This book challenges the age--old myth that womena s talk is trivial and unimportant. Drawing on a corpus of spontaneous conversation between friends, Jennifer Coates demonstrates the richness and complexity of the language used in such talk, focusing on womena s use of hedges, questions and repetit[...]
This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science.[...]
This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive systems (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and histories. Indiv[...]
The book presents the conservative and liberal arguments related to the current economic issues faced by the Obama administration, including market regulation and green economy.[...]
New ideas in ecology have implications for managing forest ecosystems. The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilie[...]