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Technology, Engineering & Agriculture

July 2017

Almonds

Botany, Production and Uses

by Rafel Socias i Company, Thomas M Gradziel

This book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing and industrial uses. Almonds are an important crop; they are highly regarded for their flavour, nutritional properties and culinary uses, and almond oil is used widely in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical production. They are easy to transport and have long storability, facilitating global dissemination. Demand is constantly increasing and global production has more than doubled in the last 20 years. The popularity of almonds and the increase in demand has required new plantings and a response to ongoing changes in cultural and climatic conditions. Almonds: Botany, Production and Uses meets the need for up-to-date information on this crop and covers: · botany and taxonomy · cultivation, genetics and breeding · propagation, orchard management and harvesting · pests and diseases · nutrition, marketing and utilization Authored by an international team of experts and presented in full colour throughout, this book is an essential resource for academic researchers and extension workers, as well as growers, orchard managers and industry personnel. ; This book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing, covering botany in addition to processing and industrial uses. Authored by an international team of experts and in full colour, it also presents genetic, pest, disease and marketing information from a scientific and horticultural perspective. ; 1: Botany and Taxonomy 2: History of Cultivation 3: Production and Growing Regions 4: Almond in the Southern Hemisphere 5: Classical Genetics and Breeding 6: Molecular Breeding and Genomics 7: Late-blooming Cultivar Development 8: Pollen-Style (In)compatibility: Development of Autogamous Cultivars 9: Rootstock Development 10: Propagation Techniques 11: Orchard Systems and Management 12: Climatic Requirements 13: Nutrient and Water Requirements 14: Diseases: Fungi, Bacteria, Viruses, and Nematodes, 15: Pests: Insects, Mites, Birds, and Rodents 16: Harvesting 17: Composition 18: Marketing 19: Almond Utilization

History of Art / Art & Design Styles

June 2010

A Real Van Gogh

How the Art World Struggles With Truth

by Henk Tromp

In 1928, after eleven years of extensive research and editing, Dr. Jacob Baart de la Faille finally finished the first catalogue raison of Vincent van Gogh's work. Soon after, however, de la Faille discovered that he had mistakenly listed dozens of forged works as genuine in the catalog. He quickly set out to set the record straight but was met with strong resistance from art dealers, collectors, critics, politicians, amongst others - all of whom had self-interested reasons to oppose his corrections. To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the fake. A Real Van Gogh begins with the story of de la Faille and moves into the late decades of the twentieth century, outlining the numerous clashes over the authenticity of Van Gogh's works while simultaneously exposing the often bewildering ramifications for art critics and scholars when they bring unwelcome news.

Graphic novel & Manga artwork

April 2015

Me vs Big Slacker Baby vol. 1

by Annisa Nisfihani

Me VS Big Slacker Baby (BSB) tells a story about Arin, a high school girl with obsessive compulsive toward cleanliness, who encounters Alvan, her schoolmate who stays at a boarding house owned by her parents. Alvan’s behavior is the polar opposite of Arin, in which, although he is a very bright student but he is also one of the laziest and messy guys Arin has ever known. This establishes an interesting and hilarious conflict between them, where Alvan learns from Arin in becoming a tidier person, while Arin also learns from Alvan in improving her mark in school assignments and exams. This romantic-comedy masterpiece is written and illustrated by Annisa Nisfihani, a young and talented comic artist from Tenggarong, East Borneo. Even though her hometown is quite far from the big cities and blackouts also occurred quite often, Annisa’s perseverance in pursuing her dreams ultimately paid off as BSB got its second reprint within less than a month of its initial publication.

Fiction

April 2016

Molecular Stencil Theory

by Francis Rink Donnelly

u* is the mathematical connotation of the a and a* (prime) values co-existing as a metamorphosis of the prior product. This is always true in chemical analysis because the building blocks of matter and more specifically particle matter are based on the predication that the unwilling differentiation lies within the Limit. Limits as pre-supposed are subject to the difference in the steady-state dynamics that bound the Limit in the first place. This is not a dutiful rational because as the u* value, mimicked by an a/a* shift is connected within the the delta calculations. u and u* are malefficent because as the shifts in proton and lowered states supersede one another; the unwillingness for the reaction to proceed in the correct fashion is not always as perceived.

