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Discusses applications of modeling and simulation in crop, livestock, forage/livestock systems, and field operations. This book describes methodologies from linear programming and neutral networks, to expert or decision support systems, as well as featuring models, such as SOYGRO, CROPGRO and GOSSYM/COMAX.

This one-volume sourcebook draws together the scholarly literature assessing news coverage in the U.S. mainstream media of Americans of African, Native, Asian, Hispanic, or Pacific Islander origin. The work covers over 60 years, beginning in 1934, and examines the 50 states and the territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean that are currently under U.S. governance. The categories of racial and cultural groups follow the scheme of the 1990 U....

Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. Assuming that our world is built of matter, she states that evolution is the change of this matter, according to the supreme criterion of success in offspring reproduction. Love evolved because of its contribution to reproduction. It first appeared in the mothers of mammals, who used the body's proximity as a main adaptation. Human love expands i...

Covers the subject of health psychology using human interest stories, case studies, and news reports to personalise each topic.

Hunger and Shame" is a passionate account of child malnutrition in a relatively wealthy populace, the Chagga in Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Views of family members, health workers and government officials provide insights into the complex of ideas, institutions and human fallibility that sustain the shame of malnutrition in the mountains. Discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the presence of malnourished children in the community...

Traces the personal and professional lives of a group of sociologists from working-class backgrounds, and shows that despite their membership in the academy, their adaptation to the upper-middle-class world of academia is inhibited by class cultural differences.

This study of the entertainer Lillian Russell's life and career, places her in the social and cultural context of her time. It includes chapters on her many performances, with entries in each section providing cast and credit information, plot synopses, review excerpts and critical commentary.

This study examines the peculiar role and history of the New Hampshire primary in American presidential politics, through the 1996 election season. The work reviews the primary's history, analyzes the media's treatment of New Hampshire results, and provides a study of the phenomenon of momentum, and the role played by local media such as the infamous Manchester ^IUnion Leader^R. There is also an examination of the strained relationship between...

Open the book, and the sun rises to reveal blue skies, crowded barnyards, and bustling streets. Turn the book over, and the moon comes up to the hush of night. Young audiences will delight in the experience of going from morning to night and back again in this stunning creation from the Caldecott Honor-winning author/artist of "Have You Seen My Duckling?" Full color.

Hunger and Shame" is a passionate account of child malnutrition in a relatively wealthy populace, the Chagga in Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Views of family members, health workers and government officials provide insights into the complex of ideas, institutions and human fallibility that sustain the shame of malnutrition in the mountains. Discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the presence of malnourished children in the community...

This reference book establishes a list of novels that appeared between 1660 and 1700 and provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of critical and scholarly studies. It includes overviews of existing bibliographies and includes individual authors of the period.

This work uses theoretical, qualitative and quantitative information to describe individual careers and organizational career practices of managers employed in financial services, petrochemical, manufacturing, and government organizations in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Asian scholars clarify career patterns in Asian and U.S. firms and offer suggestions useful for human resource managers of firms operating in East Asia. Quotations of managers...

In diesem Buch werden die Ursachen und Wirkungen der teilweise drastischen Gebührensteigerungen und -spreizungen in der öffentlichen Abfallentsorgung anhand theoretischer Überlegungen und bislang einzigartiger empirischer Untersuchungen aufgezeigt. In Form eines "Norm-Kostenrechnungssystems" wird ein operabler Lösungsansatz dargeboten, der es ermöglicht, den Abfallproduzenten vorsorge- und verursachergerechte Preise zu setzen. Zudem wird dezid...

Die Beschäftigung mit den ökonomischen Implikationen einer Währungsunion gehört gegenwärtig, vor dem Hintergrund der sich abzeichnenden Einführung einer gemeinsamen (west-)europäischen Währung, zu den meist diskutierten Fragen in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft. Gegenstand der in letzter Zeit veröffentlichten Arbeiten ist zumeist eine Analyse der Währungsintegration, also der Frage des Zusammenschlusses mindestens zweier, bislang voneinander getre...

Presents adaptations of the therapeutic community (TC) model and method for special populations of substance abusers, and implementation in a variety of institutions and human service settings.

Durch die Entwicklung innovativer Übertragungstechnologien, Deregulierungsinitiativen auf nationaler und supranationaler Ebene und die schrittweise Privatisierung der ehemaligen staatlichen Netzbetreiber haben sich die Voraussetzungen für den Markteintritt von Newcomern in der Telekommunikationswirtschaft geändert. Dieses Buch zeigt die neueren Entwicklungen innerhalb der Telekommunikationswirtschaft, insbesondere mit Blick auf die Länder der ...

Listen to this lucky song about Evie and her blue-sky, kite-flying day. But Evie's day wouldn't be nearly as special without a little help from her family. Young readers will want to hear Evie's lucky song again and again and again. Full color.

It has been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he is worried that he will forget her. Spoon's life doesn't leave him much time to think, so he does something he soon regrets but cannot admit. With empathy and sensitivity Caldecott Honor recipient Kevin Henkes has created a poignant story of painful loss and amazing discovery.

This comprehensive sociological analysis sheds light on the informal rules governing our moral decisions. According to Fein, we may not be aware of how we really play the morality game. His Negotiation/Emotion Paradigm (NEP) demonstrates that morality entails creating, enforcing, and modifying important social rules. Rather than a particular set of truths or a peculiar form of mental activity, moral behavior is a social activity-a kind of hard...