| Author | : Steve Gilbert,Asish Mohapatra,Sol Bobst,Antoinette Hayes,Sara T. Humes |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Release Date | : 2020-05-16 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0128137258 |
| Pages | : 1054 pages |
This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology’s subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools. Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology’s presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field. The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children’s environmental health. Introductory chapters provide a backdrop to the science of toxicology, its history, the origin and status of toxicoinformatics, and starting points for identifying resources. Offers an extensive array of chapters organized by subject, each highlighting resources such as journals, databases,organizations, and review articles. Includes chapters with an emphasis on format such as government reports, general interest publications, blogs, and audiovisuals. Explores recent internet trends, web-based databases, and software tools in a section on the online environment. Concludes with a miscellany of special topics such as laws and regulations, chemical hazard communication resources, careers and professional education, K-12 resources, funding, poison control centers, and patents. Paired with Volume Two, which focuses on global resources, this set offers the most comprehensive compendium of print, digital, and organizational resources in the toxicological sciences with over 120 chapters contributions by experts and leaders in the field.
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1880 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Maureen Gallery Kovacs |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Release Date | : 1989 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780804717113 |
| Pages | : 122 pages |
Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic story line: they revolve around a man’s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of lonliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.
| Author | : Mary Maier |
| Publisher | : Building Block Books |
| Release Date | : 2019-07-07 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781944201180 |
| Pages | : 32 pages |
Go on a journey with Sheep to deliver flowers to all of his friends, but be warned--ACHOOOO! Sheep is allergic and every time she sneezes her shoes go flying. Can you help Sheep find all four shoes (and more) at each location? Use prepositions like next-to, behind and underneath to answer Sheep's where questions. This is yet another fun and interactive book designed to enhance expressive language skills.
| Author | : Nathaniel Rich |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Release Date | : 2020-03-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781529015843 |
| Pages | : 256 pages |
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1846 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Clifford Geertz |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Release Date | : 2017-08-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0465093566 |
| Pages | : 576 pages |
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.
| Author | : Farhang Rajaee,International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
| Publisher | : IDRC |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0889369097 |
| Pages | : 149 pages |
Globalization on Trial challenges the conventional view that equates globalization with the expansion of the capitalist economic system. With a broad historical and holistic brush, the author presents a view of globalization that is both multidisciplinary and multicultural. What opportunities must we seize? What dangers must we overcome? Rajaee examines human governance and the paradox of globalism and nationalism (or "nativism"), providing a particularly fresh perspective on Islamic civilization. He also focuses on our education system and how it will have to adapt to meet the new challenges.
| Author | : Robert Michels |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Release Date | : 1968 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0029212502 |
| Pages | : 379 pages |
In this book Michels analyzes the tendencies that oppose the realization of democracy, and claims that these tendencies can be classified in three ways: dependence upon the nature of the individual; dependence upon the nature of the political structure; and dependence upon the nature of organization. This edition, described by Morris Janowitz as a "classic of modern social science" and by Melvin Tumin as "the beginning of a tradition", offers a landmark study in political science. Following its original publication in 1910, the study and analysis of political parties was established as a new branch of science. Political Parties continues to be a foundation work in the literature and is a necessary addition to the libraries of contemporary political scientists, sociologists, and historians. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
| Author | : Stephen M. Byars,Kurt Stanberry |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2018-09-24 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781947172562 |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Gordon Gibson |
| Publisher | : The Fraser Institute |
| Release Date | : 2009 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0889752435 |
| Pages | : 268 pages |
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Release Date | : 1998-09-25 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9264163530 |
| Pages | : 176 pages |
This book reviews the extraordinary promise of technological advances over the next twenty years or so, and assesses some of the key issues -- economic, social, environmental, ethical -- that decision-makers in government, business and society will face in the decades ahead.