British & Irish history

January 2013

The Fields of Thyme

by David Cohen

A WORLD WAR 2 NOVEL In the closing months of 1943, the Americans were arriving in the South Hams of Devon, England, to begin military rehearsals ahead of the Normandy Invasion in June 44’. It was a huge operation by any standards, but along the rural coastline of Slapton Sands, it brought a major clash of sensitivities with the people and the land. The Fields of Thyme is about a young and socially unsuccessful farm boy, Tom Skinner, to whom only one thing really matters; the safety and survival of a butterfly habitat which is home to the Large Blue species. With the bedding in of the military over a large area of countryside, the habitat becomes locked within an Exclusion Zone; into which it becomes foolhardy and extremely dangerous for unauthorised people to enter. However, this will not stop the local lad, with local knowledge and native skills, from trespassing and plotting to disrupt the occupation; in which cause he’s joined by Charlotte Kingsley, a pretty young lass, whose parents own a local pub in East Prawle. There are several other key and interesting characters who help shape the story, and none more so than a young coloured GI, Leroy Grant, whose arrival brings added and huge complications; some of which are not very difficult to anticipate! If you’d care to reflect on the hymn, ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’, you’ll be well placed to consider the catalogue of emotions which travel through this narrative, including from dark to optimistic, spiritual to hellish, real to surreal, poignant to cruel; hilarious to tragic; until the story careers into the realms of believable insanity. Not withstanding all of this, you might still conclude to wonder, if the events you joined with, might just have happened; or actually did.

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Medicine

June 2017

Biostatistics for Animal Science

An Introductory Text

by Miroslav Kaps, William R Lamberson

Designed to cover techniques for analysis of data in the animal sciences, this textbook provides an overview of the basic principles of statistics enabling the subsequent applications to be carried out with familiarity and understanding, followed by more complex applications and detailed procedures commonly used in animal sciences. Each chapter begins by introducing a problem with practical questions, followed by a brief theoretical background, and is supplemented with an abundance of examples in SAS from animal sciences and related fields. Key features: - New larger format and updated throughout to provide an essential resource whatever your level - Now covers a wealth of new distributions and new material on non-normal dependent variables - Includes both basic techniques and more complex procedures for a fully comprehensive coverage - Contains exercises and many worked examples in SAS for practice and revision ; Covering techniques for analysis of data in the animal sciences, this textbook provides an overview of the basic principles, followed by more complex applications and detailed procedures commonly used in animal sciences. This new edition includes a wealth of new distributions and extensive new material on non-normal dependent variables. ; 1: Presenting and Summarizing Data2: Probability3: Random Variables and their Distributions4: Population and Sample5: Estimation of Parameters6: Hypothesis Testing7: Simple Linear Regression8: Correlation9: Multiple Linear Regression10: Curvilinear Regression11: Fixed Effects One-way Analysis of Variance12: Random Effects One-way Analysis of Variance13: Mixed Models14: Concepts of Experimental Design15: Blocking16: Change-over Designs17: Factorial Experiments18: Hierarchical or Nested Design19: Split-plot Design20: Analysis of Covariance21: Repeated Measures22: Analysis of Numerical Treatment Levels23: Discrete, Categorical and other Non-normal Dependent Variables-: Solutions of ExercisesAppendix A: Vectors and MatricesAppendix B: Statistical Tables

Autobiography: general

January 2012

The Coconut Comes in Due Season

by David Hurd

Once the only man, black or white, to be taken into Somalia by the Shifta and live to tell the tale. Author of Kidnap at Kiunga. Mombasa Malindi Kenya Africa. biography, entrepreneurship, trial and error. Hut, restaurant, sail, fishing. Malindi’s Robinson Crusoe. Lion, hippo, snake, velvet monkeys, wild animals. Indian Ocean, dhow, creek, island. Swahili culture, Giriama tribes. Palm wine, biriani, ugali. Foreword by Aamera Jiwaji.

Health & Personal Development

October 2015

The Pocket Colouring Book

Relax, Restore, Revive

by Fleur May

In the daily rush and stress of our lives, it's easy to neglect our own well-being. We end up exhausted, easily irritated, and lacking in motivation and creativity. Taking a few moments to refresh our souls and enjoy the beauty of the moment has long-term benefits for us and those we love. Focusing our minds on a simple activity such as colouring enables us to switch off from the hustle and bustle of our lives, calms our emotions and restores peace to our public and private worlds. My hope is that as you colour these designs ou will relax from the stress around you, feel your inner peace restored and experience a revival in your zest for living.

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