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That Yankee Cat - Marilis Hornidge - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Mark Twain for Cat Lovers - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

101 Uses for a Maine Coon Cat - Down East Books - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Microplastics - Mathew Simpson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Microplastics - Mathew Simpson - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

An in-depth look at what microplastics are, how prevalent they are, and what can be done about them for a professional and academic audience. The first part of the book provides an overview of plastics types, how they are released to the environment, and how they interact with organisms. This part also provides a background for several salient aspects of microplastics hazards (e.g., attachment of toxic chemicals, toxicity to organisms). Special attention will be paid to how microplastics decompose in the environment (which is significant in terms of mobility of toxicity). Subsequent chapters address how to sample and identify microplastics. The second part of the book examines technologies for removal of microplastics from water, wastewater and from soil. Biological, chemical and physical technologies are presented. Theory of operation, practical considerations, and possible environmental impacts of their use are discussed. Key aspects include: * technologies available for removal of microplastics from wastewater and surface water; * how various toxins which are sorbed to microplastics adversely affect wastewater treatment processes; * technologies at the pilot- and field stage for removal of microplastics from sediment; * industrial practices for preventing microplastic losses from manufacturing facilities; and * the distribution of microplastics in the atmosphere. Written by John Pichtel, author of the acclaimed Fundamentals of Site Remediation, and Mathew Simpson.

DKK 856.00
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Building a Better Teacher - Mark A. Paige - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Building a Better Teacher - Mark A. Paige - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Stalked by a Mountain Lion - Jo Deurbrouck - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Ghosts of Savannah - Terrance Zepke - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Cosmetologists - Tracy Brown Hamilton - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

We the People - Ben Railton - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Judging Executive Power - Richard J. Ellis - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Book Banning in 21st-Century America - Emily J. M. Knox - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Book Banning in 21st-Century America - Emily J. M. Knox - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.

DKK 317.00
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The Age of Political Jihadism - Aaron Y. Zelin - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Reflective Discipline - Martha R. Bireda - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Reflective Discipline - Martha R. Bireda - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Wicked Salem - Sam Baltrusis - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Hemingway's Cats - Carlene Brennen - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Hemingway's Cats - Carlene Brennen - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Ernest Hemingway always had cats as companions, from the ones he adored as a child in Illinois and Michigan, to the more than 30 he had as an adult in Paris, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho. All are chronicled and most are pictured here, along with revelations about how they fit into the many twists and turns of his life and loves. In 1943, Ernest Hemingway, living in the Finca in Cuba with his third wife and eleven cats, wrote to his first wife: "One cat just leads to another... The place is so damned big it doesn''t really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time." He called the cats “purr factories" and “love sponges" who soaked up love in return for comfort and companionship. He gave each a name that suited its character, including F. Puss, Fatso, Friendless, Feather Kitty, Princessa, Furhouse, Uncle Woofer, and his last cat in Idaho, Big Boy Peterson. In this updated and edition, you''ll also meet his nine dogs, a cow, and a young great horned owl that he rescued not long before his death. Hemingway''s Cats reveals a softer side to the writer''s character than is usually portrayed through the macho image of the hunter and fisherman. He sought the cats'' comfort in times of stress and loneliness, and he featured some of them in his writings, particularly in A Moveable Feast , Islands in the Stream , The Garden of Eden , and True at First Light —all written late in his life and as close to autobiography as he ever came.

