Category: Encyclopedias Subject Guides

By Susan L. Woodward

ISBN-10: 0313382204

ISBN-13: 9780313382208

ISBN-10: 0313382212

ISBN-13: 9780313382215

Kudzu vine and box bindweed. Eurasian Collared-Doves, Burmese pythons, and black rats. The northern snakehead and the gypsy moth. All of those are examples of invasive species that experience taken over or are threatening definite ecosystems—places the place those organisms by no means clearly happened. This two-volume paintings includes 168 entries on vegetation, animals, fungi, and microorganisms which are invasive within the usa, offering an entire exam of the diversity of organisms, pathways, distribution styles, and affects of non-native species brought to this country.Encyclopedia of Invasive Species: From Africanized Honey Bees to Zebra Mussels starts with a historical past essay that illuminates the complexities of facing invasive animals and crops. every one access presents info at the origins and invasion historical past of the species in query in addition to a common description of the biology and ecology of every organism. Impacts—actual and power, in addition to administration strategies—are addressed. each species is depicted through images in addition to maps that exhibit its native land and invaded areas within the usa. This distinctive paintings provides attention-grabbing medical details in addition to helpful insights approximately how possible minor occasions can greatly modify the environment.

By Frances Andrews

ISBN-10: 1843832585

ISBN-13: 9781843832584

In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the top of varied 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged in the course of the nice push for evangelism and poverty within the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans have been explicitly excluded, whereas the Carmelites and Austin friars have been allowed a remain of execution. those final have been finally capable of collect approval, yet different smaller teams, specifically the Friars of the Sack and Pied Friars, have been pressured to disband. This e-book outlines the historical past of these who have been threatened by way of 1274, tracing the advance of the 2 higher orders all the way down to the Council of Trent, and following the fragmentary assets for the short histories of the discontinued friaries. For the 1st time those orders are taken care of relatively: the amount deals a complete background, from their origins, spirituality and pastoral impression, to their tune, constructions and runaways.FRANCES ANDREWS teaches on the collage of St Andrews and is the writer of The Early Humiliati (CUP 1999).

By Fred Anderson Berg

ISBN-10: 0811705447

ISBN-13: 9780811705448

This reference pulls jointly the organizational heritage of every battalion, regiment, and self reliant corps that served within the Continental military.

By Edward Quinn

ISBN-10: 0816062439

ISBN-13: 9780816062430

In transparent, non-technical language, this dictionary of greater than 1,000 literary phrases and topics takes an multiplied view of the time period "literary." This publication offers readers not just a conventional literary vocabulary, but in addition the data of similar theoretical, historic, and cultural phrases they want within the interdisciplinary global of latest literary stories. New entries comprise: conventional literary phrases and topics, similar to individualism, skepticism, and the Odysseus/Ulysses subject; literary issues that experience turn into more and more renowned in recent times, resembling terrorism and felony literature; and matters perennially renowned between writers, reminiscent of alcoholism, baseball, and vampirism. positive factors comprise: clean definitions and examples of ordinary literary and similar phrases similar to meter, antagonist, and New feedback; essays on significant subject matters in literature resembling evil, strength, love, loss of life, time, and extra; phrases relating to multicultural and feminist literature; significant modern theoretical phrases, with transparent definitions and examples; tradition phrases from movie, tv, psychology, heritage, and different fields concerning literature; references for extra studying; and vast cross-references

By Daniel J. Taylor

ISBN-10: 9027245290

ISBN-13: 9789027245298

The examine of Greek and Roman language technological know-how has figured prominently within the notable renascence of curiosity within the background of linguistics of the final two decades. we all know extra now than we did numerous a long time in the past approximately what the Greeks and Romans have been considering, writing, and doing in concerns grammatical, and the students who give a contribution to this quantity are one of the ones who're answerable for that chuffed condition. The contents of this booklet endure plentiful testimony to the improved and enlarged figuring out and appreciation of historical grammar that we now get pleasure from. every one article during this quantity has anything new to assert concerning the background of linguistics within the classical interval, and every writer insists that we have to go back to old texts time and time back and that we have to learn them much more rigorously. The rethinking so conspicuous in a lot of the new scholarship during this box is pointing towards a brand new historiographical version of Greek and Latin linguistic technological know-how. The textual content of this quantity has additionally been released in Historiographia Linguistica XIII:2/3

