Filter by
The Vitamin A Story : Lifting the Shadow of Death
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783318021882
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Delta Life Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops ‘delta life’ as a metaphor for ap…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800731240
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of…
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781912250332
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Yout…
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking O…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262513654
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Mystery of Yawning in Physiology and Disease
Yawning is a stereotyped phylogenetically ancient phenomenon that occurs in almost all vertebrates. As an emotional behavior and an expressive movement, yawning has many consequences; nevertheless, it has so far been poorly addressed in medical research and practice. Bringing together the latest research from many fields, this volume integrates current insights within embryology, ethology, neur…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783805594042
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management
This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political ar…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1136294821, 9781136294822
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
In Silico Bees
Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their pollinating activity. This book provides a collection of computational methods to those primarily interested in the study of the ecology, ethology, and ecotoxicology of bees. It presents numerous case studies to enable readers to understand the appropriateness but also the limitations of models in th…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1466517883, 9781466517882
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation
Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1466552026, 9781466552029
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food Development and Democratization
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. It provides not only a way f…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429895128
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philos…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000056891
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 790.2 ROU r
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography