Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches. A comprehensive range of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and other organisms are discussed in detail, making this book essential r...

Edmond Halley,(1656–1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.Halley became a close friend of Isaac Newton. He encouraged Newton to publish his discoveries, his "Principia," but when the Royal Society had no money to pay for the publication, Halley paid for and accompli...

Suite et fin dans ce second volume des aventures de Wolf-Man, créé par Robert Kirkman & Jason Howard, pour une série qui évolue dans l'univers d'Invincible.Gary Hampton, alias Wolf-Man, a été jugé et condamné pour meurtre ! Enfermé dans la prison de Stronghold, il se retrouve face à face avec les ennemis qu'il a enfermés. Par ailleurs, le plan machiavélique de l'Ancien est révélé, et le sort final de Zacharie est scellé !

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causing environmental degradation and displacing native peoples.Conflicts about the future of Pacific Northwest forests have continued since then. Only recently have academics, government agencies, industry, small private landowners, tribes, and environmental organizations come together to develop plans to protect the remaining old-growth for...

A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows.Contents:Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939)The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway.The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937)An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.The Secret in the Tom...

Edmond Halley,(1656–1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.Halley became a close friend of Isaac Newton. He encouraged Newton to publish his discoveries, his "Principia," but when the Royal Society had no money to pay for the publication, Halley paid for and accompli...

Spies have always lived in the shadows, slipping between worlds, crafting false identities, and risking their lives in ways most of us can barely imagine. The thrill of espionage isn't just found in fiction—history itself is full of men and women who led double lives, navigating political upheaval, war, and deception to shape the course of events. Their stories captivate us because they reveal the hidden forces behind history, proving that the greatest battles are often fought in secret. W...

The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's "reflections."

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley - Great Astronomers: James Bradley - Great Astronomers: William Herschel - Great Astronomers: Pierre-Simon Laplace - Great Astronomers: William Parsons - Great Astronomers...

Ce nouveau spin-off d'Invincible met en scène l'un des personnages les plus aimés par les fans de la saga : Battlebeast alias Le Fauve de Combat ! Cette trilogie se déroule entre les tomes 3 & 5 de l'intégrale en VF.Robert Kirkman himself, au scénario, et Ryan Ottley au dessin - les auteurs de la série mère - sont de retour ! Ils ne retenaient pas leurs coups sur Invincible, et maltraitaient régulièrement les personnages. Battlebeast est un récit haletant qui va encore plu...

Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies offers a breadth of expertise and informed pedagogies on teaching multimodal and digital creative writing in the college classroom. This book presents engaging methods to inspire student writing beyond traditional, print-based texts. The contributors in this volume, all experienced creative writing instructors, share indispensable strategies for incorporating multimodal projects, including video game poetry, fan fiction authorship, digital...

Ni loup ni chien est un road-trip qui nous emmène au coeurdu Dakota américain d'aujourd'hui.Préface de Robert PlantIllustrations de BaudoinDan, un vieil Indien lakota, veut écrire un livre sur son histoire et celle de son peuple. Pour ce faire, il contacte l'écrivian Kent Nerburn. Tout au long de l'expédition, qui les mène des villes délabrées des réserves indiennes jusqu'au monument historique érigé en l'honneur de Sitting Bull en passant par les prai...