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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This volume
includes the latest research into the diseases that affect
non-vascular plants. The chapters bring to light the most recent
studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease
cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease
resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals,
pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases. The
information provided here helps readers to stay current with this
field's ongoing research and ever-developing knowledge base.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In order to
function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical
compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a
large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function,
and these chemicals have multiple practical uses in the human world
as well, with applications to agriculture, forestry, and
horticulture. This book presents an important collection of
research and studies on the physiology of photosynthesis.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The field of
plant physiology includes the study of all chemical and physical
processes of plants, from the molecular-level interactions of
photosynthesis and the diffusion of water, minerals, and nutrients
within the plant, to the larger-scale processes of plant growth,
dormancy and reproduction. This new book covers a broad array of
topics within the field. Plant Physiology focuses on the study of
the internal activities of plants, including research into the
molecular interactions of photosynthesis and the internal diffusion
of water, minerals, and nutrients. Also included are investigations
into the processes of plant development, seasonality, dormancy, and
reproductive control. The chapters focus on various aspects of
plant physiology, including phytochemistry; interactions within a
plant between cells, issues, and organs; ways in which plants
regulate their internal functions; and how plants respond to
conditions and variations within the environment. Given the
environmental crises brought about by pollution and climate change,
this is a particularly vital area of study, since stress from water
loss, changes in air chemistry, or crowding by other plants can
lead to changes in the way a plant function. Readers of this book
will gain the information they need to stay current with the latest
research being done in this essential field of study.
En 1760, le pieux Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan denonce a
l'Academie francaise la litterature et la philosophie du moment. Se
declenche alors un deluge de pamphlets, un grand nombre des fusees
les mieux ciblees partant de Ferney, notamment des contes en vers
parmi les plus celebres de Voltaire: "La Vanite", "Le Russe a
Paris" et "Le Pauvre Diable". Apres quelques mois, celui-ci se
decide de reunir ces ecrits dans un "Recueil des faceties
parisiennes". A ses propres textes, il ajoute quelques
contributions d'autres philosophes, mais egalement des morceaux du
parti ennemi, agrementes d'ajouts assassins sous la forme de notes
et de prefaces.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The field of
plant physiology includes the study of all chemical and physical
processes of plants, from the molecular-level interactions of
photosynthesis and the diffusion of water, minerals, and nutrients
within the plant, to the larger-scale processes of plant growth,
dormancy and reproduction. This new book covers a broad array of
topics within the field. Plant Physiology focuses on the study of
the internal activities of plants, including research into the
molecular interactions of photosynthesis and the internal diffusion
of water, minerals, and nutrients. Also included are investigations
into the processes of plant development, seasonality, dormancy, and
reproductive control. The chapters focus on various aspects of
plant physiology, including phytochemistry; interactions within a
plant between cells, issues, and organs; ways in which plants
regulate their internal functions; and how plants respond to
conditions and variations within the environment. Given the
environmental crises brought about by pollution and climate change,
this is a particularly vital area of study, since stress from water
loss, changes in air chemistry, or crowding by other plants can
lead to changes in the way a plant function. Readers of this book
will gain the information they need to stay current with the latest
research being done in this essential field of study.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In order to
function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical
compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a
large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function,
and these chemicals have multiple practical uses in the human world
as well, with applications to agriculture, forestry, and
horticulture. This book presents an important collection of
research and studies on the physiology of photosynthesis.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This volume
includes the latest research into the diseases that affect
non-vascular plants. The chapters bring to light the most recent
studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease
cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease
resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals,
pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases. The
information provided here helps readers to stay current with this
field's ongoing research and ever-developing knowledge base.
Depuis les travaux innovateurs de Georges May et de Henri Coulet,
qui furent parmi les premiers a identifier l'importance
intellectuelle et esthetique du roman en tant qu'objet d'etudes,
nous avons assiste a une expansion enorme du corpus de textes
analyses; nous en disposons a la fois dans des editions savantes et
des editions moins specialisees. L'interet critique porte au roman
du dix-huitieme siecle n'a jamais ete aussi grand. Ce volume reunit
les travaux d'une equipe internationale de specialistes qui
reexaminent la contribution apportee par differentes approches
critiques du roman: l'histoire culturelle et l'histoire de
l'imprimerie, l'analyse textuelle et rhetorique, les etudes sur le
genre, sur la traduction et sur l'illustration. Les auteurs
eclairent d'un jour nouveau l'evolution des gouts des lecteurs et
des attitudes critiques, et prouvent la degradation progressive de
hypotheses souvent trop limitees sur la nature et l'origine du
genre. Ces etudes demontrent que le roman ne peut pas se reduire a
une seule caracteristique, surtout pas au simple 'realisme', et que
son importance et l'interet qu'il suscite perdurent en raison de la
diversite meme de ses formes, du langage qu'il utilise et des
sujets innovateurs qu'il aborde. Dans ces articles que leurs
multiples facettes rendent si stimulants, Le Second Triomphe du
roman du XVIIIe siecleapporte au lecteur de nouvelles facons de
lire au vingt et unieme siecle le roman du dix-huitieme.
