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Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which
he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders,
exposblioges, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the
first critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens,
which have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and
re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and
socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as
a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and
stylistic development of his work.
The use of social media has gained a greater foothold in teen life
as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online
media. However, general concerns exist among the public, community,
schools, and administration that online social communication may
pose more threats than benefits to adolescents. Adolescent Online
Social Communication and Behavior: Relationship Formation on the
Internet identifies the role and function of shared contact
behavior of youth on the Web. With expert international
contributions, this publication provides a deep understanding on
various issues of adolescent Internet use with an emphasis on
diverse aspects of social and cognitive development, communication
characteristics, and modes of communication.
Author, Robert J. Drew has relived his many years of experience
in England and America dealing with both pigs, and the people that
care for them, in this humorous and educational read Pig Tales From
Across the Pond.
Both countries have elements that are undoubtedly unique. There
are however many similarities, and it is these, along with the
subtle differences in cultures and paradigms that are observed and
then drawn upon by the author that are sure to make you laugh. Wild
Boars and Wild BullsCowboys and Indiansi Tornadoes and
BlizzardsSnakes and Snapping TurtlesMarijuana and more.......
Whether you use the word hog or pig, drive on the left hand side
of the road or the right, smoke cigarettes or fags, or have ever
been asked by a complete stranger . . . "Do you know how to shag?"
There is something within Pig Tales From Across the Pond that will
make you want to tell your family and friends.
""" This book has been written as a guide to the management and use
of formulated feeds in intensive fish and shrimp culture. While its
focus is on the use of commercially pro duced feeds in intensive
production systems, it is anticipated that many of the practical
issues covered will be of equal interest to those fish farmers who
make their own feeds and to those who use formulated feeds in less
intensive systems. Feeds and feeding are the major variable
operating costs in intensive aquaculture and the book is primarily
in tended to aid decision making by fish farm managers in areas of
feeding policy. The dramatic increases in aquaculture production
seen over the past 15 years have been made possible, in large part,
by gains in our understanding of the food and feed ing requirements
of key fish and shrimp species. A global aquaculture feeds industry
has developed and a wide range of specialist feeds is now sold. The
new options in feeds and feeding systems, which are becoming
available, necessitate continual review by farmers of their feeding
policies, where choices must be made as to appropriate feed types
and feeding methods. While growth rates and feed conversion values
are the prime factors of interest to farmers, other important
issues, such as product qualiry and environmental impacts of farm
effluents, are also directly related to feed management practices."
In Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and
genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection
of environmental, indigenous, and social justice. This collection
of a dozen essays searches terrain—from the heart of a swamp to
the modern grid lines remaking our watersheds, to the tracks of the
animals who share this earth, to the inner landscapes of the
soul—to find glimpses of light in dark places and hope in painful
legacies. Pritchett recounts a trip to Dismal Swamp, where he takes
inspiration from the many enslaved people who found refuge there.
Another piece offers two ways of seeing the landscape: the
watershed as an ecological unit, and the grid as a colonial
construct. Still another weaves personal narrative with the story
of the Trail of Tears to describe how settler colonialism became an
apocalypse for indigenous nations and ecologies. Pritchett explores
an early apocalyptic story from the book of Daniel and considers
new ways of relating to the land and its inhabitants. He focuses on
the relationship between technology and trees to argue that humans
have largely discarded ecological interrelationship in favor of
extractive ways of living, and he travels the Ventura River,
reflecting on waterways as being endangered but still operating as
places of refuge for people and wildlife. The word “mossback”
has been used to describe rural southerners who lived in swampy
areas during colonial times and moved so slowly that moss grew on
their clothing. It is also used to describe fish and turtles who
show similar growth on their shells, Confederate deserters who
refused to fight and, after the war, southerners who fought against
the Ku Klux Klan. Pritchett reclaims the word to celebrate those
who move deliberately through the natural world, protecting the
land and the relations they depend on.
"You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same."
That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds
and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham
explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture
of poetry and prose. He questions vital assumptions taken for
granted by so many birdwatchers: can birding be an escape if the
birder is not in a safe place? Who is watching him as he watches
birds? With a refreshing balance of reverence and candor, Lanham
paints a unique portrait of the natural world: listening to
cicadas, tracking sandpipers, towhees, wrens, and cataloging fellow
birdwatchers at a conference where he is one of two black birders.
The resulting insights are as honest as they are illuminating.
