Norma Editorial is a Spanish publisher. Founded in 1977, Norma Editorial publishes both original Spanish comics and illustrated books, translations of Japanese manga as well as translations of American or European comics and graphic novels.
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East China Normal University Press Ltd. (ECNUP), established in 1957, is one of the two oldest publishers in China specializing in education publicationsas well as the top-ranking publisher in education. ECNUP is the top publishing house in Shanghai, and ranks among China's top 100 presses.
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Plants have evolved both general and highly specialized defence mechanisms that function to prevent diseases caused by the majority of microbial pathogens they encounter. Highly specialized defence is governed by specific interactions between pathogen avr (avirulence) genes' loci and alleles of the corresponding plant disease resistance (R) loci. These defences can be very dynamic as microbes from the same species can act differently in their co-evolution with the specific host plant, which in turn has similarly evolved its response to external threats. There have been major developments in the field of plant-microbe interactions in recent years, due to newly developed techniques and the availability of genomic information. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by the pathogens to suppress these defences. By exploring developments in plant defences, pathogen's counter-defences and mutually beneficial plant-microbe interactions, this book will be useful for researchers and students in plant pathology and plant biology-related areas.
Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios. Containing a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium of Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production 2013, this book brings together the best and most recent academic work on modelling in the pig and poultry industry, with a particular emphasis on nutrition. It reviews basic modelling concepts, descriptions and applications of production models and new methods and approaches in modelling.
In the therapeutic world of Symbiosis, a workshop for personal growth that is still being developed, a dozen test subjects in their early thirties are brought together. During these experiments, physical aggression is encouraged in order to overcome the contradictory forces that coexist within each person. Based on the premise that each person is his or her own worst enemy, this form of art therapy promotes supervised partnerships between the trainees, aiming to explore their positive strengths in order to achieve recognition of their self-destructive instincts and reconciliation with themselves. However, this programme is compromised by the death of Michael Ropa, one of the participants, who is found brutally murdered on the workshop premises. Through a detective story in which the main characters are suspected of murder, this novel tells the story of two brothers, Alex and Jay-Rémi, who were separated as teenagers and who meet again around the memory of a mysteriously suppressed childhood. Through the eyes of Alex, a visual artist trapped in the violence that runs through his work, Symbiose depicts the distorted relationships that unite members of a struggling generation in their quest for light and salvation.
Thriller Dan est policier à Paris. De son enfance normande, il lui reste les non-dits pesants de sa famille de paysans taiseux et le don, hérité de sa grand-mère, de voir dans le passé de ceux qu'il côtoie, un "sens" comme il dit, dérangeant mais bien utile dans son métier. Entre petits délinquants et affaires sordides, Dan enquête sur un suicide quand il rencontre Léa, jeune médecin qui le soigne d'une blessure au couteau. Dan en tombe immédiatement amoureux et pense que sa vie trépidante mais étriquée de veuf entre sa petite fille et sa mère dévouée va radicalement changer, que le bonheur va enfin illuminer à nouveau son quotidien. Mais rien n'est aussi simple...
Drug use in the workplace, its effect on performance and safety, and the role of workplace drug testing has received much attention in the popular press. But what do we actually know about this troubling issue? With an extensive and readable overview of the literature, the committee presents what we do know by examining the major issues: The extent and severity of drug use on and off the job. The strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting drug use through standard drug tests. The effect of drug use on behavior, including the results of both laboratory and field studies that have examined work-related behavior and worker productivity. The effectiveness of interventions to deal with drug use, such as employee assistance programs, health promotion programs, and treatment programs for substance abuse. This volume will be of practical interest to human resource and employee assistance program managers, policymakers, and investigators.
This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs. Should communities have the option of giving drug users sterile needles or bleach for cleaning needs in order to reduce the spread of HIV? Does needle distribution worsen the drug problem, as opponents of such programs argue? Do they reduce the spread of other serious diseases, such as hepatitis? Do they result in more used needles being carelessly discarded in the community? The panel takes a critical look at the available data on needle exchange and bleach distribution programs, reaches conclusions about their efficacy, and offers concrete recommendations for public policy to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. The book includes current knowledge about the epidemiologies of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use; characteristics of needle exchange and bleach distribution programs and views on those programs from diverse community groups; and a discussion of laws designed to control possession of needles, their impact on needle sharing among injection drug users, and their implications for needle exchange programs.
A debut novel that sings as the voice-over behind a Masterpiece.Florence, 1977. Once a famous movie star, Molly Buck dies in a private clinic. Sitting outside the front gate, there is a young man that she chose as her biographer. In their sleepless nights together, he had meticulously recorded his muse’s memories and her life unfolds now through their voices. This is the beginning of a backwards tale that follows Molly Buck’s career, from her retirement to the splendor of her younger years. But nothing is ever as it seems...L'ultima diva dice addio is a circular novel on memory and its lies, investigating the power of words and how it can be able to redeem a whole existence.
Do you know history coaching ? It's when you use historical figures as models to prosper in your own life. Each of these five heroines are an incredible source of inspiration to us, women of the twenty-first century. How to write the first european bestseller when you are a poor single mother during the Middle Ages without welfares ? How to reign the court of Versailles when everyone wants to take your place ? How to have the most powerful man in Europe but the least romantic under your thumb ? How to be a free and famous woman in a puritan and corseted society ? How to know a global success, more than Madonna, when you have red hair, you are thin and you don't speak a word of English language ? Christine de Pisan, first woman of letters in the Middle Ages, Madame de Montespan, Louis XIV's favorite mistress, Joséphine de Beauharnais, empress and Napoléon Bonaparte's wife, George Sand, writer who is free in love and Sarah Bernhardt, theater's star, managed to create their own life with brilliance, in a male world. So, don't hesitate, be inspire yourself by these five beautiful rebels !
