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As technology rapidly develops across the globe, we need to remember the roots of our energy sources: plants and other biological substances. This timely volume teaches readers about humanity’s complex relationship with biofuels, from Model Ts chugging along on ethanol to contemporary feuds over land between biofuel and crop farmers. Readers will love the fact boxes full of fascinating details, while vivid photographs will help them understand the material on a comprehensive scale. Any science curriculum will have a home for this biofuel bridge between biology and technology.
Regulating Bodies offers the first global history of protective policies in elite sports and asks how far we are willing to go in the name of sporting excellence.
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A companion volume to Rogers's Insurance in the Soviet Union (Praeger Publishers, 1986), this new work provides an in-depth examination of the operations of insurance industries in eastern European socialist countries. Rogers covers the administrative structure of insurance programs, the types of policies written, the insurance markets, and the extent of insurance protection. These topics provide the background to his discussion of two important issues: the transition from private to public insurance in socialist countries and the influence of the Soviet Union. In the latter case, there is explicit recognition by Soviet writers that practices in Eastern Europe have resulted in modifications of Soviet practices.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a multifaceted reproductive, metabolic syndrome, and its symptoms involve interactions between hormones, genes, and environmental stressors. The characteristic symptoms of PCOS include menstrual abnormalities such as oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea. The general symptoms of PCOS are anovulation or oligo-ovulation. Herbal Medicine Applications for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome provides comprehensive information on different aspects of PCOS, including its pathogenesis, symptoms, therapies, and management, particularly through herbal remedies. With 13 chapters related to different aspects of PCOS, this book provides enormous knowledge about the pathogenesis and r...