Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

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 provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies.

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 explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

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

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

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

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.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

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.

This volume offers the most comprehensive coverage on fetal programming.

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

This text provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the effects of dietary patterns and whole plant foods on general health, aging, and cardiometabolic disease risk from major prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and their meta-analyses.

This book provides a broad-based foundation of knowledge about brown rice, including the latest information on health benefits and disease prevention resulting from consumption of brown rice, and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards brown rice.

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 Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

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 comprehensive volume covers all aspects of nutrition in different scenarios of maternal diabetes, including the Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic mother, gestational diabetes, and postpartum diabetes.

Food and agricultural by-products are leftovers or wastes from parts of foods, fruits, vegetables and animal sources which are obtained after processing.

In this book, both basic and advanced concepts are discussed for considering mixtures from initial exposure characterization through evaluation of risk associated with combined exposures.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

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 Brief presents a chemical perspective on frozen vegetables, also known as "e;ready-to-use"e; foods.

This study by the University of Basque Country Gluten Analysis Laboratory analyzes the gluten free diet from different perspectives.

This book offers focused and concise coverage of all issues relating to malnutrition in the field of neurology, and in particular addresses practical aspects of nutritional support from a neurology perspective.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

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 newest addition to the Nutrition and Health series is a comprehensive, yet portable, guide to the use of dietary fiber for the management of health and disease.

This second edition volume is a desktop reference guide on nutrition and its clinical implications for health and disease.

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 book discusses different aspects of contamination in Indian food products.

This fully revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive look at nitrite and nitrate and their effect on human health and disease.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

This concise text contains clinical cases covering different types of dysfunctional eating with a focus on the eating disorders in the DSM-5, including the new disorder Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).

It has become popular to blame the American obesity epidemic and many other health-related problems on processed food.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

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