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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter j lea”
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  • Plant Nitrogen

    Edited by Peter J. Lea, Jean-Francois Morot-Gaudry ...
    Jointly published with INRA, Paris.This book covers all aspects of the transfer of nitrogen from the soil and air to a final resting place in the seed protein of a crop plant. It describes the physiological and molecular mechanisms of ammonium and nitrate transport and assimilation, including symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the Rhizobiacea. Amino acid metabolism and nitrogen traffic during plant ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • The Buried Cause

    Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone

    by Ms. Katherine Ridgway, Christina Keyser Vida, Dr. Elizabeth Moore, Adam H. Domby, Dr. John S. Salmon, Sue Donovan, Professor Caroline (Carrie) E. Janney, PhD, Ervin L. Jordan Jr.0, Sam Florer1, Erik Goldstein2, Laura Galke3, Maggie Creech4, Laura Lavernia5, Brendan Burke6, Professor Christopher Alan Graham7, Hannah Sanner8, Robert L. Jolley9, Professor Julian Maxwell Hayter0, Lea Lane1, Sir Knight Peter Spring2 ...
    Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Informal City

    Critical Perspectives from Latin America

    Edited by Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett, Lea Knudsen Allen ...
    Series Book 11 - Remapping Cultural History: Perspectives on Southern Europe and the Mediterranean
    Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

    by John Lea, Lambros Fatsis, Guilherme Benzaquen, Danielle Watson, Chris Cunneen, Kristian Lasslett, Ihsan Ali-Fauzi, Elizabete Albernaz, Luiz dal Santo, Vitor Dieter, Vivian Cubas, Giovana Esther Zucatto, Valéria Cristina Oliveira, Jackie Garza ...
    Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest.The book asks how current ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • What Is Information?

    by Peter Janich ...
    Translated by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age.In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
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  • Transforming Barcelona

    The Renewal of a European Metropolis

    Edited by Tim Marshall ...
    This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980s first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in ... Read more

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  • Feminicide and Global Accumulation

    Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

    by Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese, Silvia Federici, Sheila Gruner ...
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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
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    Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon

    Edited by João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa ...
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    This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes.The book offers a multidimensional and multi ... Read more

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  • Social Death

    Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

    by Lisa Marie Cacho ...
    Series Book 7 - Nation of Nations
    Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationA necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contextsSocial Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and scholarship—that the battle to end oppression shares the moral grammar that structures exploitation and ... Read more

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