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        Who We Are   The University of Washington Press is celebrating its centennial this year. We publish compelling and transformative work with regional, national, and global impact. We are committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good and work collaboratively with our authors to produce books that meet the highest editorial and design standards. We value and promote equity, justice, and inclusion in all our work.   What We Publish   We publish in the following core academic areas:   American Studies Anthropology Art History / Visual Culture Asian American Studies Asian Studies Critical Ethnic Studies Environmental History Native American and Indigenous Studies US History Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies   We also publish vibrant nonfiction about the Pacific Northwest and beyond, often in partnership with museums, cultural organizations, and Indigenous nations and communities.

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        Limnology (freshwater)
        May 2004

        Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems

        Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components

        by Edited by Meine van Noordwijk, Georg Cadisch, Chin K Ong

        This book provides a synthesis of plant-soil-plant interactions in agroforestry, intercropping and grass-legume interactions. It focuses on the process level, which is relevant to many types of multi-species agroecosystem. It also links basic research to practical applications in a wide range of systems with or without trees, and considers effects of global change on below-ground interactions. The contents include soil biodiversity and food webs, phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, and crop and tree root-system dynamics. The book will be of significant interest to researchers in plant, crop and soil sciences as well as agroforestry.

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        2021

        Micronutrient Depleters: Cholesterol-lowering Drugs

        Things to know about medicines and micronutrients

        by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

        Elevated blood lipid levels are among the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The class of substances most commonly used for lowering blood lipids is the type of cholesterol-lowering drug known as statins. Taking cholesterol-lowering drugs can lead to disruption of the coenzyme Q10 balance and muscle metabolism. In addition, statin therapy increases the need for selenium, vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins and L-carnitine. This guide provides patients with important medical information about the interactions of their medicines with these micronutrients. This way, patients can optimise their treatment, reduce the side effects of their medication, and improve their quality of life!

      • The Arts
        March 1905

        Concerning the Spiritual in Art

        by Wassily Kandinsky

        A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings. This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.

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        Fertilizers & manures
        January 1998

        Plants that Hyperaccumulate Heavy Metals

        by Edited by Robert R Brooks

        Plant species which can accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals have been known for over one hundred years. However, until the last twenty years their potential went largely unnoticed by scientists. The term hyperaccumulation was first introduced by the author (and colleagues) in 1977. This renewed interest, together with heightened environmental awareness and the discovery of the phenomenon in many more species has since stimulated research into a number of novel scientific and commercial uses. This book brings together for the first time in one volume all the relevant ecological information on hyperaccumulators and describes the new disciplines, methods and uses for them which continue to be explored. These include the removal of heavy metal pollutants from soils and waters (phytoremediation), the identification of ancient human settlements (phytoarchaeology), mineral exploration, the revegetation of degraded land and the exciting possibility of the commercial extraction of heavy metals from crop plants (phytomining). This book is essential reading for plant ecologists and physiologists who have an interest in hyperaccumulators, environmental consultants specialising in land restoration, and exploration geochemists. It will also be of great interest to professionals, lecturers and advanced students in environmental science, geology and soil science.

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        December 2021

        Hotel der Schlaflosen

        Erzählungen

        by Ralf Rothmann

        »Fear is a man’s best friend« lautet das Motto von Ralf Rothmanns Erzählungsband, und tatsächlich ist es oft die Angst, die seinen Figuren aus der Not hilft. Der alternde Dozent, dem während einer Autopanne in der mexikanischen Wüste die Logik der Liebe aufgeht, die Geigerin, die eine finale Diagnose erhält, oder das Kind im Treppenflur, das seine Prügelstrafe erwartet – sie alle erfahren Angst auch als spiegelverkehrte Hoffnung. Und sogar in der erschütternden Titelgeschichte, dem Gespräch des Schriftstellers Isaak Babel mit Wassili Blochin, seinem Moskauer Henker, für den eine Pistolenkugel die letzte und höchste Wahrheit ist, lässt uns der Autor teilhaben an der Einsicht, dass es eine höhere gibt.

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        September 2017

        Handbuch Optische Messtechnik

        Praktische Anwendungen für Entwicklung, Versuch, Fertigung und Qualitätssicherung

        by Schuth, Michael; Buerakov, Wassili

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        Agriculture & related industries
        November 2012

        Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics

        by Albert O. Aweto

        Shifting cultivation or rotational bush fallowing is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation over the last six decades and also characterizes secondary succession and related changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow. It includes unique features such as graphical illustration of the organic matter equilibrium concept; correlation and multiple regression analysis; core-periphery analogy, encapsulated in the spatio-temporal model and the graphical unified model of succession and soil fertility restoration, therefore providing essential reading for researchers and students within tropical agriculture and related fields such as forestry, geography, environmental science and tropical development.

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        January 2018

        Three steps to reduce blood pressure

        by Hong Zhu

        The World Health Organization predicts that chronic lifestyle diseases such as hypertension will become the number one killer of human health by about 2020. Zhu Hongzhu's "Three Steps to Reduce Blood Pressure" combines the experience and cases of professional doctors in treating hypertension for many years, focusing on the problem of lowering blood pressure and stabilizing pressure that hypertension patients are most concerned about, using easy-to-understand language, to provide you with practical and effective methods, so that you can understand and use them easily.

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        January 1963

        Die Bedeutung der Sowjetunion für die Welterdölwirtschaft von 1960 bis 1975.

        (Veröffentlichungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute e. V., Bonn, zum Energiegutachten 1961).

        by Judy, Richard; Leontief, Wassily

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        Art: general interest (Children's/YA)
        2013

        Tortugas en el espacio de papel (Paper's turtules in the space)

        by Manuel Marín

        In this book the artist makes an essay about the different shapes of the turtles by going around space and folding the paper. Eight turtle sculptures made of paper and created by Manuel Marín shows us by constructing step by space each piece the basics of concave or convex since they can be assembled either from outside or inside.

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        The Mud and Stars

        by Ahmed Lotfy

        Below the earth and above the sky. The two arcs between which a human lives his life and rotates through them. Who is more truthful than history if we look at human life as a whole? How does love attract him, how does authority blind him, how does inattention obliterate him, so he thinks of himself as the highest, and the law of time falls into the mud with him. Who is truer than history? With these tales, I only wrote about human.

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        Naermyth

        by Karen Francisco (author and illustrator)

        Set in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, Naermyth tells of a world plagued by the monsters of myth and legends who have stepped out of their storybook shadows to assume world dominion. They are the Naermyth (a word play on “never myth”) and have forced the human race close to extinction and fodder for the growing supremacy of these creatures. Among the survivors is Aegis, a seasoned soldier, and her story takes a dark turn when she rescues a stranger with mysterious abilities. Clearly, he is not human, and saving him triggers a series of revelations that challenges the meanings of monstrosity, heroism and family.

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        December 2018

        Robot practices and skills in primary and secondary schools

        by Dai Shengjun

        The robot skills and skills in primary and secondary schools / Youth Science and technology innovation series, edited by Dai Shengjun, is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is the basis of robot hardware, including mathematical laws and structure building, physical principles and structure building, etc. The second chapter is the basis of C language program, including variables and functions, robot program editing skills and so on. The third chapter is the selection and application of the motor, including the basic requirements of the robot snatch, the task analysis of the robot handling competition, etc. The fourth chapter is sensor and data acquisition, including digital and analog sensors, robot obstacle avoidance and positioning, robot fire-fighting, etc. The fifth chapter is the complex program training board, including array and LED lights, tricolor lights control, etc.

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