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  • Joseph Smith’s 21st Century View of the World: Truths He Knew Before the World Accepted Them

    by John David Lamb ...
    Joseph Smith may have lived in the nineteenth century, but he saw the world in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Relying upon Joseph’s teachings, Dr. John David Lamb—award-winning professor of chemistry at BYU—draws fascinating parallels between the latest scientific discoveries and revelations received by the Prophet Joseph. Uniting science and faith, this book paints a mesmerizing ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stolen Season

    A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues

    by David Lamb ...
    "A pennant-winning look at baseball at its purest." — Atlanta Journal & ConstitutionOn the field with baseball classics like Men at Work and The Boys of Summer, David Lamb travels the backroads of America to draw a stirring portrait of minor league baseball that will enchant every fan who has ever sat in the bleachers and waited for the crack of the bat.A sixteen-thousand mile journey across ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Africans

    by David Lamb ...
    During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from wars to coups oceans apart, catching midnight flights to little-known countries where supposedly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Death, Brain Death and Ethics

    by David Lamb ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
    Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concept of death against the background of dramatic changes in medical technology. The book argues that ‘brain death’ can be precisely defined and that a biological concept of death such as ‘brain death’ can be philosophically well-grounded. It examines traditional criteria for death and various formulations of the concept of death in both ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Hegel and Modern Philosophy

    Edited by David Lamb ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Hegel
    Originally published in 1987, this volume reflects the diversity in Hegelianism and every branch of philosophy which he contributed to. It includes essays on his contribution to contemporary social philosophy, logic and the philosophy of religion. His work is examined in relation to Marx, Wittgenstein and his social philosophy discussed from a feminist standpoint. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Vietnam, Now

    A Reporter Returns

    by David Lamb ...
    When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Arabs

    Journeys Beyond the Mirage

    by David Lamb ...
    The Arabs is widely considered one of the essential books for understanding the Middle East and the peoples who live there. David Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent in Cairo, explores the Arabs’ religious, political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the many segments of the Arab world. He explains Arab attitudes and actions toward the West, including ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Large-scale Forest Restoration

    by David Lamb ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes. It focuses on large, landscape-scale reforestation because that is the scale at which restoration is needed if many of the problems that have now developed ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Smart farms

    Improving data-driven decision making in agriculture

    by Dr Liisa Pesonen, Professor Thiago Romanelli, André F. Colaço, João P. S Veiga, Dr Adélia Sousa, Dr José Marques da Silva, Dr João Serrano, Dr Shakib Shahidian, Dr Duarte Lobo da Silveira, Dr Manuela Simões, Dr Ana Cristina Gonçalves, Dr Maria João P Caldinhas, Dr Vasco Fitas da Cruz, Dr Arilson J. de Oliveira Júnior, Dr Silvia R. Lucas de Souza, Dr Diogo R. Coelho, Dr Patrícia Lourenço, Dr Saba Noor, Dr Jade Bokma, Dr Bart Pardon, Dr Gerdien van Schaik, Dr Miel Hostens, Dr Caicong Wu, Emeritus Professor Fedro Zazueta, Dr Nathaniel Newlands, Professor David Lamb, Dr Fátima Baptista ...
    Series Book 147 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Provides a detailed overview of the recent trends in farm information management systems, including their evolution and role in improving farmer decision makingConsiders the range of data mining techniques used in decision support systems, such as artificial neural networks and support vector machinesIncludes a selection of case studies which explore the use of decision support systems in ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Organ Transplants and Ethics

    by David Lamb ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
    Originally published in 1990, this study of the moral problems bound up with transplant therapy addresses a finely balanced distinction between ethical issues relating to its experimental nature on the one hand and those which arise when transplantation is routine on the other. Among the issues examined are proposals for routine cadaveric harvesting, criteria for organ and tissue procurement from ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration

    Edited by John Stanturf, Palle Madsen, David Lamb ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    While restoration ecology has traditionally aimed to re-create some putative more ‘natural’ ecological state, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged over the last decade as an approach aimed more at restoring natural functions, while focusing on meeting human needs.With a view to exploring the practical potential of this approach, this book draws together a team of experts from the natural ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Forest Landscape Restoration

    Integrating Natural and Social Sciences

    Edited by John Stanturf, David Lamb, Palle Madsen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration particularly ... Read more

    $143.99 USD