By Professor and Senior Fellow David Schultz

ISBN-10: 0816067635

ISBN-13: 9780816067633

The U.S. structure tested a federated republic within the usa, which used to be dependent in keeping with a separation of powers - government, legislative, and judicial - each one with its personal particular tasks and powers. in additional than seven-hundred entries, ""Encyclopedia of the us Constitution"" includes all of the fabric highschool scholars have to comprehend the us structure. This new two-volume A-to-Z set covers the folks, lawsuits, ancient occasions, and phrases in relation to essentially the most studied political records in colleges around the kingdom. Appendix fabric contains the U.S. structure and different govt files. Entries of this identify comprise: affirmative motion; capital punishment; citizenship; affirmation procedure; merciless and strange punishment; double jeopardy; 11th modification; fourth modification; freedom of the clicking; gun keep an eye on; impeachment; jury nullification; nationwide protection; deliberate parenthood v. Casey; presidential immunity; privateness; estate rights; faith and unfastened speech; same-sex marriage; institution selection; kingdom motion; terrorism keep an eye on; battle powers; place of work harassment; and lots of extra

By Food and Agriculture Organization OECD

ISBN-10: 9264024603

ISBN-13: 9789264024601

ISBN-10: 9264024611

ISBN-13: 9789264024618

This 12th variation of the annual Agricultural Outlook - and the second one ready together with the FAO - offers an review of agricultural industry clients according to projections that reach to 2015 for construction, intake, exchange, st

By Mary Meghan Ryan

ISBN-10: 1598887637

ISBN-13: 9781598887631

The Handbook of U.S. hard work Statistics is famous as an authoritative source at the U.S. exertions strength. It keeps and complements the Bureau of work Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, hard work Statistics. The eighteenth variation permits the person to appreciate contemporary advancements in addition to to match modern-day economic climate with prior historical past.

The Handbook is a entire reference delivering an abundance of information on a number of issues including:

• employment and unemployment;
• earnings;
• prices;
• productivity;
• consumer expenditures;
• occupational security and health;
• union membership;
• international hard work comparisons;
• and a lot more!

Features of the publication
In addition to over 225 tables that current functional facts, the Handbook provides:

• introductory fabric for every bankruptcy that comprises highlights of salient info and figures that decision realization to noteworthy tendencies within the data;
• notes and definitions, which include concise descriptions of the information assets, recommendations, definitions, and method from which the information are derived;
• references to extra accomplished experiences which offer extra information and extra wide descriptions of estimation tools, sampling, and reliability measures.

New within the 18th variation of Handbook of U.S exertions Statistics:

• A part on employee displacement in bankruptcy 1 in addition to a brand new part on neighborhood region unemployment information in bankruptcy 7
• Several new tables on occupational safeguard and overall healthiness in bankruptcy 14 in addition to new details on worker advantages in bankruptcy 6
• Figures on quite a few themes together with productiveness, labor-management relatives, costs, and place of work fatalities

By Walter Foster Publishing

ISBN-10: 1560107510

ISBN-13: 9781560107514

This compilation of initiatives from a few of our most well-liked tips to Draw and Paint and Artist’s Library sequence titles presents idea and guide on each point of oil portray. From the basics to complicated innovations, The artwork of Oil portray is full of details that artists of all ability degrees will locate invaluable. The contributing artists are all acclaimed for his or her specific kinds and methods to grease portray, so there are numerous classes you could examine from their person and distinctive views. And the step by step demonstrations advisor aspiring artists in the course of the oil portray method utilizing a large choice of inspiring portray subjects-so there’s anything for everybody! With this entire reference, you’ll quickly observe how interesting portray in oil might be.

By Dana Yagil (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230582672

ISBN-13: 9780230582675

ISBN-10: 1349353787

ISBN-13: 9781349353781