Based on over 20 years of teaching experience in animal nutrition, this book will enhance learning basic food animal nutritional principles.

In this introductory text, six fundamental nutrients, their structure, digestion, and metabolism are covered. A brief introduction to bioenergetics, feed additives, nutrient analysis, digestive organs and processes in monogastric and ruminant animals, and methods for assessing nutrient utilization are also included. Each chapter is illustrated with a new terms box, key points, and review questions.

This book is an essential learning tool for undergraduate students majoring in animal sciences, veterinary medicine, or other related disciplines.

This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of criminal rights. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments, exceptions to the Warrants Rule, and investigatory methods. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to rights of the accused with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

This book is the third edition of a collective effort to understand and apply current conceptualizations of sustainability to a study of state and local government. It is an attempt to focus our attention on a basic understanding of the time-tested institutions and guiding principles likely to take society and governance towards greater advancement. Our work is, however, tempered by a developing understanding of smart growth — growth in productive capacity, quality of life and social justice that does not necessitate large-scale destructive or extractive activity. The growth sought produces widespread mutual benefit, is prudent in design and thoughtful in execution. The growth in question here is mindful of the past, yet builds better lives and futures for our posterity.
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This volume focuses on constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of government powers and limitations. It includes excerpts of landmark cases related to the judiciary and executive, contracts and takings clauses, and due process. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to government powers and limitations with other questions of law and dicta omitted.
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This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of civil rights and liberties. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the first amendment, second amendment, fourteenth amendment and the right to privacy. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to civil rights and liberties with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

In light of the cost of textbooks and education in general, we undertook this project to create a free resource to be used broadly by students in a business context. We wanted to provide comprehensive coverage of the writing process, but keep our topics relevant to business education. We hope that this textbook provides equal value to both non- and native-English learners alike. Just like we acknowledge that students will continue to develop their writing skills, we expect this project to challenge and further our own skills as writers.

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History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology.

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The documents in this primary source reader explore themes such as religion, government, philosophy, warfare, and literature from influential civilizations across different world regions, including Mesopotamia, China, South Asia, the Mediterranean, and Middle East. Primary sources, which are records and artifacts created during historical periods, include legal codes, sacred scriptures, diaries, administrative records, poetry, plays, and physical objects. Their connection to a specific time and place provides valuable insights into the past. The materials contained in this primary source reader supplement and reinforce textbooks such as World History, Volume 1: to 1500 and World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500.
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The documents in this primary source reader explore themes such as science, religious conflict, travelers in new cultural environments, ecological change, politics, technological change, individual rights, trade, and democracy. Primary sources, which are records created during the historical period under study, include legal codes, speeches, sacred scriptures, speeches, essays, poetry, plays, and physical objects. Because these sources originate from a specific time and place, they offer valuable insights into the past. The materials contained in this primary source reader supplement and reinforce textbooks such as World History Volume 1 (to 1500) and Volume 2 (from 1400).
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This book describes how Earth’s climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth’s energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.