This book also explains how ignoring the participation of introverts can make the world lose out on great talent. The book gives the example of people like albert einstein who revolutionized the way we analyze science. Gladly, he lived in times when the world was not so much wowed by extroversion; when the world was not as fast; and at a time when being conservative was still a virtue. It is great that introverts will get to learn from this book the vanity of trying to live a fake life as ...

This first volume in green criminology devoted to gender investigates gendered patterns to offending, victimisation and environmental harms. It includes feminist and intersectional analysis, and original case studies from the Global North and Global South. The book also examines actions that have been taken in response to gendered crimes and harms, together with insights on the gendered nature of resistance.The collection advances debate on green crimes, environmental harm and clim...

Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

Provides an authoritative review of the key developments in achieving durable disease resistance in cereal cropsComprehensive coverage of the major diseases that affect cereal crops (Fusarium head blight, Septoria tritici blotch, tan spot)Assesses the key challenges in breeding durable disease-resistant cereals faced globally, with dedicated chapters to the regional strategies established by North America, North-west Europe, North Africa and West Asia

Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by anthropologists - participant observation, consensus analysis, simple surveys, scaling, freelisting an...

This book focuses on major trends and challenges in the area of dyslexia, epilepsy and Parkinson’s, and aims to identify new techniques and their applications in biomedical analysis. This fifth volume on neurological disorders explores topics such as real-time epilepsy prediction applied on EEG pediatric data; delineation of epileptogenic zone; behavioral and biological correlates and treatment of dyslexia; potential biomarkers of Parkinson's disease; Rett Syndrome; and automatic assessmen...

Una presencia maligna pretende sembrar el caos en todo el pueblo de Castle Rock.En el pueblo de Castle Rock, en el estado de Maine, acaba de abrir sus puertas una tienda nueva: Cosas Necesarias. En ella venden ese objeto que llevas buscando tanto tiempo, o que quizá no hayas buscado jamás, aunque con solo verlo sabrás que lo necesitas sin falta. Simplemente debes pagar un precio pactado, casi irrisorio, y añadirle algo más: un trato, un favor, una travesura inocent...

Una angustiante novela del maestro de terror Stephen King sobre un aterrador futuro donde la televisión es la única realidad.A mediados del siglo XXI, un concurso televisivo, cuyo principal atractivo es la muerte de los participantes, bate récords de audiencia.Ben Richards, padre de una niña enferma y sumido en la más profunda miseria, decide concursar atraído por los extraordinarios premios, aun a sabiendas de que no sobrevivirá.Sometido a una impl...

Una inquietante novela futurista donde la realidad supera a la fantasía más terrorífica.El escenario: una sociedad ultraconservadora que ha llevado al paroxismo sus rasgos más perversos, dominada por un estado policial.El acontecimiento: la más extraordinaria competición deportiva, una agotadora marcha a pie donde un resbalón puede ser el último.Los competidores: cien adolescentes elegidos por sorte...

Stephen King sorprende y aterroriza una vez más al lector con su magistral don para destapar y exhibir la mitad más oscura del ser humano.Cuando Thad Beaumont en pleno bloqueo creativo, después de que su novela Las súbitas bailarinas optara al Premio Nacional de Literatura y lo perdiera, decidió seguir los consejos de su mujer y publicar una serie de thrillers retorcidos y sangrientos bajo el pseudónimo de George Stark, no pensó, ni por asomo, que...