Library and information sciences / Museology

Cereals belong to the most important elements in the history of mankind.

Legumes are an important source of protein for humans and animals.

Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western World and increasingly elsewhere.

This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health.

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years.

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c.

Homeostasis.

This book deals with medieval Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic, such as Moses Maimonides, Judah Halevi, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol, as well as the Hebrew translations and commentaries of Judaeo-Arabic philosophy.

Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the ecosystems and the populations existing within the region.

The book addresses the questions: Is Australia's rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts?

In recent decades radiobiologists' efforts have been directed at identifying the mechanisms of radiation effects; the general mechanisms have since been studied extensively.

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles.

The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, "e;The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization,"e; contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola).

The probability for exposure to damaging radiation, toxic chemicals in the environment and adverse biological agents has increased exponentially today.

This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these phenomena.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues connected with mortars on historic structures.

This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans.

This book is about Nutraceuticals in cancer therapy, specifically targeted and Adjuvant therapy.

Chemoprevention of cancer has been the focus of intensive research for more than two decades.

This book examines the ways in which China's universities have changed in the dramatic move to a mass stage which has unfolded since the late 1990s.

In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation.

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on changes in biological communities.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems.

The book is the first one published exclusively on the field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer.

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management programs and the protection of drinking water resources and the potential effects of climate changes on the availability of these same resources.

Emilie du Chatelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.

This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years.

In recent years, the concept of environmental security has been adapted to include preparedness for acts of ecoterrorism.

The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people.

Every day many people suffer from intestinal diseases.

This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases.

This book's main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the environment, through first principles of meteorology and modelling/measurement approaches.

Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways.

Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity.

Libraries face a number of challenges in adapting to new ways of information seeking that may stress convenience over quality, reducing the priority of information literacy skills.

A library is an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

The present day knowledge or information-based society is making extensive use of information for all kinds of activities.

The present day knowledge or information-based society is making extensive use of information for all kinds of activities.

The present day knowledge or information-based society is making extensive use of information for all kinds of activities.

The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years.

Colored cereals are becoming a substance of research interest due to their unique color and health-benefiting properties.

This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years.

This book provides a substantial contribution to understanding the international legal framework for the protection and conservation of cultural heritage.

In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water.

Information resource is going to play a key role in social, cultural and political progress as well as in productive and sustainable economic development.

This book tries to analyse how the mass use of information technology (IT) can change the North East India into a progressive business destination.