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The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae)

A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World

By: Jane B. Walker,James E. Keirans,Ivan G. Horak

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The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae)

A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World

By: Jane B. Walker,James E. Keirans,Ivan G. Horak

Ticks in the genus Rhipicephalus include many important vectors of animal and human pathogens, but many species are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly as immature stages. This reference volume provides identification keys for adult ticks from the Afrotropical regions and elsewhere. For the nymphs and larvae, unique plates have been compiled in which line drawings of the capitula of similar species are grouped together to facilitate identification. Brief well-illustrated descriptions of the known stages of every species are given, plus information on their hosts, distribution, and disease relationships. Tables providing data on host/parasite relationships and disease transmission are also included, making this the definitive reference source on this group for all those interested in acarology, veterinary or medical parasitology and entomology for many years to come.

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658

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Cambridge University Press

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1316583740

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9781316583746

Sex and the Scientist

The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

By: Jane Merrill

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Sex and the Scientist

The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

By: Jane Merrill

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson's popularity with women eclipsed his achievements, though. He was married twice and had affairs with many other prominent women, including the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thomas and that of a doctor who would crew the first balloon to cross the English Channel. He even fathered a child by the court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several other German noblewomen. Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.

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259

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McFarland

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147662917X

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9781476629179

Ebook: Health Psychology

By: Jane Ogden

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Ebook: Health Psychology

By: Jane Ogden

Health Psychology is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. Organized into four sections, the 7th edition is structured with a clear emphasis on theory and evidence throughout. With renewed focus on thinking critically about health psychology, Ogden’s revised edition maintains its accessible style and broad coverage. Each chapter features rich examples to empower students to expand their understanding of this dynamic psychological sub-discipline. Health Psychology comes with an Online Learning Centre created to support course delivery. This site boasts: • Multiple choice questions for knowledge checks • Suggested essay questions to supplement in-class or homework activities • PowerPoint presentations to aid with structuring your module Within the book you will also find a range of pedagogic features designed to engage students including: • “For Discussion” boxes • End of Chapter questions • “Thinking Critically” sections in each chapter • Suggestions for Further Reading These features will encourage debate and critical thinking in turn contributing to deeper understanding and improved course outcomes. Updated to include sections on LGBTQ+ health and to reflect the most recent research studies and their implications for practice, Ogden’s new edition takes a rigorous approach that highlights the role that psychology plays in all aspects of physical health. Jane Ogden is a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK and has been researching and writing about eating behaviour and weight management for nearly 30 years. Her research interests include obesity management, aspects of women’s health and communication in healthcare.

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McGraw Hill

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0335251870

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9780335251872

Telfair County

By: Jane H. Walker,Robert E. Herndon

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Telfair County

By: Jane H. Walker,Robert E. Herndon

Creek Indians inhabited land that was to become Telfair County. The early population was made up of settlers of Scottish descent. They had to produce almost everything they used, from food to equipment. Named for Edward Telfair, a two-term governor of Georgia, the county was formed in 1807 from a portion of Wilkinson County. Gradually, several counties were formed from parts of Telfair. Since 1870, Telfair County has kept its current boundaries. The original county seat was located in Jacksonville, about 20 miles south of McRae, Georgia, where it was moved by the legislature in 1871. While Georgia was a hotbed of secession, Telfair County representatives to the Secession Convention in 1861 voted "no" to the resolution, reflecting the sentiment of the county's population. Even though there was strong objection to secession, many Telfair County citizens did their duty and volunteered to serve the Southern cause.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439651205

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9781439651209

Tragic Mountains

The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992

By: Jane Hamilton-Merritt

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Tragic Mountains

The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992

By: Jane Hamilton-Merritt

Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.

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Indiana University Press

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0253207568

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9780253207562

Reaching Out, Joining in

Teaching Social Skills to Young Children with Autism

By: Mary Jane Weiss,Sandra L. Harris

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Reaching Out, Joining in

Teaching Social Skills to Young Children with Autism

By: Mary Jane Weiss,Sandra L. Harris

One of the most important yet difficult skills for children with autism to learn is effective social interaction. This book introduces social skills programs to parents of preschool- and kindergarten-aged children diagnosed with one of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), including Autistic Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, and PDD: Not Otherwise Specified. The book is based on the authors' decades of clinical experience using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), a proven educational method, to teach social skills at home and school. This book focuses on four broad topics: play skills; the language of social skills; understanding another person's perspective; functioning in an inclusive classroom. This book helps parents to work with their child's strengths to improve social skills. Following the suggestions and exercises in this book, parents can teach children to: pretend-play, use toys appropriately, know when to use conventional responses like -- excuse me -- tell jokes, recognise that others' feelings and thoughts are different from their own, and initiate social interaction with peers. Included are tips for using games, modelling, rewards, role play, videos, activity schedules, and social stories to teach social skills and make the learning experience fun for parents and children. A case study of one family's efforts and successes provides a real-life example that's informative and reassuring. Appendices listing resources such as books, games, and activities give parents additional material to explore.

