Principles of Fish Immunology: From Cells and Molecules to Host Protection
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030854191 | 668 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
This textbook provides a highly accessible and concise overview on the innate and adaptive immune systems in fish as well as on fundamentals and latest developments in fish vaccinology. It introduces the anatomy and molecular functions of immune organs and furthermore examines in detail the interactions between the host immune systems and different types of pathogens.
Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880 By Nancy Finlay, Kate Steinway
2009 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1881264092 | PDF | 17 MB
This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking firm. Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the history of American graphic and visual arts.CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway.
Art Hobson, "Physics: Concepts and Connections"
English | 2014 | pages: 537 | ISBN: 1292039582 | PDF | 19,9 mb
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Paris Recipes: A Complete Cookbook of Tasty, French Dish Ideas! by Julia Chiles
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B081SMVYJR | 113 pages | EPUB | 2.12 Mb
Do you picture Paris cuisine as just fancy dishes? Does your mind conjure images of opulent restaurants and elegant presentations of food?
Paradiplomacy in Action: The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments By Francisco Aldecoa, Dr Michael Keating
1999 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0714649716 | PDF | 26 MB
Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC.
Stephen Kinzer, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0805078614 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 4.0 mb
A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments-not always to its own benefit
Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play of Transformation By Cristina Boscolo
2009 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 9042026804 | PDF | 4 MB
A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empowering their own vision, and defining themselves, rather, as counterdiscourses. This, the first part of the book: a metacritical discourse, on the geopolitics (the inherent power imbalances) of academic writing and its effects on odún, the performances dedicated to the gods, ancestors, and heroes of Yorùbá history. But odún: where is it? and what is it? And the 'voice'? The many critical discourses have not really answered these questions. In effect, odún is many things. To enable the reader to see these, the study proceeds with an 'intermezzo': a frame of reference that sets odún, the festival, in its own historico-cultural ecoenvironment, identifying the strategies that inform the performance and constitute its aesthetic. It is a 'classical' yet, for odún, an innovative procedure. This interdisciplinary background equips the reader with the knowledge necessary to watch the performance, to witness its beauty, and to understand the 'half words' odún utters. And now the performance can begin. The 'voice' emerges one last time, to introduce the second section, which presents two case studies. The reader is led, day by day, through the celebrations -odún edì, Morèmi's story, and its realization in performance; then confrontation by the masks of the ancestors duing odún egúngún (particularly as held in Ibadan). The meaning of odún becomes clearer and clearer. Odún is poetry, dances, masks, food, prayer. It is play (eré) and belief (ìgbàgbó). It is interaction between the players (both performers and spectators). It is also politics and power. It contains secrets and sacrifices. It is a reality with its own dimension and, above all, as the quintessential site of knowledge, it possesses the power to transform. In short, it is a challenge - a challenge that the present book and its voices take up.
Observation of Living Things in Nature by General Onologic Soft Corp.
English | March 25, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B086DQN22D | 225 pages | EPUB | 39 Mb
The most desirable way to study math is through a series of training processes for discovering the secrets of nature.
June Melby, "My Family and Other Hazards: A Memoir"
English | ISBN: 0805098313 | 2014 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
A funny, heartwarming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home, in this case a quirky, one-of-a-kind, family-run miniature golf course in the woods of Wisconsin
Music Education: Cultural Values, Social Change and Innovation By Robert Walker
2007 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 0398077266 | PDF | 3 MB
This is an important work that addresses the complex issues surrounding musical meaning and experience, and the Western traditional justification for including music in education. The chapters in this volume examine the important subjects of tradition, innovation, social change, the music curriculum, music in the twentieth century, social strata, culture and music education, psychology, science and music education, including musical values and education. Additional topics include the origins of mania, aesthetics and musical meaning related to concepts that are well-known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, which are compared to contemporary life. The rise of studies of musical behavior by social psychologists has been an important feature for the last two decades, and the relevance of this development to music education is explored. Articulating the difference between education and entertainment has been central to discussions and debates about the role of music in education since Plato and Aristotle first examined the problem. Many of the questions and issues raised by these two Greek philosophers in ancient Greece about the nature of music and its role in education are highly relevant today, and these are examined in the context of the twenty-first century. The writer stresses that music is a product of specific cultural ways of thinking and doing, and its inclusion in education can only be justified in terms of the importance a particular culture places on its music as a valued art form. The implications for music education are that those teaching music should focus in the ways musicians employ special cultural ways of thinking in their compositions and performance practices, whatever the genre.