The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called consumption—was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that ca...

For all the talk about personalized medicine, our health care system remains a top-down, doctor-driven system where individuals are too often bit players in their own health decisions. In The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge technology to put us at the center of the equation and explains how the new frontier of health care can impact each of our lives.

For more than a decade, there has been growing interest in the role of emotions in academic settings. Written by leading experts on learning and instruction*, Emotions at School* focuses on the connections between educational research and emotion science, bringing the subject to a wider audience. With chapters on how emotions develop and work, evidence-based recommendations about how to foster adaptive emotions, and clear explanations of key concepts and ideas, this concise volume is desig...

This handbook is a user-friendly resource for pre-service and new practicing teachers outlining theoretical models and empirical research findings concerning the nature and effects of emotions, motivation, and self-regulated learning for students and teachers alike. The authors provide accessible explanations, classroom-based examples and self-reflection exercises, as well as useful advice for new teachers about these psychosocial processes. They address how to measure these processes, wha...

Comprehensive, systematic review of advances in key CRISPR/Cas technologies, such as TALENS and zinc finger nucleases, double-strand break repair techniques, insertion-based genome edits, base editing, guide RNAs, gRNA/Cas9 constructs and CRISPR/Cas off targetingCovers both techniques and their practical application to particular cereal and other cropsDiscusses challenges in regulating this emerging technology

Bei unserem ersten Messeauftritt in Frankfurt am Main 1990 wurden Wetten abgeschlossen, wie lange es dieser neue Verlag wohl machen würde. An ein Vierteljahrhundert hat damals niemand gedacht, vielleicht nicht einmal die Gründer selbst.Inzwischen sind mehr als 800 Bücher im Ch. Links Verlag erschienen, und jedes von ihnen hat seine eigene Geschichte. 25 davon werden in diesem Buch erzählt und mit kleinen Lesestücken präsentiert, quer durch die Jahre und die unterschiedlichen Reihen....

Bei unserem ersten Messeauftritt in Frankfurt am Main 1990 wurden Wetten abgeschlossen, wie lange es dieser neue Verlag wohl machen würde. An ein Vierteljahrhundert hat damals niemand gedacht, vielleicht nicht einmal die Gründer selbst.Inzwischen sind mehr als 800 Bücher im Ch. Links Verlag erschienen, und jedes von ihnen hat seine eigene Geschichte. 25 davon werden in diesem Buch erzählt und mit kleinen Lesestücken präsentiert, quer durch die Jahre und die unterschiedlichen Reihen....