The concept of chemotherapy as originated by Paul Ehrlich is based
on the premise that antiparasitic drugs must have two properties:
they must first bind to specific structures of the parasite which
Ehrlich called chemoreceptors. Subsequent to their attachment to
the chemoreceptor and by virtue of this binding they must possess
the capacity to kill the parasite. Since the host which is to be
cured of an invading parasite also contains a large number of
chemoreceptors, that have the potential to bind toxic compounds,
the task of the chemo therapist is to identify chemoreceptors of
the parasite which are . not represented in the host and to design
drugs which bind selectively to them In this context, Ehrlich
called. for "the complete and exhaustive knowledge of all the
different chemoreceptors of a certain parasite" as a "sine qua non
for success in chemotherapy." Paradoxically and in spite of the
fact that chemotherapy has become a very advanced and successful
therapeutic discipline, few of its tri umphs have been achieved by
following Ehrlich's original precepts. On the contrary, in the
overwhelming majority of cases, effective drugs have been
discovered without any knowledge of their chemoreceptors, and these
drugs themselves have conversely been used as tools to study the
nature of the chemoreceptors involved. In other words: chemother
apy, notably antibacterial chemotherapy, has been successful
without ever living up to the fundamental standards put forward by
Paul Ehr lich."
Das Werk beschaftigt sich mit der in 2a Abs. 3 VermAnlG
angesprochenen Internet-Dienstleistungsplattform, die bei den
entgeltlichen Formen des Crowdfundings zwischen Kapitalsuchendem
und Anleger steht. Dazu setzt sich der Autor - unter
Berucksichtigung des Anlegerschutzes - mit den aufsichtsrechtlichen
Anforderungen auseinander und nimmt eine zivilrechtliche Einordnung
der Tatigkeiten der Plattformen vor.
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods,
the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in
the deepest sense, colored." From these fertile soils of love,
land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a
big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of
ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County,
South Carolina-a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere
else"-has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place,
readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself,
who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural
world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins
to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity." By turns
angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a
remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply
moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of
black identity in the rural South-and in America today.
Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which
he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders,
exposes, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the first
critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens, which
have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and
re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and
socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as
a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and
stylistic development of his work.
This is the candid and often colourful account of the personal
experiences of a resource analyst; experiences that led to major
contributions in the modelling and forecasting of petroleum
discovery rates and of potential oil and gas supply. The author's
approach is largely nontechnical. He relates the difficulties
encountered in integrating geoscience, economics, and statistics,
and stresses the value of critically examining data before
formulating theories or building formal models.
Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric "portraits" of 182
endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait
features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers,
scientists, conservationists, and more: where they live, what their
superpowers are, why they are at risk, and how we can help.
Dedicated and passionate people who work to protect endangered
species share details of their roles and specialties, the planning
behind conservation measures, threats to healthy habitats, and
inspiring success stories. This book fosters eco-awareness and
responsibility with a hopeful and positive tone, not only educating
but inspiring action. A percentage of money earned by the author
from the sale of this book will be donated to the Sea Turtle
Conservancy and to the WILD Foundation.
Die AnHinge der Immunpharmakologie reichen zuruck bisin die Tage,
in denen Julius Wagner von Jauregg chronische Infektionen mit
kiinstlich induziertem Fieber behandelte und in denen George
Bernard Shaw die Stimulation der kurz zuvor von Metschnikoffbe-
schriebenen Phagozyten literarischzumtherapeutischen Prinzip der
Zukunft erhob (, The doctor's dilemma'). Lange Zeit war die Stimu-
lation der, unspezifischen Abwehr' ein etwas vages und schlecht be-
leumundetes Gebiet. Dies lag einmal daran, daB die Wirksamkeit von
Antikorpern als Trager spezifischer Immunitat den relativ be-
scheidenen Beitrag der unspezifischen Resistenz bei der Abwehr von
Infektionen in den Schattenzu stellen schien, zum anderen hat- te
es damit zu tun, daB die zellularen und humoralen Trager der un-
spezifischen Abwehr zu wenig bekannt waren. Etwas von dieser
Skepsis hat sich bis in unsere Tage hinein fortgesetzt: Begriffe
wie, Immunmodulation', Immunstimulation', immunotrope Substan-
zen', losten bei Immunologen und Pharmakologen strenger Obser- vanz
bis vor kurzem eher Unbehagen aus., Das Gute daran ist nicht neu
und das Neue nicht gut', so etwa lautete der Tenor dieser ab-
wehrenden Haltung. Inzwischen hat sich die Situation geandert. Das
Immunsystem wird heute in seinen strukturellen und funktionellen
GrundzUgen nicht weniger gut verstanden als das Zentralnervensystem
oder an- dere funktionelle Systeme. Einerseits sind damit die
Voraussetzun- gen gegeben, die Wirkung von Arzneimitteln aufdas
Immunsystem zu analysieren und therapeutisch zu ntitzen,
andererseits bieten sich Moglichkeiten, Komponenten des
Immunsystems zunachst als ex- perimentelle Werkzeuge und
schlieBlich auch als therapeutische In- strumente zu verwenden.
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