3, William Robson4 ...

Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English.There’s a great option: bilingual books!Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can practice your French without being in over your head.Plus, there are plenty of different types of ... Read more

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Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English.There’s a great option: bilingual books!Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can practice your French without being in over your head.Plus, there are plenty of different types of
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Plant Defense

Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants

by Dale Walters ...

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to ... Read more

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Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to
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The Complete Dinosaur

by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow ...

Series series Life of the Past
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can ... Read more

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A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can
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The Potato Crop

Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind

Edited by Hugo Campos, Oscar Ortiz ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of
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Forerunners of Mammals

Radiation' Histology, Biology

Edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan ...

Series series Life of the Past
An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave ... Read more

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An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave
... Read more
Pterosaurs

Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

by Mark P. Witton ...

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds—they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with ... Read more

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The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds—they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with
... Read more
Biocontrol Mechanisms of Endophytic Microorganisms

Edited by E.K. Radhakrishnan, Ajay Kumar, R. Aswani ...

Biocontrol Mechanisms of Endophytic Microorganisms introduces endophytic microorganisms, colonization, diversity and distribution, describes the isolation and identification of endophytic microorganisms by traditional cultivation and by next generation sequencing technologies, and covers biocontrol mechanisms, bacterial priming, endophytic based methods, the significance on fungi, and metabolite ... Read more

$134.99 USD

Biocontrol Mechanisms of Endophytic Microorganisms introduces endophytic microorganisms, colonization, diversity and distribution, describes the isolation and identification of endophytic microorganisms by traditional cultivation and by next generation sequencing technologies, and covers biocontrol mechanisms, bacterial priming, endophytic based methods, the significance on fungi, and metabolite
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Herpetology

An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

by Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell ...

The fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for modern herpetology courses, but it is also relevant to courses in ecology, behavior, evolution, systematics, and morphology. Examples taken from amphibians and reptiles throughout the world make this book ... Read more

$63.89 USD

The fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for modern herpetology courses, but it is also relevant to courses in ecology, behavior, evolution, systematics, and morphology. Examples taken from amphibians and reptiles throughout the world make this book
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