This book provides a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004. The book examines both the theory of participation and what l…
Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped thes…
First established as a cabinet system in Guangzhou in 1925, the Nationalist Government of China was replaced three years later by a presidential system under a unified Nationalist government in Nanjing. The cabinet government was restored in 1931 and existed until the presidenti…
This groundbreaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.
This book provides a synthesis of knowledge in physiology and metabolism, nutritional requirements and feeding strategies of the exercising horse. Use of performance aids and the question of feed contaminants and doping are explained and discussed according to EU legislation on …
Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes and the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants eventually lead to the…
1. Introduction; Kenneth D. Pimple -- 2. Three Case Studies; Donald R. Searing and Elizabeth A.M. Searing -- 3. Health information in the background; Lisa M. Lee -- 4. Surveillance in the Big Data Era; Mark Andrejevic -- 5. We know where you are. And we're more and more sure wha…
"The world's species, genes, and ecosystems are going extinct at an alarming and unprecedented rate, largely as a result of human activities." "In Biodiversity and Democracy, Paul M. Wood looks at this dilemma from another perspective. He argues that the problem can be traced ba…
Elements of Adaptive Testing
The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing--a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to automatically adapt their selection to a real-time update of th…