Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.

This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency.

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.

This volume focuses on blocking disease transmission and the ecological perspective of pathogens and pathogenic processes.

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children's rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God.

Skin diseases are highly prevalent among indigenous people, leading to low mortality but greatly impacting their quality of life.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.

This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children's literature through their representations of working-class life and culture.

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

This book provides an overview to researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as academicians who are interested in arsenic.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters.

This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy.

This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children's and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship-internalised racism.

This book reveals how the period's transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation.

Bringing together adistinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volumeprovides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology a systematicapproach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against,mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures.

The main aim of this book is to bridge the gap between aerobic and anaerobic waste treatments by concentrating on studies of earthworms.

This book is the first to present a regional analysis of climate change and human health, focusing on geographically and socio-economically distinct countries of South and Southeast Asia.

This book is an overview of the hazards of firefighting, the health risks of exposure to combustion products that characterize firefighting, the science behind interpreting these risks for purposes of identifying diseases as work-related, and the legal and policy implications of adopting legislated "e;presumption"e; for purposes of compensation.

This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability.

This book focuses on data describing the roles of free radicals and related reactive species, and antioxidants, in the causes and treatments of diseases, examining both clinical and pre-clinical trials, as well as basic research.

The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea.

This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic Plain.

This book serves as a timely and comprehensive overview of the latest science for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), covering the development of methods for assessing PFASs in biological fluids and tissues as well as the current knowledge regarding their toxicity to vertebrate organisms.

The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution.

This book takes an in-depth look at the theory and methods inherent in the tracing of riverine sediments.

This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment.

Showcasing the very latest technologies for neutralising the unpleasant-and sometimes dangerous-odours from industrial and waste management processes, this Springer Brief in Environmental Sciences covers physical, chemical and biological methods.

This volume provides a collection of research findings on the distribution and risk associated with emerging contaminants (ECs) in water and wastewater across the globe, and effective remediation techniques and technologies.

Als der Holzschnitzer Geppetto gebeten wird, aus einem Stück Holz eine Marionette zu schnitzen, staunt er nicht schlecht, als die Holzpuppe plötzlich zum Leben erwacht.

Der Schiffsarzt Leopold Gulliver ist ein wohlanständiger Durchschnittsbürger, der durch allerhand Katastrophen und Missgeschicke in die unglaublichsten Abenteuer gerät.

Nils Holgersson ist faul, quält die Tiere auf dem elterlichen Hof und stiftet Unheil, wo er nur kann – bis er eines Tages von einem Kobold in einen Däumling verwandelt wird.

Beide Alice-Romane in einem Band: Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland und die Fortsetzung Durch den Spiegel und was Alice dort fandAlices Abenteuer im Wunderland – das ist eine Reise zu alten Bekannten: zum weißen Kaninchen und zur Herz-Königin, zum Hutmacher, zum Märzhasen und zur Haselmaus.

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