Divine Soil
The gods of Ancient Greece are related to specific ancient lifeways and soils. This book details the soils at their temples as a basis for the lives of deities, from hunter-gatherers Apollo and Artemis to farmers Demeter and Dionysos, revealing a link between soil and soul.
Domestic Production and Procurement of Medicines in Nigeria
This book reports on Nigeria’s on-going efforts to improve medicine accessibility. It presents the status of local drug production, articulates the key challenges impeding it, and explores how they could be addressed through plausible policies.
This textbook and reference guide is for any healthcare professional managing patients with ENT-related disease. It reviews commonly used drugs, covering pharmacological properties, side effects, and special considerations to enhance knowledge and improve therapeutic outcomes.
Eco-neurobiology investigates how environmental factors impact the brain. This book covers recent findings on how non-genetic factors—the food we eat, stress, and traumatic events—influence our minds, from everyday function to the development of disorders.
Six chemical elements make up 98% of the human body, but what remains is equally important. This book is about the other elements that are vitally important for some animals and plants, as well as a few that are deadly or used as protection by others.
Emerging Concepts in Bacterial Biofilms
Bacterial biofilms cause difficult-to-treat chronic infections, particularly on medical devices. This book focuses on emerging research into biofilm formation and highlights anti-biofilm strategies to curb these infections and combat antimicrobial resistance.
This book analyzes the ergonomics of forestry machines, from chainsaws to harvester technologies. It provides technical descriptions, investigates the workload of harvester and forwarder operators, and analyzes work conditions for the entire cutting process.
This guide to cytogenetic techniques summarizes chromosomal disorders with pictures and easy-to-understand laboratory procedures. It details modern techniques for geneticists, scientists, and those aspiring to establish a molecular cytogenetic lab.
This book offers a European approach to green biotechnology entrepreneurship. It moves from concepts and principles to management, finance, and IT tools for starting a business. It also maps good practices in Europe, ideal for entrepreneurs or those seeking to build their skills.
Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
Evolution of Evolution
What is desperately needed is the realization of the evolutionary survival value of caring for others. This book links our humanities to a scientific understanding of human destiny to provide a key to meaning. We don’t have ‘forever’ to ‘get it!’
Exploring Nanostatistics
Explore Nanostatistics, where data science, nanotechnology, and machine learning converge. This guide uses advanced statistical models and AI to address real-world challenges in sustainability, healthcare, and technology, equipping you to shape the future at the nanoscale.
Exploring the Mycology and Parasitology of Plant Life
This book unravels the fascinating, unseen world of plant life—a vibrant community of cooperation, competition, and survival. Explore the supportive fungal networks that help plants thrive and the parasites that wage biochemical warfare to drain resources from their victims.
Farmers’ Perspectives on Risks and Social Capital in the Mekong Delta
This book analyses the risky shift from rice to shrimp farming in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. It explores the role of social capital, showing how reciprocity in capital, labor, and land allows poor farmers to adopt unique risk-taking strategies and participate in this activity.
Farming Is Not Big Gardening
This light-hearted, informative narrative discusses US agriculture from a historical, social, and financial perspective. Written in a satirical voice, the author uses storytelling to share his experiences in food and farming through fast-moving, easy-to-read prose.
In 1830, John Williams wrote this pioneering study of the plants, animals, and agriculture of Llanrwst, north Wales. This new edition is reproduced verbatim but augmented by a biography of the author, a gazetteer of localities, and eight full-page colour plates.
A dinosaur book like no other, this irreverent chronicle of science and pseudoscience finds humour in absurdity and takes the reader on a journey through some of the numerous bizarre ideas of young-Earth creationism which have infiltrated grade-school science textbooks.
This book provides knowledge on the medicinal properties of honey and flavonoids. Based on years of research, it’s one of the first scientific works of its kind, intended for students in science and medicine, as well as professionals in honey production and research.
This is the first monograph to identify microalgal species in Kashmir’s Dal Lake. It presents a comprehensive taxonomic description of the algal flora, featuring over 200 coloured photographs. An essential resource for researchers, students, and biologists.
This book explains the fundamental processes of evolutionary genetics, such as mutation, natural selection, and speciation. It provides an up-to-date overview of the field, discussing the theories of Darwin and Mendel, adaptation, and the origin of new genes.