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MedicineMay 2018Bovine Pathology
A Text and Color Atlas
by Claus D. Buergelt, Edward G. Clark, Fabio Del Piero
Illustrated with over 1000 color images of the highest quality, Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, and their calves. With summary text describing key features, the book correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses. The text covers naked-eye macroscopic appearance, through to microscopic pathology, and the immunohistochemistry of infectious agents and tumor markers. Structured by major organ system, the disease entries follow a consistent format and clarity of display. This, combined with an integrated E-book, handy fact sheets, summary boxes and key points, helps aid understanding. Key features include: - Over 1000 superb color images to illustrate the pathologies - A thorough review of mainly western hemisphere diseases of cattle covering macroscopic appearance, microscopic appearance, and immunohistochemistry - Synoptic layout, fact sheets, summary boxes, succinct legends and key bullet points supports its use as a field guide or revision aid - Organised by major organ system which ensures that vital facts can be found quickly - A unique chapter covering calf-hood diseases Serving as an essential reference work for veterinary pathologists who perform bovine necropsies, veterinary residents and students, the book is also practical enough for bovine practitioners who need to investigate sudden death losses of cattle on the farm.
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Animal breedingDecember 2011Goat Meat Production and Quality
by Osman Mahgoub, Isam T Kadim, Edward Webb, Chris D Lu, J N. B. Shrestha, Mourad Rekik, Imène Ben Salem, Narjess Lassoued, Jorge R Kawas, N H Casey, L Simela, Bruce A McGregor, Jung Hoon Lee, Govind Kannan, Nur El Huda I. E. D. Osman, Anastasio Arguello, Noemi Castro, Davina Sanchez-Macias, Juan Capote, P Morand-Fehr, A Araba, P Bas, A El Aich, Gisele Alexandre. Edited by Osman Mahgoub, Isam T Kadim, Edward Webb.
Written by some of the world's leading goat meat scientists, and drawing from the most recent publications in the field, this book comprehensively covers the most important areas of goat meat production. Chapters discuss the role of genetics, breeding, reproduction, and nutrition in producing good quality, profitable goat meat. The mineral, amino acid and fatty acid composition of goat meat is also addressed, along with a discussion of its nutritive value, aimed at highlighting its health benefits over other red meats.
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EducationConsumer Moral Leadership
by McGregor, S.L.T.
This book shares a collection of novel ways to re-conceptualize and envision the moral imperatives of consumption, thereby providing invigorating insights for future dialogue and intellectual and social action. It privileges a consumer moral leadership imperative, which augments the conventional management imperatives of sustainability, ethics, simplicity and environmental integrity. There are 13 chapters, including first-ever discussions of non-violent consumption, transdisciplinary consumption, consumer moral adulthood, integral informed consumption, conscious and mindful consumption, biomimicry informed consumption, and consumer moral leadership as a new intellectual construct. The book strives to intellectually and philosophically challenge and reframe the act, culture and ideology of consuming. The intent is to foster new hope that leads to differently informed activism and to provocative research, policy, entrepreneurial and educational initiatives that favour the human condition, the collective human family and interconnected integrity. This book strives to move consumers from managing for efficiency to leading for moral efficacy, the ability to use their existing moral capacities to deal with moral challenges in the marketplace. The very core of what it means to be a morally responsible member of the human family is challenged and re-framed through the lens of consumer moral leadership.
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September 2022A Sentimental Education
by Hannah McGregor
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life. Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient. In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersConundrums for the Long Weekend
England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
by Robert McGregor (author)
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world.In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.
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Happy Dreams at Mermaid Cove
by Marie Laval
A new uplifting and heartfelt romance for 2021 ... From the big city to a little yellow mobile library on the Isle of Skye ... When Jenna Palmer agrees to the new position of mobile librarian on the tiny Arrandale peninsular of the Isle of Skye, she knows she’s signing up for difficult working conditions and mediocre wages. But Jenna needs to get away, and a little yellow mobile library called Buttercup could be her escape to happier dreams ... However, whilst Jenna can get to grips with foggy island roads, local mermaid legends and even big purple monsters, she never expected to have to contend with a boss as grumpy as Daniel McGregor, or a young book lover as enthusiastic as his niece, Katrina. Arrandale might represent Jenna’s safe port in a storm, but could she and Buttercup also become a beacon of hope to Daniel, Katrina and the entire island community?
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2019Are you two sisters?
a memoir
by Hester van der Walt
Two women, one from the Netherlands and the other one from the Free State Gold Fields, meet in a hospital hall in Bloemfontein. Fifty years later Hester tells the story of how life formed them as nurses, community workers, bakers, artists and life partners. In this memoir, she tells of the key moments in her life that led her to leave the strictures of her upbringing in order to find out who she was. Her decisions take her from the Free State to District Six and to Venda, to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, to Heideveld and Hanover Park and eventually to McGregor. Her humble story tells of the spiritual isolation of all "refugees" who leave the irreversible values of their "home" (whether physical or ideological) and find new ways to create a life. It also tells about the wonder of finding love and a partner along the way.
