Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies.

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it.

Winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2023 Book AwardDuring the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, its people, and the US's role as a twentieth-century colonial power to the public.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

Heavy metals, in general trace elements, are one of the major environmental problems.

Handbook of Dairy Foods and Nutrition, Third Edition examines the role of dairy products in diet and health, covering such areas as cardiovascular health, hypertension, cancer, bone, and oral health.

Nutraceuticals are bioactive phytochemicals that protect or promote health and occur at the intersection of food and pharmaceutical industries.

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts in an era in which visual texts are perceived as a dominant perceptual frame for interpreting social and cultural phenomena.

This volume argues for the importance of essential nutrients in our diet.

This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott.

This book provides a review of therapeutic foods and diets for aging patients.

During the fifteen years since the bestselling first edition of Folate in Health and Disease was published, there have been thousands of new research studies related to folate and its role in health and disease.

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.

Oxidative stress plays a prominent role in the development of numerous human diseases associated with animal-based protein, high-carbohydrate diets and excessive fat consumption.

Health Impact Assessment is a policy-support instrument and approach that seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies on population health.

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "e;proper way"e; of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting.

Zoonosen sind Krankheiten bzw.

This book discusses the many advances in the understanding of the functions and implications of activation and detoxification enzymes.

Die industrielle Lebensmittelfertigung erhöhte in der Vergangenheit die Chancen für eine gesunde Ernährung der Bevölkerung erheblich.

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.

Nutritional assessment is a key to determining the health and performance efficiency of professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes.

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom.

This book summarizes recent advances in the chemistry, bioactivity, nutrition, and functional aspects of dietary phytochemicals, as well as the health and functional aspects of foods rich in phytochemicals.

This evidence-based, practical guide provides an introduction to the theory behind child nutrition with practical advice on how to put that theory into practice, including case studies, key points, and activities to help readers learn.

Die Flut an Informationen rund um Ernährung und Lebensmittel führt zu Verwirrung und Verunsicherung, sowohl bei Verbrauchern als auch Fachpersonal.

This book offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment.

The Certified Bariatric Nurse (CBN) designation was created by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery to fill the rapidly growing need for nurses specialized in the care of patients undergoing weight loss surgery.

The modern fantasy novel might hardly seem to need a defence, but its position in contemporary literature in the 1980s was still rather ambivalent.

This book argues that, to be healthy, human beings should love nature and stay in balance with it as much as possible.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop in September 2017 to explore the evidence for achieving global harmonization of methodological approaches to establishing nutrient intake recommendations.

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children.

This book is a collection of policy briefs produced from research presented at the 16th Conference on Urban Health in Xiamen, China, November 4-8, 2019, under the theme "e;People Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cities for Health and Well-Being"e;, co-organized by the Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWB) programme of the International Science Council (ISC).

Collagen is a fascinating protein not only because of its ubiquitous occurrence in multicellular animals, but also because of its unique chemi- cal structure.

The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of children's literature.

This concise handbook provides evidence-based, practical horse nutrition accessibleto all readers.

The federal government requires that most packaged foods carry a standardized labelthe Nutrition Facts panelthat provides nutrition information intended to help consumers make healthful choices.

Risk Factors for Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke address the relationship of a wide variety of vascular risk factors in the spectrum of cerebrovascular diseases.

This book compiles concerning important solutions for current and future global challenges to wellbeing.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Presenting up-to-date data in an easy-to-use format, this comprehensive overview of the chemistry of bioactive components of fruits and cereals addresses the role of these compounds in determining taste, flavor, and color, as well as recent claims of anticarcinogenic, antimutagenic, and antioxidant capabilities.

Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms.

Caffeine is known to stimulate the central nervous system but what other functions does it have?