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

Global value chains (GVCs) are fraught with the phenomenon of fragmentation and dispersion of production across the world. India presents a unique ...

The focus of municipalities has been on the supply of sufficient water quantities to the public with less attention paid to water quality. The dete...

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a passport to enter the professional sphere....

This book addresses the dynamics of China's grain production, consumption and trade with a particular emphasis on China's demand for feedgrain vis-...

There has been an explosive growth of methods in recent years for learning (or estimating dependency) from data, where data refers to known samples...

The impact to airlines from airspace closure can be as benign as a two minute extension on an arrival pattern, or as catastrophic as a shoot down f...

This title was first published in 2000. Using the latest surveys and original data, this volume contrasts energy and environmental policies in West...

This title was first published in 2002. This convenient reference brings together notable contributions examining all aspects of the liability for ...

This title was first published in 2003. The 'Economics of Forestry' is a specialized subset of resource economics addressing a specific natural res...

Global media expert Dal Yong Jin examines the nexus of globalization, digital media, and contemporary popular culture in this empirically rich, stu...

In a simple, straightforward manner, this book presents most of the major process units for wastewater treatment, addressing what the unit is and h...

Health and safety is important to everyone nowadays, especially with the burgeoning extent of legislation and regulations in the area both in UK te...

Hydrogen in an International Context: Vulnerabilities of Hydrogen Energy in Emerging Markets describes strategies and developments for hydrogen civ...

In the US, as in many other Western economies, federal and state government is working to become more involved with the nonprofit sector; a sector ...

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result ...

Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between communi...

This title was first published in 2000. Using the latest surveys and original data, this volume contrasts energy and environmental policies in West...

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Salas personal style, along with his innovations in form, influe...

This accessible, up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth textbook introduces students and practitioners to the principles and practice of airport m...

This title was first published in 2003. Over the past two decades in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies a...

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understan...

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management ...

The International Dictionary of Hospitality Management is the must have companion for all those working or studying in the field of hospitality man...

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential syn...

2019 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

This title was first published in 2003. What is the meaning of sustainable mobility? Is there a European common transport policy? To what extent is...

Researchers and managers of regulated river systems will find this volume useful in acquiring information for deciding an integrated management pla...

This comprehensive volume is the product of an intensive collaborative effort among researchers across the United States, Europe and Japan. The res...

The broad and developing scope of human factors and ergonomics - the application of scientific knowledge to improve peoples interaction with produc...

It is vital for hospitality management students to understand key management concepts as part of the complex and intimate nature of the services in...

Marketing in Travel and Tourism aims to guide and support readers through the complexities of tourism marketing in the 21st Century. It sets out cl...

Written by actual Toyota team members, One Team on All Levels: Stories from Toyota Team Members, Second Edition is not another technical explanatio...

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engageme...

One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from ...

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this ...

Worldwide Destinations Casebook features 38 comprehensive case studies of international tourism destinations, 10 of them brand new and 28 updated. ...

This dissertation considers various questions with respect to the effects of salinity on nutrification: what are the main inhibiting factors causin...

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of c...

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether d...

This Second Edition examines the mechanisms and means to establish regulatory compliance for pharmaceutical products and company practices. It focu...