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Biography: arts & entertainmentMarch 202150 Women in Theatre
by Cheryl Robson, Susan Croft, Carol Woddis & Kate McGregor
Since 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up less than a quarter of staged productions in the UK, leading to a lack of central roles for women. At a time when many theatres have closed their doors and others are looking to re-open, will they choose to move with the times or fall back on the safety of a tired repertoire? With an overview of influential women in post-war theatre and 25 exclusive interviews with leading women theatre-makers, this book inspires us to create a truly equal and inclusive theatre today.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentLIVE WITHOUT STRESS
How to Enjoy the Journey
by Dr. Marvin Marshall
A fresh and innovative read, detailing the ways individuals can improve their lives by reducing stress. Written in simple language, the book demonstrates how to use some basic strategies to significantly reduce stress, promote responsibility, increase effectiveness, improve relationships, and truly enjoy life’s experiences. The book shows how the brain-body connection can be used to reduce and relieve stress. But YOU WILL need to practice what the book shares.
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The ArtsThames & Hudson Australia
by Books From Australia
Thames & Hudson Australia is the fastest growing publisher of illustrated books in Australia. Our list is small but perfectly formed. We publish 40 titles each year into subject areas including the arts, architecture, interiors, design, photography, environment, gardening, food and drink and children’s books. Our books push design boundaries, challenge current thinking and offer new interpretations; they help put words, thoughts and images to the world around us. Whether an illustrated book, children’s books or narrative nonfiction, each title reflects the first-class editorial, design and production qualities synonymous with the Thames & Hudson tradition.
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September 2020Contact
by CGM Mackenzie
Born into a world without flavour or colour, in which difference is not tolerated and power is in the hands of the System and its single Language, Zilimi is called to take a different path – one that leads to banishment and a fight for the future of all humanity. But Zilimi is not alone: mysterious Voices help at every twist and turn of that chosen path. Is Zilimi strong and wise enough to choose a future for all of us? And what links the strange creatures of the Council of the Ascended, meeting at the heart of the Galaxy, to an eleven-year-old on Earth? Once upon a (future) time...
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September 2020The Golden Rhino
by Griffin Shea
Never Mashamba’s 12th birthday couldn’t go worse. His father, the scientific genius Dr. Mashamba, is shot and wounded by poachers. But the criminals are really after the hybrid rhino calf Sipho, which his father crossbred against all odds. The Mashambas must flee Zimbabwe for a game farm in South Africa, where Dr Mashamba can recuperate and Sipho can get the care he needs. Never soon realises that Sipho is in danger, but his father doesn’t pay attention to his fears. Who exactly is after Sipho the rhino calf, and why? Can Never trust his new friends, Becks and Dumisani? And what does a mysterious Ganesh pendant — the only thing Never has from his birth family — have to do with all this?
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Erotic fictionAnnabel Poppy
by Stephen Douglas
Annabel Poppy is about banking, bonking and murder. Set in 1998, the action takes place in London and Essex, with excursions to Exeter, Gleneagles, Madrid and Helsinki. Despite then dark subject matter, the novel's tone is lighthearted and humorous, the sex is graphic, and the banking material will enlighten a general audience about how investment bankers really do make their millions
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Agriculture & farmingJuly 2019Climate Change and Agriculture
Causes,Impacts and Interventation
by GSLHV Prasada Rao, VUM Rao & DVS Rao
Natural change in climate is slow and takes millions of years; and it is known to have made our planet hospitable to live. The climate change is not limited to one country or a continent. It is occurring across the globe as evident from droughts in Texas and flooding along the Missouri River in the United States and along the Red River in Canada. Climate change drives many stressors and interacts with many non-climatic stressors which make it difficult to forecast outcomes in any general way other than existing threats to agriculture. Agroforestry increases a high level of diversity within agricultural lands which supports numerous ecological and production services that bring resilience to the impact of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate change risk management is difficult in annual cropping systems due to increasing uncertainty of inter-annual variability in rainfall and temperature. Mixing of woody trees with crops, forage and livestock operations provides greater resilience to the inter-annual variability through crop diversification and increased resource use efficiency. Deep rooted trees allow better access to nutrients and water during droughts and when appropriately integrated into annual cropping systems and extract from different resource pools that would otherwise be lost from systems. Agroforestry increases soil porosity, reduces runoff and increases soil cover, which improve water infiltration and reduces moisture stress in low rainfall years. During periods of excessive soil moisture, tree based systems keep soils aerated by pumping out excess water and offer an economic return. The book contains 36 chapters mainly on agroforestry practices found in India and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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Agriculture & farmingMay 2016Climate Change and Plantations in The Humid Tropics
by GSHLV Prasada Rao & C.S.Gopakumar
Weather and climate play an important role in plantation crops production. While climate determines the adaptability of a particular crop in a region, weather determines the yield attributes of the crop. The global warming and climate change impacts on plantation crops are evident in the form of extreme weather events like floods, droughts, cold and heat waves and strong cyclonic winds, the frequency of which is likely to be more and more in the ensuing decades as noticed year after year around the globe in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015. It is now a topic of concern and the plantations economy is in a threat in the ensuing decades due to climate variability. Decline in monsoon rainfall with number of rainy days, increasing ambient air temperatures (both day maximum and night minimum), decline in groundwater table, decline in wetland area and surface water resources, increasing number of forest fires and decline in forest area, increasing events of landslides during both the monsoon seasons, indiscriminate sand mining from river beds and unscientific land filling are the important climate change related issues in the Humid Tropics.