This volume has its origins in an international seminar where
eighteen scholars representing a number of academic fields were
invited to consider the eighteenth-century colonial enterprise from
a more global and interdisciplinary perspective. Among the issues
that arose then, and that are more fully elaborated here, are: the
nature and goals of the many colonial expeditions that were
undertaken at the time; the manners and means in which these were
carried out; the differences between them; and the similarities
that they shared. Relying on a variety of sources that include
historical archives, literary texts, travel journals, visual and
material artefacts and critical studies, the authors explore
eighteenth-century colonialism as it was practised and manifested
around the world: Europe, Africa, the Americas, the South Pacific,
and Asia. What emerges from their essays is the image of a
Eurocentric practice with global implications whose themes, despite
the diversity existing among the preponderant colonial powers, were
oft repeated. As a result, the essays presented here are grouped
into four sub-headings - Representations, Mercantilism, Religion
and ideology, and Slavery - each of which is integral to an
understanding of colonial and post-colonial theories and of their
respective consequences and interpretations. The motives of
colonisers, as well as their critics, were both multiple and shared
during the eighteenth century. These engendered complex sets of
arguments - philosophical, political, economic, and social - which
the contributors to this volume examine in detail in such disparate
geo-political areas as Mexico and Thailand, Senegal and China.
Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton,
Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed,
culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in
twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this new
edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was
known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new
translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand
manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate
further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography,
originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the
critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of
Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu's thought and a
synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book
is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and
how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the
European agenda.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In
horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants' reproductive
physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables,
the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant
physiology, including plants' reproductive systems, are important
to the production of food, fibers, medicine, cosmetics, and even
fuels. This volume presents many new studies on plants'
reproductive systems, including new research on sperm cells in
plant reproduction; the effect of herbivory on plant reproduction;
disturbances to functional diversity; plant genes, hormones, DNA;
and much more.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In
horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants' reproductive
physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables,
the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant
physiology, including plants' reproductive systems, are important
to the production of food, fibers, medicine, cosmetics, and even
fuels. This volume presents many new studies on plants'
reproductive systems, including new research on sperm cells in
plant reproduction; the effect of herbivory on plant reproduction;
disturbances to functional diversity; plant genes, hormones, DNA;
and much more.
A number of Montesquieu's lesser-known discourses, dissertations
and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first
time fully translated and annotated in English. The views they
incorporate on politics, economics, science, and religion shed
light on the overall development of his political and moral
thought. They enable us better to understand not just Montesquieu's
importance as a political philosopher studying forms of government,
but also his stature as a moral philosopher, seeking to remind us
of our duties while injecting deeper moral concerns into politics
and international relations. They reveal that Montesquieu's vision
for the future was remarkably clear: more science and less
superstition; greater understanding of our moral duties; enhanced
concern for justice, increased emphasis on moral principles in the
conduct of domestic and international politics; toleration of
conflicting religious viewpoints; commerce over war, and liberty
over despotism as the proper goals for mankind.
A number of Montesquieu's lesser-known discourses, dissertations
and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first
time fully translated and annotated in English. The views they
incorporate on politics, economics, science, and religion shed
light on the overall development of his political and moral
thought. They enable us better to understand not just Montesquieu's
importance as a political philosopher studying forms of government,
but also his stature as a moral philosopher, seeking to remind us
of our duties while injecting deeper moral concerns into politics
and international relations. They reveal that Montesquieu's vision
for the future was remarkably clear: more science and less
superstition; greater understanding of our moral duties; enhanced
concern for justice, increased emphasis on moral principles in the
conduct of domestic and international politics; toleration of
conflicting religious viewpoints; commerce over war, and liberty
over despotism as the proper goals for mankind.
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