DKK 156.00
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Engineering and Governing the Climate - Xavier Landes - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Engineering and Governing the Climate - Xavier Landes - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Geoengineering increasingly appears to be the key to future climate policies. Societies and governments the world over have so far failed to sufficiently curb greenhouse gas emissions necessary for averting dramatic temperature increases and climate change. This book introduces readers to the concepts and methods of climate engineering by presenting the technologies and risks, as well as the political and ethical issues. This timely text tackles topics such as the arguments for and against altering the climate on purpose, the uncertainties of geoengineering technologies, the international coordination in engineering projects, and the duties towards the future generations. Landes engages with global cases, including reforestation efforts, melting ice in the Artic regions, Siberia and Alaska, forest fires in Brazil, California, Australia, and Europe, and coral reef destruction in our oceans. Distinctive features of the book include: - Situating climate engineering within the more general context of the Anthropocene - Setting up an evaluative framework used for assessing climate engineering methods from three angles: feasibility, permissibility, and, preferability - A taxonomy of the different methods of climate engineering: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management - A structured and critical review of the different justifications for and oppositions to climate engineering R&D as well as deployment Engineering and Governing the Climate: Ethical and Political Issues is an essential read for all those working in environmental studies, climate policy, and building a sustainable future.

DKK 901.00
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Engineering and Governing the Climate - Xavier Landes - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Engineering and Governing the Climate - Xavier Landes - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Geoengineering increasingly appears to be the key to future climate policies. Societies and governments the world over have so far failed to sufficiently curb greenhouse gas emissions necessary for averting dramatic temperature increases and climate change. This book introduces readers to the concepts and methods of climate engineering by presenting the technologies and risks, as well as the political and ethical issues. This timely text tackles topics such as the arguments for and against altering the climate on purpose, the uncertainties of geoengineering technologies, the international coordination in engineering projects, and the duties towards the future generations. Landes engages with global cases, including reforestation efforts, melting ice in the Artic regions, Siberia and Alaska, forest fires in Brazil, California, Australia, and Europe, and coral reef destruction in our oceans. Distinctive features of the book include: - Situating climate engineering within the more general context of the Anthropocene - Setting up an evaluative framework used for assessing climate engineering methods from three angles: feasibility, permissibility, and, preferability - A taxonomy of the different methods of climate engineering: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management - A structured and critical review of the different justifications for and oppositions to climate engineering R&D as well as deployment Engineering and Governing the Climate: Ethical and Political Issues is an essential read for all those working in environmental studies, climate policy, and building a sustainable future.

DKK 317.00
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The Lightkeepers' Menagerie - Elinor De Wire - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Essentials of Southern Cooking - Damon Lee Fowler - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Human Tradition in Antebellum America - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Human Tradition in Antebellum America - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the political, economic, social, and institutional changes that characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older, outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences, race, and local economic change and its effect on society and politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion, the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is ideal for courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and American social and cultural history.

DKK 370.00
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Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication - Kevin L. Smith - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication - Kevin L. Smith - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

It is impossible to imagine the future of academic libraries without an extensive consideration of open access—the removal of price and permission barriers from scholarly research online. As textbook and journal subscription prices continue to rise, improvements in technology make online dissemination of scholarship less expensive, and faculty recognize the practical and philosophical appeal of making their work available to wider audiences. As a consequences, libraries have begun to consider a wide variety of open access “flavors” and business models. These new possibilities have significant impact on both library services and collection policies, and the call for new skills within library staffing. Volume 9 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is the first of two addressing the topic of open access in academic libraries and focuses on policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. Chapters in the book discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities. Infrastructure issues are also addressed including metadata standards and research management services. Also considered here is how interlibrary loan, preservation and the library’s role in providing textbooks, support the concept of open access. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

DKK 158.00
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Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication - Kevin L. Smith - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication - Kevin L. Smith - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

It is impossible to imagine the future of academic libraries without an extensive consideration of open access—the removal of price and permission barriers from scholarly research online. As textbook and journal subscription prices continue to rise, improvements in technology make online dissemination of scholarship less expensive, and faculty recognize the practical and philosophical appeal of making their work available to wider audiences. As a consequences, libraries have begun to consider a wide variety of open access “flavors” and business models. These new possibilities have significant impact on both library services and collection policies, and the call for new skills within library staffing. Volume 9 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is the first of two addressing the topic of open access in academic libraries and focuses on policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. Chapters in the book discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities. Infrastructure issues are also addressed including metadata standards and research management services. Also considered here is how interlibrary loan, preservation and the library’s role in providing textbooks, support the concept of open access. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

DKK 476.00
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