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244

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1890627240

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9781890627249

Making Families

Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

By: Jane Ribbens McCarthy,Rosalind Edwards,Val Gillies

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Making Families

Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

By: Jane Ribbens McCarthy,Rosalind Edwards,Val Gillies

This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological research studies for over two decades, this book provide evidence of parents' and step-parents' own understandings and experiences of their parenting in step-families. It addresses questions such as: What does it mean to be a family? Do people in step-families see themselves as making a different kind of family? Is individual happiness in a couple relationship prioritised at the expense of responsibilities towards children? Can a step-parent ever be regarded as the same as a biological mother or father? What do people in step-families do to try to make step-family life work? The book looks at how people create, understand and experience their parenting and family lives. It reveals how these understandings are rooted in a strong sense of moral responsibility, but that what such responsibility constitutes varies according to gender and social class. In particular, it draws out key theoretical implications for understanding the nature of morality, fairness and justice, and questions ideas about individualisation and the democratisation of family life. This book will be essential reading for those concerned with the study of contemporary family lives, including sociologists, social policy analysts, family therapists, professionals and practitioners. It is also relevant to those interested in contemporary morality and everyday experiences.

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276

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Taylor & Francis

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1134282052

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9781134282050

British Children's Literature and Material Culture

Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914

By: Jane Suzanne Carroll

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British Children's Literature and Material Culture

Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914

By: Jane Suzanne Carroll

The 'golden age' of children's literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and trade of commodities. The first book-length study to situate children's literature within the consumer culture of this period, British Children's Literature and Material Culture explores the intersection of children's books, consumerism and the representation of commodities within British children's literature. In tracing the role of objects in key texts from the turn of the century, Jane Suzanne Carroll uncovers the connections between these fictional objects and the real objects that child consumers bought, used, cherished, broke, and threw away. Beginning with the Great Exhibition of 1851, this book takes stock of the changing attitudes towards consumer culture – a movement from celebration to suspicion – to demonstrate that children's literature was a key consumer product, one that influenced young people's views of and relationships with other kinds of commodities. Drawing on a wide spectrum of well-known and less familiar texts from Britain, this book examines works from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and E. Nesbit's Five Children & It to Christina Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses and Mary Louisa Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock. Placing children's fiction alongside historical documents, shop catalogues, lost property records, and advertisements, Carroll provides fresh critical insight into children's relationships with material culture and reveals that even the most fantastic texts had roots in the ordinary, everyday things.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350201804

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9781350201804

Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook

A Handbook

By: Jane Garry,Hasan El-Shamy

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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook

A Handbook

By: Jane Garry,Hasan El-Shamy

This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.

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Routledge

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135157616X

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9781351576161

Residue Reviews

Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment

By: Francis A. Gunther,Jane Davies Gunther

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Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment

By: Francis A. Gunther,Jane Davies Gunther

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations. These three publications are integrated and scheduled to provide in international communication the coherency essential for nonduplicative and current progress in a field as dynamic and complex as environmental contamination and toxicology. Until now there has been no journal or other publication series reserved exclusively for the diversified literature on "toxic" chemicals in our foods, our feeds, our geographical surroundings, our domestic animals, our wild life, and ourselves. Around the world immense efforts and many talents have been mobilized to technical and other evaluations of natures, locales, magnitudes, fates, and toxicology of the persisting residues of these chemicals loosed upon the world. Among the sequelae of this broad new emphasis has been an inescapable need for an articulated set of authorita tive publications where one could expect to find the latest important world literature produced by this emerging area of science together with documentation of pertinent ancillary legislation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461254620

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9781461254621

Book's by Jane B. Walker

The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae)

The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae)

Sex and the Scientist

Sex and the Scientist

Ebook: Health Psychology

Ebook: Health Psychology

Telfair County

Telfair County

Tragic Mountains

Tragic Mountains

Reaching Out, Joining in

Reaching Out, Joining in

Making Families

Making Families

British Children's Literature and Material Culture

British Children's Literature and Material Culture

Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook

Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook

Residue Reviews

Residue Reviews

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