Highlights and examines the growing convergence between the food and agricultural industries—the technological, environmental, and consumer-related drivers of this change, and the potential outcomesThis is the first book of its kind to connect food and the food industry with agriculture, water resources, and water management in a detailed and thorough way. It brings together a small community of expert authors to address the future of the food industry, agriculture (both for plants...

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves — in ways that are fundamentally unreasonable.This book examines what follows from seeing people as deliberating and acting in wa...

Is there a way to accurately predict neurodevelopmental disability within the first year of life? Standardized Infant NeuroDevelopmental Assessment (SINDA) has been developed as a screening instrument for infants aged 6 weeks to 12 months corrected age, to assist early detection of infants at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. It is the first developmental instrument to allow a comprehensive (360-degree) approach including “all” dimensions of development. With assessment in less th...

Tom leitet ein Provinztheater im englischen Somerset und ist alleinerziehender Vater einer Tochter, Hannah. Zu deren Geburtstag inszeniert Tom jedes Jahr ein besonderes Stück Magie auf der Bühne, um Hannah und sich selbst den Glauben an Wunder zu erhalten. Denn Hannah hat eine unheilbare Herzschwäche, und kurz vor ihrem sechzehnten Geburtstag spürt sie, dass ihr nicht mehr viel Zeit bleibt. Als auch noch das Theater geschlossen werden soll, kämpfen Tom und Hannah dafür, dass ihre Geschicht...