“vincent b hargreaves”

Now anyone can successfully construct and maintain a natural-looking coral reef aquarium in their home. This ground-breaking reference book shows how to set up a marine aquarium and describes in detail over 700 plant and animal species that make up a coral reef. The book opens with a brief descripti... More

The vivid colors and abundant life found under the water's surface is breathtaking. For years, people have struggled to recreate this magnificent environment in exotic home aquariums. Now with today's technology and scientific understanding, creating a thriving freshwater aquarium is easier than eve... More

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to... More

Across the globe, the field of literary theory has injected a broad array of innovative concepts into intellectual life - compulsory heterosexuality, cultural capital, hybridity, interpretive communities, and whiteness, to name just a few. In this provocative Manifesto, Vincent Leitch argues that th... More

Jointly published with INRA, Paris. Pesticide resistance is becoming more frequent and widespread with more than 500 insect species known to have become resistant to synthetic insecticides. On the other hand, consumers increasingly demand agricultural products without any pesticide residues. This bo... More

Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and applications. There have been man... More

This comprehensive volume provides a practical approach to inpatient treatment of children and adolescents. Each disorder is covered with a precise clinical description, a discussion of behavioral and psychiatric evaluation, and a presentation of the integration of behavioral and psychopharmacologic... More

The discipline of abnormal psychology has become increasingly complex in recent years, particularly as it incorporates data from such sister disciplines as epidemiology, genetics, sociology, anthropology, and biology. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text, published b... More