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This book introduces the basic techniques and methods traditionally used in speaking about science to the public. The public often has a very different perception and understanding of science, and this must be taken into account when communicating with the public. This volume covers methods of scientific discourse, oral communication, preparation of the presentation, techniques and use of visual resources, and exercises for perfecting the technique of speaking in public about science. Speaking in Public About Science: A Quick Guide for the Preparation of Good Lectures, Seminars, and Scientific Presentations is a concise yet comprehensive resource that will be of value to beginners and senior scholars and researchers.

Science --- Didactics of sciences --- Physics --- Biology --- Human biochemistry --- Human medicine --- Applied physical engineering --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Linguistics --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- medische biochemie --- popularisering wetenschap --- populaire cultuur --- biologie --- geneeskunde --- wetenschappen --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- fysica

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This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants MAPs of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and medicinal importance. The Amazon Basin, in northern Brazil has a highly diverse biota and still harbours a variety of unknown and unstudied plant species for medicinal values. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

General ecology and biosociology --- Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Botany --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- systematische plantkunde --- biodiversiteit --- farmacologie --- landbouw --- botanie --- Brazil --- Latin America

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This work adds an ecological and evolutionary perspective to the study of the relations between humans and natural resources. The first to cover this subject in English, this text studies the branch of ethnobiology that analyzes the evolutionary history of human behavioral patterns and human understanding about biological resources, considering the historical and contemporary aspects that influence these behaviors at both the individual and societal levels. Ethnobiology aggregates different theoretical, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. While some of these perspectives ignore the ecological and evolutionary nature of ethnobiology, the conventional ecological science insufficiently considers human aspects as topics of theoretical interest. Through exploring theories in ethnobiology, this work examines the interrelationships between people and nature, considering the forces that helped shape this inextricable link.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- General ecology and biosociology --- Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Phytomorphology. Phytoanatomy --- Botany --- systematische plantkunde --- plantenfysiologie --- Europees recht --- antropologie --- planten