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Monsoon Asia, from Pakistan to Japan is more than a land area and an assemblage of countries: it is a distinctive geographical region. This book provides an introduction to the dynamic as well as the unchanging characteristics of the region. It includes chapters on structure and relief, climate, vegetation, and soils.

This text provides multiple insights into understanding the learning process and the conditions that impact learning. It examines instances of learning from cross-disciplinary views and then the analyses are responded to in case study excerpts.

The hot and temperate deserts and their marginal steppe lands comprise one-third of the land surface of the world and are an increasingly critical area for the economic wellbeing of world populations

Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement programsAbiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work done in relation to improving resistance in specific important world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings. Abiotic Stresses is divided into two sections. In the first section, you will find: the general principles of breeding crops for stress resistance genetic engineering and molecular biology procedures for crop improvement for stress environments data on genome mapping and its implications for improving stress resistance in plants information about breeding for resistance/tolerance to salinity, drought, flooding, metals, low nutrient availability, high/low temperaturesThe second section of this timely resource focuses on the efforts of acknowledged specialists who concentrated their efforts on important individual crops, such as: wheat barley rice maize oilseed crops cotton tomatoThis book fills a niche and interface in the available literature as it deals with all of the major stresses from a perspective of crop breeding, covering the latest advances in molecular breeding technology. Abiotic Stresses will help scientists and academics in botany, plant breeding, plant environmental stress studies, agriculture, and horticulture modify and improve breeding programs globally.

This special issue is a snapshot of current research in this area, showing many of the issues encountered, the methods employed, and the limitations faced. All four studies involve experimental or quasi-experimental studies but all are based on participants recruited from adult literacy programmes.

This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. It aims to contribute to research and pedagogy on advanced literacy development.

This review of Signal Detection Theory in engineering, statistics and psychology, leads to the separate measurement of the two independent factors in all discrimination tasks, discrimination acuity and decision criterion. It also describes the application of ROC analysis to diagnostic tasks.

Since the early 1990s, voluntary programs have played an increasingly prominent role in environmental management in the US and other industrialized countries. This book seeks to clarify what is known by looking at a range of program types, including different approaches adopted in different nations.

A collection of the important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought. This work provides a general introduction that gives important insight into Burke's early life, education, professional training, literary and political career, prose style, and more.

The laws of animal behavior have been revised and revealed through research performed by zoologists, physiologists and experimental psychologists

To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them

Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life

Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics

Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands

This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants

Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery

Demonstrates the range of optimization techniques available to the practitioner for the solution of varying problems. This book helps the reader reach a level of understanding necessary to write computer programs for optimization techniques. It includes worked examples, supported by worked solutions, and exercises at the end of the chapters.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the research about personality structure and the nature of individual differences. This book offers the essence of the author's work on personality testing, reviewing the experimental, quantitative and statistical research which with the aid of the electronic computer is producing remarkable discoveries.

This book is a blueprint for developing an integrated parking plan. It explains how to determine parking supply and affect parking demand, as well as how to calculate parking facility costs.

Offers a compendium of the data and experimental reports on the study of imprinting and early learning. This report traces the history of interest in the theory of imprinting and similar processes, considers imprinting with related concepts and empirical studies, and reviews the range of experiments that illuminate the nature of imprinting.

At a point in history marked by dramatic challenges to the political and social order, the question of legal and political obligation emerges as a focal point of international concern. Here, eighteen leading specialists in the legal, philosophical, and political science offer their views on this topic.

Introduces the notion that coercion relates to the use of space, and uses this idea to distinguish coercion from both oppression and repression. This book deals with the role of coercion in international relations. It is useful for students and scholars in political science, philosophy, and law.

A compendium of the historical background, theories, issues, and trends in hypnosis, this volume represents major experimental viewpoints while providing a virtual "who's who" in the field of hypnosis. It presents many new ideas while updating established positions in research and theory.

Offers an analysis of the theoretical and substantive aspects of revolution. This work contains essays that explore the revolutionary theories and experience of several centuries and apply them to the most crucial problem of this century. It offers important guideposts for the future study of the etiology of revolutions.

Details a comparative study under controlled conditions of the three major schools of psycho-therapy - client-centered therapy, behavioral or systematic desensitization therapy, and rational-emotive therapy. This study compares the effectiveness of these distinct forms of counseling with two distinct personality types - introverts and extroverts.

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union

Portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in office against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The authors bring to the analysis their own experiences, acquired under different circumstances. It also focuses on events ranging from Gorbachev's assumption of power in March 1985 to June 1987.