This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of what is one of the world's worst weeds. Originally regarded as a major weed in Australia and India, Parthenium weed is now widespread in around 48 countries in Africa, Asia and the South Pacific, and has the potential to spread to new countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. This book, which is a collective effort by 27 members of the International Parthenium Weed Network, addresses research and knowledge ...

Shane is at it again in this new, improved second edition of the classic introduction to ethnographic research. The new text still features our intrepid heroine as she learns what makes ethnography tick against a backdrop of Wild West metaphors, cowboy hats, cattle stampedes, and cacti—and the new edition expands on important content to provide more in-depth material and deeper opportunities for readers to learn. Added indispensable material on study design, ethnographic foundations, theor...

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and na...

Four Highland warriors. Four modern time travelers. Four journeys through time. Can love survive a Scottish medieval war? - For all fans of Outlander!4 love stories. 30+ hours of binge-worthy, edge-of-your-seat drama and sizzling highlander romance.Discover the adventures of four modern people thrown into 1307, the midst of Robert the Bruce’s Wars of Scottish Independence, and get entangled into the destiny of the Highland Clan Cambel.Audiobook 1: H...

In "Sarah's First Start in Life," Adelaide M. G. Campbell weaves a poignant narrative that captures the essence of childhood and personal growth. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, the story follows young Sarah as she navigates the challenges of early life, exploring themes of identity, resilience, and self-discovery. With a blend of lyrical prose and rich, descriptive detail, Campbell intricately paints a world that is both timeless and relevant, encouraging readers t...

Roads have been around for centuries, allowing mankind a convenient path to arrive at their destination—be it a lengthy vacation getaway with family or merely to their own inviting home after an exhausting day at work. These roadway treks can bring with them a lifetime of memories.But not all memories are good. And some things are best left forgotten.Join our storytellers as they share the morbid, woeful, and disturbing outcomes of an otherwise normal commute, as we watch e...

Shane is back! The beloved heroine of students and faculty alike returns in this third volume of the acclaimed series, focusing on the basic how-to’s and foundations of ethnographic studies of children and childhoods. The book opens with Shane trying to land a post-doc working in a department of cultural anthropologists studying children and childhood. Rather predictably, Shane initially sees children as nothing more than small adults. But in this book she’ll be forced to reorient herself,...

Conçu pour servir de référence rapide, cet ouvrage décrit les 250 maladies cutanées les plus fréquemment rencontrées en consultation. Richement illustré de plus de 700 photographies en couleur des manifestions classiques des maladies et de leurs variantes plus rares, il fournit des conseils pratiques pour faciliter le diagnostic et la prise en charge, y compris des schémas de localisation des lésions sur le corps et une classification des lésions primaires, secondaires et atypiques. Des en...

Two decades ago, two strangers make a connection that bonds them for life.Perfect for fans of second chance romance, This Time Around is the love reunion hopeless romantics have been waiting for.Dr. Tessa Howard is sick and tired of everything—her job, her nagging mother, and her boyfriend who wouldn’t know commitment if it hit him in the face. The only thing that didn’t work her last nerve was her soon-to-be twenty-year-old daughter, Cyrah. Watching her one and only child,...

From the author of Consort of Fire comes a scorching romantasy novel full of courtly intrigue and erotic crackle riding the swells of immortal love.Aleksi, the charming and charismatic god of love, is dying. But nothing can stop the Lover from completing his final quest: a dangerous diplomatic visit to a former adversary.Setting sail for a mystical kingdom of ice, Aleksi is joined by Einar the Kraken, infamous pirate lord, and Naia, a sweet young w...

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The most powerful sorceress in all the world comes face to face with her greatest rival in this enchanting and seductive fantasy romance debut from Jennifer K. Lambert."Just beautiful. It's beautifully written. Academic, intellectual, poetic… it's everything." —Katherine Heigl on #booktokThe Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired.** She’s fought and won endless wars and has finally exiled herself to a remote forest where the mountains meet the b...

An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” (Entertainment Weekly).This “revealing” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography, “fascinating and unique” (The Washington Post) and “an unmi...