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Concerns about quality mathematics education are often posed in terms of the types of mathematics that are worthwhile and valuable for both the student and society in general, and about how to best support students so that they can develop this mathematics.

The 96 contributions to Trends in Acarology - reflecting fields as molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology, pathology, ecology, evolutionary biology, systematic biology, soil biology, plant protection, pest control and epidemiology - have been reviewed and carefully edited.

Mitochondrial medicine deals with diseases that are related to mitochondrial dysfunction due to a number of causes from free radical damage to genetic mutation.

The contributions in this volume focus on the connections between models and disease data with emphasis on the application of mathematical and statistical approaches that quantify model and data uncertainty.

This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world's Muslims.

Das Buch vermittelt Basiswissen über zwei grundlegende Bereiche der Allgemeinen Psychologie: Menschliche Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit. Welche Theorien sind wichtig? Welche Kontroversen und Fragen beschäftigen die Forscher aktuell, und wie haben sich die Gebiete historisch entwickelt? In klarer, verständlicher Form führen die Autoren in die wichtigsten Grundfragen ein und verhelfen Leserinnen und Lesern so zu Orientierung und Überblick.

Seaweed Phylogeography

This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology.

Featuring contributions from leading population researchers in fertility, family, migration, life-expectancy, and mortality, this volume presents a new demography of Europe. The text discusses key research advances, which illustrates the continent's demographic development at the turn of the 21st century.

This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists.

With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban fabric. It shows how an urban environment can affect the decision to commit a crime, and how some cityscape have crime and inequality 'built in'.

This book provides a better understanding of life in this region. It examines a variety of examples of injustice and proposes a pathway to development.

The authors argue that the relationship, often complex, between what schools provide in the way of preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience.

This book promotes a progressive agenda for teaching that is rooted in critical pedagogy. It combines theory and sociological research with pedagogical approaches and classroom narratives and covers the latest on how to teach about race, class and democracy.

The Academy of European Law extends the European University Institute's programmes into a larger field of interest. Its main activity is the holding of annual summer courses in the law of the European Community and the protection of human rights in Europe. This volume contains the courses.

The Academy of European Law was established by the European University Institute in 1990. Its main activity is the holding of annual summer courses in the law of the European Community and the protection of human rights in Europe.

In the last decade there have been numerous advances in the area of rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation, such as highly selective catalysts of industrial importance, new insights into mechanisms of the reaction, very selective asymmetric catalysts, in situ characterization and application to organic synthesis.

This text addresses all aspects of foreign direct investment in Chile. Since the beginnings of the 1990s, foreign investment in Chile has been transformed into a highly significant macroeconomic variable.

This text illustrates and compares a variety of experiences that countries across the world have had in the practical application of federal principles, and analyzes recent international developments in federalism and regionalism.

Offering a comprehensive approach to the study of NAFTA and its implications for the global trading system, this book covers the political and legal process of NAFTA approval as well as NAFTA's potential economic impact.